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Ethics IRL: Campus Ethics in the Digital Era
March 27, 2025
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Smith Center Commons | 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Has social media turned free speech into free fall? Where do we draw the line between expression, harm, and accountability in a digital world? Can universities show us a better way to disagree online? Ethics IRL is a new forum from the Edmond & Lily Safra...

Mala & Solomon Kamm Lecture: Susan Wolf on "Responsibility and Punishability"
March 13, 2025
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Moral philosopher Susan Wolf will give the 2025 Mala and Soloman Kamm Lecture in Ethics. Her lecture, titled "Responsibility and Punishability," explores how h istorically, responsibility has tended to be identified with the status in virtue of which...

Ethics in Your World: Speaking for Others with Wendy Salkin
March 10, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 520N
In Person
The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics welcomes Wendy Salkin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Law at Stanford University, on March 10 as part of our Ethics in Your World author series. Salkin will discuss her recent book...

Ethics In Your World: Open Socrates with Agnes Callard
March 7, 2025
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3:00PM - 4:00PM EST
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Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
Author Agnes Callard discusses her new book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, with University Professor Danielle Allen as part of our Ethics In Your World Series. Co-hosted by the Harvard Book Store. No registration required. About the...

From Empire to Federation: The Possibility of a New Global Order with Anthony Pagden
March 7, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 520N
In Person
Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at UCLA, will discuss his new book, B eyond States: Power, Peoples and Global Order. His lecture will be followed by a discussion. A light lunch will be served. REGISTER HERE...

Ethics Monday: Alysha Banerji
March 3, 2025
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12:30PM - 1:30PM EST
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 520N
In Person
In this Ethics Monday moderated by Director Eric Beerbohm, we welcome Edmond & Lily Safra Center Graduate Fellow Alysha Banerji. Banerji will lead the audience through her case study, "Remote Control: Blurred Boundaries in the Zoom Classroom" from...

Ethics in Your World: What We Can't Burn with Eve Driver and Tom Osborn
February 27, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 520N
In Person
Authors and recent Harvard graduates Eve Driver and Tom Osborn discuss their new book What We Can't Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future. In-person and via Zoom. A light lunch will be served. Registration required. REGISTER...

Ethics Monday: Yonatan Brafman
February 24, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 520N
In Person
Assistant Professor of Religion and International Literary and Cultural Studies, Yoni Brafman (Tufts University) will present Morality and Halakhah Revisted: Mistaking a Cultural Predicament for a Conceptual Problem for the first Ethics Monday of the...

Ethics in Your World: Civic Contestation in Global Education & Educational Equity in a Global Context
February 10, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Meira Levinson, Ellis Reid, Sara O'Brien and Tatiana Geron discuss their recent books Civic Contestation in Global Education & Educational Equity in a Global Context with moderator Eric Beerbohm. In-person and via Zoom. A light lunch will be served...

Challenging the Barriers to Civil Discourse Conference
Feb. 4 - Feb 5, 2025
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12:00AM - 12:00AM EST
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Smith Campus Center Conference Suite, 1350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
This two-day conference, hosted by the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, seeks to address the pressing issue of why democracies struggle with maintaining civil discourse. The event is interdisciplinary by design, bringing together a diverse group of...

Ethics in Your World: Voices from the Front Lines - The Pandemic and the Humanities
December 2, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted our practice of, approach to, and thoughts about care. Longstanding ethical questions and concerns about health care were suddenly emergent and ubiquitous. To understand how these questions were experienced daily...