Events
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics offers a wide range of events, including talks, workshops, panel discussions.
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Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Event Series
Ethics Certificate Training for SCU Students
Join award-winning instructor and Ethics Center Executive Director, Don Heider, for two 3-hour sessions that will give you hands-on help and earn you a LinkedIn certificate in ethical decision making from the Markkula Center.
IT, Ethics, and Law Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the High Tech Law Institute, biannual event brings speakers to campus for an interdisciplinary exploration of technology topics.
Regan Lectures
Designed to bring off-campus audiences to the Center, this annual lecture on applied ethics is funded by the New York Life Insurance Company in honor of William Regan III and a gift from Ann and William Regan.
Ethics at Noon
Ethics at Noon offers presentations on ethics in many fields by guest scholars and Santa Clara University faculty.
Artificial Intelligence for Social Impact and Equity Series
This series, in 2022, centered the question of equity – and how artificial intelligence and the algorithms around us are making our society more or less fair and prosperous and how we can harness AI for the greatest positive social impact.
Events in this series are cosponsored by the High Tech Law Institute and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Featured Past Events
Viewed more than 425,000 times, our interviews with experts cover subjects from corporate governance to the right to be forgotten. We also feature videos on ethical issues for undergraduates created by the students themselves.
On November 1, 2024 the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Next10 cohosted a daylong conference on AI and sustainability.
The authors of the book, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson chronicle the evolution of the popular AR-15. Subbu Vincent, director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics hosted a conversation with McWhirter and Elinson about the AR-15 story and American culture.
This daylong conference, cosponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Next 10, brought together academics from a variety of disciplines, industry and government representatives, as well as students and the broader public, to explore the intersection of AI and sustainability.