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The Tanner Lectures are a distinguished multi-university scholarly lecture series on the subject of human values.
The Tanner lectures are presented annually at each of nine universities including Cambridge, Harvard, Michigan, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Utah, Yale, and the University of California, Berkeley.Appointment as a Tanner lecturer is recognition for uncommon achievement and outstanding abilities in the field of human values. The lecturers may be elicited from philosophy, religion, the humanities, the sciences, the creative arts, and learned professions, or from leadership in public or private affairs. The lectureships are international and intercultural and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions.
The purpose of the Tanner Lectures is to advance and reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning related to human values. This intention embraces the entire range of values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior, and aspiration. The lectures delivered at all nine universities are published in an annual volume. In addition, a series of books based on the Berkeley Tanner Lectures is published by the Oxford University Press.
American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner founded the Tanner Lectures in 1978. In creating the lectureships, Professor Tanner said: "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."
The Tanner Lectures Committee at the University of California, Berkeley
ChairVisit The Tanner Foundation to learn more.
Tanner Lecture Library
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Allison, Dorothy | Lecture I. Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls Lecture II. What It Means to Be Free | Stanford | 2001-01 | |
Appiah, K. Anthony | Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections | UC San Diego | 1993-94 | Harvard University |
Appiah, K. Anthony | The State and the Shaping of Identity | Cambridge | 2000-01 | Harvard University |
Arias Sanchez, Dr. Oscar | Poverty: The New International Enemy | UC Berkeley | 1993-94 | Former President, Costa Rica |
Aron, Raymond | Arms Control and Peace Research | Cambridge | 1979-80 | College De France |
Ash, Timothy Garton | The Direction of European History | Prague | 1997-98 | Oxford University |
Ashby, Lord | The Search for an Environmental Ethic | Utah | 1978-79 | Cambridge University |
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Baier, Annette | Trust | Princeton | 1990-91 | University of Pittsburgh |
Baltimore, David | On Doing Science in the Modern World | Cambridge | 1991-92 | Rockefeller University |
Barber, Benjamin R. | Democratic Alternatives to the Mullahs and the Malls | Utah | 2002 | University of Maryland |
Barry, Brian M. | Do Countries Have Moral Obligations? The Case of World Poverty | Harvard | 1980-81 | University of Chicago |
Bellow, Saul | A Writer from Chicago | Oxford | 1980-81 | University of Chicago |
Benhabib, Sylvia | Reclaiming Universalism: Negotiating Republican Self-Determinism and Cosmopolitan Norms | BERKELEY | 2004 | Yale University |
Bennett, Jonathan | Morality and Consequences | Oxford | 1979-80 | University of British Columbia |
Bildt, Carl | Peace After War: Our Experience | Cambridge | 2005 | Former Prime Minister, Sweden |
Blom-Cooper, Louis | The Penalty of Imprisonment | Cambridge | 1987-88 | Queens College, London |
Bloom, Harold | I. Shakespeare and the Value of Personality I I . Shakespeare and the Value of Love | Princeton | 1995-96 | Yale University |
Brewster, Kingman | The Voluntary Society | Cambridge | 1981-82 | President Emeritus, Yale University |
Breyer, Stephen | Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution | Harvard | 2004 | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
Brown, Donald D. | The Impact of Modern Genetics | Oxford | 1983-84 | Carnegie Institute of Washington |
Brown, Peter | Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World | Cambridge | 1993-94 | Princeton University |
Brown, Peter | The End of the Ancient Other World: Death and Afterlife between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages | Yale | 1995-96 | Princeton University |
Bruntland, Dr. Gro Harlem | Environmental Challenges of the 1990s Our Responsibility to ward Future Generations | Cambridge | 1990-91 | Norwegian Storting |
