EVENTS

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Public Lecture, Forgiveness Pays, featuring criminal justice activists, Linda Biehl and Ntobeko Peni. Linda's daughter, Amy, was killed in a racially motivated mob attack, and Ntobeko Peni was one of the perpetrators, imprisoned for five years before being granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Today, Peni working for the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust (ABFT), an NGO created in her memory, focusing on running after-school programs in dance, drama, music, and HIV peer-education for at-risk and impoverished South African youth, and with the Forgiveness Project. Sponsored by the African Studies Department, Carolina Leadership Development, Carolina Union Activities Board, Carolina Women's Center, Center for Global Initiatives, Criminal Justice Action Awareness Committee (Campus Y), Difficult Dialogues Program, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Parr Center for Ethics, Philosophy Department, Residential Hall Association and the School of Law. This event is free and open to the public. Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Theatre, 7:00pm.

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Lunch & Learn Workshop, The Cost of Food: an Unholy Alliance? In this ongoing series of workshops, a small discussion group meets over lunch to explore timely ethical issues within their respective fields of interests. Open to faculty, graduate students and undergrads, January's topic explores how the industrialized food system keeps prices down yet ignores external costs associated with environmental impacts and poor return to small scale farmers. This session is led by Professor Alice Ammerman, Director of the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Please note: space is limited, register HERE. Location: Hyde Hall, University Room, 12:30 pm.

Monday, February 1st, 2010
Public Lecture, Customary Law as a Guide to Natural Justice, featuring Professor Amanda Perreau-Saussine, Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy. This event is free and open to the public. Location: Caldwell Hall, Room 213, 1:00 pm.

Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Ethics in the Professions Workshop, Moral Courage and Legal Professionalism, featuring Parr Center fellow, Kim Strom-Gottfried, Smith P. Theimann Distinguished Professor for Ethics and Professional Practice, UNC School of Social Work. Professor Strom-Gottfried leads a session in the School of Law's 2010 Festival of Legal Learning. Click on the link for further information on this annual event. Sponsored by the UNC School of Law and the Parr Center for Ethics.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
CANCELLED DUE TO DC AREA STORM. TO BE RESCHEDULED.
Public Lecture, Kenya and the Responsibility to Protect, featuring Dr. Andrea Bartoli of the Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution at George Mason University. Post-election rioting in Kenya in December 2007 brought pressure on Nairobi, from international and regional diplomats, to end tensions and avert bloodshed on a massive scale. What lessons can be learned from the intervention in Kenya? What does it mean for the UN's emerging “responsibility to protect” doctrine? Co-sponsored with UNC Great Decisions Program. This event is free and open to the public.
Location: Hamilton Hall, Room 100, 7:00 pm.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Lunch & Learn Workshop, Sex Trafficking: Health Implications and Interventions. In this ongoing series of workshops, a small discussion group meets over lunch to explore timely ethical issues within their respective fields of interests. Open to faculty, graduate students and undergrads, February's topic examines the issue of the forceful recruitment and transportation of individuals for prostitution and forced labor as one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises. This discussion includes strategies health care providers can use to intervene throughout the trafficking stages. This session is led by Professor Diane Kjervik, School of Nursing and Donna Bickford, Director of Carolina Women's Center. Co-sponsored by the Carolina Women's Center. Please note: space is limited, register HERE. Location: Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, 12:00 pm.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Public Lecture, Against Ecosystem Services, featuring Mark Sagoff, Director and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. One of the most prominent comtemporary environmental philosophers in America, Dr. Sagoff is author of The Economy of Earth and Price, Principle, and the Environment. Sponsored by the Institute for the Environment, the Parr Center for Ethics, and the Department of Philosophy. This event is free and open to the public. Location: Howell Hall, Room 203, 12:00 pm.

