Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind. I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values. This understanding may be pursued for its own intrinsic worth, but it may also eventually have practical consequences for the quality of personal and social life.}}

It is considered one of the top [[lecture series]] among top universities,<ref>{{cite news |title=Are college faculty too liberal? |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |url=http://www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_234.shtml |accessdate=2007-10-16 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028144015/http://www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_234.shtml |archivedate=2007-10-28 |df= }}</ref> and being appointed a lectureship is a recognition of the scholar's "extra-ordinary achievement" in the field of [[human values]].<ref name=main />

== Member institutions ==

Permanent lectureships are established at the following nine institutions:<ref>{{cite web |title=Universities and Colleges |publisher=University of Utah |url=http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/universities.html |accessdate=2007-10-16 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213180341/http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/universities.html |archivedate=2007-12-13 |df= }}</ref>

* [[Linacre College, Oxford]]

* [[University of California, Berkeley]]

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* 2000-01 (Yale): [[Alexander Nehamas]]—"A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art”

* 2000-01 (Princeton): [[Robert Pinsky]]—"American Culture and the Voice of Poetry”

* 2000–2001 (Berkeley): [[Joseph Raz]]—''The Practice of Value''<ref name="Berkeley">{{Cite web|url=https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/past.shtml|title=Past Lectures|publisher=The Tanner Lectures on Human Values at University of California Berkeley|accessdate=5 April 2014|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093910/https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/past.shtml|archivedate=7 April 2014|df=}}</ref>

* 2000-01 (Harvard): [[Simon Schama]]

* 2001 (Stanford): [[Dorothy Allison]]—"I. Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls” and "II. What It Means to Be Free”

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* 2011 (Stanford): [[Elinor Ostrom]]—"I. Frameworks” and "II. Analyzing One-Hundred-Year-Old Irrigation Puzzles”

* 2011 (Harvard): [[James C. Scott|James Scott]]—"Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals, and… Us”

* 2011–12 (Berkeley): [[Samuel Scheffler]]—"The Afterlife: I. How People Who Don't Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do and II. How the Present Depends the Future"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/1112.shtml|title=2011–2012 Lecture Series|publisher=The Tanner Lectures on Human Values at University of California Berkeley|accessdate=5 April 2014|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093750/https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/1112.shtml|archivedate=7 April 2014|df=}}</ref>

* 2011-12 (Utah): [[Abraham Verghese]]—"Two Souls Intertwined”

* 2011-2012 (Brasenose College): [[Diane Coyle]]—"The Public Responsibility of the Economist”

* 2012-13 (Oxford): [[Michael Ignatieff]]—"Representation and Responsibility: Ethics and Public Office"<ref name="Linacre">{{Cite web|url=http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/events/TannerLectures|title=Tanner Lectures|publisher=Linacre College, Oxford University|accessdate=5 April 2014|deadurlurl-status=yesdead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407154637/http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/events/TannerLectures|archivedate=7 April 2014|df=}}</ref>

* 2012-13 (Berkeley): [[Frances Kamm]]—"I. Who Turned the Trolley?" and "II. How Was the Trolley Turned?"

* 2012-13 (Cambridge): [[Joseph Koerner]]—"The Viennese Interior: Architecture & Awareness”