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Established in 1990, our Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops offer K-12 Utah teachers rigorous, affordable professional development opportunities and continuing education courses at the University of Utah. Under the direction of nationally recognized University of Utah faculty members, teachers attend week-long summer workshops to explore current scholarship on academic subjects, new pedagogical methods, curriculum development, and innovative classroom technologies.

The Tanner Humanities Center was proud to host author Nnedi Okorafor in a virtual conversation with Director Erika George and Assistant Professor of English Andrew Shephard. The discussion focused on her writing, which she describes as "Africanfuturism" and "Africanjujuism," as well as her newest novel, NOOR.

The Tanner Humanities Center was proud to host Shoshana Zuboff, author of, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," for the Obert C. Tanner Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values, a special series of the Tanner Lectures program.

Tanner Humanities Center staff share their favorite quotes and excerpts from historically banned books to celebrate Banned Books Week 2021.

The Utah Informatics Initiative (UI2) and Tanner Humanities Center hosted a two-day symposium on September 21-22, 2021, dedicated to the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society. Watch Day 1 & Day 2 of the Symposium NOW.

Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His newest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, was published on September 28, 2021.

October 28, 2020 - Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries.

Earthjustice is proud to announce that Erika George has joined the organization’s Board of Trustees. George brings a vital array of expertise that is critical to leveraging gaps between human rights and environmental advocacy.

A friend of the Tanner Humanities Center, Stacy Bare is a local writer, entrepreneur, well-being advocate, and veteran of the United States Army. He received a Bronze Star for his service in Iraq from 2006-07. Working at the intersection of outdoor recreation and health Bare co-founded the Great Outdoors Lab in 2014 and launched Adventure Not War in 2015. http://www.adventurenotwar.com/contact His work with veterans has earned him a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Award.

Professor David Kieran, author of, "Signature Wounds: The Cultural Politics of Mental Health During the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars," served as one of the Center's visiting fellows in 2015-2016.

We at Tanner Humanities aim to learn to solve complex problems with creativity, make sense of cultural trends and changes, build our capacity for empathy and hope, cultivate connections to one another and our global community, and practice effective communication.

Longtime friend of the Tanner Humanities Center, Martha Bradley-Evans, has been awarded the 2020 Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence.

The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah presents the 2020 World Leaders Lecture Forum given by Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, Friday, March 6, 11 a.m. at Kingsbury Hall.

The Obert C. and Grace A Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah welcomes author Ibram X. Kendi to kick off the new Tanner Talks series, Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 3 p.m. at the Alumni House.

The Obert C. and Grace A Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah welcomes author Ben Fountain for the 2020 David P. Gardner Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts, Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

Join the Marriott Library on Thursday, November 14th at 6pm as they commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death.

Artist and architect Maya Lin will deliver the Tanner Lecture on Human Values on November 20, 2019 at Kingsbury Hall

Professor Katharine Coles presents her Work in Progress Talk "The Stranger I Become" on October 31st at 12pm

The two-day conference explores the LGBTQ+ community within the LDS Church

Erika George, U professor of law, will take the lead on July 1, 2019.

Tanner Humanities Center, in partnership with the World Trade Center Utah, will host former President of Mexico on Feb. 12