The selections from Team Kenan’s annual What is Good Art? competition will be in display in the halls of the West Duke Building beginning Wednesday, April 10th. The artwork is submitted by students and chosen by a faculty panel. The theme for this year’s competition is “Self + Other.”
Opening reception April 10
6:00-7:30
West Duke Building
Fuqua School of Business and Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics Summit
Wednesday, April 10, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business
9:00 am Welcome and Keynote Introduction, Dean Jennifer Francis
9:10 am Morning Keynote Address, Dr. Mary Gentile, Director of Giving Voice to Values
10:00 am Introduction to EthicsGame Simulations, Dr. Cathryn Bird, CEO and Founder of EthicsGame
10:40 am EthicsGame Simulation Breakout Sessions: Healthcare, Finance, Hi-Tech, Marketing, Sustainability
12:00 pm Afternoon Keynote Address, Dave Checketts, CEO of Legends Hospitality Management
Registration is required, do so here.
This event is co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke Law, the Duke MBA Health Care Club, the Duke MBAA, the Duke MBA Consulting Club, the Duke MBA High Tech Club, and the Duke MBA Finance Club.
“Public Health, Poverty, and Patristics”
Susan Holman, Senior Writer at the Harvard Global Health Institute, will be speaking Tuesday, April 9th as part of the Religions and Public Life speaker series.
Holman is engaged in projects at HGHI that range from curricular development to strategic planning, faculty leadership initiatives, and website news and stories. She has more than 10 years experience in research writing and editing in public and global health, with degrees from Brown University (PhD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (MS). Prior to joining HGHI in 2011, Susan was consultant writer and editor for Partners In Health, academic writer and editor at the Harvard University FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health, and medical writer for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Susan is an invited scholar internationally on faith-based responses to poverty and global health, and has taught maternal and child health as a public health nutritionist and registered dietitian (RD) at the South End Community Health Center and Joslin Diabetes Center.
The Religions and Public Life initiative is sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Divinity School, and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
April 9, 5:30 pm
Westbrook Building room 0014
Screening with director Susan Youssef
On Monday April 8th, Habibi (2011) will be screened as part of the Ethics Film Series. Young lovers Qays and Layla are university students in the West Bank who are forced to return home to Khan Yunis, Gaza before completing their courses. In conservative Khan Yunis, their relationship can only be sustained through marriage, but Qays is too poor to convince Layla’s father that he can provide for his daughter. As the couple struggles to be together, Qays paints verses from the classical Sufi poem Majnun Layla all over Khan Yunis, a rebellious act that angers Layla’s father and the local self-appointed moral police. Lyrical and passionate, Habibi depicts a reality where personal happiness must be weighed against society’s opinions, and a choice sometimes made between one’s people and one’s heart.
The film will begin at 7:00pm in the Griffith Film Theater in Duke University’s Bryan Center, followed by a Q&A session with the film’s director, Susan Youssef.
The screenings are free and open to the public. Refreshments and free parking passes provided. Please park in the parking deck by the Bryan Center. You will be given a pass to submit to the attendant upon leaving the event.
The theme of the 2013 Ethics Film Series is “Love and Justice.” This year, the film series will be in collaboration with the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival. Each spring, the Kenan Institute for Ethics sponsors a film series in collaboration with Duke’s Screen/Society, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Arts of the Moving Image Program. The films provide popular and accessible vehicles for talking about ethics around a particular theme, and each series as a whole offers rich opportunities for debate and discussion on ethical issues for audiences from both the Duke and Durham communities. This screening has additional support from Duke Islamic Studies Center, Women’s Studies, and the Center for International Studies.
Bradley Simpson, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Princeton University, will be giving two talks cosponsored by Duke History, the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Center for International Studies, International and Comparative Studies, Borderwork(s) at the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Duke Center for Human Rights at KIE.
Indonesia and the Contested History of Human Rights, 1945-1980
Thursday, April 4, 3:00 pm
204B East Duke Building
The First Right? Self-determination and International History
Friday, April 5, 12:00 pm
Carr 229 (Lunch will be served)
KIE’s Team Kenan will be hosting an event for students on April 2nd.
How do students’ backgrounds impact their experiences and performance before Duke, at Duke, and beyond? To what extent does preparation affect student success academically and otherwise? How do racial/ethnic and economic differences affect the challenges and opportunities students face during and after their undergraduate experience? Does diversity of experience create more opportunities or more challenges?
Join us for a dinner discussion on being successful at Duke, what we know about students’ preparation for life at Duke, and what happens after students graduate from the university. The conversation will feature Peter Arcidiacono, Professor of Economics and Baishakhi Taylor, Assistant Dean for Trinity College.
Dinner will be provided for those who RSVP by Friday, March 29th.
When: April 2nd from 6:30pm to 8pm
Where: Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library
RSVP: Here
Sacrificing Our Cherished Values: Hans Speier, the Public, and Foreign Policymaking from Weimar to Washington
Daniel Bessner, Kenan Gradate Fellow, will be speaking April 1st as part of the Monday Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:30 in room 101, West Duke Building.
