The Prison Engagement Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics invites undergraduate students to apply to become Justice Lab fellows and affiliates. Please note that the deadline to apply is […]| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
The Worldview Lab brings together faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates to work on shared empirical projects. Participants seek to understand how people differ in their judgments about politics and culture and in their conceptions of what makes a “good life.” Lab members aim to discover how these differences affect individuals and societies using methods such as surveys, experiments, in-depth interviewing, and computational methods. Lab activities include presenting wor...| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
The Kenan Institute for Ethics invites undergraduate students to apply for a new year-long fellowship program to launch this fall, Capacious Minds Fellows. Please note that the deadline to apply […]| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
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The Kenan Institute for Ethics is an interdisciplinary home for faculty, students, and staff dedicated to understanding and negotiating the moral challenges of our time through the energetic and capacious pursuit of good.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
How can you make choices that lead to a good life? What does “a good life” even mean? This seminar offers you an opportunity to ponder, critique, and reflectively engage […]| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Deadline: August 30, 2024. Projects are semester-long commitments, with a stipend. All Duke undergraduate students are eligible to apply. The theme of Fall 2024 is What We Owe to Each Other, with a focus on Dignity.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: August 26, 2024. DukeEngage seeks proposals on healthcare, food, engineering, climate crisis, energy, environment, sustainability, racial equity, health and wealth disparities, civil discourse and democracy, urbanization and urban/rural divide.| News RSS Feed
Christine Folch, Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, has been appointed Peter Lange Director of DukeEngage. DukeEngage is an eight-week summer program in which undergraduates work with communities addressing critical issues.| News RSS Feed
CONTACT: Sarah Rogers (919) 660-3035 sarah.rogers@duke.edu DURHAM, N.C. – For seven weeks this summer, an experimental collective of artists and thinkers from Duke University’s Laboratory for Social Choreography will bring […] The post In the Birthplace of Democracy, a Different Kind of Parliament Asks: What’s Next? appeared first on The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
A course on ethics and environmental policy introduced Kendra Rentz T'25 to a new approach to her studies — collaborating with community members who were most likely to be impacted by climate change on research that could directly benefit them.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
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When Jenna Yeam T‘25 first stepped onto Duke’s campus her freshman year, she never would have imagined that she would graduate planning to become an end-of-life doula — a non-medical professional who provides support, companionship, and guidance to people facing a terminal illness or imminent death. The post This Senior is Embracing Life — While Helping Others Talk about Death appeared first on The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Will Lieber T‘25 and Jenna Smith T‘25 arrived at Duke with interests in criminal justice and incarceration. A Kenan Institute for Ethics course on Restorative Justice, taught by Associate Director Ada Gregory, ended up shaping their paths in unexpected — but perhaps unsurprising — ways.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Through his involvement with the storytelling initiative Say the Thing and a Spring Break trip to Romania, a student shares what he learned about the stories we tell about ourselves […]| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
In this introductory course, students grapple with ethical issues through practical assignments, like spending a week without telling lies or intentionally deceiving anyone. Along the way, they learn that talking about ethics is a good way to deepen relationships. It's also really fun. The post Your Ethics 101 Assignment: No Lying for a Week. What Do You Learn? appeared first on The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
On February 6, the Duke University Arts & Sciences Council approved a new Carceral Studies Certificate to be housed at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. At the January 10 meeting […]| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Where do our political attitudes come from? Worldview Lab co-directors Stephen Vaisey and Christopher Johnston say that most research focuses on subjects in early to middle adulthood — by which point political views are often already solidified. Hoping to fill in the gaps, they've teamed up with Duke sociologist Jessi Streib and Bass Connections to conduct a study focused on 10–12-year-old children.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
New research published by Just Environments reveals that North Carolina poultry farms decrease the value of nearby homes by 30%, raising questions about the growing industry’s impact on nearby communities.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Just a few days after the November 2024 election, the prominent political and religious leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II addressed a large audience at an Ethics of Now event at the Hayti Heritage Center. He criticized political strategies that pit people against each other, called on politicians to address the economic hardships faced by many Americans, and argued that policy should be shaped by morality.| The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
