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 14

Item 1: From WWII To the Internet 2 of 2, February 17, 2005: Speaker: Origins of Networks
Item 2: Orchids and Flames: Adventures in Restoration Ecolocy and Conservation Biology, October 9, 1997: Speaker: Packard, Stephen
Item 3: Grace Paley Reads from Her Short Fiction, March 7, 1986: Speaker: Paley,Grace
Item 4: A Critical but Caring Lens: The Politics of Identity, Social Justice, and the Environment in Contemporary India 1 of 2, April 17, 2002: Speaker: Patwardhan, Anand
Item 5: A Critical but Caring Lens: The Politics of Identity, Social Justice, and the Environment in Contemporary India 2 of 2, April 17, 2002: Speaker: Patwardhan, Anand
Item 6: Mahatma Gandhi: His Link with Peace, Social Justice, and Social Development, April 13, 1994: Speaker: Pandey,Rama S.
Item 7: Septima Clark: Roots of a Democratic Tradition, January 30, 1997: Speaker: Payne, Charles
Item 8: Ethnic Identity: Developing a Latina/Latino Identity, March 24, 1994: Speaker: Pedraza,Silvia
Item 9: Zoot Suit Riots Revisited: Meditations on the Politics of Style, October 25, 2005: Speaker: Peiss, Kathy
Item 10: The Russian Christ: The Silence of Jesus from Hesychasm to the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor, April 19, 2002: Speaker: Pelikan, Jaroslav
Item 11: Health Care Reform: Policies and Economics, March 22, 1994: Speaker: Phelps,Charles E.
Item 12: The Invention of an Infrastructure for Black Political Participation, January 22, 2002: Speaker: Pinderhughes,Dianne
Item 13: Confessions of a Novelist in the Tropics Side 1 and 2, April 28, 1988: Speaker: Pinon,Nelida
Item 14: Speak, Memory: A Mexican Mosaic of Fiction and History, October 11, 1989: Speaker: Poniatowska,Elena
Item 15: Postcoloniality, Modernity and the Case of the Stolen Kidney, February 28, 2000: Speaker: Pratt, Mary
Item 16: French Primitive: On the Appropriation of African-American Art, October 25, 1994: Speaker: Price,Sally
Item 17: Caribbean Crosscurrents: Nostalgia, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, October 4, 1994: Speaker: Price, Richard
Item 18: Literacy Devices: Fiction in the Digital Age, November 19, 2002: Speaker: Powers,Richard
Item 19: China's Rural-Urban Migrants: Equal Opportunities?, September 21, 2004: Speaker: Qing, Wu
Item 20: Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animal Behavior 1 of 2, April 24, 2003: Speaker: Rollin, Bernard
Item 21: Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animal Behavior 2 of 2, April 24, 2003: Speaker: Rollin, Bernard
Item 22: Fighting Racism in Contemporary Austria: A Jewish Activist's Account, February 6, 2001: Speaker: Rabinovici, Doron
Item 23: Dancing Across Boundaries; Kathakali, Shakespeare and Folk Performances 1 of 2, September 21, 2000: Speaker: Raina, Arjun
Item 24: Dancing Across Boundaries; Kathakali, Shakespeare and Folk Performances 2 of 2, September 21, 2000: Speaker: Raina, Arjun
Item 25: The Future of Communication Technologies: Communication for Communities or Technology for Technology's Sake?, September 14, 1999: Speaker: Rakow, Lana
Item 26: The Slow-Motion Suicide of the American Empire, November 3, 2005: Speaker: Rall, Ted
Item 27: Global Sustain Ability: Our Common Responsibility, March 27, 1990: Speaker: Raven,Peter H.
Item 28: Rulership and Ritual: State Rites in Late Imperial China, March 16, 1993: Speaker: Rawski,Evelyn S.
Item 29: Madness, Hype, or Vision of Hope: The World Brain?, February 10, 1998: Speaker: Rayward,W. Boyd
Item 30: Managing the Risk of Organizational Accidents, April 27, 1994: Speaker: Reason,James
Item 31: Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity in a World of Use, April 30, 1996: Speaker: Redford, Kent
Item 32: Science, Cognitive Science & Computers, etc. 1 of 2, April 2, 1987: Speaker: Reif,Frederick
Item 33: Science, Cognitive Science & Computers, etc. 2 of 2, April 2, 1987: Speaker: Reif,Frederick
Item 34: Ishmael Reed: Reading From His Work, March 4, 1999: Speaker: Reed, Ishmael
Item 35: Origin of the North American Prairie, February 5, 1987: Speaker: Retallack,Greg