Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Rana Mitter
A Gendered Approach to Peace Building
Melanne Verveer served as the first US Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues from 2009 to 2013. Today she is the Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. The institute highlights the experiences of women in peace and security through cutting-edge research and strategic partnerships. The institute recognizes that women’s participation is critical […]
Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?
Susan J. Smith, FBA, Acc, FRSE, is Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, where she is also an Honorary Professor of Geography. She was previously Professor of Geography and a director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University; before that she held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. She is […]
The Standard of Living
AMARTYA SEN is Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College. Professor Sen was born in India and studied at Calcutta and at Cambridge. He has taught at Calcutta, Cambridge, Delhi, and London, and also at Berkeley, Harvard, M.I.T., and Stanford.
I. Jazz: A Historical Perspective II. Duke Ellington III. Charles Mingus
GUNTHER SCHULLER has developed a musical career that ranges from composing and conducting to his extensive work as an educator, Jazz historian, administrator, music publisher, record producer, and author. By age seventeen he was principal French horn with the Cincinnati Symphony, and later held the same position with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Space-time and Cosmology
SIR ROGER PENROSE is Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, as well as Francis and Helen Pentz Distinguished Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He was educated at University College, London, and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
The Representative Arts as a Source of Truth
JOHN PASSMORE was educated at Sydney University, where he taught from 1934 until 1949. He has subsequently taught at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Happiness
Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is a member of the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy. He was educated at Yale, Cambridge, and the Rockefeller University. Before coming to Chicago, Professor Lear taught at Cambridge, where he was a fellow […]
Haydn and Eighteenth-Century Patronage in Austria and Hungary
H. C. ROBBINS LANDON was educated at Swarthmore College and Boston University. He founded the Haydn Society in Boston in 1949 and subsequently settled in Vienna, where he became a member of the Zentralinstitut fur Mozartforschung (Salzburg) , a contributor to the British Broadcasting Corporation, and a contributor to the Neue Mozart Ausgabe. He has […]
The Sources of Normativity
CHRISTINE M. KORSGAARD is currently Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and at Harvard, where she received her Ph.D. degree in philosophy in 1979. She has taught at several schools in the University of California system, including UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, and UC Berkeley, and […]