UCHV’s Academic Freedom Initiative will have its first event this coming Monday, October 2. The gathering will pursue two tasks: scholars will revisit the normative and legal bases of academic freedom; and a number of colleagues from different universities from around the world will investigate why and how academic freedom is being…
Advances in science and technology have outpaced careful inquiry into their ethical implications. New tools like CRISPR and large language models may hold tremendous potential for our collective benefit, but also exacerbate already existing social disparities. The Future Values Initiative recognizes that meeting these challenges is just as much…
In the Project Syndicate article, “The Silent Song of Climate Authoritarianism” Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, discusses the escalating climate crisis and “the notion that ecologically minded authoritarians will outperform democratic leaders on…
Academic freedom is under threat in many parts of the world – including in at least parts of the United States. Against this background, UCHV is launching an Academic Freedom Initiative which sets itself two tasks: first, it will revisit and critically probe the normative and legal bases of academic freedom. Arguably, theoretical…
Plant-based nutrition, environmental health, animal advocacy, and related topics will be discussed at the Farm Days Festival 2023 which will take place on September 9 and 10 in Long Valley, New Jersey. The theme “The Ethics of Eating” will be explored by keynote speaker, Peter…
The German Ministry for Education and Research is inaugurating a special academic year dedicated to the topic of freedom.
Conversations with Professors Melissa Lane and Philip Pettit were recently featured in podcasts on The Political Theory Review. The interviews were conducted by…
Sally A. Nuamah, former UCHV postdoc in Values and Public Policy jointly appointed with the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics has been awarded the the
Jane Manners, incoming UCHV Fellow in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy and Assistant Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law speaks to NPR's Steve Inskeep on how a second Trump presidency could reshape the federal government. Listen…
Read Melissa Lane's timely article, Plato the constitutionalist—and the Supreme Court published on the Ideas blog of Princeton University Press. Melissa Lane is…
It is with fond remembrance that members of the UCHV community mourn the passing of Harry Frankfurt, Department of Philosophy Professor Emeritus whose distinguished tenure at Princeton University spanned 12 years until his retirement in 2002. He died at the age of 94 in Santa…
Peter Singer's acceptance speech at the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Bilbao, Spain on June 20.
Melissa Lane will deliver a public lectures series at Gresham College with the overall title "Reimagining Politics: Ideas, Selves, Futures."
It is a delight to introduce UCHV’s Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching and Fellows in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy who have been appointed for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching
Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley…
In the spring semester, Sandra Bermann, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Program in Values and Public Life, led the course "Poetry and War: Translating the Untranslatable" which focused on poet and French Resistance leader,…
Erika Kiss, Director of the University Center for Human Values Research Film Studio and Lecturer of Comparative Literature and European Cultural Studies, is presenting a film installation at the Time, Space,…
UCHV research scholar, Evgeny Roshchin, was interviewed on the podcast series Voices hosted by the European International Studies Association. Episode 17 "What is...Friendship in International Politics?" features Roshchin in conversation with
On May 28, Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University Professor of Philosophy and Law, and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Emeritus, addressed Princeton University's Class of 2023 at their Baccalaureate service.  …
The University Center for Human Values is pleased to share the exciting news that the winner of the 2023 UCHV Short Movie Prize is Ethan Luk for his film "Gathering". Honorable mentions were awarded to Lola Constantino for “wish for a good life” and Azi Jones for “Lessons in Exile". Follow the links below to watch their movies.
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The book, “Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political” written by Melissa Lane, Director of the University Center for Human Values and Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, is the focus…
"Animal Liberation Now," a new book by Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values was published on May 23. The…
Eric Beerbohm*08, professor of government and faculty affiliate in the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, and UCHV Advisory Council member, has been appointed as Director of Harvard’s…
UCHV is delighted to share that Sandra Bermann has been named an Old Dominion Professor for 2023-24.
Congratulations to Michael Smith on receiving a Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities!
Philip Pettit's latest book publication: "The State"
In tandem with Earth Day, the guest essay “Fix Your Diet, Save the Planet” written by Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, was featured in the Opinion section of The New York Times on April 22. He believes that “we can do…
The Values and Public Life seminar on “Media and Democracy” will culminate with a public symposium on how journalists and historians should approach the war in Ukraine. Speakers include Dariya Orlova
The University Center for Human Values is very much delighted to announce that Kimberly Murray, program coordinator, is a recipient of the Donald Griffin '23 Management Award which is conferred by the Office of Human Resources at Princeton.
Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values, was honored as the 2023 recipient of the Special Jury Prize, a Sakip Sabanci International Research Award in the social sciences. The award theme for this year was “The…
Mirabella Smith, a Values and Public Life certificate student and a junior in the Department of Politics, was awarded a 2023 Beinecke Scholarship. Mirabella was selected to receive a scholarship based on their outstanding record of academic accomplishment, faculty endorsements, and well…
Caroline Subbiah, a Values and Public Life certificate student at UCHV is one of four Princeton University seniors to be awarded a ReachOut Fellowship for public service. Caroline is…
Melissa Lane on BBC Radio 4 discussing "Solon the Lawgiver"
The University Center for Human Values is delighted to announce its newly appointed Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows for the academic year 2023-2024.
Daniel Fryer, University of Michigan
Professor Lea Ypi delivered the lecture "Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian Family's History" on February 9 in the Friend Center. A summary of her lecture was written by Gaby Nair, a political theory graduate student in the Department of Politics.
Heartiest congratulations to Peter Singer honored with receiving the Frontiers of Knowledge Award!
Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, founding director, Project in the History of Political Thought and director, Program in Political Philosophy, will deliver the Rousseau Lectures at the…
UCHV Fellow in Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Federico Fabbrini, was invited to speak at the House of Lords, European Union Affairs Committee on March 1 to discuss the…
The Center for Human Values' Evgeny Roshchin, research scholar, and Greg Yudin, visiting research scholar are featured in the February issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. The…
Fintan O'Toole gave his Tanner Lectures, Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art, in the Friend Center at Princeton on 9 and 10 November 2023.
Recap of Lecture 1: "Against Artfulness"
Written by: Micheal Smith, McCosh Professor of Philosophy
The first lecture, "Against…
The University Center for Human Values (UCHV) has been welcoming students to its Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship (GPF) Program since 1991.
Values and Public Life student Xander de los Reyes selected to join the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative.
Recap of the November 17 James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics with invited speaker Robert Gooding-Williams, "Du Bois and "The Souls of White Folk'"
Jan-Werner Mueller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics, will deliver the inaugural Sternhell Lecture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on January 11, 2023. Zeev…
Princeton University recently selected its 2023 Baccalaureate speaker, Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University Professor of Philosophy and Law, and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Emeritus.
A Princeton University news story highlights the University’s most recent efforts to uphold its long-standing tradition to support at-risk scholars displaced by world events.