Monday Seminar Series

On most Mondays, the Kenan Institute hosts a wildly interdisciplinary seminar that brings together faculty and graduate students from across the University to discuss cutting edge research in ethics broadly conceived. The Monday Seminar serves as a community of scholars to support the ongoing work of the Institute’s Graduate Fellows and is organized around a series of informal talks led by a mix of local, national and international researchers from a various disciplines.

Schedule

All meetings take place from 12-1:30pm in room 101 of the West Duke Building. Lunch is provided.

Fall 2013

Sept 9: Mary Beth Fallin (Duke, Sociology)
Sept 16: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke, Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics)
Oct 7: Noah Pickus (Duke, Public Policy Studies, Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics)
Oct 28: Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford, Neuroethics)
Nov 4: Jessica Collett (University of Notre Dame, Sociology)
Dec 2: Nora Hanagan (Duke, Political Science)

 

Past speakers for 2012-2013

Spring 2013
Feb 18: Tina Fetner (McMaster University, Sociology)
Feb 25: Michael Dorsey (Wesleyan University, Environmental Studies)*
Mar 4: Will Wittels (Political Science, Kenan Graduate Fellow)
Mar 25: Jim Scott (Yale University, Political Science)
Apr 1: Daniel Bessner (History, Kenan Graduate Fellow)
Apr 22: Emily Yeh (University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography)*
*Part of Environmental Justice series in partnership with the Nicholas School of the Environment

Fall 2012
Aug 27: Welcome Lunch and Discussion (led by Shana Starobin, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment)
Sept 17: Nina Strohminger, (Duke University, Kenan Institute)
Sept 24: Melanie McDermott (Rutgers University, Human Ecology)
Oct 8: Doug McLean (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Philosophy)
Oct 22: Alex Kirshner (Duke University, Political Science)
Oct 29: Andy Perrin (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Sociology)
Nov 5: Mark Massoud (University of California, Santa Cruz, Politics)
Nov 19: Simon Keller (VUW New Zealand History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations, on leave at Rice University)
Nov 26: Kraig Beyerlein (University of Notre Dame, Sociology)