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Angela Davis, activist, writer, scholar

Day 2: Abolition: Learning from Global Trajectories

2025 Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney Humanities Center
Introduction: Elizabeth Hinton, Professor...

Angela Davis, activist, writer, scholar

Day 1: Abolition: Transforming Fields and Disciplines

2025 Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Welcome: Cajetan Iheka, Director, Whitney...

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...

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...