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The Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics sponsors two lecture series each year. The Castle Lectures were endowed by Mr. John K. Castle. They honor his ancestor the Reverend James Pierpont, one of Yale’s original founders. Given by established public figures, Castle Lectures are intended to promote reflection on the moral foundations of society and government and to enhance understanding of ethical issues facing individuals in our complex modern society.
The Robert Litowitz Trust endowment supports an annual Robert Litowitz Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy. The Litowitz lecturer is a major intellectual figure who examines the role of religious perspectives on major issues of ethics and public policy.
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Popular Sovereignty and Religious Peoples in the Arab World
Professor Brown will discuss two trends have that grown in ideological force in Arab politics in recent years: one emphasizing popular sovereignty and democratic accountability; the other stressing the divine origin of political authority. Do these operate at cross purposes? And might either trend tame the authoritarian patterns that seem so deeply entrenched in the region?
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The Democratic Faith: The Elasticity of Preferences
Fifty years and more of research on the beliefs and fears of citizens have emphasized their vulnerability to prejudice and political intolerance; their minimal levels of political knowledge; the wobbliness of their political preferences; and, not to run on interminably, the feebleness of their commitment to core democratic values. The three lectures will re-examine this portrait of citizens.
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The Democratic Faith: Multiculturalism Redux
Fifty years and more of research on the beliefs and fears of citizens have emphasized their vulnerability to prejudice and political intolerance; their minimal levels of political knowledge; the wobbliness of their political preferences; and, not to run on interminably, the feebleness of their commitment to core democratic values. The three lectures will re-examine this portrait of citizens.
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The Democratic Faith: Myrdal's Conjecture
Fifty years and more of research on the beliefs and fears of citizens have emphasized their vulnerability to prejudice and political intolerance; their minimal levels of political knowledge; the wobbliness of their political preferences; and, not to run on interminably, the feebleness of their commitment to core democratic values. The three lectures will re-examine this portrait of citizens.
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From Sunni-Shia Coexistence to a Mideast Sectarian War?
Yale University's Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics is pleased to announce that Joost Hiltermann, Chief Operating Officer at International Crisis Group, delivers this year's Robert H. Litowitz Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy. In his lecture, Mr. Hiltermann will ask what can be done to stem an apparent sectarian tide sweeping the Middle East in the wake of recent upheavals, from the 2003 US invasion of Iraq to the 2011 Arab awakening.
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Microfinance: After the Hype and the Crisis
The annual "Meet the Author" lecture, sponsored by the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics was delivered by Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, Professor and co-author of Poor Economics, who spoke on "Microfinance: After the Hype and the Crisis."