Bulger, Roger | On Hippocrates, Thomas Jefferson the Bureaucratic, Technologic Imperatives and the Future of the Healing Tradition in a Voluntary Society and Max Weber | Cambridge | 1986-87 | Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston |
Burkert, Walter | Revealing Nature amidst Multiple Cultures: A Discourse with Ancient Greeks | Michigan | 1998-99 | University of Zurich |
Burnyeat, Myles | Culture and Society in Plato’s Republic | Harvard | 1997-98 | All Souls College, Oxford |
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Cavell, Stanley | The Uncanniness of the Ordinary | Stanford | 1985-86 | Harvard University |
Cheney, Dorothy | Why Animals Don’t Have Language | Cambridge | 1996-97 | University of Pennsylvania |
Clark, T. J. | Painting and Ground Level | Princeton | 2002 | University of California, Berkeley |
Coetzee, John M. | The Lives of Animals | Princeton | 1997-98 | University of Cape Town, So. Africa |
Cohen, Gerald | Incentives, Inequality, and Community | Stanford | 1990-91 | All Souls College, Oxford |
Coles, Robert | Children as Moral Observers | Michigan | 1979-80 | Harvard University |
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Dahl, Robert A. | The Pseudodemocratization of the American Presidency | Harvard | 1987-88 | Yale University |
Damasio, Antonio | Exploring the Minded Brain | Michigan | 1997-98 | University of Iowa |
Daston, Lorraine | I. The Morality of Natural Orders II. Nature's Customs vs. Nature's Laws | Harvard | 2002 | Max Planck Institute and Humboldt University, Berlin |
Davies, Robertson | Reading and Writing | Yale | 1990-91 | Canada |
Davis, David Brion | Exiles, Exodus, and Promised Lands | Stanford | 2006 | Yale University |
Dawkins, Richard | I. The Science of Religion II. The Religion of Science | Harvard | 2003 | University of Oxford |
Dasgupta,Partha | Michigan | 2000-01 | ||
deBary, William Theodore | The Trouble with Confucianism | California | 1987-88 | Columbia University |
Dennett, Daniel | The Moral First Aid Manual | Michigan | 1986-87 | Tufts University |
de Waal, Frans B.M. | Morality and the Social Instincts | Princeton | 2003 | Emory University |
Diamond, Jared | The Broadest Pattern of Human History | Utah | 1991-92 | UCLA |
Diamond, Jared | Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies | Stanford | 1999-00 | UCLA |
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Eco, Umberto | Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts | Cambridge | 1989-90 | |
Edelman, Marian Wright | Standing for Children | UC San Franscisco | 1996-97 | Founder & President of Children's Defense Fund |
Eisenstadt, S. N. | Cultural Tradition, Historical Experience, and Social Change: The Limits of Convergence | California | 1988-89 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Elster, Jon | Taming Chance: Randomization in Individual and Social Decisions | Oxford | 1986-87 | University of Oslo |
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Farmer, Paul | Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights | Utah | 2005 | Founding Director, Partners in Health charity, Harvard Medical School |
Fei, Xiaotong | Plurality and Unity in the Configuration of the Chinese People | Chinese Univeristy | 1988-89 | Peking University |
Feinberg, Joel | Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life | Michigan | 1976-77 | University of Arizona |
Foucault, Michel | Omnes et Singulatim: Towards a Criticism of ‘Political Reason’ | Stanford | 1979-80 | College de France |
Frankfurt, Harry | I. Taking Ourselves Seriously II. Getting it Right | Stanford | 2004 | Princeton University (Emeritus) |
Fraser, Nancy | Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation | Stanford | 1995-96 | New School for Social Research |
Freeman, Dyson | Bombs and Poetry | Oxford | 1981-82 | Institute for Advanced Study |
Fried, Charles | Is Liberty Possible? | Stanford | 1980-81 | Harvard University |
Fried, Michael | Roger Fry's Formalism | MICHIGAN | 2001 | Johns Hopkins University |
Fuentes, Carlos | A Writer from Mexico | Utah | 1982-83 | Princeton University |
Fukuyama, Francis | Social Capital | Oxford | 1996-97 | George Mason University |
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Gay, Peter | The Living Enlightenment | Toronto | 1996-97 | |
Geertz, Clifford | The Uses of Diversity | Michigan | 1985-86 | Institute for Advanced Study |
Gellner, Ernest | The Civil and the Sacred | Harvard | 1989-90 | |
Gibbard, Allan | Thinking How to Live with Each Other | UC Berkeley | 2006 | University of Michigan |
