University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

11/02/2023

Please join us next Thursday and Friday, November 9 & 10 to listen to Adam Tooze deliver the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. All are welcome! Details are listed here: https://uchv.princeton.edu/events/tanner-lectures-human-values

11/02/2023

All are welcome to join the conversation on "Our AI Futures: Critical Humanistic Perspectives" on November 13. Additional event details can be found here: https://uchv.princeton.edu/events/our-ai-futures-critical-humanistic-perspectives

10/18/2023

Join us on Thursday, October 26, for the James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics with Bonnie Honig. All are welcome!

10/18/2023

We invite you to read Peter Singer's OCT 17 opinion essay in the Washington Post "What is the line between life and death? Here's my answer." Find it here:

Use of the cessation of all brain function as a criterion of death has long seemed a settled issue, but the Uniform Law Commission recently started discussing changes to the laws that were adopted, more than 40 years ago, following a recommendation it had then issued. After opening the discussion, h...

09/21/2023

October 6 & 7
Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics
Free and Open to the Public. Details are here:
https://uchv.princeton.edu/events/artificial-intelligence-conscious-machines-and-animals-broadening-ai-ethics

09/14/2023

Last weekend's well-attended Ethos Farm Days Festival 2023 in Long Valley, New Jersey was dedicated to discussing plant-based nutrition, environmental health & animal advocacy. Peter Singer was presented with the Ethos Farm to Health Project Lifetime Award. Among the festival's attendees included New Jersey Senator Cory Booker(left) posing alongside Professors Andrew Chignell (middle) and Peter Singer (right).

09/11/2023

Jan-Werner Mueller directs the Academic Freedom Initiative launched by UCHV, additional information:
https://uchv.princeton.edu/news

09/06/2023

Join Professors Singer and Chignell this weekend at the Farm Days Festival in Long Valley, New Jersey. Read about it here:
https://uchv.princeton.edu/news/peter-singer-and-andrew-chignell-participate-farm-days-festival-2023

06/26/2023

On June 20, the BBVA Foundation hosted the 15th edition of its Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Spain. Listen to Peter Singer's pre-recorded acceptance speech by clicking on the link in the story. Congratulations, Peter!

Peter Singer's acceptance speech at the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Bilbao, Spain on June 20.

06/26/2023

Over the course of three years, Melissa Lane will deliver a public lecture series at Gresham College with the overall title "Reimagining Politics: Ideas, Selves, Futures." Learn more here:

Melissa Lane will deliver a public lectures series at Gresham College with the overall title "Reimagining Politics: Ideas, Selves, Futures."

06/09/2023

We look forward to welcoming our incoming 2023-2024 Visiting Professors for Distinguished Teaching and Fellows in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy. Meet them here:
https://uchv.princeton.edu/news/announcing-uchvs-visiting-professors-distinguished-teaching-and-fellows-law-ethics-and-public

06/09/2023

UCHV's Sandra Bermann taught the spring semester class "Poetry and War" which studied René Char, poet and French Resistance leader in WW II. An article about this course was featured on Princeton University's news page.

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, René Char. Look...