Sponsored Lectures

Castle Lectures

Each year the Dean of Yale College appoints a Castle Lecturer in Ethics, Politics and Economics to deliver a series of lectures to promote awareness of and sensitivity to ethical issues facing individuals in complex modern societies. Intended to foster interdisciplinary reflection on the moral foundations of society and government, the lectures were endowed by Mr. John K. Castle to honor his ancestor the Reverend James Pierpont, one of the University's original founders.  Yale University Press co-sponsors the lectures and publishes each set of lectures as a book.

Past Castle Lecturers include
Senator Paul Tsongas
Lester C. Thurow
Sissela Bok
Justice Richard Goldstone
Stephen Holmes
Martha Nussbaum
Robert Dahl
Robert Dahl
David Gergen
Onora O'Neill
Richard Sennett
Francis Fukuyama
Robert Keohane
Robert Pippin
Juergen Habermas

Litowitz Lectures

The Litowitz Fund sponsors teaching in the major as well as the Litowitz Lecturer, who is appointed each year to speak to EP&E faculty and students on ethical and religious dimensions of social policy.

Past Litowitz Lecturers include
Michael Perry
Judge John T. Noonan
George Fletcher
Kent Greenwalt
Rev. William Sloane Coffin
Bhikhu Parekh
Avishai Margalit
Norman Birnbaum
Richard Bernstein
Benjamin Barber