04/28/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Event free and open to public. Fr. Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (born 1923) is a Trappist monk (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) and priest. He was born in New York City, and attended Deerfield Academy, Yale University, and Fordham University, graduating in December 1943. He is a founder of the Centering Prayer movement and […]

04/27/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd edition, 1998), Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, […]

04/27/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Event free and open to public. Born in Mauritania, raised in Mali, trained as filmmaker in the Soviet Union and residing in France and Ethiopia, Abderrahmane Sissako will be Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence at MIT from April 19-May 2, 2009. While at MIT, Sissako will be investigating economic violence in Africa. Sissako’s films meditate on Africa’s position […]

04/24/2009 @ 6:00 pm – Event free and open to public.   Carol Gilligan is an ethicist and psychologist currently appointed as a University Professor at the New York University. She received an A.B. in English literature from Swarthmore College, a masters degree in clinical psychology from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Her landmark […]

04/24/2009 @ 12:00 am – April 24th – May 2nd, 2009 Click here for more information and viewing schedule. Sponsored by MIT Prajnopaya-Buddhist Community at MIT   [empty_space id=”19c45fdd15b45af9a40f47f7902742af” height=”40px” mobile=”{‹²›mobile‹²›:‹²›off‹²›,‹²›on‹²›:{‹²›height‹²›:‹²›20px‹²›}}” class=”” _array_keys=”{‹²›mobile‹²›:‹²›mobile‹²›}” _fw_coder=”aggressive” __fw_editor_shortcodes_id=”2deef2a41adf7493d163701c741cdcde”][/empty_space]

04/22/2009 @ 7:00 pm – Speaker: Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund Event free and open to public. Steven Hamburg is an ecosystem ecologist specializing in the impacts of disturbance on forest structure and function. He came to Brown in 1995 after spending a year at Environmental Defense working on climate change related issues and nine years at the […]

03/17/2009 @ 12:00 am – Tenzin Priyadarshi, Director, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics at MIT Inagurual Event Co-sponsors:  

03/14/2009 @ 3:00 pm – John Hare, Peter Singer, & Eric Gregory Peter Singer, a philosopher and one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”, will discuss the implications of atheism and theism for morality with John Hare, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale. Q&A will be moderated by Eric Gregory, Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton. Co-sponsors: […]