Gilligan, Carol | Joining the Resistance:Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women | Michigan | 1989-90 | Harvard University |
Glover, Jonathan | Towards Humanism in Psychiatry | Princeton | 2003 | King's College, London |
Gordimer, Nadine | The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility | Michigan | 1984-85 | South Africa |
Gould, Stephen J. | Challenges to Neo- Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness | Stanford | 1988-89 | Harvard University |
Gauthier, David | The Incompleat Egoist | Stanford | 1982-83 | University of Pittsburgh |
Gutmann, Amy | Responding to Racial Injustice | Stanford | 1994-95 | Princeton University |
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Habermas, Jurgen | Law and Morality | Harvard | 1986-87 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, West Germany |
Hampshire, Stuart | Justice Is Conflict: The Soul and the City | Harvard | 1996-97 | Stanford University |
Hare, R. M. | Moral Conflicts | Utah State | 1978-79 | Oxford University |
Hartman, Geoffrey | Text and Spirit | Utah | 1998-99 | Yale University |
Herman, Barbara | Moral Literacy | Stanford | 1996-97 | Univ. of California, Los Angeles |
Hill Jr., Thomas E. | Respect for Humanity | Stanford | 1993-94 | University of North Carolina |
Hill, Christopher | T h e Bible in Seventeenth-Century English Politics | Michigan | 1991-92 | Oxford University |
Hill, Geoffrey | Rhetorics of Value | Oxford | 1999-00 | Boston University |
Hirschman, Albert | Two Hundred Years of Reactionary Rhetoric: The Case of the Perverse Effect | Michigan | 1987-88 | Institute of Advanced Study |
Hoffmann, Stanley | The Nation, Nationalism, and After: The Case of France | Princeton | 1992-93 | Harvard University |
Honneth, Axel | Reification: A Recognition-Theoretica View | UC Berkeley | 2005 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany |
Hourani, Albert | Islam in European Thought | Cambridge | 1988-89 | Oxford University |
Howard, A. E. Dick* | Toward the Open Society in Central and Eastern Europe | Utah | 1993-94 | University of Virginia |
Howe, Irving | The Self and the State | Princeton | 1989-90 | |
Hrdy, Sarah | The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Family | Utah | 2000-01 | University of California, Davis |
Hudson, Liam | The Life of the Mind | Yale | 1996-97 | Balas Copartnership, United Kingdom |
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Ignatieff, Michael | I. Human Rights as Politics II. Human Rights as Idolatry | Princeton | 1999-00 | Free Lance Writer |
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Keller, Evelyn Fox | Rethinking the Meaning of Genetic Determinism | Utah | 1992-93 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Kennedy, David M. | The Dilemma of Difference in Democratic Society | Oxford | 2003 | Stanford University |
Kentridge, Sir Sydney QC | Human Rights: A Sense of Proportion | Oxford | 2001-01 | Britain |
Kermonde, Sir Frank | Pleasure, Change, and the Canon | UC Berkeley | 2001 | University College, London, Ret. |
Kleinman, Arthur | Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder | Stanford | 1997-98 | Harvard Medical School |
Kohl, Helmut | UC Berkeley | 1991-92 | Germany | |
Kolakowski, Leszek | The Death of Utopia Reconsidered | Australian National University | 1981-82 | Oxford University |
Kornai, János | I. Market Socialism Revisited I I. The Soviet Union’s Road to a Free Economy: Comments of an Outside Observer | Stanford | 1989-90 | Harvard University |
Korsgaard, Christine | The Sources of Normativity | Cambridge | 1992-93 | Harvard University |
Korsgaard, Christine | Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals | Michigan | 2004 | Harvard University |
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Landon, H. C. Robbins | Haydn and Eighteenth-Century Patronage in Austria and Hungary | Cambridge | 1982-83 | University College Cardiff |
Lear, Jonathan | Happiness | Cambridge | 1999-00 | University of Chicago |
Lepenies, Wolf | The End of “German Culture” | Harvard | 1999-00 | Olden Lane |
Lewis, Bernard | Europe and Islam | Oxford | 1989-90 | Princeton University |
Lewontin, Richard | Biological Determinism | Utah | 1981-82 | Harvard University |
Luttwak, Edward Nicolare | Strategy: A New Era? | Yale | 1989-90 | Georgetown University |
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MacIntyre, Alasdair | Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosophers: What Can We Learn from Mill and Kant? | Princeton | 1994-95 | Duke University |
