Public Lecture Series
2007-2008

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Human Rights and Harmony in China
Stephen Angle
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University
Thursday, September 27, 4:00 pm, KSG
Co-sponsored with Harvard’s University Committee on Human Rights Studies and The Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, KSG

Intoxicated Consent to Sexual Relations
Alan Wertheimer
Senior Research Scholar, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health;
John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Vermont
Thursday, October 11, 4:30 pm
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government

What Does Empirical Research on Moral Intuitions Tell Us about Morality?
Richard Holton
Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, November 8, 4:30 pm
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government

Is There a Coherent Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis?
Barbara Fried
William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law, Stanford University
Thursday, December 6, 4:30 pm
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government

Colloquium
G.A. Cohen, Chiechele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford and A. J. Julius, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCLA
Friday, March 14, 2008, 1:00-5::15 pm
CGIS-South, Room S010, 1737 Cambridge St.
Co-sponsored with Harvard’s Government and Philosophy Departments

Immigration Policy: Sovereignty, Humanitarian Law, or Human Rights?
Ruth Gavison
Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 4:30 pm
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government

University Tanner Lectures on Human Values 2007-08:
Fiction That’s True: Historical Fiction and Anxiety
Tony Kushner, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright (Angels in America)
Wednesday-Friday, April 9-11, 2008
Lectures 1 & 2: April 9 & 10, 4:30-6:00 pm, Lowell Lecture Hall
Seminar: April 11, 10:00-Noon, New College Theatre, 12 Holyoke St.
Sponsored by the President’s Office and the Department of English
Tickets will be available through the Harvard Box Office (617-496-2222) beginning March 26, 2008

Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens
Josiah Ober
Professor of Classics and Political Science, Stanford University
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4:30 pm
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government

Human Rights and the New Global Order: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Conference Organizer: Mathias Risse
Thursday - Saturday, May 8 - 10, 2008
Co-sponsored with other departments and centers
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