The Wesson Lectures on Problems of Democracy
2007-2008 Wesson Lecture
Polyglot Politics
Philippe Van Parijs
Université catholique de Louvain,
Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique & sociale
& Harvard University, Philosophy
Lecture 1: Rethinking Justice for Multilingual
Entities
May 28, 2008 / 5:30-7:00pm
Bldg 370 / Rm 370
Lecture 2: Institutional Design for
Multilingual Democracies
May 29,2008 / 5:30-7:00pm
Bldg 370 / Rm 370
Discussion Seminar
May 30, 2008 / 1:00-3:00pm
Bldg 460 / Rm 426
Each
year the Program in Ethics in Society brings to Stanford a
notable scholar to deliver a set of lectures pertaining to
issues in democracy. The Wesson Lectures are endowed by the
late Robert G. Wesson, a professor at Stanford, who wished
to establish a public lecture that would be at once theoretical
but also contribute to the actual practice of democracy.
Past
lectures include:
Richard
A. Posner (Judge of the United States court
of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit & University of Chicago
Law School)
Amartya
Sen (Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K.)
M
Bernard Williams (Oxford): "Liberty, Equality,
and Resentment"
Carole
Pateman (Sydney): "Freeing Citizens: Employment
and Democracy"
Noam
Chomsky (MIT): "Democracy and the Free Market in
the New World Order"
Cass
Sustein (Chicago): "Democratic Rationality"
Josh
Cohen (MIT): "Liberty, Equality, and Democracy"
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Information
on Past Wesson Lectures
Wesson
Lecture 2006-2007
Wesson
Lecture 2005-2006
Wesson
Lecture 2004-2005
Wesson
Lecture 2003-2004
Wesson
Lecture 2002-2003
Wesson
Lecture 2001-2002
Wesson Lecture 2000-2001
