Ethics Center Events Spring 2002

January 16
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Alex Simon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UVSC
" Green Washing: Assessing the Success of Corporate Propaganda Amongst British Columbia's Pulp Mill Workers"
12-12:50 PM, SC 206g & SC 206h (box lunches provided)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies Program)

 
January 16
Faculty Bookgroup (discussion led by Pierre Lamarche):
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire
3-4:30 PM, SC 206g & SC 206h January 17
Stephan Millett, Director of Philosophy and Ethical Inquiry, Wesley College, Australia
" Ethics and Metaphysics in an Age of Technological Convergence"
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, CS 404 (box lunches provided)

 
January 22
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society) 

January 23
Symposium on Political Activism
Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder, School of the Americas Watch
" The School of the Americas: Teaching Death?"
Panel Discussion on Local Activism:
Maura Carabello, Director, Utahns Against Gun Violence
Gayle Ruzicka, Chair, Utah Eagle Forum
Chip Ward, Co-Founder, West Desert HEAL, FAIR
Moderator: Luke Peterson
6:30-9 PM, CS 404 January 24
Islam & the Western World Discussion Series
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with numerous campus organizations) 

January 25
Third Annual Medical Ethics Symposium:
Moral Dimensions of Reproductive Choices
9 AM-1:50 PM, Ragan Theater February 6
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Omar Kader, President, Planning and Learning Technologies
" Muhammad: Prophet of Islam"
7-8:30 PM, SC 206c (reception begins at 6:30 PM)

 
February 8
Student Book Discussion Group (discussion led by David Keller):
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
11-11:50 AM, SC206g & SC206h 

February 11
Faculty Bookgroup (discussion led by Kim Gunter):
Audry Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
3-4:30 PM, SC206c 

February 12
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society)

 
February 14
Symposium on Ethics and Journalism
8:30 AM-2:15 PM, CS 404
(Organized by Roger Gunn, Ethics Across the Curriculum Fellow)

 
February 20
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Paul Bybee, Associate Professor of Physical Science, UVSC
“ The New T-Rex"
12-12:50 PM, SC 206c
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies Program)

 
February 21
Islam & the Western World Discussion Series
“ Islam and Pluralism: Contrary or Compatible?"
10-11:15 AM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with numerous campus organizations) 

February 26
Screening of the History Channel documentary:
" The True Story of Blackhawk Down"
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, Ragan Theater
Comments by Lieutenant Dan Shilling
1-2:15 PM, Ragan Theater February 26
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society)  

February 28
The Beaver Trilogy
A film by Trent Harris
7-9 PM, CS 404  

March 6
Lucy Lippard, Author and Art Critic
" Art and The Landscape"
9-11:30 AM, 1-2:50 PM
Ragan Theater
(Organized by Nancy Rushforth) March 6
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Lucy Lippard, Author and Art Critic
" Brinckerhoff Jackson, Art and the Landscape"
7-8:30 PM, SC 206c (reception begins at 6:30 PM) 

March 8
Student Book Discussion Group (discussion led by David Keller):
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
11-11:50 AM, AD 212 March 12
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society) 

March 13
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Phil Gordon, Assistant Professor of Communication, UVSC:
" 'Common Sense' about the Exxon Valdez: The Culture of an Oil Spill"
12-12:50 PM, SC 206c
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies Program)

 
March 20
Faculty Bookgroup (discussion led by Laura Hamblin):
Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell
3-4:30 PM, SC 206g & SC 206h 

March 21
Jon Crane, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
“ Keeping It Real: The Ethics of Cultural Production and Verisimilitude"
10-11:15 AM, CS 404
(Organized by Phil Gordon)

 March 21
Faculty Brownbag Lunch:
Jon Crane, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
" Theories and Methods of Cultural Analysis"
12-12:50 PM, BU 238
(Organized by Phil Gordon) 

March 21
Islam & the Western World Discussion Series
“ The Contributions of Islam to the Western Intellectual Tradition"
1-2:15 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with numerous campus organizations)

 
March 25
Annual Mormon Studies Conference:
Conference on Mormon Philosophy
9 AM-4:50 PM, SC 206a 

March 26
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society) 

April 2
Fifteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Environmental Studies: Understanding the Human Place in Nature
Richard Ingebretsen, President, Glen Canyon Institute
Draining Lake Powell and the Restoration of Glen Canyon
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, CS 404
Zack Frankel, Director, Utah Rivers Council
Laurie Packard
Just One Dam Minute: A film by Laurie Packard
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, CS 404 (box lunches provided)
Gaylon Cook
1-2:15 PM, CS 404 

April 3
Second Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference and
Fifteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Environmental Studies: Understanding the Human Place in Nature
9 AM-2:50 PM, Ragan Theater
(Co-sponsored with the UVSC Philosophy Club)

 
April 3
Faculty Bookgroup (discussion led by the author):
David Rothenberg, Sudden Music
3-4:30 PM, SC 215 

April 3
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
David Rothenberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of Technology
" Arne Naess: Philosopher, Mountaineer, Deep Ecologist"
7-8:30 PM, SC 206c (reception begins at 6:30 PM) 

April 4
First Annual Wasatch Philosophy Conference and the
Second Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference:Self-Knowledge
10 AM-2:15 PM, CS 404
(Co-Sponsored with the University of Utah Department of Philosophy and UVSC Philosophy Club) 

April 5
First Annual Wasatch Philosophy Conference:Self-Knowledge
University of Utah
(Co-Sponsored with the University of Utah Department of Philosophy) 

April 9
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 PM, CS 404
(Co-sponsored with the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society) 

April 10
John Frohnmayer, Lawyer, Author, Ethicist
" The Politics of Art Censorship"
11-11:50 AM, SC206a
Lunch with the Faculty
12-12:50 PM, SC 215
(Organized by Barbara Wardle; Co-sponsored with the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence)

 
May 6-10
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
The Ethics of Ecology
Visiting Scholar: J. Baird Callicott, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas at Denton
1-4 PM, SC 206c