Maguire, Mairead Corrigan | Peacemaking from the Grassroots in a World of Ethnic Conflict | UC Riverside | 1995-96 | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Margalit, Avishai | I. Indecent Compromise II. Decent Peace | Stanford | 2005 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Marshall, Margaret H. | Tension and Intentions: The American Constitutions and the Shaping of Democracies Abroad | Utah | 2006 | Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Meyer, Leonard B. | Music and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century | Stanford | 1983-84 | University of Pennsylvania |
Montgomery, David N. | Citizenship and Justice in the Lives and Thoughts of Nineteenth-Century American Workers | Oxford | 1990-91 | Yale University |
Moore, Barrington | Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism | Oxford | 1984-85 | Harvard University |
Morrison, Toni | Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature | Michigan | 1988-89 | State University of New York, Albany |
Muguerza, Javier | The Alternative of Dissent | Madrid | 1987-88 | Inst. of Philosophy of the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, Madrid |
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Nagel, Thomas | The Limits of Objectivity | Stanford | 1977-78 | Princeton University |
Nehamas, Alexander | A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art | Yale | 2000-01 | Princeton University |
Nozick, Robert | Decisions of Principle, Principles of Decision | Princeton | 1991-92 | Harvard University |
Nussbaum, Martha C. | Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice | Cambridge | 2003 | University of Chicago |
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O'Neill, Onora | Kant on Reason and Religion | Harvard | 1995-96 | Newham College, Cambridge |
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Pagels, Elaine | The Origin of Satan in Christian Tradition | Utah | 1996-97 | Princeton University |
Parfit, Derek | What We Could Rationally Will | UC Berkeley | 2002 | All Souls College, Oxford |
Passmore, John A. | The Representative Arts as a Source of Truth | Cambridge | 1980-81 | Australian National University |
Paz, Octavio | Poetry and Modernity | Utah | 1989-90 | Mexico City |
Penrose, Sir Roger | Space-time and Cosmology | Cambridge | 1994-95 | Oxford Mathematics Institute |
Pinker, Stephen | The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine | Yale | 1998-99 | MIT |
Pinsky, Robert | American Culture and the Voice of Poetry | Princeton | 2000-01 | Boston University |
Pocock, John G. A. | Edward Gibbon in History: Aspects of the Text in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Yale | 1988-89 | Johns Hopkins University |
Popper, Sir Karl | Three Worlds | Michigan | 1977-78 | University of London |
Posner, Richard | Euthanasia and Health Care: Two Essays on the Policy Dilemmas of Aging and Old Age | Yale | 1994-95 | United States Court of Appeals |
Prigogine, Ilya | Only an Illusion | Jawaharlal Nehru University | 1982-83 | University of Brussels |
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Quinton, Lord | The Varieties of Value | Warshaw | 1987-88 | London |
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Rawls, John | The Basic Liberties and Their Priority | Oxford | 1977-78 | Harvard University |
Raz, Joseph | The Practice of Value | UC Berkeley | 2000-01 | Oxford University |
Reichl, Ruth | Why Food Matters | Yale | 2005 | Editor in Chief, Gourmet Magazine |
Relman, Arnold S. | Medicine as a Profession and a Business | Utah | 1985-86 | New England Journal of Medicine |
Richardson, William C. | Reconceiving Health Care to Improve Quality | UC Santa Barbara | 1999-00 | W. K. Kellogg Foundation (postponed to 2001) |
Robinson, Joan | The Arms Race | Utah | 1980-81 | Cambridge University |
Robinson, Mary | I. Human Rights and Ethical Globalization II. The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa | Stanford | 2003 | United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
Rorty, Richard | Feminism and Pragmatism | Michigan | 1990-91 | University of Virginia |
Rosen, Charles | Tradition without Convention: The Impossible Nineteenth-Century Project | Utah | 1999-00 | |
Rushdie, Salman | Step Across This Line | Yale | 2002 | Award-Winning Author |
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Sachs, Jeffrey* | Shock Therapy in Poland: Perspectives of Five Years
*Howard, Sachs, & Adam Zagajewski, shared lectureship and honorarium at Utah in 1993-94.
