Past Events

2019 Apr 11

Business Ethics in a Digital Age: Technology and other New Frontiers for Corporate Responsibility, Markets, and Society

Thu - Fri, Apr 11 to Apr 12, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
Harvard Business School, 25 Harvard Way, Boston
This conference aims to identify new research topics in business ethics, including but not limited to topics that arise in a post-internet society. As such, we aim to promote excellent philosophical investigation of important new topics that are not already well-worn in business ethics.

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Program

Thursday, April 11
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2019 Apr 05

Why I Ran for Office: A Conversation with Renan Ferreirinha Carneiro '17, one of Brazil's Youngest MP

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Parlor Room, Phillips Brooks House Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship

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2019 Mar 28

Public Lecture by Frances Kamm

5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Wexner 436, Harvard Kennedy School

Title: The Use and Abuse of the Trolley Problem: Self Driving Cars, Medical Treatments, and the Distribution of Harm

Description: Many people besides philosophers have...
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2019 Mar 01

"Ethics in Your World" Book Series with Myisha Cherry

3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA

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2019 Feb 07

Annual Kissel Lecture in Ethics with Linda Greenhouse

5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Langdell North - 225 Vorenberg, Harvard Law School

Title: The Supreme Court's Threat to Civil Society.

Abstract: Greenhouse looks critically at recent decisions including Janus v. AFSCME; Masterpiece Cakeshop; Hobby Lobby; and the Little Sisters of the Poor Litigation...
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2019 Feb 01

"Ethics in Your World" Book Series with Larry Lessig

3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA

In collaboration with the Harvard Book Store, we are thrilled to welcome former Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and Harvard Law School professor LAWRENCE LESSIG—author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace—for a discussion of his latest book, America, Compromised.... Read more about "Ethics in Your World" Book Series with Larry Lessig
2019 Jan 24

Inequality, Religion, and Society: John Rawls and After

Thu Jan 24 (All day) to Sat Jan 26 (All day)
Location:
Tsai Auditorium
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2018 Nov 30

Human Rights, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges for the next 70 Years of the Universal Declaration

(All day)
Location:
Wexner 434 AB, Harvard Kennedy School

Dec. 10, 2018 marks the...
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2018 Nov 29

Public Lecture by Cynthia Dwork

5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Taubman 520 A,B & C, Harvard Kennedy School

Title: "Skewed or Rescued?: The Emerging Theory of Algorithmic Fairness"

Description: Intelligent systems, much like humans, have the ability to see and respond to the world around them. Using data in new ways to make more accurate predictions or enabling new services, these...
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2018 Nov 16

"Ethics in Your World" Book Series with Christine Korsgaard

3:00pm to 4:15pm
Location:
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and Harvard Book Store are pleased to welcome Christine...
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