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Public Lecture, Philosophy, Politics, and Objective Truth, featuring Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and the Parr Center for Ethics. This event is free and open to the public. Location: Caldwell Hall, Room 213, 1:00 pm.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Public Discussion, How Should We Eat? Policy and Ethics. Factory farms. Immigrant labor. Sustainability. Food democracy. World Hunger. Access. Environmental impacts. Nutrition. Genetic modification. Organic vs. Conventional. How do we navigate the food industry and make ethical choices about our food consumption? How do we prioritize our ethical concerns? Join a panel of food experts to discuss current questions surrounding food politics and ethics. Co-sponsored with FLO Food. This event is free and open to the public. Location: Hanes Art Center Auditorium (Room 121), 6:30 pm.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Student Panel Discussion, How to Eat Ethically as a Student? A student led and student focused panel tackles foood issues, including students' responsibility for campus food offerings, fast food and nutrition, budgeting expenses, and the students' role in the food system. Panelists are representatives of FLO Food, UNC Young Democrats, Economics Club, Alianza and Ethics Bowl, discuss the issues raised in the panel discussion: How Should We Eat? Co-sponsored with FLO Food and the Philosophy Club.
Location: Manning Hall, Room 209, 6:30 pm.

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl National Championship Competition. Having placed 2nd at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl Competition hosted by the University of Richmond, a team of undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will travel to Cincinnati, Ohio to compete in the National Championship. The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl combines the excitement and fun of a competitive tournament with a valuable educational experience for undergraduate students in a day-long event. The UNC Ethics Bowl Team is sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Campus Y, Division of Student Affairs, the Office of the Chancellor and the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence.

Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Lunch & Learn Workshop, Corporate Social Responsibility. In this ongoing series of workshops, a small discussion group meets over lunch to explore timely ethical issues within their respective fields of interests. Open to faculty, graduate students and undergrads, March's topic discusses the question of how far businesses should step beyond their primary services and engage in practices that promote broader social interests. This session is led by Professor Steve May, Department of Communication Studies.
Please note: space is limited, register HERE.
Location: Hyde Hall, Incubator Room, 12:30 pm.

Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Public Discussion, Undocumented Immigrants in America: Our National Identity. Continuing the discussion over immigration reform launched by the September event, a new panel of experts focus on the issues of citizenship, assimilation and national identity at the heart of the debate over immigration reform. Co-sponsored with the Center for Global Initiatives, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Location: TBA, 6:30 pm.

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Public Lecture, Defining World Poverty and What Should Be Done, featuring Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy. This event is free and open to the public.
Location: Hanes Hall Auditorium (Room 120), 7:00 pm.

April 12-13th, 2010
Ethics in the Professions Series Symposium, Is Nature Enough? Exploring the Ethics of Human Enhancement. In light of continuing medical progress, the lines distinguishing 'normal' and 'enhanced' states of biological being become increasingly blurred. This two-day mini-conference will examine the ethical issues raised by advances in medical research and the prospective possibilities for transforming the human body. Co-sponsored with Center for Genomics and Society, Department of Social Medicine, Department of Athletics, Department of Philosophy, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Whaley Family Foundation, and Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics. This event is free and open to the public.

Monday, April 12th, 2010
Keynote Lecture, The Case Against Perfection, featuring Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University. On the first day of this symposium, the stage is set with a panel discussion featuring individuals with first hand experience with enhancement issues, followed by the keynote presentation by Professor Sandel.
Location: Hamilton Hall Auditorium (Room 100), 7:00 pm.

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
In the second day of the Symposium, this half-day program is aimed at students, practicioners, researchers and scholars. A distinguished roster of speakers will address specific human enhancement topics ranging from genetic enhancement, super-soldiers, surgical and cosmetic enhancements, and the cultural factors that fuel the pursuit of biological enhancements.
Please note: space is limited, register HERE.
Location: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, The State Dining Room, 8:30 am.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Ethics in the Professions Series, Ethics in the Workplace. Offered through UNC Human Resources' Training and Development Department, this course is an introduction to ethical decision making. Whether in the classroom, the office, or at home, we all make decisions that have important ethical implications. The goal of this course is to help participants learn how to identify ethical issues, think about them productively, and arrive at ethically sound decisions. To meet those objectives, participants learn some introductory ethical theory that provides a philosophical framework for exploring ethical questions. Then, using a number of real case studies, including participants’ own experiences, the group applies the philosophical framework in hopes of uncovering and resolving the relevant ethical conflicts. Participants will leave the course prepared to share their skills in ethical decision making with their colleagues.