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

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Box 15

Item 1: Other-Worldly and This-Worldly Piety and the Islamic Revival, January 31, 2005: Speaker: Robinson, Francis
Item 2: The Unpaid Debt: The Case for Reparations to African-Americans and African Countries, January 18, 2001: Speaker: Robinson, Randall
Item 3: Anthropomorphism 1 of 2, April 24, 2003: Speaker: Rollin,Bernard
Item 4: Anthropomorphism 2 of 2, April 24, 2003: Speaker: Rollin,Bernard
Item 5: Searching for Unicorns & Extra Terrestrial Civilizations, April 28, 1986: Speaker: Rood,Robert T.
Item 6: Does Postmodernist Philosophy Make Any Difference to Politics?, March 13, 1998: Speaker: Rorty,Richard
Item 7: Educational Democracy: Anthropological Reflections, January 25, 1995: Speaker: Rosaldo,Renato
Item 8: Old Norse Myth at the End of the Twentieth Century, April 28, 1992: Speaker: Ross,Margaret
Item 9: Una Mujer Sin Fronteras: Luisa Moreno and Latina Labor Activism, November 17, 1997: Speaker: Ruiz,Vicki L.
Item 10: A Not-Quite-Federal State: Britain 1603-1990, April 5, 1990: Speaker: Russell,Conrad
Item 11: Advances in Biotechnology, March 4, 1996: Speaker: Rutter,William J.
Item 12: Defiant Trespass: Lessons from the Black Arts Movement for this place called America", April 3, 2008: Speaker: Sanchez, Sonia
Item 13: Bioethical Challenges, October 5, 2006: Speaker: Siegler ,Mark
Item 14: ABC's of PCB's, September 27, 1990: Speaker: Safe,Stephan
Item 15: Culture and Agency in History 1 of 2, March 21, 2001: Speaker: Sahlins,Marshall
Item 16: Culture and Agency in History 2 of 2, March 21, 2001: Speaker: Sahlins,Marshall
Item 17: Electrical Signaling in the Brain 1 of 2, March 20, 1997: Speaker: Sakmann,Bert
Item 18: Electrical Signaling in the Brain 2 of 2, March 20, 1997: Speaker: Sakmann,Bert
Item 19: The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Ecological Legacy, September 23, 1992: Speaker: Sale,Kirkpatrick
Item 20: Revenge of the Microbes, October 4, 2006: Speaker: Salyers,Abigail
Item 21: Russia's Fate: A Journalist's Personal Encounter with His Native Land, September 11, 2000: Speaker: Schmemann, Serge
Item 22: Is Climate Change Too Uncertain for Policy? 1 of 2, September 9, 2002: Speaker: Schneider, Stephen
Item 23: Is Climate Change Too Uncertain for Policy? 2 of 2, September 9, 2002: Speaker: Schneider, Stephen
Item 24: A Public Reading of her Fiction, March 9, 1988: Speaker: Schwartz,Lynne
Item 25: Stem Cells 1 of 2, August 29, 2001: Speaker: CAS Forum on Critical Issues
Item 26: Stem Cells 2 of 2, August 29, 2001: Speaker: CAS Forum on Critical Issues
Item 27: Evaluation: The Skeleton in the Disciplinary Closet 1 of 2, April 23, 1996: Speaker: Scriven, Michael
Item 28: Evaluation: The Skeleton in the Disciplinary Closet 2 of 2, April 23, 1996: Speaker: Scriven, Michael
Item 29: Social Reality, April 19, 1996: Speaker: Searle, John
Item 30: Ockham's Razor and Proust's Beard, April 13, 2000: Speaker: Shattuck, Roger
Item 31: From Troy to Baghdad: Can the US Military Learn from Homer's Epics?, November 17, 2005: Speaker: Shay, Jonathan
Item 32: Fifty Years After Independence: India's Evolving Role, April 23, 1998: Speaker: Sheth, Jagdish
Item 33: Is Europe's Future American?, March 30, 1995: Speaker: Singer ,Daniel
Item 34: The New Democratic South Africa 1 of 2, April 3, 2000: Speaker: Sisulu ,Sheila
Item 35: The New Democratic South Africa 2 of 2, April 3, 2000: Speaker: Sisulu ,Sheila
Item 36: A Century of Resource Use: Can the Next Century's Feast be as Rich?, April 25, 1990: Speaker: Skinner,Brian