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.
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Nnedi Okorafor
November 18, 2021. Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for her Binti Series and her novels Who Fears Death, Zahrah the Windseeker, Akata Witch, Akata Warrior, Lagoon and Remote Control.
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Safiya Noble
March 4, 2021. Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies where she serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2).
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Ruha Benjamin
On October 15, 2020. Tanner Humanities Center Director Erika George hosted a virtual conversation with author and associate professor Ruha Benjamin about the intersections of race, justice and technology.
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Ibram X. Kendi
February 18, 2020. Kendi is a New York Times bestselling author and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.