Edmond & Lily Safra Center Seminar Room (124 Mount Auburn St, Suite 520N)
Title: Confucian Democratic Constitutionalism: Between Legal and Political
Abstract: In this talk, Sungmoon Kim presents a constitutional theory of democratic self-government that is normatively appealing and politically practicable in East Asia’s historically...
Deference in politics is often necessary. Political issues are highly complex, and it would be too demanding to expect citizens to responsibly investigate every issue themselves. At the same time, it is important that citizens be well-informed for democracy to flourish. Deferring to...
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larsen G-08, and Online
Socratic Politics
Socrates describes himself as having led “a private, not a public, life” and explains that “if I had long ago attempted to take part in politics, I should have died long ago.” But he also claims to be "one of a few Athenians...to take up the true political...
The Abolition series, hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, examines how the humanities - history, language, storytelling, and the imagination - informs the activism and vision of movement leaders.
In 1973, the men incarcerated at the state prison in Walpole, Massachusetts organized themselves into a labor union and took over the prison for two months. During this period, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole was remarkably peaceful. The prisoners’ union--the National Prisoners Reform Association (NPRA)--seized on the opportunities afforded...
Dr. Derrick Darby will give a lecture as a philosphy guest speaker on his new book A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight. Darby is a Henry Rutgers professor of philosophy. He holds a B. A. from Colgate and a Ph.D. from Pittsburgh. He is the founding director of the Rutgers Social Justice...
ELSCE Seminar Room at 124 Mount Auburn St, Suite 520N
Please join the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics for a special screening of MTV Documentary Films' Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison (formerly known as A Peculiar Silence) with producer Catherine Gund.
The film tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson, whose acclaimed play The Peculiar Patriot was shut down mid-performance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison. Directed and edited by Cinque Northern, produced by filmmaker Catherine Gund, and featuring Peterson and Norris Henderson, the film examines how one...
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs will host Ayelet Shachar for a Comparative Inequality and Inclusion Special Lecture. Her lecture is titled, "Solidarity in Place? Hope and Despair in Postpandemic Membership." Shachar is the R.F. Harney Chair in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
This event is co-sponsored by the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics.
Harvard Book Store and the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics welcome Sigal Ben-Porath of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania for a discussion of her new book Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy. She will be joined in conversation by Jane Kamensky—Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University.. ...