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Character, Formation, and Flourishing Seminar Series

 

The Human Flourishing Program is hosting "Character, Formation, and Flourishing Seminar Series" 2023-2024. Meetings usually take place every third Wednesday of the month

(cc) 11:00-12:30.

 

Schedule

  1. October 18 (Wednesday) 2023: Emerald Henderson (Birmingham/Jubilee) “The philosophy and psychology of emulation”
  2. November 15 (Wednesday) 2023: Wojciech Kaftanski (Harvard/Jagiellonian): “Mental images and imagination in moral education”
  3. January 17 (Wednesday) 2024: Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley (Bath Spa) "Problematizing flourishing as the aim of education”
  4. February 21 (Wednesday) 2024: Verónica Fernández Espinosa (Francisco de Vitoria) “The effect of teacher leadership on students’ character education”
  5. March 20 (Wednesday) 2024: Natasza Szutta/Artur Szutta (Gdansk) “The role of emotions in human flourishing”
  6. April 17 (Wednesday) 2024: James Arthur (Birmingham/Jubilee) “Education and ideological formation”
  7. May 15 (Wednesday) 2024: Chiara Palazzolo (Tulsa): “Western classical music and virtue ethics”

 

Convenors: Wojciech Kaftanski and Jeffrey Hanson

Contact person: Wojciech Kaftanski: wkaftanski@fas.harvard.edu

Character, Formation, Flourishing 2022-2023

  1. September 14 (Wednesday), 2022: Valuing virtue: Tyler Paytas (Australian Catholic University) online.
  2. October 19 (Wednesday), 2022: Virtues, values, and naturalism: Mario DeCaro (Roma Tre: Aretai Center on Virtues) online.
  3. November 16 (Wednesday), 2022: Four accounts of flourishing as the aim of education: A synthesis and ten remaining problems: Kristjan Kristjansson (Birmingham: Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues) online.
  4. December 14 (Wednesday), 2022: What role should human flourishing play among education's aims? :  Jonathan Beale (Harvard: Human Flourishing Program) online.
  5. January 18 (Wednesday), 2023: Patience: preliminary thoughts about a neglected virtue: Christian Miller (Wake Forest University: Character Gap) online.
  6. February 15 (Wednesday), 2023: The development of character skills that support loving relationships and flourishing: Christina Hinton (Harvard: Human Flourishing Program) online (11:00-11:45 shorter session) online.
  7. March 15 (Wednesday), 2023: Patient virtues in palliative care: pain and suffering: Elena Ricci (European University of Rome/Genova University: Aretai Center on Virtues) online
  8. April 19 (Wednesday), 2023: The Neuroscience of Virtue and the Likelihood of Moral Behavior: Claudia Navarini (European University of Rome: Aretai Center on Virtues) online

Video Recordings of Past Presentations on YouTube