Center for the Study of Ethics
Ethics Awareness Week
Fall 2008
(As of September 8, 2008)
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September 15-19
Ethics Awareness Week
September 15
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Discussion on Pedagogy:
Engaged Learning: Ethics and Integrity
A panel discussion including participants of Communities of Engaged Learners (CEL) grants
(see http://www.uvu.edu/engage/)
3-4:30 PM, SC 213B
(Organized by Jill Jasperson, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Ethics, and Wayne Hanewicz, Persons of Integrity Program Coordinator of the CEL initiative)
September 16
Ethics and War
"No One Calls Me Hero?"
Kenn Reagle, Poet and Vietnam Veteran
Lisa Beaudry, Student and Marine Veteran
Wayne Hanewicz, Veteran and Professor of Philosophy, UVU
Introduction: Elaine Englehardt, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, UVU
8:30-9:45 a.m., SC 213B
Ethics Panel Discussion
"Representing Confinement: Two Artists at the Topaz Internment Camp"
Kimi Kodani Hill, author of Topaz Moon
Greg Robinson, Assistant Professor of History, Université du Québec à Montréal, and author of By Order of the President and Following Her Own Road (about Miné Okubo, an artist at Topaz)
Moderator: Cherstin Lyon, Assistant Professor of History, California State University, San Bernardino
10-11:15 a.m., SC 213B
University Faculty Fellow in Ethics Keynote Address:
"Waiting in Amman: Iraqi Women Refugee's Oral Histories"
Laura Hamblin, Professor of English & Literature, UVU
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., SC 213B
Ethics Panel Discussion
"What is the Value of 'Liberal' Educators on a 'Conservative' Campus?"
Karin Anderson, Professor of English & Literature, UVU
Laura Hamblin, Professor of English & Literature, UVU, and University Faculty Fellow in Ethics
Michael Palmer, University of Utah MFA student in Creative Writing, and UVU English Major alumnus
Amber Watson, Senior, English Major, UVU
Moderator: Karin Anderson, Professor of English & Literature, UVU
1-2:15 p.m., SC 213B
September 17
Ethics Panel Discussion
"Ethical Issues of Wolf Conservation in the Rocky Mountains"
Bob Blackwell, Emeritus Professor of Biology, UVU
Mike Jimenez, Coordinator of Western Gray Wolf Recovery for the Fish and Wildlife Service
Curt Mack, Project Leader, Nez Perce Tribe Wolf Recovery
Moderator: Karen Mizell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVU
9-9:50 a.m., SC 213B
Ethics Panel Discussion
"The Ethics of Using Personal Electronics in Class"
Students from ENGL 2010
Moderator: Julie Nichols, Assistant Professor of English & Literature, UVU
10-10:50 a.m., SC 213B
Poetry Reading
Fables & Morals from Weather Report and new work, plus Q & A
Rob Carney, Associate Professor of English & Literature, UVU
11-11:50 a.m., SC 213B
Ethics Panel Discussion
"The Ethics of Economy"
Gregory Lucero, Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, UVU
Michael Minch, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVU
Moderator: Dennis Potter, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVU
12-12:50 p.m., SC 213B
Ethics Panel Discussion
"The Ethics of Handling Food in Multicultural Societies"
Farid Islam, Associate Professor, Finance and Economics
Olga Kopp, Assistant Professor of Biology, UVU
Ruhul Kuddus, Assistant Professor of Biology, UVU
Nichole Ortega, Instructor, Dance, UVU
Moderator: Ruhul Kuddus, Assistant Professor of Biology, UVU
1-1:50 p.m., SC 213B
Ethics Panel Discussion
"Challenges faced by Utah's Latino Community"
Tony Yapias, Activist and Community Leader
Moderator: David Knowlton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UVU
2-2:50 p.m., SC 213B
Ethics Panel Discussion
"Rehabilitating Michael Vick's Fighting Dogs"
John Garcia, Caregiver, Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, Utah
Moderator: Karen Mizell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVU
3-3:50 p.m., SC 213B
(see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/sports/football/02vickdogs.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)
Annual Excellence in Ethics Award and Constitution Day Commemoration <http://constitutioncenter.org/ConstitutionDay/>
Public reception for Christine M. Durham, Recipient, Excellence in Ethics Award
6:30-7:00 p.m., Concourse West of Library Auditorium (LI 120)
Presentation and Ethics Awareness Week Keynote Address:
Christine M. Durham, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Utah
Keynote Address:
7:00-8:00 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
Award Presentation by Elizabeth J. Hitch, Interim President, UVU
8 p.m.
September 18
Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium:
"Science, Government & Society: Policy for the Common Good"
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., SC 213B
(Organized by David R. Keller and James V. Price)
Session 1:
"Do You Have a Right to Clean Air? Air Pollution and Human Health, Controversy and Public Policy"
Arden Pope, Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
8:30-9:45 a.m., SC 213B
Session 2:
Keynote Address:
"The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Climate Change, from the North Pole to the White House"
Andrew Revkin, Science Reporter, The New York Times
10-11:15 a.m., SC 213B
Session 3:
The Politics of Science and Censorship
"Lysenko and the Extremes of Censorship"
Duane Jeffery, Professor of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University
"Political Influence on Access To and Interpretation Of Scientific Information"
Peter Kraus, MLS, Associate Librarian, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., SC 213B
Session 4:
"Politics, Science, and the Environment"
David Nimkin, Southwest Regional Director, National Parks Conservation Association
Elaine York, West Desert Regional Director, The Nature Conservancy
1-2:15 p.m., SC 213B
September 19
A Tribute to the Moral Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon
Session 1:
Robert Solomon's On Grief and Gratitude: Toward a Politics of Love
Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
"An Even More Severe Morality: Bob Solomon's Phenomenological Ethics"
David Sherman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Montana at Missoula
10-10:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Session 2:
"Solomon: an Ideal Guide for Ethics Across the Curriculum"
Elaine E. Englehardt, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, UVU
"Nietzsche and Solomon on Gratitude and Spirituality"
Kathleen Higgins, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
11-11:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Organized by Pierre Lamarche)