Drawing on his experience as both scientist and academic administrator responsible for regulating faculty-industry relations at Stanford and Harvard, Dr. Korn talked about "Financial Conflicts of Interest in Academic Medicine: Whence...
Speaker:Lawrence Lessig, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Center Director and HLS professor Lawrence Lessig delivered the first lecture of the 2009-10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption.
In his inaugural lecture as director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Professor Lawrence Lessig presented both a plan of and call to action as the Center embarks on its five-year...
Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday September 25
10:00am WELCOMING REMARKS
10:15-12:30pm POLITICS BETWEEN UTOPIA AND REALITY MICHAEL WALZER - Should We Reclaim Political Utopianism MALACHI HACOHEN - Cosmopolitanism, the European Nation State and Jewish Life: Berlin and Popper
2:15-4:30pm LITERATURE AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS SVETLANA BOYM - Dialogues on Liberty Beyond the Cold War: Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova ALAN RYAN - The History of Ideas as Psychodrama
Location: Sackler Auditorium, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Speaker:Alexander McCall Smith, Novelist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law, University of Edinburgh
Alexander McCall Smith delivered a witty, conversational, and fascinating lecture to a full auditorium in the Sackler Museum. He began with an example: During a recent book tour event in Sydney, two young women approached McCall Smith to have their books signed. One soon indicated that she was worried about a new romance between two characters in the book. When McCall Smith inquired as to why, he was told: "It...