Videos

Sumana Roy, Writer and Poet

The Quest for the Plant Script

Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney Humanities Center
Introduction: Jennifer Banks, Senior Executive Editor for Religion and the Humanities, Yale University...

Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School

To Build a Sad Land: Coloniality, Racial Reasoning, and the Imagined Built Environment of Christian Zionism

At the place where a Christian doctrine of salvation joins nationalism and private property, we meet the workings of Christian Zionism. As a form of political theology, it presents a particular configuration of the...

Rob Nixon, Princeton University

Ecology and Equity: Environmental Justice Revisited (Part 2)

At a time of surging interest in environmental justice and the environmental humanities, Rob Nixon’s 2024 Tanner Lectures on Human Values explore the crossroads where those two fields engage with research findings...

Rob Nixon, Princeton University

Ecology and Equity: Environmental Justice Revisited (Part 1)

Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University

What We See and What We Value: AI with a Human Perspective

2022 Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values

Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University will deliver the 2022 Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Artificial Intelligence this fall at...

Alejandra Oliva, essayist, embroiderer, and translator

You Can’t Translate What You Can’t See: Between Languages in the U.S. Immigration System

How are power structures and empathy implicated in translation? What do we owe asylum seekers, and the stories they bring? What does it mean to bear witness, or to take action? Based on her experiences as an observer...

Ian Phillips, Johns Hopkins University

Perception, Action, and Experience: Retying the Golden Braid

Intuitively, our mental life involves, as Andy Clark evocatively puts it, “a seamless unfolding of perception, action and experience: a golden braid in which each element twines intimately with the rest.” Cognitive...

James McAuley, columnist for The Washington Post

Jewish Survival and Holocaust Memory: Salo Baron and the Twentieth Century

This talk will examine the life and thought of Salo Baron, one of the great twentieth-century historians who was among the first to bring Jewish Studies to the American university. The talk will trace Baron’s...

David Chalmers, New York University

The Meta-Problem of Consciousness

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how physical systems give rise to subjective experience. The hard problem typically contrasts with the easy problems of explaining behavior. However,...

Joshua Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

What Kind of Computation Is Cognition?

Recent successes in artificial intelligence have been largely driven by neural networks and other sophisticated machine learning tools for pattern recognition and function approximation. But human intelligence is ...