The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

2006-2007 Tanner Lecture
Glenn Loury
(Brown University, Economics)
April 4-6, 2007

"Racial Stigma, Mass Incarceration and American Values"

Go to Stanford iTunes to listen to a podcast of Professor Loury's lectures and both discussion seminars.

Lecture 1:
April 4, 2007
"Ghettos, Prisons and Racial Backlash"

5:30-7:00pm
Stanford Humanities Center/Levinthal Hall

Lecture 1 will be an historical, political and sociological study of the role race has played, and continues to play, in the remarkable post-1970 transformation of America's punishment policies. Loury will argue that "backlash" against the "disorder" of the 1960s has become subtly and powerfully "raced."

Lecture 2:
April 5, 2007
"Social Identity and the Ethics of Punishment"

5:30-7:00pm
Stanford Humanities Center/Levinthal Hall

Lecture 2 will focus on the ethics of punishment in a "divided society" (elaborating a social scientific and an ethical critique of the "politics of personal responsibility" that emerged out of the culture wars of the 1980s).


Discussion 1:
April 5, 2007
Discussants: Lawrence Bobo (Stanford), Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law)
10:am-12:00pm
Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A

Discussion 2:
April 6, 2007
Discussants: Tommie Shelby (Harvard), Loic Wacquant (Berkeley)
10:am-12:00pm
Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A


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Information on Prior Tanner Lectures

2005-2006 Tanner, David Brion Davis
2004-2005 Tanner, Avishai Margalit
2003-2004 Tanner, Harry Frankfurt
2002-2003 Tanner, Mary Robinson
2001-2002 Tanner, Paul Krugman