The University Center for Human Values sponsors a limited number of seminars and workshops throughout the academic year which seek to incite thought and discussion about ethical issues in both private and public life.
Upcoming Events
The fact we are living through a climate crisis becomes more and more visceral every year, the metrics of emergency ever more well known. As the world sets more and more records for warming, scholars and policymakers look for new solutions to the mounting ecological disaster. The possibility of geoengineering– the deliberate large-scale…
Lecture Series | Overcoming Bipolarity: New Approaches to the Cold War
Featuring speaker Michael Kunichika, Amherst College, Russian, Film and Media Studies. Kunichika teaches at Amherst College, where he is professor and chair of Russian. He also serves as the director of the College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His publications…
- Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
- University Center for Human Values
- Humanities Council
The play is an Unreported Story Society production. Princeton University ID holders can register for tickets on the University Ticketing website or stop by the Frist ticket office.
- University Center for Human Values
- Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Program in Judaic Studies
- Department of Music
- Chabad on Campus
- Center for Jewish Life
- B'Artzeinu
- Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
- Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
- Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination
Memoirist, poet, and speaker Javier Zamora believes that immigrants must keep ownership of their own stories. In his award-winning memoir, Solito, he explores his own: a harrowing journey to the US as an unaccompanied nine-year-old that gives a unique and unforgettable glimpse…
- Department of Anthropology
- Effron Center for the Study of America
- Labyrinth Books
- Pace Center for Civic Engagement
- Princeton Latin American Student Association (PLASA)
- Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)
- Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)
- Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS)
- University Center for Human Values (UCHV)
We use the term “justice” in many climate contexts (e.g. “just transition”)—and indeed in a variety of other political and policy contexts (e.g. “social justice”). What does it mean? In this talk, Mintz-Woo will break down some common forms of justice from a philosophical point of view in order to inform climate science and policy. The goal is…
- Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
- University Center for Human Values
- High Meadows Environmental Institute
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian- a Palestinian Jerusalemite feminist whose scholarship on the settler colonial state’s brutality, unchilding, securitized and sacralized politics, state crime, law and society, and global feminist politics, challenges…
- Department of Anthropology
- University Center for Human Values
Our conference explores how the Roman idea of liberty influenced, and was influenced by, the built environment of the Roman world. When Roman civic liberty was proclaimed, where was it done? Who would have listened? Who was barred? How do we acknowledge the role of labor, extracted from the unfree, in making these discourses possible?
…- Forum for the History of Political Thought, UCHV
- Humanities Council
- Department of Classics
- Program in the Ancient World
- Center for Collaborative History
Our conference explores how the Roman idea of liberty influenced, and was influenced by, the built environment of the Roman world. When Roman civic liberty was proclaimed, where was it done? Who would have listened? Who was barred? How do we acknowledge the role of labor, extracted from the unfree, in making these discourses possible?
…- Forum for the History of Political Thought, UCHV
- Humanities Council
- Department of Classics
- Program in the Ancient World
- Center for Collaborative History