The Tanner Lectures with Margaret Redsteer

Margaret Redsteer’s Tanner Lectures, “Climate Futures and Structural Paradigms,” on Wednesday, April 12 and Thursday, April 13 will draw on her experiences working with local Indigenous communities to adapt to a changing climate and will consider what has been left out of narratives about the challenges humans face. This a series of two lectures. Both lectures take place at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall at Harvard University. The Tanner Lectures are free and open to the public.

The first lecture, "On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks," will be delivered Wednesday, April 12. This lecture will be centered around what defines resilience and why tribal communities are among the most resilient and yet very vulnerable to climate change. The second lecture, "Barriers to Transforming Climate Dialogues," will be delivered Thursday, April 13. This lecture will focus on how the historical implementation of policies led to significant failures and to current attitudes about reform of land use practices.

In collaboration with the Office of the President of Harvard University, the Mahindra Humanities Center hosts annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values. 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. For more information, visit The Tanner Lectures' website.