2011–12 James A. Moffett Lectures return to Moffett Lectures

  1. Thursday, February 23, 2012 "Borders and Human Rights" David Miller, University of Oxford 101 McCormick Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures
  2. Thursday, December 8, 2011 "Carl Schmitt's Critique of Kant: Sovereignty and International Law" Seyla Benhabib, Yale University 101 McCormick Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures

2010–11 James A. Moffett Lectures return to Moffett Lectures

  1. Thursday, April 21, 2011 "On Global Citizenship" James Tully, University of Victoria 101 McCormick Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures

    James Tully (PhD Cambridge, FRSC, Trudeau Fellow), is the University of Victoria Distinguished Professor in Political Science, Law, Philosophy and Indigenous Governance. He taught political theory and philosophy for many years at McGill University and was the first Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto. He works on contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. He is co-editor of the Ideas in Context Series at Cambridge University Press. His publications include An Approach to Political Philosophy, Strange Multiplicity: constitutionalism in an age of diversity, (co-editor) Multinational Democracies, and Public Philosophy in a New Key (2 volumes 2009). There is a ‘dialogue’ on Public Philosophy in Political Theory (February 2011) and his 2010 Oxford Amnesty Lecture on human rights and the politics of non-violence is forthcoming. In 2010 he was awarded Canada’s Killam Prize for the Humanities for his contribution to scholarship and public life. His James A. Moffett ’29 lecture in ethics will draw on the approach to citizenship he develops in Public Philosophy.

     

  2. Thursday, September 30, 2010 "What Is Democracy? What Is It Good For?" Josiah Ober, Stanford University 101 McCormick Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures

    Professor Josiah Ober is the Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics and the Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He has published a number of books and articles on classical Greek political thought and practice and their relevance for contemporary democratic theory. His most recent book is Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (2008). His current research includes projects on self-governing organizations (ancient and modern), on the circulation of social and technical knowledge in democratic societies, and on the interplay between political philosophy and culture. Professor Ober is a past faculty member of the Princeton University Center for Human Values and Department of Classics.

2009–10 James A. Moffett Lectures return to Moffett Lectures

  1. Thursday, April 29, 2010 "Leading Universities in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges" Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania Lewis Thomas Lab 003, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures
  2. Thursday, April 1, 2010 "Establishment, Exclusion, and Democracy" Joshua Cohen, Stanford University 219 Aaron Burr Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures

    Joshua Cohen is a professor of law, political science, and philosophy, program leader for the Program on Global Justice at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he is also a principal investigator in the programs on Human Rights and Liberation Technology. A political theorist, trained in philosophy, Cohen has written on issues of democratic theory, particularly deliberative democracy and the implications for personal liberty, freedom of expression, and campaign finance. Currently, Professor Cohen is concentrating his scholarship on issues of global justice, including the foundations of human rights, distributive fairness, and supranational democratic governance. A first volume of his selected papers, Philosophy, Politics, Democracy is being published by Harvard University Press (fall 2009), and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He is also editor of Boston Review, a bi-monthly magazine of political, cultural, and literary ideas.

     

     

  3. Thursday, February 18, 2010 "Reflections on the Evolution of Morality" Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University McCormick 101, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures

2008–09 James A. Moffett Lectures return to Moffett Lectures

  1. Wednesday, March 4, 2009 "Beyond Cultural Essentialism: Grounding African Human Rights Project in a Common Morality" Simeon Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University McCormick 101, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures Co-sponsored by: Center for the Study of Religion
  2. Thursday, February 12, 2009 "Same-Sex Marriage: Beyond the Politics of Disgust" Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago 101 McCormick Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures Co-sponsored by: Program in the Study of Women and Gender, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center and the Program in Law and Public Affairs
  3. Thursday, November 20, 2008 "Word & Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes" Quentin Skinner, Cambridge University Aaron Burr Hall 219, 4:30pm - 6:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures Co-sponsored by: Department of Politics
  4. Friday, October 3, 2008 "Asian and Western Values and China’s Past, Present, and Future" Daniel Bell, Tsinghua University, Beijing 301 Marx Hall, 10:00am - 12:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures Co-sponsored by: Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University Press, PIIRS, East Asian Studies
  5. Thursday, October 2, 2008 "China’s New Confucianism" Daniel Bell, Tsinghua University, Beijing Aaron Burr Hall 219, 4:30pm - 6:15pm, Oct 3 10:00am - 4:00pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by: Center for Globalization and Governance; East Asian Studies Department; Princeton I

2007–08 James A. Moffett Lectures return to Moffett Lectures

  1. Thursday, April 24, 2008 "Multiculturalism and Secularisms" Tariq Modood, Bristol University McCormick 101, 4:30pm - 6:15pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures
  2. Thursday, October 18, 2007 "Voltaire, Radical philosophes and Anti-philosophes" Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study McCormick 101, 4:30pm - 6:30pm James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures