Videos

Samira Negrouche

The Archeology of Becoming

2025 Franke Visiting Fellow Lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center
Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney Humanities Center 
Introduction: Jill Jarvis, Department of French

Samira Negrouche...

Angela Davis, activist, writer, scholar

Day 2: Abolition: Learning from Global Trajectories

2025 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the Whitney Humanities Center
Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney Humanities Center
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Angela Davis, activist, writer, scholar

Day 1: Abolition: Transforming Fields and Disciplines

2025 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the Whitney Humanities Center
Welcome:...

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Ugandan fiction writer and author

Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned

2025 Franke Visiting Fellow...

Rachel Cusk

Into the Light: A Woman Artist Uncovered

2025 Finzi-Contini Lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center
Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney Humanities Center
Introduction: Meghan O’Rourke, Editor, The Yale Review

Using the...

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...