HKU Faculty of Arts has invited Professor Peter Singer, the most prominent ethicist of our time and the author of more than twenty books, including the groundbreaking Animal Liberation (1975), to deliver the Second Century Lecture at the University. In this public lecture, entitled “Ethics and Animals: Forty Years After Animal Liberation” Professor Singer considers how well the arguments of the book have stood up to critical examination, and what interesting questions remain.

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the event. Details are as follows:

Date: April 21, 2015, Tuesday

Time: 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm
(Tea Reception and Registration start at 5:45 pm)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, the University of Hong Kong
Language: English

About Professor Singer:

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University, and Laureate Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most important people, and in 2013 he was third on the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute’s ranking of Global Thought Leaders. He was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honour, in 2012 and is the founder of The Life You Can Save, an effective altruism group that encourages people to donate money to the most effective charities working today. His latest work, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, will be published by Yale University Press in April 2015.

About the Second Century Lecture Series:

The Second Century Lecture Series aims to maintain the momentum of the University's Centenary celebrations by bringing the most distinguished scholars in their field to share their experience and world-class expertise with the University and the public.

The Second Century Lecture is organised by the Faculty of Arts and supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hong Kong International Literary Festival, and Swindon Book Co Ltd. Peter Singer will give a separate lecture on his new book,The Most Good You Can Do, on April 22. For details, please visit: http://www.festival.org.hk/.

For media enquiries or individual interview requests, please contact Mr Cyrus Chan, Events Coordinator, Faculty of Arts (tel: 3917 4984 email: cyrusc@hku.hk).