This summer the Centre hosted Professor Ruha Benjamin for the annual Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture.
Based at Princeton University, Professor Benjamin is a renowned transdisciplinary scholar working across multiple fields and themes: sociology, technoscience, justice, creativity, medicine, culture, race, innovation, citizenship and justice. Her most recent book Imagination: A Manifesto advocates for the liberation of our imaginations in order to foreground the solidarity, responsibility and relationships we need to collectively build desirable futures.
Professor Benjamin’s talk asked how universities can work to support the building of futures worth having, describing higher education as ‘ground zero for re-imagining and re-tooling the default settings of technology and society’.
Professor Benjamin’s talk was not recorded, but we strongly recommend her book!