Upcoming Lectures and Conversations
Our public outreach programs bring a broad constituency of campus and community members together for shared humanities experiences. We host artists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, public figures, community experts, and world leaders to investigate how humans relate to the self, to others, and to the world we share. Our speakers are diverse, renowned or emerging, and have include Nobel Laureates, National Book Award winners, Pulitzer Prize recipients, and MacArthur Foundation “Geniuses,” among others.
In the past five years alone, we have lead public conversations about antiracist practices, creativity and wellness, fiction and empathy, bias and discrimination in innovative technologies, environmental art, monuments and memory, women in leadership, the pressures and rewards of public service, and constitutional democracy and voting rights. Recent speakers have included Margaret Atwood, Ruha Benjamin, John Brennan, Sandra Cisneros, Michael Chabon, Anita Hill, Ibram X. Kendi, Martha Jones, Tony Kushner, Maya Lin, Safiya Noble, Stanley Nelson, Reshma Saujani, Andrew Solomon, Anna Deavere Smith, and Zadie Smith.
Events will resume in the fall
Previous 2024 Events
Eric Herschthal
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
January 25, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Eric Herschthal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. His research topic is Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change.
Darcie DeAngelo
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
Feburary 1, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Darcie DeAngelo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Oklahoma. Her research project is For the Love of Rats.
Nadja Durbach
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
February 8, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Nadja Durbach is a Professor in the Department of History. Her research topic is From Slaves to Enslaved People: Slave Registration and the Emergence of Identity Documentation in the British World, 1812-34.
Romeo & Juliet
National Theatre Live
Presented by Salt Lake Film Society & The Tanner Humanities Center
February 10, 2024 | noon | Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111. E Broadway
Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them.
Jenny Andrus
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
February 15, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Jenny Andrus is a Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies. Her research topic is 'Under His Thumb': Storytelling about Staying in Violent Intimate Relationships.
Danielle Endres, Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting.
Author Meets Readers
February 21, 2024 | 1:00 p.m. | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Danielle Endres is the Director of the Environmental Humanities Program, a Professor in Deptartment of Communication, and author of Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting.
C. Thi Nguyen
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
February 22, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
C. Thi Nguyen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. His research topic is The Social Function of Scoring Systems.
Charlotte Hansen Terry
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
February 29, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Charlotte Hansen Terry is a Phd Candidate in the Department of History at University
of California Davis and the Center's Mormon Studies Graduate Research Fellow. Her
research topic is To Make Saints: Mormon Adoptions and Familial Belonging in the Pacific.
Matty Layne Glasgow
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
March 12, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Matty Layne Glasgow is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English. His research topic is They, or Restoration: An Essay.
Vanya
National Theatre live
Presented bySalt Lake Film Society & The Tanner Humanities Center
March 16, 2024 | noon | Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111. E Broadway
Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.
Min Jin Lee
In conversation with David Roh
Author Meets Readers
March 19, 2024 | 7:00 p.m. | Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Min Jin Lee, is the author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires.
Nicole Clawson
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
March 28, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Nicole Clawson is a Phd Candidate in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies.
Her research topic is 'We’re just people. We’re not these crazy guys with guns': Rhetorical Narratives and
Officer Identity Performance.
C.J. Alvarez
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
April 4, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
C.J. Alvarez is an Associate Professor of Mexican American and Latina-o studies, at
University of Texas at Austin. His research topic is Desert Time.
Hua Zhu
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Work-in-Progress Talks
April 9, 2024 | noon | CTIHB Jewel Box (143)
Hua Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies.
Her research topic is From Resistance to Interconnectivity: Enacting the Rhetoric of Yin.
Dear England
National theatre live
Presented bySalt Lake Film Society & The Tanner Humanities Center
April 13, 2024 | noon | Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111. E Broadway
The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game?
Robin Wall Kimmerer & Kyle Whyte
Tanner Talks
April 17, 2024 | 7:00 p.m. | Moot Courtroom
Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants.Kyle Whyte is a Professor of Environment and Sustainability and George Willis Pack Professor at U-M.
The Motive and the Cue
national theatre live
Presented by Salt Lake Film Society & The Tanner Humanities Center
May 1, 2024 | noon | Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111. E Broadway
1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.