Past Events
Rushan Abbas, Founder and Director, Campaign for Uyghurs; Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Moderated by F. Flagg Taylor, Associate Professor of Political Science, Skidmore College
The Chinese Communist Party has reportedly detained between one and three million Uyghurs in Xinjiang in what the Party calls "Vocational Skills Education Training Centers" to "fight against...
Cosponsor: The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University; Marc O. DeGirolami, Cary Fields Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Law and Religion, St. John’s University School of Law; Robert F. Nagel, Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Chair Emeritus in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado
Moderated by Matthew J. Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in Politics, Princeton University
When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righting a wrong. In our polarized moment...
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review
Nationalism is inevitable: it supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly—from the United States to India, from...
November 6, 2019 to November 7, 2019
Richard Tuck, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University
Commentators: Simone Chambers, Professor of Political Science, University of California; Joshua Cohen, Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of California; John Ferejohn, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Melissa Schwartzberg, Professor of Politics, New York University
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Lectures from 4:30-6:30 p.m. each day.
Professor Tuck’s lectures will address the question of “Active and Passive Citizens.” The idea that democracy rests...
Cosponsors: University Center for Human Values, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Department of History, Department of Politics
J. Daryl Charles, Affiliated Scholar in Theology and Ethics, Acton Institute and Mark David Hall, Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics, George Fox University
Commentary by Allen C. Guelzo, Director, Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, James Madison Program and Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University and William Anthony Hay, 2019-2020 Garwood Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program, Princeton University; Professor of History, Mississippi State University
J. Daryl Charles is the Acton Institute Affiliated Scholar in Theology and Ethics. He also is a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign...
Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University
Tickets are strictly required for this free event. The ticket lottery has been closed.
Princeton University did not go to war when the American Civil War broke out in 1861, but a...
Cosponsors: Being Human Festival, Princeton University Humanities Council, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
The Honorable Amy Coney Barrett, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
The story of America’s history—its pivotal moments, its triumphs, and its disgraces—can’t be told without the Constitution. The Constitution’s amendments are documentary evidence of the arc of...
Cosponsor: The Program in Law and Public Affairs
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University; Cornel West *80, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University; Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University
Welcome and Introduction by Christopher L. Eisgruber '83, Princeton University President
First-Year Families Weekend Event
Part of the Being Human Festival of the Princeton University Humanities Council Colleges and universities, especially those...
Part of the Being Human Festival of the Princeton University Humanities Council Colleges and universities, especially those...
D. Alan Shewmon, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of California; Patrick Lee, Professor of Philosophy and John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University
A DeCamp Bioethics Seminar
D. Alan Shewmon received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1971 as a music major. After medical school and residencies in pediatrics and...
Cosponsor: University Center for Human Values
Antón Barba-Kay, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of America; Mark Bauerlein, Professor Emeritus of English, Emory University; Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
Moderated by Ana Samuel '00, Research Scholar, Witherspoon Institute; Academic Director, Canavox
Moderated by Ana Samuel '00, Research Scholar, Witherspoon Institute; Academic Director, Canavox
In the digital age, distraction has gone viral. James Williams, in the 2019 Princeton University Pre-Read Stand Out of Our Light, brings his advertising and philosophizing experiences (from...