Recent Seven Deadly Sins Public Lectures

WRATH – Moral Grandstanding and Self-Righteous Anger

Dr. Justin Tosi – Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University

Why is everyone so angry? Dr. Tosi explores the disappearance of the middle ground in social and political dialogue, moral grandstanding, and the emergence of the outrage industry on-line and in the media.

Sloth – Too Tired to Care

Dr. John Plotz – Chair of English, Brandeis University

Are you detached, depressed, distracted, or restless? Do we live in an epidemic of Sloth or Acedia? In the sixth installment of the Seven Deadly Sins series, Dr. John Plotz explores our contemporary struggles to stay on the right path with the works of thinkers, writers, and artists of the past.

2017-18 Series: Seven Deadly Sins

Event Calender

Sept 27, 2017 Seven Deadly Sins – Lust: Pornography: What’s Right, What’s Wrong?

October 12, 2017 The Marshall Lecture – Can Psychologists Tell us Anything About Morality?

October 25, 2017 Ethics in the Evening – Immigration: What’s Shoved under the Welcome Mat?

November 2, 2017 Disentangling Burma’s Rohingya Tragedy

November 16, 2017 Seven Deadly Sins – If ‘Greed is Good,’ How Much is Too Much?

November 22, 2017 Ethics in the Evening – Media Coverage of Terrorism

November 27, 2017 Sheri Fink – The Ethics of Evacuation

January 24, 2018 Seven Deadly Sins – Gluttony: Food for Thought

February 28, 2018 Seven Deadly Sins: Poison Envy – Are Social Media and Wellness Making us Think we’re Sick?

March 7, 2018 Dr. Anita Ho: Who Can Read My Body: Trading off Privacy and Control for Access to Genetic and Health Data

March 8, 2018 Nowhere to Go: A Public Dialogue on Youth & Sexual Exploitation

March 21, 2018: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines: A Debate on Autonomous Weapons

March 22, 2018 PRIDE: NEW DATE – JUNE

April 10, 2018 Ethics in the Evening: What Do Ethical Banking and Financing Look Like?

April 26, 2018 Seven Deadly Sins – Wrath: Moral Grandstanding

May 30, 2018 Seven Deadly Sins – Sloth: Too Tired to Care

June 14, 2018 Seven Deadly Sins – Blinded by the Pride: National Pride and the State of Indigenous Communities