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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

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Box 1

Item 1: Iranian Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy, April 8, 2004: Speaker: Abrahamian, Ervand
Item 2: Realizing Human Rights: Access to HIV/AIDS-related Medication and the Role of Civil Society in South Africa, March 28, 2006: Speaker: Achmat, Zackie
Item 3: What's a Landscape For? Smart Growth and Livability in the 21st Century, March 27, 2001: Speaker: Adelmann, Gerald
Item 4: 'Slow Dance, Heartbreak Blues: Creating and Sharing Poetry for Youth', April 7,1997: Speaker: Adoff, Arnold
Item 5: CIA, Human Rights American Democracy, April,18,1990: Speaker: Agee, Philip
Item 6: Censorship as Intellectual Terrorism, October 7, 1991: Speaker: Alexander, Edward Neville
Item 7: Iraq: From Sanctions to Occupation to Resistance (1 of 2), October 21, 2004: Speaker: Ali, Tariq
Item 8: Iraq: From Sanctions to Occupation to Resistance (2 of 2), October 22, 2004: Speaker: Ali, Tariq
Item 9: Moonflowers Luces Fugaces: Lesbian Philosophies & Cultures, March 18,1991: Speaker: Allen, Marie
Item 10: Language as Homeland: The Writings of Julia Alvarez, February 16, 1998: Speaker: Alvarez, Julia
Item 11: Food Security and Poverty Eradication as a National Security Goal for the United States, September 5, 2002: Speaker: Andersen, Pinstrup
Item 12: Rehabilitating the Ideal of Racial Integration, March 29, 2002: Speaker: Anderson, Elizabeth
Item 13: A Retrospective on the Reagan Years: Implications for the Future, April 14,1988: Speaker: Anderson, John
Item 14: Nos/ostros: 'Us' vs. 'Them,' (Des)Conocimientos y Compromisos, October 29, 1999: Speaker: Anzaldua, Gloria
Item 15: Why I Write Fiction: My Life, My Work, April 20,1988: Speaker: Appelfeld, Ahron
Item 16: Race, Culture, and Identity, March 2, 1995: Speaker: Appiah, Anthony Kwame
Item 17: Closing the Gender Gap: Post War Educational and Social Changes (1 of 2), March 23, 2000: Speaker: Arnot, Madeleine
Item 18: Closing the Gender Gap: Post War Educational and Social Changes (2 of 2), March 23, 2000: Speaker: Arnot, Madeleine
Item 19: End of the Century Blues: The Issue of Post-Modernism, September 17, 1987: Speaker: Ashton, Dore
Item 20: Will the Tropical Forests Survive in Asia?, April 2, 1987: Speaker: Ashton, Peter S.
Item 21: Auel on Ayla: Writing the Past, March 4, 1991: Speaker: Auel, Jean M.
Item 22: In Whose Aid is Aid? International Cooperation for African Development, January 24, 2002: Speaker: Awori, Thelma
Item 23: Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of the Religious Law of Islam (1 of 2), September 5, 2007: Speaker: Abdullahi, Ahmed An-Na'im
Item 24: Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of the Religious Law of Islam (2 of 2), September 5,2007: Speaker: Abdullahi, Ahmed An-Na'im
Item 25: Debunkin the Nazi Doctor Myth: The Fallacy of Coercion, March 19, 1992: Speaker: Baader, Gerhard
Item 26: A Reading of Fiction, December 2, 1991: Speaker: Badanes, Jerome
Item 27: Film: Image Before My Eyes- Question and Answer Session (1 of 2), December 3, 1991: Speaker: Badanes, Jerome
Item 28: Film: Image Before My Eyes- Question and Answer Session (2 of 2), December 3, 1991: Speaker: Badanes, Jerome
Item 29: The Miscounting of America, November 17, 1988: Speaker: Bailar, Barbara
Item 30: Abortion, The Politics of God, Sex, & Government, April 26, 1989: Speaker: Baird, Bill
Item 31: Protecting Poor Children in the Wake of Welfare Reform, March 14, 1997: Speaker: Bane, Mary Jo
Item 32: Stereotypes of Jews in 20th Century Cinema, August 31, 2004: Speaker: Bartov, Omer
Item 33: the Aesthetic Dimension of Computation, September 22, 1999: Speaker: Bargar, Robin
Item 34: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace, September 15, 1999: Speaker: Barlow, John Perry
Item 35: Understanding Natural Order, September 29, 1987: Speaker: Barnes, Barry
Item 36: Microevolutionary Influences of Global Environmental Change on Plant Populations, March 3, 1999: Speaker: Barrett, Spencer