ISPS Supported Seminars for 2012-2013:

Interdisciplinary seminars have been an important component of ISPS's programmatic activity throughout its history. These seminars generally involve several faculty members and a large number of graduate and professional students from a variety of disciplines, departments, and schools and the format depends upon the interests of its members. Seminars typically involve visiting speakers, discussion of published and unpublished papers, and presentation of seminar participants' own work. Attendance at some seminars requires advance notice, and some distribute papers in advance. Seminars are free and open to interested members of the Yale community.

American Politics and Public Policy Workshop

Wednesdays, 12:00-1:15 pm, 77 Prospect St., Room A002. Sponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, each seminar features a presentation of current political science research by leading scholars in the field, including distinguished faculty from other institutions, research fellows of the CSAP, and Ph.D. candidates at Yale.

Political Theory Workshop

Wednesdays, 4:15-6:00 pm, 115 Prospect St. (Rosenkranz Hall), Room 202. The Political Theory Workshop provides an informal, interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of work in progress. The workshop features papers by Yale faculty members, visiting scholars, and graduate students in the fields of political philosophy, social theory, ethics, intellectual history, and related disciplines. Papers are distributed in advance when available and participants come prepared to discuss them in detail.

Public Policy Seminar

Tuesdays, 12:00-1:15, 77 Prospect St., Room A002. The Public Policy Seminar hosts preeminent scholars engaged in domestic public policy. Scholars speak to the opportunities for working on policy-related issues in academia, the challenges in communicating their research findings to public officials, and how they balance their roles as scholars and advocates for their policy positions. Monthly. Dates vary.

Bioethics Workshops

Animal Ethics

Dates vary. The Animal Ethics group at  the Yale Bioethics Center was formed in response to two phenomena: the moral imperative to reassess the human treatment of other animals, and the theoretical challenge to give nonhuman animals their due in ethics.

End of Life Issues

Selected Thursdays, 5:30-7:00 pm , 77 Prospect St, Room A002. This  lecture series discusses ethical  issues  related to dying, medical futility, and palliative care.

Technology & Ethics

Wednesdays, 4:15-6:15pm, 77 Prospect St, Room A002. The Technology and Ethics study group examines crucial societal, ethical, and public policy questions arising from the adoption of new technologies.

Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series

Fridays, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, 77 Prospect St., Room B012. The core of the Agrarian Studies Program's activities is a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium. “Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities” is the theme for the next year.

Program on Non Profit Organizations Series

For information please contact Chandra Roxanne at (203) 432-8866. The PONPO seminars are a series of presentations and discussions on international and indigenous non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Their main objective continues to be to map current research in the field. Presentations include both Yale and outside participants, scholars and practitioners.

ISPS Experiments Workshop

Selected Fridays, 12:00-1:30 pm, 77 Prospect St., Room A001