Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multi-university lecture series in the humanities, founded on July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner. [cite web |title=Tanner Lectures and Philosophy |publisher=University of Utah Press |url=http://www.uofupress.com/store/page23.html |accessdate=2007-10-16] In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows:cite web |title=The Lectures |publisher=University of Utah |url=http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures.html |accessdate=2007-10-16]

It is considered one of the top lecture series among top universities, [cite news |title=Are college faculty too liberal? |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |url=http://www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_234.shtml |accessdate=2007-10-16] and being appointed a lectureship is a recognition of the scholar's "extra-ordinary achievement" in the field of human values.

Member institutions

Permanent lectureships are established at the following nine institutions: [cite web |title=Universities and Colleges |publisher=University of Utah |url=http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/universities.html |accessdate=2007-10-16]
* Brasenose College, Oxford
* University of California
* Clare Hall, Cambridge
* Harvard University
* University of Michigan
* Princeton University
* Stanford University
* University of Utah
* Yale University

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/ Main site at University of Utah] with [http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures.html library] .
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~publect/namedlectures/tanner.htm Princeton University]
* [http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/index.shtml University of California at Berkeley]