| Utah | 1993-94 | Harvard University |
Sagdeev, Roald | Science and Revolutions | Oxford | 1991-92 | University of Maryland |
Sahlins, Marshall | Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy: the Western Illusion of Human Nature | Michigan | 2005 | University of Chicago |
Sandel, Michael J. | What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets | Oxford | 1997-98 | Harvard University |
Scalia, Antonin | Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws | Princeton | 1994-95 | U.S. Supreme Court |
Scanlon, Thomas | The Status of Well-Being | Michigan | 1996-97 | Harvard University |
Scanlon, Thomas M. | The Significance of Choice | Oxford | 1985-86 | Harvard University |
Scarry, Elaine | On Beauty and Being Just | Yale | 1997-98 | Harvard University |
Schama, Simon | Harvard | 2000-01 | Columbia University | |
Schelling, Thomas C. | Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command | Michigan | 1981-82 | Harvard University |
Schmidt, Helmut | The Future of the Atlantic Alliance | Utah | 1983-84 | Former Chancellor, West Germany |
Schuller, Gunther | I. Jazz: A Historical Perspective II. Duke Ellington III. Charles Mingus | Cambridge | 1995-96 | Newton Center, Massachusetts |
Sen, Amartya | Equality of What? | Stanford | 1978-79 | Harvard University |
Sen, Amartya K. | The Standard of Living | Cambridge | 1984-85 | Oxford University |
Shklar, Judith N. | Am erican Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion | Utah | 1988-89 | Harvard University |
Simon, Herbert | Scientific Literacy as a Goal in a High - Technology Society | Michigan | 1983-84 | Carnegie-Mellon University |
Skinner, Quentin | The Paradoxes of Political Liberty | Harvard | 1983-84 | Cambridge University |
Slabbert, F. Van Zyl | The Dynamics of Reform and Revolt in Current South Africa | Oxford | 1987-88 | South Africa |
Slote, Michael | Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue | Stanford | 1984-85 | University of Maryland |
Slynn, Lord of Hadley | Law and Culture – A European Setting | Oxford | 1993-94 | House of Lords |
Snyder, Solomon H. | Drugs and the Brain and Society | Hebrew University | 1980-81 | Johns Hopkins |
Solow, Robert | Welfare and Work | Princeton | 1996-97 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Spence, Jonathan | Ideas of Power: China’s Empire in the Eighteenth Century and Today | Utah | 1997-98 | Yale University |
Stegner, Wallace | The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Vulues and Contemporary America | Utah | 1979-80 | Los Altos Hills, California |
Stern, Fritz | I. Mendacity Enforced: Europe, 1914-1989 II. Freedom and Its Discontents: Postunification Germany | Yale | 1992-93 | Columbia University |
Stigler, George | Economics or Ethics? | Harvard | 1979-80 | University of Chicago |
Stone, Alan | Psychiatry and Morality | Stanford | 1981-82 | Harvard University |
Stone, Lawrence | Family Values in a Historical Perspective | Harvard | 1993-94 | Princeton University |
Striker, Gisela | Greek Ethics and Moral Theory | Stanford | 1986-87 | Philsophisches Seminar der Georg-August Universitat & Columbia Univ. |
Stroud, Barry | The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value | Buenos Aries | 1987-88 | University of California, Berkeley |
Sullivan, Kathleen | Harvard | 2001-02 | Stanford University | |
Sunstein, Cass R. | Political Conflict and Legal Agreement | Harvard | 1994-95 | University of Chicago Law School |
Suzman, Janet | Who Needs Parables? | Oxford | 1994-95 | South Africa |
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Taylor, Charles | Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere | Stanford | 1991-92 | McGill University |
Thomson, Judith Jarvis | Goodness and Advice | Princeton | 1998-99 | MIT |
Toulmin, Stephen | The Idol of Stability | Cambridge | 1997-98 | University of Southern California |
Tribe, Laurence H. | On Reading the Constitution | Utah | 1986-87 | Harvard University |
Tribe, Laurence H. | The Constitution in Crisis | Oxford | 2002 | Harvard University |
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Vendler, Helen H. | Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln | Michigan | 1999-00 | Harvard University |
Verba, Sidney | Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings | Oxford | 1998-99 | Harvard University |
Von Wright, Georg Henrik | Of Human Freedom | HeIsinki | 1983-84 | |
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Walzer, Michael | Interpretation and Social Criticism | Harvard | 1985-86 | Institute for Advanced Study |
Walzer, Michael | Nation and Universe | Oxford | 1988-89 | Institute for Advanced Study |
Warner, Marina | Spirit Visions | Yale | 1999-00 | |
White, Richard | The Problem with Purity | UC Davis | 1998-99 | Stanford University |
Wills, Garry L. | Henry Adams: The Historian as a Novelist | Yale | 2003 | Northwestern University |
Wilson, Edward O. | Comparative Social Theory | Michigan | 1978-79 | Harvard University |
Wilson, James Q. | I. Politics and Polarization II. Religion and Polarization | Harvard | 2005 | Peperdine University |
Wilson, William Julius | The New Urban Poverty and the Problem of Race | Michigan | 1993-94 | University of Chicago |
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Zagajewski, Adam* | A Bus Full of Prophets: Adventures of the Eastern-European Intelligentsia *Howard, Sachs, & Adam Zagajewski, shared lectureship and honorarium at Utah in 1993-94. |
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