Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics Harvard
The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, established in 1986, is one of Harvard University's interfaculty initiatives under the auspices of the Provost's Office. It encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in public life and the professions, and helps meet the growing need for teachers and scholars who address questions of moral choice in practical ethics and in areas such as architecture, business, education, government, journalism, law, medicine, public health and public policy. In addition to the fellowships, the Center sponsors a public lecture series on applied and professional ethics and other events throughout the year.
Public Lecture with Chiara Cordelli: The Wrong of Capitalism and the Scope of Economic Democracy
Rescuing Ourselves from the Pond Analogy with Julia Nefsky
Moral Life Under Oppression: Booker T. Washington and the Ethics of Deception with Desmond Jagmohan
Ethics IRL: Campus Ethics in the Digital Era
2025 Mala & Solomon Kamm Lecture: Susan Wolf on "Responsibility and Punishability"
2025 Lester Kissel Lecture in Ethics: "Ordinary People and the Rule of Law" with Jeremy Waldron
Civil Disagreement Series: Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire? The Ethics of Extreme Wealth
On Giving and Taking Offense with Emily McTernan
Civil Disagreement Series: Academic Freedom, DEI, & the Future of Higher Education
"Supreme Court Ethics: Is the Court Really the ‘Least Dangerous Branch?" with Judge Mark L. Wolf
2022 Lester Kissel Lecture in Ethics with Erin Kelly
Civil Disagreement Series: Reproduction and Abortion in America
Civil Disagreement Series: Public Safety & Policing in America
Mala and Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics with Seth Lazar
A Physician's Duty to Treat: Rethinking Medical Ethics in Carceral Spaces
Annual Lester Kissel Lecture in Ethics with Pamela Hieronymi
Civil Disagreement Series: Guns in America
Civic Education in Polarized Times: Day 2
Civic Education in Polarized Times: Keynote Address
Public Action/Private Activities: Theorizing the Tensions of Democratic Leadership & Citizen Action
Public Lecture with Olufemi O. Taiwo, "Reconsidering Reparations"
Civil Disagreement Series: Responding to the Climate Change Crisis
Inaugural Mala and Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics with Larry S. Temkin
Public Lecture with S. Matthew Liao - November 19, 2020
Annual Kissel Lecture in Ethics with Pamela Karlan - February 13, 2020
Laurence Ralph in Conversation with Danielle Allen - April 23, 2020
Michael Sandel: A Conversation with Michael Rosen
A Panel on COVID-19 - April 16, 2020