Thursday 22 May, 5pm
University College Chapel and online

Free entry – all welcome

This year’s HLA Hart Memorial Lecture*, the 39th in the series funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, will be given by Professor Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, on the subject “The Forgotten Political History of Utilitarianism”. Professor Anderson specialises in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.

The lecture will be held at 5pm in the College Chapel, Main Quad, University College, Oxford (and online) on Thursday 22 May 2025, followed by drinks in the Butler Room at 6.15pm.

To register for the lecture in person or online, please contact Manuela Williams (masters.pa@univ.ox.ac.uk) by Wednesday 30 April. Please indicate if you have any mobility requirements. Thank you.

Best wishes,

Baroness Amos LG CH PC
Master, University College, Oxford

Professor Ruth Chang
Professor of Jurisprudence
Professorial Fellow, University College, Oxford

*The lecture will be streamed live and recorded for future use.

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