On Monday, April 24th at 7:00pm, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann will lecture on the topic of Extremism at the Stanford School of Law, Room 290. 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA. This event is free and open to the public.

Lecture information

Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann is a political philosopher whose ideas, featuring ways for opposing groups to achieve political accommodation, have great relevance for the early 21st-century world. Gutmann joined Princeton University’s Department of Politics in 1976 after earning a B.A. from Radcliffe College, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Gutmann is the author of more than 100 articles and many books, including Why Deliberative Democracy (with Dennis Thompson, 2004), Identity in Democracy (2003), Democratic Education (revised edition, 1999), Democracy and Disagreement (with Dennis Thompson, 1996), Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Anthony Appiah, 1996), Ethics and Politics (with Dennis Thompson, 1984), and Liberal Equality (1980).

In 1990, Gutmann was appointed the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the founding director of the Princeton University Center for Human Values, which is a model of a university ethics program that supports undergraduate and graduate teaching, scholarship and public discussion of ethics and human values across all disciplines. Gutmann served as Provost of Princeton from 2001-2004. In 2004 she was appointed the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to this academic leadership role, Gutmann retains an appointment as professor of political science with secondary appointments in philosophy and the Annenberg School of Communication and the School of Education. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Board of Governors of the Partnership for Public Service.