James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics
Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University): "What about the workers?" (POSTPONED TO FALL 2020)
Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Speaker(s):
Kwame Anthony Appiah
New York University
Barbara Herman (UCLA): "The Challenges of Beneficence: Revising the Terms"
Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Audience:
Free And Open To The Public
Cécile Laborde (Nuffield College, Oxford): "Who Needs Secularism? India, Liberalism, and Comparative Secularism"
Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Computer Science, Lecture Hall 104
Carl Hart (Columbia University): "Why Everything You Thought You Knew About the Opioid Crisis is Wrong"
Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick Hall 101
Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School): "Unleashed: #MeToo and Beyond"
Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Henry Shue (University of Oxford): "Climate Surprises: Pivotal Generations and Risk Transfer"
Thu, Nov 9, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki): "Facebook, Global Community and the Law"
Thu, May 4, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick Hall, Room 101
Nancy Cott (Harvard University): "The Privileges in Marriage"
Thu, Mar 9, 2017, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick Hall, Room 101
"Membership and Political Obligation"
Thu, Feb 4, 2016, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Speaker(s):
Samuel Scheffler
New York University
"What is Family? What are Strangers?"
Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Friend Center Auditorium 101
Speaker(s):
Larissa MacFarquhar
The New Yorker
"Legitimate Coercion: Growing Necessity in an Interdependent World"
Thu, Nov 6, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Library 120
Speaker(s):
Jane Mansbridge
Harvard University
Desert, Blame, and Punishment
Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Aaron Burr 219
Speaker(s):
T. M. Scanlon
Harvard University
"Good Neighbor Nation: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America"
Thu, Mar 7, 2013, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker(s):
Nancy Rosenblum
Harvard University
"The Ethics of Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine"
Thu, Nov 8, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick Hall, Room 101
Speaker(s):
Ezekiel Emanuel
University of Pennsylvania
"Borders and Human Rights"
Thu, Feb 23, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker(s):
David Miller
University of Oxford
"Carl Schmitt's Critique of Kant: Sovereignty and International Law"
Thu, Dec 8, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker(s):
Seyla Benhabib
Yale University
"On Global Citizenship"
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker(s):
James Tully
University of Victoria
"What Is Democracy? What Is It Good For?"
Thu, Sep 30, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker(s):
Josiah Ober
Stanford University
"Leading Universities in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges"
Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Lewis Thomas Lab 003
Speaker(s):
Amy Gutmann
University of Pennsylvania
"Establishment, Exclusion, and Democracy"
Thu, Apr 1, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker(s):
Joshua Cohen
Stanford University
"Reflections on the Evolution of Morality"
Thu, Feb 18, 2010, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Speaker(s):
Christine Korsgaard
Harvard University
"Beyond Cultural Essentialism: Grounding African Human Rights Project in a Common Morality"
Wed, Mar 4, 2009, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Speaker(s):
Simeon Ilesanmi
Wake Forest University
"Same-Sex Marriage: Beyond the Politics of Disgust"
Thu, Feb 12, 2009, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker(s):
Martha Nussbaum
University of Chicago
"Word & Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes"
Thu, Nov 20, 2008, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Aaron Burr Hall 219
Speaker(s):
Quentin Skinner
Cambridge University
"Asian and Western Values and China’s Past, Present, and Future"
Fri, Oct 3, 2008, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location:
301 Marx Hall
Speaker(s):
Daniel Bell
Tsinghua University, Beijing
"China’s New Confucianism"
Thu, Oct 2, 2008, 4:30 pm to Fri, Oct 3, 2008, 4:00 pm
Location:
Aaron Burr Hall 219
Speaker(s):
Daniel Bell
Tsinghua University, Beijing
"Multiculturalism and Secularisms"
Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 4:30 pm to 6:15 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Speaker(s):
Tariq Modood
Bristol University
"Voltaire, Radical philosophes and Anti-philosophes"
Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
McCormick 101
Speaker(s):
Jonathan Israel
Institute for Advanced Study