Moral Clarity and the Work of Social Justice with Manish Bhardwaj
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 […]
Governance for Human Social Flourishing with Jenna Bednar
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 […]
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education with Justin Reich
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 […]
SCI-FI PROTOTYPING AND CRITICAL OPTIMISM WITH SOPHIA BRUECKNER
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 […]
THE MEANING OF LIFE WITH KIERAN SETIYA
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.
Needs versus Aspirations: Seeking a Positive Approach to Human Development with Kentaro Toyama
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 […]
WHY TRUST MATTERS WITH BEN HO
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 […]
Reto Urbano 360 | Hacia Sistemas Alimentarios Sustentables e Inclusivos
09/16/2021 – 09/22/2021 @ All Day – Exclusive event for the Universidad del Rosario Student Community. How to Enroll Click here
Is all data “good data”?
07/06/2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Join us as we will dig into the pros, cons, and ethical considerations of collecting and using data. We will be joined by MIT faculty members, Professor Julie Shah and Professor Catherine D’Ignazio. Register here
