The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University will celebrate its expanded campuswide, interdisciplinary efforts to support the teaching and practice of ethics with an afternoon of dialogue and a gala reception Jan. 17.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Kenan Distinguished Lecture Series brings speakers to campus to address moral issues of broad social and cultural significance. Previous Kenan lecturers include Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Raspberry, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and sociologist Robert Bellah. Ehrlich, who is chairman-elect of the American Association of Higher Education, has served as president of Indiana University, provost of the University of Pennsylvania and dean of Stanford Law School. He has written or edited eight books, including The Courage to Inquire . He currently is a Distinguished University Scholar at California State University who regularly teaches community service-learning courses at San Francisco State University.