Spring 2026 Center for Ethics Public Lecture with Fabio Rojas
"A Plea for Good Society Science"
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The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics will welcome Fabio Rojas as the featured speaker for the second installment of 2025-2026’s Public Lecture Series.
Sociology, and many other social sciences, are often informed by a concern with "social problems." This focus has an unfortunate result: social scientists disproportionately look at what is wrong with society rather than what works well. In this talk, Rojas will discuss this general problem and then outline what a good society science might look like.
Fabio Rojas is the Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also the co-editor of Contexts: Sociology for the Public, the official magazine of the American Sociological Association. His books include From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline, Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11, and Theory for the Working Sociologist. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and the Academy of Management Journal. He has written for The Washington Post, USA Today, The Hill, and other popular outlets.
The Center for Ethics public lectures serve as a vital platform for intellectual exchange, where scholars and practitioners from a broad range of intellectual and professional disciplines and concerned citizens can engage with pressing ethical questions. Since 2001, the Center for Ethics has hosted more than 200 guest speakers discussing contemporary topics in ethics.
Lectures are free and open to all members of the Tulane community as well as the general public.
The Center for Ethics' Spring 2026 Public Lecture with Fabio Rojas is co-sponsored by Tulane's School of Liberal Arts Department of Sociology and WWNO.
