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 16

Item 1: Why Do Fundamental Theories Need Interpretations?, April 6, 2001: Speaker: Sklar, Lawrence
Item 2: Civic Engagement in American Democracy: Then and Now, November 16, 1998: Speaker: Skocpol, Theda
Item 3: African-American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration 1 of 2, November 6, 1997: Speaker: Smith, Barbara
Item 4: African-American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration 2 of 2, November 6, 1997: Speaker: Smith, Barbara
Item 5: A Comparative Prospective on the History of the American Family, April 28, 1993: Speaker: Smith,David
Item 6: Technology and the Ideal of Progress, November 18, 1987: Speaker: Smith,Merritt
Item 7: Fraternizing Across the Culture War Trenches: Alan Sokal and Michael Baruba Search for Common Ground 1 of 2, January 31, 1997: Speaker: Sokal,Alan
Item 8: Fraternizing Across the Culture War Trenches: Alan Sokal and Michael Baruba Search for Common Ground 2 of 2, January 31, 1997: Speaker: Sokal,Alan
Item 9: Beggars and Choosers: Politics of Choice and Women's Dignity, October 12, 2000: Speaker: Solinger, Rickie
Item 10: Human Rights: First Casualty of Revisionism, April 3, 1997: Speaker: Soyinka,Wole
Item 11: A Critique of Subjectivity, February 14, 1989: Speaker: Spector,Jack
Item 12: Toward an African American Ethnic Based on the Blues, February 23, 1995: Speaker: Spencer,Jon
Item 13: Feminism Does Not Compute: The Computer Age: Implications for Feminism, April 17, 1991: Speaker: Spender,Dale
Item 14: The Impact of Big Time College Sports 1 of 2, March 28, 2001: Speaker: Sperber,Murray
Item 15: The Impact of Big Time College Sports 2 of 2, March 28, 2001: Speaker: Sperber,Murray
Item 16: Making New Connections: Social Consequences of Computer Networking, February 11, 1992: Speaker: Sproull,Lee
Item 17: The Dome of the Rock: Restoration and Politics, November 16, 1994: Speaker: St. Laurent,Beatrice
Item 18: Cuba Towards the Twenty-First Century, November 14, 1994: Speaker: Stable,Marifeli
Item 19: Holding Hands: An American Struggle for Community, April 14, 1997: Speaker: Stack, Carol
Item 20: About Silence: Organ Works by Various Composers, March 6, 1989: Speaker: Staedler,Gerhard
Item 21: Analogy or the Art & Science of Relating, January 29, 2001: Speaker: Stafford,Barbara
Item 22: Ethnography - Recovery as Innovation, October 16, 2002: Speaker: Stark,David
Item 23: Assembling Publics: New Technologies of Deliberation, October 31, 2005: Speaker: Stark,David
Item 24: On the Wings of Innovation: Research and Technology?, February 24, 1994: Speaker: Stear,Edwin B.
Item 25: O Brave New World: A Vision of Cultural Democracy, October 29, 1992: Speaker: Stimpson,Catharine
Item 26: Anthropology Yesterday: Reflections on the Historiography of Cold War Anthropology in the United States, February 17, 1999: Speaker: Stocking, George
Item 27: Habits of a Colonial Heart: The Affective Grid of Racial Politics, March 13, 2003: Speaker: Stoler, Ann
Item 28: Mark Strand: A Reading of His Poetry, April 4, 1996: Speaker: Strand, Mark
Item 29: Rethinking PanAfricanism for the Twenty-First Century, October 30, 1997: Speaker: Sudarkasa, Niara
Item 30: Immigration/Diaspora: Crossroads in Asian American Literature 1 of 2, March 7, 1995: Speaker: Sumida ,Stephen H.
Item 31: Immigration/Diaspora: Crossroads in Asian American Literature 2 of 2, March 7, 1995: Speaker: Sumida ,Stephen H.
Item 32: Storyweaving: Storytelling, Oral Tradition, & Collective Creation, October 2, 1996: Speaker: Spiderwoman
Item 33: Is Britain Really Dying, etc., April 6, 1988: Speaker: Supple,Barry
Item 34: RVT Series 1 of 2, March 5, 2001: Speaker: Swaminathan & Reeves
Item 35: RVT Series 2 of 2, March 5, 2001: Speaker: Swaminathan & Reeves
Item 36: Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the Suburban North, February 21, 2007: Speaker: Sugrue, Thomas