Live streaming is available online at http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/live-stream-confronting-evil#overlay-context=content/live-stream-confronting-evil ^[1]

Confronting Evil:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives

SATURDAY, April 20, 2013

9:00 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Harvard University

A conference co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard ^[2], the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School ^[3], and the Volkswagen Foundation.

Free and open to the public. All are welcome. No registration is required.

Conference Schedule:

9:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Wilhelm Krull, Volkswagen Foundation
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University
Robert Mnookin, Harvard Law School

9:15 a.m.

Panel One: The Concept and Rhetoric of Evil
Peter-André Alt, Freie Universität Berlin
Avishai Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum
Elaine Pagels, Princeton University
Chair: Homi Bhabha, Harvard University

11:15 a.m.

Panel Two: The Psychology of Evil: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Social Implications
Max Bazerman, Harvard Business School
Joshua Greene, Harvard University
Lee Ross, Stanford University
Chair: Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University

2:15 p.m

Panel Three: Witnessing Evil in World Affairs: From Everyday Evils to Extraordinary Crimes
Gazmend Kapllani, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Linn Normand, University of Oxford
Richard Shweder, University of Chicago
Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University

4:00 p.m.

Panel Four: Responding to Evil: Should We Bargain with the Devil? -
Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
Charles Cogan, Harvard Kennedy School
Philip Heymann, Harvard Law School
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, New York University
Chair: Robert Mnookin, Harvard Law School