Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion

Danielle Olden joins the Tanner Humanities Center with her book "Racial Uncertainties" and race in America.

Presented by the University of Utah Academic Freedom Committee, Chris Finan, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, will speak about his book, "How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty and Social Justice."

At TEDxSaltLakeCity, TED Talks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

Disability scholar and writer Jim Ferris presents a provocative perspective on how to enact autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.  He'll discuss how the characteristics of "crip poetry"--written by and about bodies labeled "abnormal"--align with the principles of medical ethics, showing health-care professionals how essential it is to challenge stereotypes, foreground atypical perspectives, and emphasize embodiment by being aware of the centrality of the body in all our lives.

The 5th Annual Health Humanities Lecturer, Jim Ferris, PhD, is an award-winning poet and performance artist, author of Slouching Towards Guantanamo, Facts of Life, and The Hospital Poems. Past president of the Society for Disability Studies and the Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus, he has won awards for creative nonfiction and mathematics as well as performance and poetry.