Tag: Tanner Lectures
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Arts & Culture
Combining Earth science, Native knowledge in climate change battle
Combining Earth science, Native knowledge in climate change battle, Margaret Redsteer will draw on her research on tribal lands to discuss barriers and solutions to adaptation, resilience.
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Arts & Culture
The need to talk about race
Lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson delivered the Tanner Lecture on Human Values, announcing the opening of a memorial to victims of lynching and a museum on the legacy of slavery next April.
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Science & Tech
The shifting landscape in biosocial science
During Tanner Lectures, Professor Dorothy E. Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, will explain how society leaned on flawed judgments about race.
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Arts & Culture
Thinking backward
Professor Carlo Ginzburg of UCLA will deliver Harvard’s Tanner Lectures starting April 15.
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Arts & Culture
Violence, meet nonviolence
Starting in 2014 at the Mahindra Humanities Center, a three-year, interdisciplinary seminar and lecture series, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will investigate the interdependence of violence and nonviolence.
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Nation & World
Freedom’s just another word
The poor often have too many basic choices, which can sap their resources and energy, economist says.