BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201218T1446Z-1608302809.616-EO-36553-5@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T233056Z CREATED:20201218T011110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T171238Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210121T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210121T183000 SUMMARY: The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Michael Sandel DESCRIPTION: Watch a clip of the talk by political philosopher Michael Sand el on “The Anti-Democratic Turn” as part of the 2021 Phil Lind Initiative a t UBC. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs hosted Michael Sandel \, political philosopher and Professor\, Harvard University\, for a virtual event as part of our 2021 Phil Lind Initiative series on The Anti-Demo cratic Turn.
Welcome remarks: Professor Santa O no\, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia
< p>Moderator: Sylvia Berryman\, Professor\, Department of P hilosophy\, UBCWatch a short clip from the event below:
https: //youtu.be/FrW6ao_SEQI
Series: The unprecedent
ed assault on the rules and norms of democracy in the US over the past four
years has exposed its vulnerability. The problems have become all too fami
liar: corruption\, disinformation\, foreign interference\, gerrymandering\,
social media complicity\, voter suppression\, and the previously inconceiv
able threat that the outgoing president would refuse to concede and instead
launch a series of futile but harmful legal challenges to democracy itself
. Despite the eventual outcome of the presidential election\, democracy in
the US may not be as resilient as we once thought. If we accept that the pr
evious administration is a symptom of more deeply rooted problems in Americ
an society\, how do we begin to address these emerging fault lines in the d
emocratic process? How can we protect the integrity of our democracies in a
n era marked by authoritarian resurgence and nativist backlash?
Learn more about the 2021 series\, The Anti-Democratic Turn.
Bio: Harvard polit
ical philosopher and bestselling author Michael Sandel challenges audiences
to examine the ethical dilemmas we confront in politics\, business\, and o
ur everyday lives. One of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers\, Sandel
has been described as “the most relevant living philosopher\,” “a rock-sta
r moralist" (Newsweek)\, and “the most famous teacher of philosophy in the
world.” (New Republic). His writings — on justice\, democracy\, morals\, an
d markets — have been translated into 27 languages.
Sandel’s legendar y course "Justice" has enrolled over 15\,000 students and was the first Har vard course to be made freely available online and on public television. It has been viewed by millions of people around the world\, including in Chin a\, where China Newsweek named him the “most influential foreign figure of the year.”
In his New York Times bestseller Justice: What’s the R ight Thing to Do?\, Sandel takes readers on a fascinating journey of m oral reflection and shows how reasoned debate can illuminate democratic lif e. Justice has sold over two million copies worldwide and inspired public d ebate about the ethical and civic questions of our time.
In his lates t bestseller\, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets\, Sandel invites readers to rethink the role that money and markets should p lay in our lives. One of Foreign Policy’s “20 must-read books” of the year\ , reviewers have called it “brilliant\, easily readable\, and often funny\, ” an “eloquent argument for morality in public life.” Now a six-part series hosted by the Ford Foundation and moderated by the Financial Times' Rana F oroohar\, Sandel’s “What Money Can’t Buy: The Series” will be available for streaming in April 2018.
Sandel served for four years on the Preside nt's Council on Bioethics\, exploring the ethical implications of new biome dical technologies. This prompted him to write The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering\, a book about the moral quandari es that arise when we seek to perfect our children and ourselves. His other books include Democracy’s Discontent\, Liberalism and the Limits of Justic e\, and Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics.
Sandel’s l ectures have been the subject of television series on PBS and the BBC. His ongoing BBC radio series\, “The Public Philosopher\,” engages audiences in debates about the big philosophical questions lying behind the headlines. H e has appeared on The Colbert Report\, the Today Show\, and Morning Joe.
Described by The Guardian as “the man who is currently the most effecti ve communicator of ideas in English\,” Sandel’s books and online lectures h ave brought him “the kind of popularity usually reserved for Hollywood movi e stars and NBA players.” (China Daily) His recent lecture tours have taken him across five continents and packed such venues as St. Paul’s Cathedral (London)\, the Sydney Opera House\, and an outdoor amphitheater in Seoul\, Korea\, where 14\,000 people came to hear him speak. For his strong work “o n the normative foundations of liberal democracy as well as the defense of civic virtues\,” Sandel won the Princess of Asturias Award in Social Scienc es from Spain\, in 2018.
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