Events Archive

Events Archive

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Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Randall L. Kennedy (Harvard Law School): "In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture II-How Can We Achieve It?"
Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Randall L. Kennedy (Harvard Law School): "In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture I: What Does Racial Justice Mean Today?"
Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Adam Tooze (Columbia University): "The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in a Multipolar Age: Lecture II - Polycrisis"
Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Adam Tooze (Columbia University): "The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in a Multipolar Age: Lecture I - Beyond the Unipolar Moment"
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Fintan O'Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): "Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art"
Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Fintan O'Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): "Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art"
Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Elizabeth Kolbert (Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist): "Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II - What Can We Do About It?"
Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Elizabeth Kolbert (Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist): "Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture I - What on Earth Have We Done?"
Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Free and Open to the Public
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Richard Tuck (Harvard University): "Active and Passive Citizens: Lecture II - Active Democracy"
Thu, Nov 7, 2019, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
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Richard Tuck (Harvard University): "Active and Passive Citizens: Lecture I - Rousseau & Sieyès"
Wed, Nov 6, 2019, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
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Michael McConnell (Stanford Law School): "The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power and the Constitution"
Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center Lecture Hall, Room 101
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Michael McConnell (Stanford Law School): "The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power and the Constitution"
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center Lecture Hall, Room 101
Raj Chetty (Stanford University): Lecture II - "Neighborhood Effects: Childhood Environment and Upward Mobility"
Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall, WWS
Raj Chetty (Stanford University): Lecture I - "The Intergenerational Persistence of Racial Disparities"
Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall, WWS
Naomi Oreskes: "When Not to Trust Science, or When Science Goes Awry"
Thu, Dec 1, 2016, 4:30 pm – 6:15 pm
Location
McCormick Hall, Room 101
Naomi Oreskes: "Trust in Science?"
Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 4:30 pm – 6:15 pm
Location
McCormick Hall, Room 101
"Culture Matters: How Humans Became Outliers in the Natural World"
Wed, Apr 6, 2016, 4:30 pm – Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 6:15 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Robert Boyd
Arizona State University
"Private Government"
Thu, Mar 5, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Elizabeth Anderson
University of Michigan
"When the Market was 'Left'"
Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Elizabeth Anderson
University of Michigan
Lecture Two: "Human Values in the Very Long Run"
Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Room 101
Speaker
Ian Morris
Stanford University
Lecture One: "Human Values in the Very Long Run"
Wed, Oct 17, 2012, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Room 101
Speaker
Ian Morris
Stanford University
"Shakespeare and the Shape of a Life: The End of Life Stories"
Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Stephen Greenblatt
Harvard University
"Shakespeare and the Shape of a Life: The Uses of Life Stories"
Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Stephen Greenblatt
Harvard University
"American Grace: Religious Americans Are Nicer and Happier. Why?"
Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
101 Friend Center
Speaker
Robert Putnam
Harvard University
"American Grace: Americans Are Religiously Devout and Religiously Divided, yet Religiously Tolerant. Why?"
Wed, Oct 27, 2010, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
101 Friend Center
Speaker
Robert Putnam
Harvard University
"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: The Coming Crisis of Constitutional Legitimacy"
Fri, Apr 9, 2010, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
301 Marx Hall
Speaker
Bruce Ackerman
Yale Law School
"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: A Politicized Military"
Thu, Apr 8, 2010, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Bruce Ackerman
Yale Law School
"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: An Extremist Presidency"
Wed, Apr 7, 2010, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Bruce Ackerman
Yale Law School
"Seeds of Humanity"
Thu, Nov 13, 2008, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCosh 50
Speaker
Marc Hauser
Harvard University
"Seeds of Humanity"
Wed, Nov 12, 2008, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCosh 50
Speaker
Marc Hauser
Harvard University
“Meaning in Life and Why it Matters”
Thu, Nov 8, 2007, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Meaning in Life and Why it Matters"
Wed, Nov 7, 2007, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location
McCormick 101
Speaker
Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.