The past year has seen a dramatic increase in economic, financial, social, and political turmoil worldwide. Policy responses to price instability have in turn generated predictable but unforeseen collateral crises and vulnerabilities, including bank failures, asset market turmoil, and rising risks of domestic, regional, and global recession, which require their own policy responses. Climate, public health, and migration challenges persist and continue to reflect vast economic disparities.

Hussain Hadah is a postdoctoral scholar in Economics and The Murphy Institute. He completed his PhD in Economics from the University of Houston in 2023 and received his BS in Economics from Arizona State University. He researches topics in applied microeconomics such as discrimination, race, identity, mental health, and immigration.

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T.K. Coleman is Director of Entrepreneurial Education at the Foundation for Economic Freedom. T.K. creates workshops and curricula designed to teach the value of economic literacy and entrepreneurial thinking. He was recently featured in the Netflix documentary "Less is Now." His passion is helping young audiences elevate their aspirations and sense of agency to create and persevere in their individual journeys to live flourishing lives of meaning, achievement and happiness,

Each year, the Center for Ethics invites distinguished academics to present their current work at the Center for Ethics Speaker Series. Since 2001, the Center for Ethics has hosted more than 200 guest speakers. The Center for Ethics public lectures are free and open to all members of the Tulane community as well as the general public. 

Each semester, the Center for Ethics invites distinguished academics to present their current work at the Center for Ethics Public Lecture Series. Since 2001, the Center for Ethics has hosted more than 200 guest speakers.

Jonathan Simon a Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His research concerns the role of crime and criminal justice in governing contemporary societies, risk and the law, and the history of the interdisciplinary study of law.

Amrita is a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Social Behavioral and Population Sciences, and a 2020-2021 Fogarty Global Health Fellow for trauma research among children and people living with HIV in India.

Celine is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University. Her dissertation, Moving Mountains : Migration and Solidarity in the French-Italian Borderland attends to questions of mobility, borderwork and hospitality in the Western Alps.

She’s lucky to be supported by her dissertation committee – Adeline Masquelier (chair), Allison Truitt and Andrew McDowell – and her department more broadly. She likes to make podcasts and zines. 

Nicholas Allmaier is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy whose research interests include Modern Philosophy and the German Enlightenment.

He is writing his dissertation on the thought of J.G. Hamann under the direction of Dr. Richard Velkley.  

Nicolas Day is a Ph.D candidate (4th year) in philosophy at Tulane University. He specializes in ancient philosophy and the history of political philosophy. His other areas of competence include the history of modern philosophy, the reception of ancient thought in modern philosophy, phenomenology, and ethics.

Prominent questions guiding his work include the nature and possibility of philosophical rhetoric and the character of philosophy as a way of life. His dissertation, "The Pythagorean Socrates of Plato's Philebus," is being supervised by Prof. Ronna Burger.