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01/12/2022 – 01/26/2022 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 am – Zoom link:  https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodOqorj8qEtRgQE5HfmzmGlEqNbTHlu3a (Participants can attend any or all sessions)   Whether you are seeking inspiration or already committed to making the world better and just, this series will give you indispensable insights and the tools you need. It draws from the speaker’s experience at the frontline, and from philosophy, history and sociology to address […]

12/08/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Click here to register Manish Bhardwaj is a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He is the James Wei Visiting Professor at the Keller Center at Princeton where he teaches idealism, and entrepreneurship in the service of justice. He is the co-founder of Innovators In Health (IIH) which delivers healthcare […]

11/17/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Click here to register  Jenna Bednar is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan, a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and the Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director of Michigan in Washington. Her research focuses on how collective action builds social goods and the role that […]

11/10/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Click here to register Justin is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, and the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He earned his doctorate from the […]

11/03/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – To register click here  Sophia Brueckner is a futurist artist/designer/engineer who researches how technology shapes us. Inseparable from computers since the age of two, she believes she is a cyborg. As a software engineer at Google, she designed and built products used by tens of millions. At the Rhode Island School of Design and the […]

10/27/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – To register click here  Kieran Setiya is Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works on ethics and on related questions about human agency and human knowledge. He is the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide and is working on a new book, Life is Hard.

10/20/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – To register click here Kentaro Toyama is W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. Co-founded Microsoft Research, India and is a researcher […]

10/13/2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – To register click here Ben Ho is an associate professor of behavioral economics at Vassar College and author of the book Why Trust Matters: An Economist’s Guide to the Ties that Bind Us. Ho applies economic tools like game theory and experimental design to topics like apologies, trust, identity, inequality and climate change. Before Vassar, he […]