The annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6, 2012, by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In a talk titled "Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination," she explored how authors illuminate concepts of good and evil. She also examined the treatment of goodness in her own novels.
