2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006


2008-2009 Tanner Lectures
There were two lectures during this academic year; one in the fall and one in the spring.

"The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future"
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Harvard Law School)

Respondents:
Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA Law School)
Eric Gregory (Religion, Princeton University)
Nancy Ammerman (Sociology, Boston University)
Brad Gregory (History, University of Notre Dame)
 

"Origins of Human Cooperation"
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Respondents:
Carol Dweck (Stanford Psychology)
Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard Psychology)
Brian Skyrms (Stanford Philosophy)
Joan Silk (UCLA Anthropology)

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2007-2008 Tanner Lectures
There were no Tanner Lectures in 2007-2008.

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2006-2007 Tanner Lectures
"Racial Stigma, Mass Incarceration and American Values"
Glenn Loury (Brown University, Economics)

Respondents:
Lawrence Bobo (Stanford)
Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law)
Tommie Shelby (Harvard)
Loic Wacquant (Berkeley)

Go to Stanford iTunes to listen to a podcast of Professor Loury's lectures and both discussion seminars.
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2005-2006 Tanner Lectures
"Exiles, Exodus, & Promised Lands"
David Brion Davis (Yale, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Director Emeritus of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition)

Respondents:
Lawrence Bobo (Stanford)
Walter Johnson (NYU)
Eric Foner (Columbia)
Paul Lovejoy (York University)

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2004-2005 Tanner Lectures
"Rotten Compromise and Honorable Peace"
Avishai Margalit (The Schulman Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University)
Respondents:
John Ferejohn (Political Science, Stanford)
Sam Scheffler (Philosophy & Law, Berkeley)
Tamar Schapiro (Philosophy, Stanford)
Lee Ross (Psychology, Stanford)

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