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2011-2012 Tanner Lectures
"Ancient Philosophies as Ways of Life"
John Cooper (Philosophy, Princeton)
Lecture I: "Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life: Socrates"
Lecture II: "Platonist Philosophy as a Way of Life: Plotinus"

Respondents:
Alan Code (Philosophy, Stanford)
Anthony Long (Classics, Berkeley)
Jaclyn Maxwell (History, Ohio University)
Sarah Broadie (Philosophy, University of St Andrews)

Review of event (Stanford News Service) | Review of event (Stanford Daily) | Video Recording

2010-2011 Tanner Lectures
"The Challenge of Sustainability"
Elinor Ostrom  (Recipient 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics  / Political Science, Indiana University) 
Lecture I: "Frameworks"
Lecture II: "Puzzles"

Respondents:
Francis Fukuyama  (Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford)
Margaret Levi (Political Science, U Washington and U Sydney)
Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Jr. (Woods Institute & Law School, Stanford)
Charles Sabel (Law School, Columbia

Powerpoint for Lecture 1 | Powerpoint for Lecture II

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2009-2010 Tanner Lectures
"Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception"
Mark Danner  (Journalism, UC Berkeley / Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities, Bard College)
Lecture 1: "Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture and Us"
Lecture 2: "Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End"

Respondents:
Eric Posner (Law, University of Chicago)
Colonel Steven Kleinman (Senior Intelligence Officer U.S. Air Force, 1985-present)
Elaine Scarry (Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard) 
Stephen Holmes (Law, NYU)

Audio Lecture 1 & 2 |  Audio Discussion 1 & 2 (iTunes #3-7)

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2008-2009 Tanner Lectures
There were two lectures during this academic year; one in the fall and one in the spring.
Fall
"Origins of Human Cooperation"
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

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


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

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

Respondents:
Lawrence Bobo (Sociology, Stanford)
Pamela Karlan (Law, Stanford)
Tommie Shelby (African and African American Studies / Philosophy, Harvard)
Loic Wacquant (Sociology, 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 (History / Director Emeritus, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale)

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

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2004-2005 Tanner Lectures
"Rotten Compromise and Honorable Peace"
Avishai Margalit (Philosophy, 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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