Upcoming Events
September 29, 2021 @ 7pm
Author Meets Readers with Anthony Doerr
The King's English Bookshop and the Tanner Humanities Center proudly present an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr. He will be in conversation with bookselling legend, Betsy Burton. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
Your $40 ticket includes one copy of Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Lectures and Conversations
Teacher Workshops
National Theatre Live
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Technology & AI Virtual Book Club - I , Robot
With Andrew Shephard
English faculty members Andrew Shephard and Jeremy Rosen who will run a bi-semester virtual book club on artificial intelligence, starting with I, Robot by Isaac Isamov and discussion led by Prof. Shephard.
When: October 29, 2020
Time: 7:00pm MDT
Location: Virtual
Technology & AI Virtual Book Club - I , Robot
With Andrew Shephard
English faculty members Andrew Shephard and Jeremy Rosen who will run a bi-semester virtual book club on artificial intelligence, starting with I, Robot by Isaac Isamov and discussion led by Prof. Shephard.
When: October 29, 2020
Time: 7:00pm MDT
Location: Virtual
Technology & AI Virtual Book Club - I , Robot
With Andrew Shephard
English faculty members Andrew Shephard and Jeremy Rosen who will run a bi-semester virtual book club on artificial intelligence, starting with I, Robot by Isaac Isamov and discussion led by Prof. Shephard.
When: October 29, 2020
Time: 7:00pm MDT
Location: Virtual
RESEARCH
Fellowships
Work-in-Progress Presentations
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Mission
The Tanner Humanities Center advances humanities exploration and engagement through academic research, educational enrichment, and public outreach. The activities reflect a vision of the humanities as not only relevant, stimulating, and cutting-edge, but also essential for developing critical thinking, tolerance, and respect on campus and in the community.
NEWS
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“Because I Love My People”: Author Meets Reader with Min Jin Lee
On March 19, as part of the Tanner Humanities Center’s Author Meets Reader series, Min Jin Lee stepped into the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’s Dumke Auditorium for a conversation with Professor David S. Roh.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer and Kyle Whyte in Conversation
The University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center will host Whyte, a professor of environment and sustainability and George Willis Pack Professor at University of Michigan, in conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants,” on Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom of the S.J. Quinney College of Law.
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Danielle Endres Discusses Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Waste
The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah hosted a talk with Danielle Endres, professor of communication and director of the U’s Environmental Humanities program. Endres discussed her new book Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting, which details the activism of the Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute and Goshute people against establishing nuclear waste repositories on Indigenous land.
