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Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist

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."

Commentators:

Marcia Bjornerud - Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies and professor of geosciences, Lawrence University

Arun Majumdar - Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor; professor of mechanical engineering; Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow and former director, Precourt Institute for Energy and the department of photon science, SLAC at Stanford University

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