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 also presented at:
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