Spring 2025 Roundtables:
Entrepreneurship for the Idealist
April 29 at 4PM
Venue: MIT 32-124
Can Social Change-makers make the World Just?
May 20 at 4PM
Venue: MIT 32-124
Speaker/ Moderator: Manish Bhardwaj
Director of Design for Innovation Program in humanities and social sciences, Keller Center, Princeton University
Manish directs Keller Center's Design for Innovation program for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. He was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Keller, where he taught idealism in entrepreneurship. Manish is the CEO and co-founder of Innovators In Health, which is devoted to delivering world-class healthcare to the rural poor in India. Manish is also a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Manish believes that a venture to make the world more just is fundamentally a moral, not technical, undertaking. It requires cultivating a moral imagination, an ability to imagine why people do right or wrong, the root of empathy, itself the root of all enduring change. He believes that accompaniment, to stand with the marginalized, literally and figuratively, is a moral imperative, and in and of itself a powerful means of change.
Public Service Fellowship
Davis Projects for Peace $10,000 Fellowship
Davis Projects for Peace offers a $10,000 fellowship for an MIT undergraduate student project that promotes peace. The aim is to “encourage and support today’s motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.” Projects must be implemented during the summer of 2023.
Successful past projects have focused on:
- fostering empathy
- promoting cross-cultural understanding
- revitalization of post-conflict and post-disaster communities
- justice and fair processes
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
Interested in help make meaningful impact? Explore internship opportunities at The Center. Send an email.
OTHER COURSES OFFERED AT MIT:
(In related fields through various departments)
MIT LEAD and other leadership programs through Division of Student Life
Think. Apply. Impact: Ethics as Optimization
STS.085 Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier
24.231 Ethics
15.269 Literature, Ethics, and Authority
15.270 Ethical Practice: Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and the Purpose of the Corporation
17.391J Human Rights in Theory and Practice
21L.450 The Ethics of Leadership
HST.590 Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series
STS.006J Bioethics
USEFUL LINKS:
Justice with Michael Sandel
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Ethics in Science
Chicago Journals Ethics
US Senate Ethics Committee
MIT Open CourseWare
Disclaimer: These links are listed here as a resource.The Center at MIT does not endorse any website, organizations, opinions, or point of view.
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