This seminar aims to foster lively interdisciplinary conversations about health ethics, the political issues that arise in health policy planning and reform, and the place of ideas of justice and human rights in these political conversations. The seminar will address the following central questions:

• What are the political philosophical issues that arise in contemporary debates about health and justice both domestically and (…)

  ethics, health, justice, public policy, working group

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African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism: Constructing a New Legal Culture

When: Friday, April 17, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240

Description: African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism, a public conversation between Justice Yvonne Mokgoro (Constitutional Court of South Africa) and Jean and John Comaroff (University of Chicago) will explore what the term Ubuntu, a concept encapsulating (…)

  Africa, Concilium on Southern Africa, human rights, justice

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When: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
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Description: The Hon. Justice Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court of South Africa.Moderated by Prof. Catherine Adcock Admay, Public Policy Studies and the Duke Center for International Development.”To appreciate the alliance between justice and art and its relation to the fine art of persuasion,Justice Albie Sachs is (…)

  Africa, art, Concilium on Southern Africa, ethics, human rights, justice

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