Dr. Peter Singer, one of the world’s most influential living philosophers, will be the featured speaker at a two-day event sponsored by Pitt’s Global Studies Center.

Both talks will showcase Singer’s controversial thinking on some of the world’s most pressing ethical issues.

Ethics for One World

Thursday, October 13th

7 PM

Carnegie Library Lecture Hall (behind Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)

Free

In this lecture on the risks inherent in globalization, Singer will argue that our most challenging issues today are global. From climate change, economic globalization, and extreme poverty to the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, Singer will make the case for the need to challenge both the prudence and the ethics of those who put forward nationalist perspectives.

Global Ethics in a Time of Total Change

Friday, October 14th

6 PM

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Free

This conversation between Singer and Dr. Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at Pitt, will expand upon Singer’s lecture from the previous evening. The two will explore the concept of coevality in a dialogue with key members of the Pitt community.

Following the dialogue, Pitt doctoral students will present a new web publication titled The Coevality Project.