Finding Aid for CAS/MillerComm Lecture Recordings, 1970-2017 | University of Illinois Archives

By Jazmin C. Wilkerson

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Collection Overview

Title: CAS/MillerComm Lecture Recordings, 1970-2017

ID: 7/4/10

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate Center for Advanced Study

Extent: 9.8 cubic feet

Arrangement: By accession

Subjects: Center for Advanced Study - University of Illinois, Miller Lectures, University of Illinois

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Center for Advanced Study MillerComm Lecture Recordings includes 1/4 inch open reel, audiocassette, and compact disc audio recordings of lectures given at the University of Illinois part of the CAS/MillerComm series. A complete list of lectures included is located in the box list.

Biographical Note

In 1959, the Board of Trustees created the Center for Advanced Study as a special unit of the Graduate College to encourage creative achievement and scholarship by providing recognition to scholars of the highest distinction and to give incentives for the highest level of scholarly achievement.¹ Categories of Member and Associate Member were established.² In 1967 the Center undertook administrative and organizational structure changes. The purpose of the Center was expanded to include the wider functions of attracting to the campus a greater number of younger scholars and creative artists of outstanding promise; bringing to the University distinguished persons from academic and public life; sponsoring conferences, colloquia, lecture series and symposia; and promoting frequent interchange of ideas among the faculty and outside visitors. Members were changed to the position of Professor in the Center, an appointment considered to be "the highest form of academic recognition that the University can bestow upon its faculty." The position of Associate replaced Associate Membership. New affiliations of Distinguished Lecturer, Fellow, and Advisor were added. A Director was appointed with a Policy Committee to recommend basic policies.³ In 1967, the Center also established offices in a remodeled building at 912 West Illinois Street, Urbana.⁴

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 50th Report, February 19, 1959, p. 298.

2. Ibid., p. 298-299.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 54th Report, April 19, 1967, pp. 482-484.

4. Ibid., p. 557.

Subject/Index Terms

Center for Advanced Study - University of Illinois
Miller Lectures
University of Illinois

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

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Box 2

Item 1: The Sense of Taste: Why Don't Things Taste the Same to Everyone, March 30, 1993: Speaker: Bartoshuk, Linda M.
Item 2: Mapping Transnational Women's Movements: Globalizing the Local, Localizing the Global, April 14, 2000: Speaker: Basu, Amrita
Item 3: A Nation in Denial: The Truth About Homelessness, January 25, 1994: Speaker: Baum, Burnes, Alice & Donald
Item 4: Water and Its Publics: Social Action Across Spaces and Scales, November 4, 2004: Speaker: Baviskar, Amita
Item 5: American Women of Letters, November 28, 2000: Speaker: Baym, Nina
Item 6: Trusting Edison: From Speculative Belief to Reliably Reconstitutable Phenomena, March 27,2006: Speaker: Bazerman, Charles
Item 7: Readings from her short fiction, April 8,1986: Speaker: Beatie, Ann
Item 8: Nightgowns from Cuba: Desire and Diaspora After the Revolution, February 25, 1999: Speaker: Behar, Ruth
Item 9: The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry, March 29, 2000: Speaker: Beinin, Joel
Item 10: Getting the Lead Out: A Case Study of Environmental Pollution and Child Development, April 9, 1996: Speaker: Bellinger, David
Item 11: Globalization from Below (1 of 2), September 9, 2002: Speaker: Bello, Walden
Item 12: Globalization from Below (2 of 2), September 9, 2002: Speaker: Bello, Walden
Item 13: North African Women in the Peace Process and Aftermath of the Gulf War, March 18, 1992: Speaker: Ben Aba, Amel
Item 14: Changing Employment Structures and Economic Insecurity: A Global Gender Perspective, October 20, 2000: Speaker: Beneria, Lourdes
Item 15: Six-Legged Chemists, September 18,1996: Speaker: Berenbaum, May
Item 16: New Challenges, New Opportunities: For African Americans the Struggle Continues, April 4, 2005: Speaker: Berry, Mary
Item 17: Electronic Erosion of Democracy (1 of 2), September 10, 1990: Speaker: Billington, James H.
Item 18: Electronic Erosion of Democracy (2 of 2), September 10, 1990: Speaker: Billington, James H.
Item 19: Looking Forward: Needs, Blockages, Forecasts, April 15, 2006: Speaker: Blackman & Sandvig
Item 20: Land Degradation: Changing Landscapes or Changing Views?, March 28, 1994: Speaker: Blaikie, Piers
Item 21: Mice, Monkeys and Man: The Ethical and Practical Problems of Animal Use in Biomedical Research (1 of 2), March 5, 2003: Speaker: Blakemore, Colin
Item 22: Mice, Monkeys and Man: The Ethical and Practical Problems of Animal Use in Biomedical Research (2 of 2), March 5, 2003: Speaker: Blakemore, Colin
Item 23: International Law and the Puerto Rican Plebiscite (1 of 2), February 26, 1991: Speaker: Blaut-Lopez, Powers
Item 24: International Law and the Puerto Rican Plebiscite (2 of 2), February 26, 1991: Speaker: Blaut-Lopez, Powers
Item 25: Laser Applications in Science and Technology, September 14, 1989: Speaker: Bloembergen, Nicholaas
Item 26: (No Title), November 14, 2000: Speaker: Bloch, Erich
Item 27: Knowledge Work Gone Adrift in the Information Age (1 of 2), April 11, 1997: Speaker: Boland, Richard
Item 28: Knowledge Work Gone Adrift in the Information Age (2 of 2), April 11, 1997: Speaker: Boland, Richard
Item 29: Authors and Readers in an Age of Electronic Texts, April 10, 1994: Speaker: Bolter, David Jay
Item 30: The Broken Promise of Brown (1 of 2), April 2, 2004: Speaker: Bond, Julian
Item 31: The Broken Promise of Brown (2 of 2), April 2, 2004: Speaker: Bond, Julian
Item 32: Show Biz As a Cross-Cultural System: Circuses, Geertz, and Song, March 21, 2000: Speaker: Boon, James A.
Item 33: SDI, A New National Strategy: A Soldier's View (1 of 2), March 21, 2000: Speaker: Bowman, Robert
Item 34: SDI, A New National Strategy: A Soldier's View (2 of 2), March 21, 2000: Speaker: Bowman, Robert
Item 35: A Tale of Two Synods: How Christianity and Judaism Converged On the Eve of the Middle Ages, March 23, 1999: Speaker: Boyarin, Daniel