Events Archive
Is Roe v. Wade Dead? The Supreme Court and the Texas Abortion Law
Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
What is behind “the Crisis of Democracy”? Critics and Author discuss Democracy Rules
Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Josiah Ober
Stanford University
Susan Stokes
University of Chicago
Helene Landemore
Yale University
Stathis Kaylvas
Oxford University
Jan-Werner Mueller
Princeton University
Philip Pettit (Princeton University): "Can the People be Sovereign?"
Thu, Sep 9, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Marx Hall, Room 301 (due to current health protocols, open to PUID holders only)
Audience:
Other
Speaker(s):
Philip Pettit
Princeton University
The Adventure of Civility: Krista Tippett in conversation with Princeton students
Fri, May 21, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
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PPPR & RCPR Philosophy of Religion Incubator
Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:30 am to Tue, May 18, 2021, 5:50 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Good God, Bad World? A Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion Debate between James Sterba (Notre Dame) and Daniel Rubio (Princeton)
Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Mirror (1975), discussion
Paul Franks (Yale): “Infinity, Contraction, and Normative Empowerment: Towards a Philosophical Construal of a Kabbalistic Concept”
Social Criticism and Political Thought: Desmond Jagmohan (University of California, Berkeley) - POSTPONED TO FALL 2021
Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard: 20000 Days on Earth (2014), discussion
Film scholar Murray Smith introduces the film "20000 Days On Earth"
Nir Eyal (Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics, Rutgers University): "Luck-Egalitarian Priority for the Imprudent"
Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Director of the Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics
Peter Greenaway: The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), discussion
Simone Chambers (University of California-Irvine): "How can the people rule? Majority rule and the rise of populism"
Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Speaker(s):
Simone Chambers
University of California-Irvine
Social Criticism and Political Thought: Ayten Gündoğdu (Barnard College) - CANCELED
Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Ketan Ramakrishnan (University of Oxford and Yale Law School): "Deontology Over Time"
Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Ketan Ramakrishnan
University of Oxford and Yale Law School
Matt Wolf: The Marion Stokes Project (2019), discussion
In the Nation’s Service: Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in Conversation with Kim Lane Scheppele
Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Zoom Webinar
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Ambassador (ret.) Marie L. Yovanovitch
Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Kim Lane Scheppele
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs & UCHV (Princeton)
Tom Tykwer: Run Lola Run (1998)
Olivia Bailey (University of California, Berkeley): "Moral imperfection's moral upside? Empathy, humanity, and a problem for virtuous vision"
Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Olivia Bailey
University of California, Berkeley
PPPR Virtual Panel: Religion in the modern university
Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Yale University
Eddie S. Glaude
Princeton University
Zena Hitz
St. John's College
Jeffrey L. Stout
Princeton University
Claire Denis: Beau Travail (1999), discussion
Anne Jeffrey and Thomas M. Ward (Baylor University): “One Goodness Many Goodnesses, and the Divine Idea Imitation Theory”
Camisha Russell (University of Oregon): "How Should We Think About Race?"
Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Roy Andersson: Songs from the Second Floor (2000), discussion
Javier Hidalgo: "Reacting to the Past: Teaching with Historical Role Playing Games" (UCHV Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching)
Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Melissa Lane (Princeton University): "Lycurgus, Solon, Charondas…Figuring the legislator in Platonic political thought and its aftermath"
Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 4:30 pm
Location:
Virtual
Speaker(s):
Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and Director, University Center for Human Values (Princeton University)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: The Red Shoes (1948), discussion
Terrence Malick: Days of Heaven (1978), discussion
Terence Davies: Of Time and the City (2008), discussion
Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen’s Law School): "On Victims' Duties"
Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Speaker(s):
Ashwini Vasanthakumar
Queen's Law School
Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University): "Racist research: What does respect for researchers require? What should academic freedom allow?"
Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 12:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Speaker(s):
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values (Princeton University)
Dictynna Hood: Us Among the Stones (2020), discussion
Director Dictynna Hood introduces her film Us Among The Stones
Benjamin Straumann (New York University): "How to Save your City from Calamity: Hobbes’s Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue"
Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Speaker(s):
Benjamin Straumann
New York University
Thana de Campos (PIIRS Fung Global Fellow): "Rule of Love: Love-Based Governance for Global Health"
Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Thana C de Campos
PIIRS Fung Global Fellow
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Michael Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), discussion
Mark C. Murphy (Georgetown University): "Owing God Worship"
Food, Ethics, X=Psychology
Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 4:30 pm to 8:15 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Peter Singer and Andrew Chignell in Conversation: "Why Vegan? How to Eat Ethically"
Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Are Lockdowns Justified? Evaluating the costs and benefits
Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Professor Olga Yakusheva, Director of Health Care Innovation Impact
University of Michigan School of Nursing
Professor Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
Dr. Michael Plant, post-doctoral Research Fellow
Wellbeing Research Centre
Food, Ethics, X=Psychology
Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 4:30 pm to 8:15 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Gabriel Axel: Babette's Feast (1987), discussion
Jeff Orlowski: Chasing Ice (2012), discussion
Q&A with Carlo Sironi, director of SOLE (SUN)
Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Speaker(s):
Carlo Sironi
Director of SOLE (SUN)
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Henry Koster: 100 Men and a Girl (1937), discussion
SOLE (SUN) - A reflection on the choice to love
Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 5:00 pm to Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 8:00 pm
Location:
Virtual
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Speaker(s):
Carlo Sironi
Director of SOLE (SUN)
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Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author [POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER 11, 2021]
Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University): "Tragic Division or Fruitful Diversity: How to Evaluate Race with the Help of Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk"
Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Speaker(s):
Chike Jeffers
Dalhousie University
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist [POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER 10, 2021]
Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public