Join us for a Parr Center "Ethics Around the Table" event! Managing the environment, managing ourselves: How should we manage our uses of nature in an ‘Anthropocene’ world? Ethics Around the Table (EAT) Discussion March 29, 2016, 12:30 – 1:30 … Read more

Hip Hop and Social Justice Please join the Parr Center for Ethics and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities for a panel on hip hop and social justice, featuring performances as well as discussion from three outstanding local artists. … Read more

"Freedom of Contract: A Defense" Jessica Flanigan is an assistant professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, at the University of Richmond, where she teaches ethics and critical thinking. For a complete bio, please visit her website. … Read more

The Morality of Markets Jonathan Anomaly In this intensive one day seminar we’ll explore the moral ideals underlying socialism and capitalism, and the economic and moral consequences of socialist and market-based systems of political economy. In particular we’ll read Jerry … Read more

Kimberley Brownlee  is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her recent work has focused on civil disobedience, conscience, conviction, and punishment. Her current work focuses on social rights, freedom of association, and social virtues. She is the author of Conscience and … Read more

Parr Center Presents: Luvell Anderson and Jeff Sebo on The Ethics of Humor “Navigating Racial Satire” This talk is part of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Humor Conference, which is free and open to all, however advance registration is suggested. To … Read more

"Hurricane Katrina: Entrepreneurship after Recovery" Virgil Henry Storr is a Senior Research Fellow and the Senior Director of Academic and Student Programs at the Mercatus Center, a Research Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, George Mason University and … Read more

A Conversation with the Honorable Eva M. Clayton and Harvey Gantt EVA M. CLAYTON became the first African American to represent North Carolina in the House since George Henry White was elected to his second and last term in 1898. … Read more

Douglas Hunt Lecture Series: Difference Without Domination, Reconciling Free Speech and Social Equality on Campus Danielle Allen, PhD, Director, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

CRISPR: The History, Science and Ethics of Genetic Modification Please join the Parr Center for Ethics for a discussion of the science, history, and ethics of genetic modification, with special focus on CRISPR, a new gene-editing tool that the New … Read more