TANNER LECTURES
The Humanities Center at Harvard and the Office of the President present
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Jonathan Lear "Irony & Identity" November 4-6, 2009 
Jonathan Lear
John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
Lecture 1: "Becoming Human Is Not That Easy"
Wednesday, November 4, 4:30 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall
Lecture 2: "Ironic Soul"
Thursday, November 5, 4:30 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall
Seminar
Friday, November 6, 10:00 a.m., Barker Center 110
Lectures moderated by Homi Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard
Respondents include:
Cora Diamond
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Christine Korsgaard
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Richard Moran
Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Robert Paul
Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Open to the public. No tickets required. Seating is limited.
The Lowell lecture Hall is located on the corner of Oxford and Kirkland Streets.
The Barker Center is located at 12 Quincy Street.
Please direct inquiries to humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
The purpose of the Tanner Lectures is the advancement of scholarly and scientific learning in the field of human values. That purpose embraces the entire range of moral, artistic, intellectual, and spiritual values, both individual and social - the full register of values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior, and aspiration.
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a nonprofit corporation administered at the University of Utah. They are funded by an endowment and other gifts received by the University of Utah from Obert Clark Tanner and Grace Adams Tanner.
Related website: www.tannerlectures.utah.edu
At the request of a Founding Trustee of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, these lectures are dedicated to the memory of:
Clarence Irving Lewis
1883-1964
A.B. Harvard 1906
Ph.D. (Philosophy)
Harvard 1910
Member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer 1920-21
Assistant Professor 1921-24
Associate Professor 1924-30
Professor of Philosophy 1930-46
Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy 1946-53
Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, 1953-64
TRUSTEES
Robert and Mary Catherine Birgeneau
Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley
Roger and Elizabeth Lindsey Cashmore
Brasenose College, Oxford
Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman
University of Michigan
John and Andrea Hennessy
Stanford University
Carolyn Tanner Irish
Episcopal Bishop of Utah
Stephen Tanner Irish
Salt Lake City
Richard and Jane Levin
Yale University
Kent and Barbara Murdock
O.C. Tanner Company
Chase and Grethe Peterson
President Emeritus of the University of Utah
Frederick Quinn
Washington DC and Salt Lake City
Drew Gilpin Faust and Charles Rosenberg
Harvard University
Ekhard and Lisa Salje
Clare Hall, Cambridge
Shirley Tilghman
Princeton University
Michael K. and Suzan Young
President, University of Utah
HARVARD TANNER COMMITTEE
Homi K. Bhabha (Chair)
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities
Charles K. Fried
Beneficial Professor of Law
Howard E. Gardner
John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
Stephen J. Greenblatt
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
Arthur Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Professor of Psychiatry
Christine M. Korsgaard
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy
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