Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values
Obert C. Tanner was a Professor of philosophy at the University of Utah, as well as an industrialist and a philanthropist. Of all the gifts he has left to universities, the one he was proudest of is the Lectures on Human Values. The Tanner Lecture on Human Values was formally established at the University of Cambridge, England on July 1, 1978. In writing about the purpose of these lectures, Professor Tanner said, “I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values." To this end, the lecture provides a forum in which to promote scholarly and scientific learning in the field of human values while embracing moral, artistic, intellectual, and spiritual values—both individual and social—and advancing the full register of values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior, and aspiration.
Fall 2024 Grace A. Tanner Lecture
Join us on Thursday, October 3rd, for a lecture, reading, and interview with Camille T. Dungy titled "Soil, The African Diaspora, and American Land." This event will be held from 11:30-12:30 p.m. at the Gilbert Great Hall, located within the Hunter Alumni Center.
is the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. Soil was named book of the month by Hudsons Booksellers, received the 2024 Award of Excellence in Garden and Nature Writing from The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, and was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Dungy has written four collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade, winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, the first anthology to bring African American environmental poetry to national attention. Her work, which considers history, landscape, culture, family, and desire, has appeared in over 40 journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad. She is the host of Immaterial, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise. A distinguished professor at Colorado State University, Dungy’s honors include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and fellowships from the NEA in both prose and poetry.
This event is part of the Eccles A.P.E.X. Lecture Series.
