Ethics Center Events Spring 2003

January 9
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Matthew Horn, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
" Ultrafast Spectroscopy: How a Billionth of a Second Becomes an Infinity of Time"
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, CS 404 (box lunches provided)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies Program)  

January 21
Faculty Bookgroup (discussion led by Samuel H. Pieh, Founder and President of Mid South [USA] Africa Link):
Howard Jones, Mutiny on the Amistad
3-4:30 PM, SC 206c January 23
Fourth Annual Medical Ethics Symposium:
The Ethical Dimensions of Health Care
10 AM-2:15 PM, CS 404 January 28
Religious Studies Brownbag Lecture
Peter Gardella, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
" Academic Fantasies of Religious Pluralism"
11:30 a.m.-12:45 PM, CS404 (box lunches provided)

 
January 31
Palestinian Ambassador Lecture and Panel Discussion
H.E. Dr. Nasser Al-Kidwa
Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
1:00-3:00 PM, CS404
Co-sponsored with the Butler Institute for International Understanding 

February 5
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Bruce Parker, Professor of Biology, UVSC
" Darwin and Evolutionary Law"
7-8:30 PM, SC 213b
Reception begins at 6:30 PM February 13
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Mark Jeffreys, Associate Professor of Integrated Studies and Anthropology
" Love, War, and Insurance in Human Evolution"
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, CS 404 (box lunches provided)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies Program) 

February 19
Faculty Bookgroup (discussion led by ):
3-4:30 PM, SC 206a February 21-22
Annual Mormon Studies Conference:
Passing the Portals: Mormon Literature in the Twenty-First Century
February 21-South Presidential Suite (8:00 AM-6:00 PM)
February 22-CS 404 (8:00 AM-6:00 PM)
(Co-sponsored by the Association for Mormon Letters) 

March 5
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Brenda Scheer, Dean, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah
" Jane Jacobs on the Death and Life of American Cities"
7-8:30 PM, SC 213b
Reception begins at 6:30 PM March 13
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Utah Valley State College Dance Faculty
" A Trio of Dancers"
11:30 AM-12:45 PM, CS 404 (box lunches provided)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies Program) 

March 19
Faculty Bookgroup (discussion led by ):
3-4:30 PM, SC206a March 25
Religious Studies Brownbag Discussion
Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia
" Jewish Material Culture"
11:30 AM-12:45 PM (box lunches provided)
SC 206a 

(CANCELED)April 2
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Michael Zimmerman, Attorney at Law, Snell & Wilmer
7-8:30 PM, SC 213b 
Reception begins at 6:30 PM April 3
Sixteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference
" All Used Up and Nowhere to Glow: Storing Nuclear Waste in Utah"
8:30AM-1:45PM, CS404 April 9
Religious Studies Brownbag Discussion
Lemond Tullis, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Brigham Young University
" Schismatic Religious Movements: The Case for the Third Convention on Mexico"
1:00 - 2:00
Location: TBA April 11
Luiz Jimenez
" Title"
1-1:50 PM, BU 112
(Co-Sponsored with the Woodbury Art Gallery)

 
April 17
Guest Lecture
William Meinecke
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
More information forthcoming May 5-9
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
" Sustainability in Theory and Practice"
Lisa Newton, Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University
1-4 PM, SC 213b