Bessner will examine the rise of the defense intellectual, analyzing the process by which liberal German and American academics re-envisioned their social role in the wake of the Weimar Republic’s collapse. This phenomenon will be traced through Hans Speier, Karl Mannheim’s first doctoral student, a founder of the New School for Social Research’s University in Exile, and, during the Cold War, the first chief of the RAND Corporation’s Social Science Division and a consultant for the State Department and executive branch. Speier’s career reveals that, in the course of re-imagining their social function, intellectuals jettisoned the public from democratic theory and practice. This dismissal encouraged the proliferation of certain types of organizations, including think tanks and academic research centers, that sought to insulate defense intellectuals from political pressures while removing the public from the policymaking process.
Bessner is a historian of the twentieth-century United States in global perspective, with a focus on Central Europe. His dissertation is entitled,The Night Watchman: Hans Speier and the Making of the American National Security State, which is a cultural history of foreign policy and a social history of political thought. Daniel has published on a variety of topics related to the history of the Cold War and German exiles in America.
KIE Graduate student William Wittels is organizing a conference March 28-29, “Machiavelli’s Modern Legacy: Machiavelli’s Principle Political Works at 500.”
All panels are in Breedlove room, which is in the Rubenstein Library.
Thursday, March 28th
10am-Noon: Panel 1 – Machiavelli and Radical Thought
Benedetto Fontana – CUNY Baruch
Rethinking the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli
Cary Nederman – Texas A&M
Machiavelli, the “Sciences” of Politics, and the Politics of Science
1pm-3pm: Panel 2 – The Unexpected Machiavelli
Catherine Zuckert – Notre Dame
Machiavelli’s Popular Prince.
Erica Benner – Yale University
Machiavelli’s Ironies: the language of praise and blame in the Prince
3.30pm-5.30pm: Keynote Presentation
John McCormick – University of Chicago
Machiavelli on Misawarded Glory: Agathocles, Scipio and ‘the Writers’
Friday, March 29th
10am-Noon: Panel 3 – Machiavelli and Empire
Vickie Sullivan – Tufts University
Alexander the Great as ‘Lord of Asia’ and Rome as His Successor in Machiavelli’s Prince.
William Wittels – Duke University
Machiavelli’s Citizen Militia
1pm-3pm: Panel 4 – Machiavelli and Class Conflict
Diego Von Vacano – Texas A&M
Liberty Loves Struggle: The Class Basis of Machiavelli’s Republicanism
Robyn Marasco – Hunter College
Passion and the Play of Politics: Reading Machiavelli at the Extremes
3.30 pm-5.30pm: Panel 5 – Politics and the Art of Compromise
A Q&A with professors and practitioners of politics on the tension between moralism and pragmatism in the political world.
This event is co-sponsored by KIE, Duke Political Science, the Duke Program in American Values and Institutions, the Center for European Studies at Duke, the Duke University American Grand Strategy, the Duke Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
For more information, please contact William at william.wittels@duke.edu.
Team Kenan’s Do Lunch series provides an opportunity for students to engage in ethics-based discussions and to learn more about how they might apply what they have learned at Duke in this community and communities around the world.
Come join a lively discussion on the increasing dilemma of biofuels vs. food production in a resource-constraining world. Drought, flood, heat and fires caused by greenhouse gases are affecting land-use and global climate. How will we feed ourselves, much less fuel our growth-dependent economies? Can we lift the 2 billion developing country poor out of poverty while the impacts of climate disruption unfold? We are facing fewer and harder choices, but the answers may lie within the choices we make daily.
Marc Dreyfors is a graduate from the School of Foresty and Environmental Studies at Duke. He has tested all aspects of our market economy, willingness-to-pay and decision-making processes through the operations of several green businesses, including fair trade handicrafts focusing on areas of high biodiversity, the construction of a biodiesel plant and fuel distribution company and a green transportation business.
When: Wednesday, March 27th at noon
Where: 101 West Duke Building
RSVP: Here.
“The Spiritual, the Secular, and the Poor in India and China”
Peter van der Veer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen, will be speaking March 26th at 5:30 pm as part of the Religions and Public Life speaker series.
Van der Veer works on religion and nationalism in Asia and Europe. He has just finished a monograph on the comparative study of religion and nationalism in India and China. He taught previously at the Free University in Amsterdam, at Utrecht University and at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992 he was appointed as Professor of Comparative Religion and Founding Director of the Research Center in Religion and Society in the Social Science Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. He served as Dean of the Social Science Faculty and as Dean of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research at Amsterdam, and as Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam and Chairman of the Board of the International Institute for Asian Studies, both in Leiden. In 1994 he was appointed as University Professor at Large at Utrecht University, a position he continues to hold. He has held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the New School in New York, and the National University of Singapore.
The Religions and Public Life initiative is sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Divinity School, and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
March 26, 5:30 pm
Westbrook Building room 0014