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Happiness by Design?

This event is conducted in partnership with the Lien Fung's Colloquium Synopsis Can good design make people happier? Early 20th century architects and writers believed it to be possible.…

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Keynote Lecture: Coping with Adversity [8th Annual SMU-Soka International Peace Symposium: Happiness in Times of Crisis: Pain, Precarity, and Planetary Suffering]

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Construal of Suffering Through Spaces Associated With Death

Synopsis Through the autoethnographic aspects of her research in death studies, Khyati aims to discuss how death and suffering within the cultural, institutional, and ritual-based spaces associated…

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Wealth, Poverty, and Virtue: Adam Smith’s Case for (and Against) the Market

Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Synopsis: Adam Smith is famous today as a champion of free markets. But on what grounds did he, in fact, defend market society? My lecture will…

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