Events
How to Be Good: Virtue for the Modern Life
A lecture by Prof. Michael Lamb (Wake Forest University)
When:
February 9, 2026 | 7:00 PM EST
Chapter:
New York University
Location:
The Catholic Center at NYU
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University. He is also an Associate Fellow with the Oxford Character Project. He holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, a B.A. in political science from Rhodes College, and a second B.A. in philosophy and theology from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. A recipient of teaching awards from Oxford, Princeton, and Wake Forest, his research and teaching focus on leadership, character, and the role of virtues in public life. He is the author of A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought (2022), which offers a bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its relevance for politics. He is also a co-editor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022), Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life (2019), and The Arts of Leading: Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts (2024). He is the principal investigator on a $70 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., to support the education of character at Wake Forest and other U.S. colleges and universities.
This event is made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this event are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.