Symposium on the Tanner Lecture on Human Values by David Wengrow

Wed Mar 25 2026 at 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm UTC-06:00

The Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Jewel Box | Salt Lake City

Tanner Humanities Center
Publisher/HostTanner Humanities Center
Symposium on the Tanner Lecture on Human Values by David Wengrow
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Freedom, archeology, and history
About this Event

This event follows from the previous day.

Keynote: “The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom, Part II: A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living” — Professor of Comparative Archeology, University College London

“Seeing Freedom Archaeologically”
— Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

“Community: An Andean History”
— Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah

“Personhood, Self-Realization, and Imaginaries of Freedom in the Oyo Empire” — Professor of History, Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

“More Than Freedom: What Freedom Meant to Enslaved Black Americans in Nineteenth Century America”
— Associate Professor of History, University of Utah

“Freedom, Liberation or Emancipation? A Reflective Query”
— Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies and History of Art and Architecture, Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University

“Practicing Feminist Freedom: Jane’s Anarchic Direct Action and Taking the Right to Abortion”
— Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Utah

About the Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Founded by Grace and Obert Tanner in the mid-1970s, the Tanner Lectures are dedicated to enriching the intellectual and moral life of humankind. Annual Tanner Lectures are delivered at nine universities: Stanford, Berkeley, Utah, Michigan, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge. More information at .

Views expressed at Tanner Humanities Center events do not reflect the official views of the Center or the University of Utah.

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The Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center Jewel Box, 215 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, United States

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