
Most Friday's during the year (from 12:00-1:05 pm), the Center for Ethics in Society sponors an informal "brown-bag" ethics lecture and discussion. These talks attract undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and community members. The talks are informal and there is plenty of time for discussion. Starting winter quarter, Ethics@noon will be offered as a 1-unit course for undergraduates (ETHICSOC 10). For information on this new course or on this year's schedule of speakers, click here.
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.
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.
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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