Tanner Lectures on Human Values
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are presented annually at a select list of universities around the world. The University Center serves as host to these lectures at Princeton, in which an eminent scholar from philosophy, religion, the humanities, sciences, creative arts or learned professions, or a person eminent in political or social life, is invited to present a series of lectures reflecting upon scholarly and scientific learning relating to “the entire range of values pertinent to the human condition."
Fintan O'Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): “Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art - Lecture I: Against Artfulness”
Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Free and Open to the Public (registration required)
Fintan O’Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): “Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art - Lecture II: Negative Capability”
Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Free and Open to the Public (registration required)
Tanner Committee
Stephen Macedo Chair
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
Charles R. Beitz
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics
Sean Wilentz Ex Officio
Chair, Public Lectures Committee; George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History; Professor of History
Melissa Lane
Director of the University Center for Human Values and Class of 1943 Professor of Politics
Philip Pettit
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values
Gideon Rosen
Chair, Department of Philosophy; Stuart Professor of Philosophy
Esther Schor Ex Officio
Chair, Council of the Humanities; Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies; Professor of English; Director, Stewart Seminars in Religion; Director, Program in Humanistic Studies
Nigel Smith
Chair, Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies;
William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature; Professor of English
See past Tanner Lectures on Human Values.