Each semester the PTP offers large lectures open to the entire Brown community and the general public, as well as a series of smaller workshops that are by invitation. Invited guests are experts in their field from around the world who present diverse topics that are interdisciplinary in nature.
For more information about our events, use the links below:
Due to COVID-19, this semester's events will be held virtually. Check back regularly for updates.
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan) speaking at an Odyssey Lecture about her Pulitzer Prize winning book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Students at a Janus event
Students attending the Janus Lecture, "Socialism Now?" with Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University) and John Roemer (Yale University)
Students mingle with guest lecturers after the Janus Lecture, "Hip Hope: Should Artists be Accountable for Their Words?" with Michael Eric Dyson (Georgetown University) and Boyce Watkins (Texas Southern University)
Student asking a question at a Janus event
Students mingle with guest lecturer Richard Epstein (Hoover Institution) after a Constitution Day Lecture, "Was the New Deal a Good Deal?" (not pictured, Samuel Issacharoff, NYU School of Law)
Noam Chompsky (MIT) speaking at the Janus Lecture, "Thinking Strategically: Should the US support Isreal?" with diplomat Dennis Ross (not pictured)
Student speaking with Dambisa Moyo (Zambian economist and author) after the Odyssey Lecture, "How the West Was Lost"
Bill Krystol (founder and editor of The Weekly Standard) speaking at an Odyssey Lecture
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson
A student meets Bill Krystol after an Odyssey Lecture
Richard Locke, Brown University Provost and Christina Paxson, Brown University President attend the Janus Lecture, "College & Coal: Should Brown Divest" with panelists Bill McKibben (Middlebury College), Christian Parenti (CUNY), and James Rogers (Duke Energy)
Guest lecturers John Yoo (Berkeley) and Larry Cox (Amnesty International) speak at the Janus Lecture, "One World, Many People: Are There Universal Human Rights?"
Students speak with Glenn Greenwald (American journalist) after the Janus Lecture, "What if the US Legalized All Drugs?" (speaker John P. Walters, former Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the George W. Bush administration, not pictured)
Joseph Carens (University of Toronto) speaks with a student post Janus Lecture, "Open Borders?" (David Miller, Nuffield College Oxford, not pictured)
Joseph Carens (University of Toronto) speaks with an attendee after a Janus event
Students in the audience awaiting an event
Audience at the Janus Lecture: "College & Coal: Should Brown Divest" with with panelists Bill McKibben (Middlebury College), Christian Parenti (CUNY), and James Rogers (Duke Energy)
Janus Student Committee member introducing guest lecturers at a Janus event
Students and faculty mingling after a lecture
Students speaking with Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University) after the Janus Lecture, "Socialism Now?" (John Roemer, Yale, not pictured)
Audience at the Janus Lecture, "Is Humanity Progressing?" with Paul Krugman (CUNY) and Steven Pinker (Harvard University)
More videos from past lectures are available on our Youtube playlist.
