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."
Tanner Committee
Stephen Macedo Chair
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
Ruha Benjamin
Professor of African American Studies
Eric S. Gregory
Professor of Religion
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
Anu Ramaswami, Ex Officio
Chair, Public Lectures Committee
Sanjay Swani '87 Professor of India Studies; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute; Director, Chadha Center for Global India
Gideon Rosen
Stuart Professor of Philosophy
Tera W. Hunter Ex Officio
Acting Chair, Council of the Humanities; Edwards Professor of History and African American Studies; Acting 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
Anna B. Stilz
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
See past Tanner Lectures on Human Values.