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Happy first day of spring quarter! The Center for Ethics in Society has an exciting line-up of events in the coming weeks. Tomorrow, hear Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, share reflections from her time at Danbury Correctional Facility. Next week, CEO of the Gates Foundation Jeff Raikes will be in conversation with Rob Reich on "Wealth, Philanthropy, and Inequality." We review past events, including "What is Family, What are Strangers?" and "The Teaching of Character and the Character of Teaching." Also, a reminder to students that tonight is the deadline for applying to Rob Reich's d.school pop-up class.
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In her memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman recounts the 15 months that she spent in the Danbury Correctional Facility. The stories of the women she met while in prison raise issues of friendship, family, mental illness, the odd cliques and codes of behavior, the role of religion, the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailor, and the almost complete lack of guidance for life after prison.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 | 8pm
Cemex Auditorium
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Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and co-founder of the Raikes Foundation, will be in conversation with Rob Reich, Faculty Director of the Program on Ethics in Society. He will discuss the work of the Gates Foundation, as well as the role of philanthropy in democracy and in seeking global social impact. He will also share his perspective on the ethics of adopting different philanthropic models, the importance of partnerships, the difference between impact and outcomes, and the work of the Raikes Foundation.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | 7pm Cubberley Auditorium |
Author William Deresiewicz will discuss his forthcoming book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. As a professor at Yale, Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and how to find a sense of purpose. In Excellent Sheep, Deresiewicz argues that students are world-class hoop jumpers, meritocratic machines whose capacity to think independently and innovatively has diminished as schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science. Deresiewicz will be in discussion with Rob Reich, Faculty Director of the Program on Ethics in Society.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 | 5pm
Cemex Auditorium
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Program Director Rob Reich will be teaching a pop-up class for students at the d.school in April. The class is about applying design thinking to catalyze activism and philanthropy. Students can apply to be in Rob's class. The deadline is tonight, Monday, March 31 at 11:59pm, so apply now!
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In her March 6 talk, The New Yorker writer Larissa MacFarquhar told the story of Sue and Hector Badeau, a Vermont couple who weigh the interests of family against the interests of strangers quite differently than most people. Along with having two biological children, Sue and Hector adopted twenty special needs children. During her talk, MacFarquhar pushed the audience to consider the ethical considerations of the Badeaus' family choices.
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Honesty. Integrity. Fairness. Wisdom. Kindness. Humor. Grit. These all seem like great qualities. Any parent would feel lucky to have a child who tells the truth, treats others with consideration, displays a sense of humor, and works hard to overcome challenges. But do schools have a responsibility to instill these values in students? Economist Michael McPherson, current president of the Spencer Foundation, explored these questions in his March 13 talk "The Teaching of Character and the Character of Teaching." Read Lily Lamboy's review of McPherson's talk.
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