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Subject: 	Fellows-in-Residency Program: Call for Applications 2015-16
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From: 	Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics <katy at ethics.harvard.edu>
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Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Fellows-in-Residency Program
Call for Applications 2015-16

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites 
applications for a new fellows-in-residency program under the direction 
of Professor Danielle Allen. The new program will bring together a small 
group of Fellows to work closely over the course of the year on pressing 
issues in ethics. The majority of Fellows will be selected in relation 
to an annual theme, but in each year some "open" slots will be reserved 
for applicants working on any issue in ethics. In each year, the goal 
will be to craft a cohort in which "thematic" Fellows and "open" Fellows 
will all find valuable intellectual partnerships to support and spur 
their work. For the 2015-16 academic year, the theme at the Edmond J. 
Safra Center for Ethics will be*Diversity, Justice, and Democracy*. The 
purpose of this theme is to explore how to achieve fair and just forms 
of democratic life in conditions of significant demographic diversity.

More than 200 years into the modern experiment with democratic forms of 
rule, democratic aspirations continue to founder on the rocks of racial 
and ethnic hierarchies and other patterns of domination constructed on 
social categorizations of difference. In the case of the U.S., African 
American disadvantage continues to be entrenched fifty years after the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964 transformed the legal landscape; Latino 
disadvantage has also emerged as a pressing problem, as has a low level 
of political engagement among Asian Americans. In Europe, we are 
witnessing the resurgence of the far-right, in response to dramatic 
demographic diversification, occurring simultaneously with economic 
instability. Civil war related to ethnic violence has devastated many 
African countries in recent years. India has the world's largest 
affirmative action program and yet to cross caste and religious lines in 
marriage is to open oneself and one's family to abuse and often murder 
by the locally dominant. These are just a small set of examples of the 
hard problems that currently define the political and ethical landscape 
of democracy in contexts of diversity.

The question of how to achieve fair and just forms of democratic life in 
conditions of significant demographic diversity must be tackled afresh, 
from the ground up. Importantly, pursuing answers to this question 
requires united normative and positive, or ethical and empirical, forms 
of expertise, through multi-disciplinary partnership. The ethics of 
diversity also intersect with important work in all of the professional 
schools. Conversations around this theme that unite faculty in the arts 
and sciences with faculty in the professional schools would be 
productive. And, of course, issues pertaining to the ethics of diversity 
constantly generate tensions for university campuses themselves. The 
theme should provide a context for advancing a research-based 
understanding of how college campuses too can do better at the ethics of 
diversity.

All Fellows in residence will be expected to devote the majority of 
their time to their individual research projects and to participate in 
regular work-in-progress seminars. In addition, Fellows whose work 
intersects most directly with the annual theme will be invited to 
participate in the thematic components of the Center's programming, 
which will consist of public lectures, conferences, and workshops.

A broad range of researchers is invited to submit proposals to become 
residential Fellows. Tenured and untenured faculty are invited to 
participate. Postdoctoral applications are eagerly encouraged, as well 
as proposals from researchers in industry, government, or NGOs seeking 
sabbatical time to pursue research directly relevant to ethical issues. 
Applicants from any discipline or professional field will be considered. 
Each applicant should propose an individual research and/or writing 
project. Applicants must have a PhD, professional degree, or equivalent 
professional experience.

The deadline date for receipt of applications for projects beginning 
September 2015 is
*January 30, 2015*.

Further details about the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, including 
procedures for submitting an application, are available on our website: 
http://ethics.harvard.edu/fellows-in-residency.

Please bring this opportunity to the attention of promising scholars by 
forwarding this email. Thank you!

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