Tanner Lectures on Human Values
The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating
to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented
at:
Linacre College, Oxford University
Clare Hall, Cambridge University
Harvard University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Utah
Yale University
and other educational facilities around the world
Click here for the 2019-2020 Schedule
2019-2020 Lectures
University of California, Berkeley
Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University
"The Fork in the Road: The Imperative of Investing in Adolescent Education"
April 14-16, 2020
Clare Hall, Cambridge
TBA
Harvard University
Thomas Piketty
April 15-16, 2020
University of Michigan
Charles Mills,
City University of New York
"Theorizing Racial Justice"
February 12, 2020
Princeton University
Richard Tuck, Harvard University
"Active and Passive Citizens"
November 6-7, 2019
Stanford University
Richard Wrangham, Harvard University
March 11-13, 2020
University of Utah
Maya Lin, Architect
"At the Intersection of Art and Architecture"
November 20-21, 2019
Yale University
Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley
"Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber"
October 22-24, 2019
Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the U
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"At the Intersection of Art and Architecture"
2019 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Maya Lin
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“Human Values and The Innocence Project”
2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Barry Scheck
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Science Writer Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee to Deliver the 2016 Tanner Lecture on Human Values
Dr. Mukherjee will discuss genetic engineering and its ethical implications.
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"Human Values in an Age of Change"
2015 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Margaret Atwood
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"Science as a Way of Knowing"
2014 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"Love, Acceptance, Celebration: How Parents Make Their Children"
2013 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Andrew Solomon
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"Casino Capitalism: Gambling, Investing, and the Ethics of Speculation"
2013 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Michael Sandel
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"Two Souls Intertwined"
2012 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Abraham Verghese
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"America Through My Lens: The Evolving Nature of Race and Class in the Films of Spike Lee"
2010 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Spike Lee
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"In the Hearts of Women"
2009 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Isabel Allende
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"Order and Disorder in the Emotional Brain"
2009 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Richard Davidson
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"What is Good Work?" & "Achieving Good Work in Turbulent Times"
2008 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Howard Gardner
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“Presence and Absence: Vision and the Invisible in the Media Age”
2007 Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Bill Viola