Convened by Peter Euben, Political Science and Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow, and Suzanne Shanahan, Sociology and Kenan Institute for Ethics Associate Director

The Kenan Institute for Ethics hosts a bimonthly gathering of faculty across the university with interest in broadly conceived notions of ethics. A mix of Duke faculty and national scholars are invited to lead the discussions. The goals of this consortium are to create conversation and community among faculty with an interest in ethics, to inform and strengthen the ethical dimensions of participants’ work, and to serve as an incubator for potential projects that the Institute might undertake in conjunction with its core faculty and other interested faculty at Duke.

2008-2009 gatherings:
September 26, 2008 - “The Use and Abuse of Ethics” with Srinivas Aravamudan, Geoffrey Harpham, and Sam Wells
December 5, 2008 -  “Thinking about Morality and Politics by Thinking about Race” with George Shulman
March 27, 2009 -  “The Themitical in the Ethical” with James Faubion

The Institute’s Occasional Paper series features a selection of papers related to the above events. Read them here.