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Promoting Pro-Peace Platforms and Candidates in the 2022 Congressional Primaries: A Virtual Event
The 2022 Midterm elections are enormously important in the battle for insuring voting rights and protecting democratic processes. The crucial issues of the bloated Pentagon budget, development of new…
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Freedom Songs for Lincoln, Douglass and Darwin’s Birthdays! A Virtual Concert
REGISTER HERE! Please join us on Saturday, Feb 12th at 4pm, for a unique musical celebration of Emancipation and the Birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Charles Darwin,…
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16th Annual Youth Summit on Climate Change and Sustainability
We’re back!! Intersectionality: Fighting Back Against Disproportionate Impacts Join us for the 16th Annual Youth Summit on Climate and Sustainability organized by Boston Latin School YouthCAN. The Summit will offer…
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William R. and Betsy P. Leitch Ethics Seminars
Check out our two Spring 2022 seminars here! Being, Thinking, Doing (Or Not!): Ethics in Your Life Building the Beloved Community: Ethics and Public Life
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Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War: Rebuilding a Broader Movement
REGISTER HERE. With Congress appropriating funds for new and upgraded nuclear weapons and delivery systems, the need to counter these misguided policies has become acute. The 2022 Conference will…
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Universities and Real Estate: Doing Good for the Neighborhood?
REGISTRATION and MIT AFFILIATION REQUIRED. Join us for a conversation with O. Robert Simha, Senior Lecturer in MIT’s Department of Urban Planning. Mr. Simha served as the Director of…
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Land Grant Universities: Who Benefits and At What Cost?
LOCATION: STUDENT CENTER; Room 400: REGISTRATION REQUIRED with MIT AFFILIATION MIT is a Land Grant University. Where did the land come from that enabled the founding of MIT, and…
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Universities and Slavery: Why Dig Up the Past?
REGISTER HERE. LIMITED TO MIT COMMUNITY MEMBERS How do universities use investigations into the history of slavery to promote — or avoid –conversations about race and inequality on campus.…
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The Examined University: A Series
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates, from Plato’s Apology (38a) An ethical life begins with a clear-eyed look at ourselves. Our institutions – the places and…
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One Man Shouldn’t Control the Nuclear Button: Presidential Power and Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War
Watch the video here. Slides: Professor Jonathan King Slides: Professor Robert Redwine The recent publication of “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa brought to light an incident involving…
