Tanner Seminar | Ruha Benjamin in conversation with Gabeba Baderoon

Speaker: Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University

Respondent: Gabeba Baderoon, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

The Tanner Lectures with Ruha Benjamin: Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia

This seminar is open to Harvard ID-holders only and registration is required.

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About the Speakers

Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022), and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024) among other publications. Ruha is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award, the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton, and in 2024 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship.

Gabeba Baderoon is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where she co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. Professor Baderoon is the author of Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid, which received the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Best Non-Fiction Monograph Award, and the poetry collections The Dream in the Next Body, A Hundred Silences, and The History of Intimacy, which have been recognized with the Daimler Award, the Elisabeth Eybers Poetry Prize and the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing. She is also co-editor, with Desiree Lewis, of the essay collection, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa.

About the Tanner Lectures

In collaboration with the Office of the President of Harvard University, the Mahindra Humanities Center hosts annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values. The purpose of the Tanner Lectures is the advancement of scholarly and scientific learning in the field of human values. That purpose embraces the entire range of moral, artistic, intellectual, and spiritual values, both individual and social – the full register of values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior, and aspiration. 

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a nonprofit corporation administered at the University of Utah. They are funded by an endowment and other gifts received by the University of Utah from Obert Clark Tanner and Grace Adams Tanner. More information: www.tannerlectures.utah.edu.