What does "justice" mean for a university? Does a focus on social problems or social justice enhance or constrain the institution? What is the place of "moral values" in "objective scholarship"? Join scholar and writer Stanley Katz for an enlightening conversation about the purposes of liberal arts institutions.

Stanley Katz is Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; and President Emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies. Professor Katz is a scholar of American legal and constitutional history, civil society, international human rights, and philanthropy and non-profit institutions. He is the Editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. Among other posts, Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Katz's talk will be followed by a reception featuring Brown faculty integrating their scholarship with public concerns as part of the Engaged Scholarship Initiative of the Swearer Center for Public Service.

This event is co-sponsored by the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service and the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.