Commentators:
Marcia Bjornerud - Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies, Lawrence University
Iain McCalman - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, and former Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute
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."
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist
Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist
Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Open To Princeton students, fellows & faculty
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
Steven Chung Ex Officio
Chair, Public Lectures Committee and Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
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, Philosophy and Stuart Professor of Philosophy
Esther Schor Ex Officio
Chair, Council of the Humanities, the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies and Professor of English
Nigel Smith
William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature. Professor of English. Chair, Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
See past Tanner Lectures on Human Values.