- Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- 7:36 AM (PST)
Undergraduate Human Rights Fellowships
This year, in partnership with the Program on Human Rights, we launch our new Human Rights Fellowship program. Offered to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors, it is our hope that these fellowships will encourage students to build human rights work into their future careers, whether those careers are in academic life, in governmental or intergovernmental organizations, as activists, or as legal practitioners. Read more.
Information Session: Nov 16, 2009; 12:00-1:00pm, lunch served; Bldg 110, Rm 111O.
Application deadline: Jan 15, 2010.
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Upcoming Events
- Environmental Norms, Institutions, and Policies Workshop: Narasimha Rao (PhD Candidate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources)
- When:November 12, 2009 12:00 pm Where:Stanford's Humanities Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Ethics@noon: Alfred Lane (School of Medicine)
- When:November 13, 2009 12:00 pm Where:Bldg 110, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Human Rights Fellowship Information Session
- When:November 16, 2009 12:00 pm Where:Bldg 110, 1st floor seminar room, Stanford., CA 94305, USA
- Environmental Norms, Institutions, and Policies Workshop: Steven Gardiner (Philosophy, University of Washington)
- When:December 3, 2009 12:00 pm Where:Stanford's Humanities Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Ethics@noon: William Hurlbut (Neuroscience Institute)
- When:December 4, 2009 12:00 pm Where:Bldg 110, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Recent News Items
May 2009
Center Director Debra Satz speaks about our Hope House Scholars Program in her talk entitled "Riches for the Poor." This program, now entering it's 9th year, brings humanities courses to recovering addicts in Redwood City. (Hear her talk on YouTube.)
May 2009
Toward a Humanist Justice, a new book honoring and examining the work of the late Susan Moller Okin, former colleague and friend. Okin taught in Stanford's Political Science department and was also the Director of the Program in Ethics in Society. Contributors to the volume were: Nancy Rosenblum, Josh Cohen, Elizabeth Wingrove, John Tomasi, David Miller, Molly Shanley, Cass Sunstein, Ayelet Shachar, Alison Jaggar, Chandran Kukathas, Robert Keohane, and Iris Marion Young. Read a recent review.
May 2009
The Center's 2008-2009 annual newsletter is now available. To receive a hard copy version, please email Andrea Kuduk.
To access past newsletters, click here.
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Support Our Work
We seek new resources to promote research, teaching, and engagement on the major social problems of our troubled globe. Our work is guided by the conviction that these problems are not only technological but also moral.
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Your gift will support a range of activities including:
Human Rights Fellowship for Undergraduates (international and domestic)
These fellowships enable students to make a valuable contribution to human rights theory and practice and to help students build human rights work into their future careers.Our award winnng Hope House Scholars Program
This program pairs faculty with undergraduates who then serve as TAs for courses that are taught to local, recovering addicts.
Ethics of Food and the Environment
This series brings together scholars, students, farmers, environmentalists and the general public to think about the consequnces of our individual food choices and to consider the role of institutions in managing resources, averting famines, and addressing inequities. -
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