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:

[Box 1],
[Box 2],
[Box 3],
[Box 4],
[Box 5],
[Box 6],
[Box 7],
[Box 8],
[Box 9],
[Box 10],
[Box 11],
[Box 12],
[Box 13],
[Box 14],
[Box 15],
[Box 16],
[Box 17],
[Box 18],
[Box 19 (Mis.)],
[Box 20 (Mis.)],
[Box 21],
[Box 22],
[Box 23],
[Box 24],
[Box 25],
[Box 26],
[Box 27],
[Box 28],
[All]

Box 5

Item 1: Punishment and Democracy: Prison Abolitionism in the Twenty-First Century 2 of 2, November 14, 2002: Speaker: Davis, Angela
Item 2: The Travels of Leo Africanus, January 1, 1996: Speaker: Davis, Natalie
Item 3: Social Dilemmas, Economic Self-Interest and Evolutionary Theory, April 14,1992: Speaker: Dawes, Robyn M.
Item 4: Renewing Democracy, Revitalizing Our Communities: Labor's Call for Sharing Prosperity in the New Economy, September 19, 2000: Speaker: Dean, Amy
Item 5: Lessons of the Sixties for Today, March 14, 1989: Speaker: Dellinger, David
Item 6: The Domestication of Wild Religions 1 of 2, March 30, 2007: Speaker: Dennett, Daniel
Item 7: The Domestication of Wild Religions 2 of 2, March 30, 2007: Speaker: Dennett, Daniel
Item 8: A Shot at the American Dream, September 12, 2005: Speaker: DeParle, Jason
Item 9: AIDS and the Reshaping of the Lesbian and Gay Community, January 30, 1992: Speaker: D' Emilio, John
Item 10: Did God Have a Wife?, February 15, 1990: Speaker: Dever, William G.
Item 11: From Chaos to Pilgrimage 1 of 2, November 5, 2001: Speaker: Dialogue-Malville
Item 12: From Chaos to Pilgrimage 2 of 2, November 5, 2001: Speaker: Dialogue-Malville
Item 13: The Future of New Guinea: A Biological Treasure, April 10, 1990: Speaker: Diamond, Jared M.
Item 14: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, November 13, 2000: Speaker: Diamond, Jared
Item 15: Pale Faces, October 18, 2000: Speaker: Dinshaw, Carolyn
Item 16: Pale Faces, October 18, 2000: Speaker: Dinshaw, Carolyn
Item 17: For a Politics of Love and Rescue: In Defense of Scholarly Passions 1 of 2, October 1, 1998: Speaker: Dominguez, Virginia
Item 18: For a Politics of Love and Rescue: In Defense of Scholarly Passions 2 of 2, October 1, 1998: Speaker: Dominguez, Virginia
Item 19: Who Were the First Americans? New Perspectives on the Clovis vs. Pre-Clovis Debate, September 25, 1996: Speaker: Dorn, Ronald
Item 20: The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East, March 6, 2006: Speaker: Dossani,Rafiq
Item 21: Mark Doty: Reading From His Work, February 16, 1999: Speaker: Doty, Mark
Item 22: Celebrity Moms vs. Welfare Mothers: Media Imagery and the Competition Over Motherhood in America, February 22, 2001: Speaker: Douglas, Susan
Item 23: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII, October 2, 2000: Speaker: Dower, John W.
Item 24: Vectors of Change and Conflict II, April 14, 2006: Speaker: Downey and Calabrese
Item 25: Slavery and the Democratic Process, November 11, 1987: Speaker: Drescher, Seymour
Item 26: Telepistemology Descartes' Last Stand, April 28, 2000: Speaker: Dreyfus, Hubert
Item 27: A Unified Theory for Post-Suburban Planning 1 of 2, April 7, 2004: Speaker: Duany, Andres
Item 28: A Unified Theory for Post-Suburban Planning 2 of 2, April 7, 2004: Speaker: Duany, Andres
Item 29: Inside the Scientific Mind: How Scientists Think, Reason, and Generate New Knowledge, September 27, 2000: Speaker: Dunbar, Kevin
Item 30: Folklore in the Modern World, April 12, 1986: Speaker: Dundes, Alan
Item 31: Tensions, Contradictions & Resolutions, October 7, 2001: Speaker: Duster, Troy
Item 32: University Restrictions on Racist and Sexist Speech 1 of 2, April 5, 1991: Speaker: Dworkin,Gale
Item 33: University Restrictions on Racist and Sexist Speech 2 of 2, April 5, 1991: Speaker: Dworkin,Gale
Item 34: Forgotten Melodies: 20th Century British Women Composers 1 of 2, October 9, 1989: Speaker: Dyke, Martin
Item 35: Forgotten Melodies: 20th Century British Women Composers 2 of 2, October 9, 1989: Speaker: Dyke, Martin
Item 36: Mental Retardation and the Cultural Diversity in America Mainstream, March 29, 1993: Speaker: Edgerton, Robert B.