“Just How Legal Should Marijuana Be?”
September 10, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 105 Lawrence Hall
Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at UCLA, author of “Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control” among other recent titles, will give a lecture entitled “Just How Legal Should Marijuana Be?” He teaches courses on methods of policy analysis, on imperfectly rational decision-making at the individual and social level, and on drug abuse and crime control policy. His current focus is on reducing crime and incarceration by substituting swiftness and predictability for severity in the criminal justice system generally and in community-corrections institutions specifically. Recent projects include studies of the HOPE probation system and of the relationship between drug policy and violence in Afghanistan and Mexico. — Campus calendar
“The Limits of Freedom”
September 23, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 105 Lawrence Hall
The Lampert Institute of Civic and Global Affairs, as part of the Arts and Humanities Division Colloquium, present Sarah Conly, Associate Professor of Philosophy from Bowdoin College who will speak about “The Limits of Freedom.” She has written books such as “Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism,” Cambridge University Press, 2013;” and “Three Cheers for the Nanny State,” Op-ed, New York Times, March 25, 2013, “Coercive Paternalism in Health Care: Against Freedom of Choice,” in Public Health Ethics. Please join us. — Campus calendar
“Beyond the Gross National Product: What the New “Science” of Happiness can Contribute to Economics and to Policy”
September 25, 2014, 4:15 p.m., Persson Auditorium
Professor Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior fellow and a research fellow in the study of labor (IZA) at the Brookings Institute. She has written a book titled “The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being” and will discuss some of her research issues such as poverty, inequality, public health, and novel measures of well-being. — Campus calendar
“Religious Convictions and Public Policy”
October 9, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 207 Lathrop
Kent Greenawalt, university professor of the Columbia Law School, interests include constitutional law and jurisprudence, with special emphasis on church and state, freedom of speech, legal interpretation, and criminal responsibility will come to Colgate to lecture about religious conviction and public policy. Editor-in-chief, Columbia Law Review, before joining the Columbia faculty in 1965, he was law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan and subsequently spent part of a summer as an attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in Jackson, Mississippi. From 1966 to 1969, he served on the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
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“Snoop Dreams: The Expression of Personality in Everyday Contexts”
October 27, 2014, 4:15 p.m., 27 Perrson Hall
Samuel D. Gosling is a personality/social psychologist who has three main areas of interest: Connections between people and the physical spaces in which they live, personality in nonhuman animals, and new methods for obtaining data useful for research in the social sciences. More information will follow. — Campus calendar
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“Revaluing Communities: Local Environmental Preservation for Equity and Happiness”
October 16, 2014, 4:30 p.m., 27 Perrson Hall
Hiroyuki Torigoe, Professor of Environmental Sociology adn Environmental Folk-culture, Waseda University, Japan will give a public lecture on the examination of the critical roles of local communities in bridging environmental sustainability and social well-being in post Fuluhisma, Japan. — Campus calendar
“Happiness and International Migration”
October 16, 2014, 12:15 p.m., 108 Persson Hall
— Campus calendar