CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
10th Annual Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory Keynote: Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, NYU School of Law Title: "What Respect is Owed to Illusions about Immigration and Culture?"
First Parish Church, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
Please join us for a very special "Ethics in Your World" Book Series event at the Cambridge Forum featuring Tommie Shelby, Elizabeth Hinton, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad in Conversation with Danielle Allen.
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of...
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02138
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Book Store and Boston Reviewwelcome Harvard professor and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics DANIELLE ALLEN for a discussion of her book ...
The Department of Government and Harvard University will host a celebration in honor of Professor Nancy Rosenblum entitled "Pluralism Public and Private: The Work of Nancy Rosenblum" on Friday, May 6. Four panels dedicated to her work will be held beginning at 2:00 pm in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South). Nancy is a longtime friend of and contributor to the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, where she was a Senior Scholar in Ethics in 2003-04 and...
On the occasion of Professor Tim Scanlon’s retirement from teaching, the Department of Philosophy and Harvard University will host a “Celebration of the Philosophy and Teaching of T. M. Scanlon” on Saturday, April 30, 2016 from 12:30 p.m. to 7:00 pm. The day will begin with a special welcome with Harvard President Drew Faust and Professor Christine Korsgaard of the Department of Philosophy. As a charter member of the Faculty Committee, serving since the Center’s...
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02138
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and Harvard Book Store are pleased to welcome Meira Levinson, Faculty Committee Member, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, for a discussion of Dilemmas...
"Claim No Easy Victories: Can the Social Sciences Serve the Equity Interest of the Poor?"
This talk argues that much of the academic discourse on inequality, educational and otherwise, has been hijacked, if you will, by two elite discourses, both self-congratulatory, both framing inequality in ways that don’t give us as much real-world leverage as we might have. On the one hand, scholars may be so afraid of “blaming the victim” they may be unable to consider a full-range of the possible levers to change, often working to the detriment of the most disadvantaged...
