News

  1. Germany's largest quality daily, Süddeutsche Zeitung, features UCHV's Jan-Werner Mueller's colloquium. The “Architecture, Urban Space, and Democracy,” colloquium was held under the auspices of the Project in the History of Political Thought.  The piece, available here, ... Learn more »
  2. PAW features UCHV faculty member, Philip Pettit's, book, "Just Freedom." In Just Freedom, Pettit proposes the "republican" ideal of freedom, which ensures the individual rights of citizens. Learn more »
  3. Campus Club features "Displaced" - a photo journalism project by VPL student, Ben Taub '14. Between April and August of last year, Ben chronicled civilians and circumstances on both sides of the Turkish-Syrian border through his lens.  His photos ... Learn more »
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Upcoming Events

  1. Tuesday, March 11, 2014 "Handguns, Moral Rights, and Physical Security" David DeGrazia, George Washington University and National Institutes of Health 101 Marx Hall, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars
  2. Thursday, March 13, 2014 New Directions in Social Studies of Medicine, Science, and Ethics Margaret Lock, McGill University 202 Jones Hall, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Co-Sponsored Seminars and Workshops Co-sponsored by: East Asian Studies Program Orita-McCosh Lectureship, Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies.
  3. Thursday, March 13, 2014 "What is Freedom For?" Leslie Green, University of Oxford 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm Program in Ethics and Public Affairs

    Les Green is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford.  He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow at Queen's University in Canada.  After beginning his teaching career at Lincoln College, Oxford, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.  He has been a visiting professor at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin.  Professor Green publishes widely in jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy.

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  4. Monday, March 24, 2014 Genes, Risk, Race, and Policy Martin Pollak and Barbara Koenig, Harvard and UCSF/Stanford 219 Aaron Burr Hall, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Co-Sponsored Seminars and Workshops
  5. Tuesday, March 25, 2014 "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital" Sheri Fink, Journalist and Author, ProPublica Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30 pm Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars Jointly sponsored with the WWS. A reception and book signing will follow this event.
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