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David P. Gardner Lecture
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The 2009-2010 David P. Gardner Lecture
with Aaron David Miller
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
March 9, 2010
7:00pm
IJ and Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center
The David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts is administered by the Tanner Humanities Center in collaboration with the College of Humanities, the College of Fine Arts, and the Graduate School. The Gardner Lecture was founded in the University of Utah Graduate School in honor of former President David Pierpont Gardner. The Gardner Lecture features distinguished scholars and artists from the humanities and the fine arts in alternating years.
The lectures are free and open to the public. The lectureship is funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
History of Lecturers
1984 David P. Gardner, President of the University of California System
1985 Robert Hughes, Art Editor for Time Magazine
1986 Michael Fried, Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
1987 Alexander Goehr, Department of Music, University of Cambridge (collaborative appearance with the Utah Symphony)
1988 Eugene N. Borza, Scholar of Antiquity, Pennsylvania State University
1989 Alwin Nikolais, Artistic Director, Niklais Dance Theater
1990 Janice Radway, Professor of Literature, Duke University
1991 Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities (Yale), and Berg Professor of English (New York University)
1992 Milton Babbitt, William Shubael Conant Professor emeritus, Princeton
1993 Barbara Kruger, Graphic Artist, New York
1994 Martha C. Nussbaum, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown
1995 Bobbie McFerrin, Musician, Vocalist, Conductor, New York City
1996 John L. Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Georgetown University, and Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, History and International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
1997 Peter Sellars, Theatre, Opera and Television Director, L.A.
1998 William J. Cronon, Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1999 Norman Jewison, Film Director, Los Angeles
2000 Klaus G. Roy, Composer and Annotator, Cleveland Symphony
2002 Lawrence Buell, John P. Marquand Professor, and Chair, Department of English, Harvard University
2003 Frederick Wiseman, Documentary Filmmaker, Cambridge, Massaschusetts
2004 Lily Yeh, Artist, founder and executive director of The Village
2005 Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University