Tanner Talks
Launched in Spring 2020, our Tanner Talks bring interdisciplinary scholars, writers, and public figures together with campus and community members for unscripted conversations about contemporary challenges. Each event consists of a one-hour discussion between Director Erika George, our invited speaker, and audience members.
Previous Tanner Talk speakers include Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist; Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code; and Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
Upcoming Tanner Talks
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Previous Lectures
2023-2024 Tanner Talks
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 University of Michigan. Video recording is private, please email for access.
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Carmen Maria Machado
Tanner Talks
October 5, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. | UMFA
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction.
2022-2023 Tanner Talks
Azar Nafisi
Tanner Talks
September 22, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. | UMFA
Azar Nafisi is the critically acclaimed author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a New York Times bestseller that is published in thirty-two languages. Nafisi is also
known for her other works including, Things I’ve Been Silent About, Republic of Imagination, and That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile. She has held various teaching posts across the world including at Johns Hopkins University,
Oxford University, and Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai. She now resides
in Washington D.C.
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