10/21/2010 @ 7:00 pm – Robert V. Taylor is Chair of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation in New York. Born and raised in South Africa, Robert saw firsthand the potential for peace making when oppressed people find the courage to be who they are through discovering their voices and trusting their imagination. In 1980 his mentor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu sent […]

10/18/2010 @ 12:00 am – (By enrollment only)    

10/06/2010 @ 7:00 pm – Foundation and Former Comptroller General of the United States Dave M. Walker is President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. In this capacity he leads the Foundation’s efforts to promote federal financial responsibility and accountability today in order to create more opportunity tomorrow. Prior to assuming his position with the Foundation in March […]

07/16/2010 @ All Day – (Enrollment Closed) Professor Erica Dawson, Yale School of Management Professor Rodrigo Canales, Yale School of Management Tenzin Priyadarshi, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values  

04/27/2010 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Yale University   Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books) was on The New York […]

04/22/2010 @ 6:00 pm – (Event is open to the public)   Louis L. Bucciarelli received his B.S. from Cornell University (Mechanical Engineering, 1959) an M.Aero.E from the same institution (1960) and his Ph.D. from MIT (Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1966). He was Director of MIT’s Technology Studies Program, and has been a Curator of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian, […]

04/17/2010 @ All Day – [Open to MIT Undergraduates Only] The conference is about ethical issues arising from natural disasters and disaster relief. Professor Jennifer Leaning, Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, will be delivering a keynote address. Dr. Sherri Fink, […]

04/13/2010 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – A seminar in recognition of an edited volume originally published in Spanish in 2009, soon to be released in English, that explores forgiveness and reconciliation in a variety of political and cultural settings and analyzes their role in conflict resolution. Sousan Abadian: Fellow, Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. […]

03/13/2010 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A Talk by Daniel Siegel (Event is open to public. Registration Required)     Dan Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying […]