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Past Events

 

Workshops, colloquia, symposia, and conferences in support of the Center's mission.

Recent past events include the following:


Saturday, November 10, 2007

Symposium: "How Should Jacksonville Adapt to Climate Change?"

Keynote: Stephen Mulkey, Department of Botany, UF

Panelists: Community leaders, academics, and UNF students

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/symposium2007.htm

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Religious Studies Colloquium

Topic: “The Impossibility of Religious Freedom”

Speaker: Dr. Winnifred Sullivan
Associate professor of law
Director of the law and religion program
University at Buffalo Law School
State University of New York

Presented by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions in conjunction with the Program in Religious Studies.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Topic: Ethics and the Neurosciences

Speaker: Paul J. Ford
Associate Staff (Bioethics) The Cleveland Clinic
Assistant Professor, Lerner College of Medicine

Tuesday, February 27th 2007

Topic: "How to perform a clinical ethics consultation"

Speaker: Sheila Otto, RN, BSN, MA
Director Ethics Consult Service
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Alden March Bioethics Institute
Albany Medical Center

Friday, November 3nd, 2006

Topic: Normative and Non-Normative Readings of Freedom as Non-Demonination

Speaker: Dr. M. Victoria Costa
Associate Professor, FSU

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Topic: Can There Be Color Concepts Without Any Colors?

Speaker: Dr. Joshua Gert
Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, FSU

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Topic: Civil Society and Corporate Integrity

Speaker: Marvin Brown
Consultant in Business Ethics
Lecturer, Philosophy, University of San Francisco

October 19 - 20, 2006

Conference: Ethical Aspects of Urban Development in Northeast Florida

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/2006-conference-program.htm

Conference sponsored by UNF Ethics Center and UNF Environmental Center

March 2nd, 2006

Topic: "Other Rough Treatment: From Dirty Harry to Guantanamo Bay"

Speaker: Michael Davis
Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Professor of Philosophy at the Illinois Institure of Technology

February 8, 2006

Topic: "Informed Consent"

Speaker: Bonnie Steinbock
Fellow, Hastings Center and Professor of Philosophy
Suny University at Albany

November 3, 2005

Topic: "The Changing Ethics of Life and Death"

Speaker: Peter Singer
Ira w. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics with the
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

January 27, 2005

Topic: "Physician-assisted Suicide"

Speaker: Dr. Tom Beauchamp
Professor of philosophy and a senior research scholar
Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics

Co-sponsored by the Distinguished Voices Lecture Series
Inquiry & Insight Lecture Committee

January 19, 2005

Topic: Art in Context: Bridging the Gap Between High and Low Art

Speaker: Dr. David Fenner, UNF Associate Professor of Philosophy

Dr. Fenner
discussed issues arising out of modern art, architecture, dance, imagination, and religion.

He recently completed a sabbatical project entitled Art in Context, wherein he argues for contextualism – the position that considering relevant contextual features of works of art is important – and against formalism – the position that the only legitimate means of experiencing and evaluating artworks is through concentration on the object’s intrinsic properties in abstraction from all external or instrumental factors.

January 18, 2005

Topic: Buddhist Ethics

September 23, 2004

Topic: Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research

Speaker: Dr. Ronnie Hawkins
Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Central Florida

Dr. Hawkins lectured on current ethical issues in stem cell research. Her research interests are primarily in environmental philosophy and bioethics. She has specialized in this area since 1994 after completing her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Florida. Dr. Hawkins has also earned her M.D. from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Zoology from Ohio State University. Dr. Hawkins completed the Anatomic Pathology residency at Yale University School of Medicine.

October 16, 2003

Topic: Ethics in Education Symposium

Speaker: Dr. Gerald Bracey, George Mason University

Has the State of Florida failed in its legal obligation to "make adequate provision for the education of all children residing within its borders... by law for... a high quality system... that allows students to obtain a high quality education" (Article IX of the State of Florida constitution)? 
How would we know?

April 10, 2003

Bioethics Lecture

Topic: Why You Should Care about the Protection of Human Research Subjects

Speaker: Dr. George Agich
F. J. O'Neill Chair in Clinical Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20030410_agich.htm

April 3 - 4, 2003

James S. Kemper Lecture Series and Symposium

Topic: Globalization and Business Ethics

Speaker: Dr. David Crocker

Web site: Globalization and Business Ethics

March 13, 2003

Eugenics Lecture

Topic: The Black Stork: Can the New Genomic Escape the Legacy of the Old Eugenics?

Speaker: Dr. Rosemarie Tong
Distinguished Professor in Health Care Ethics
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20030313_tong.htm

January 16-17, 2003

Globalization and Business Ethics

James S. Kemper Lecture Series and Symposium

Topic: Ethics, Accountability, and Globalization

Speaker: Dr. Richard DeGeorge, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20021107_bus.htm

November 7-8, 2002

Globalization and Business Ethics

James S. Kemper Lecture Series and Symposium

Topic: Is There An Ethical Fix for American Business?

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Donaldson, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20021107_bus.htm

April 4, 2002

Faith-Based Initiatives Symposium

Topic: Ethics, Public Policy, and Faith-Based Initiatives

Speaker: Dr. Mary S. Seger, Political Sciences, Rutgers University

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20020404_faith.htm

March 26, 2002

Health Care Symposium

Topic: Ethical Issues in Organ Transplants for Patients Infected with HIV

Speakers: Dr. Gavin Divertie and Dr. Chris Hughes
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20020326_transpla.htm

February 15, 2002

Philosophy Colloqium Lecture

Topic: Ethics and Sociobiology

Speaker: Dr. Vittorio Höesle, University of Notre Dame

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20020215_hoesle.htm

February 6, 2002

Religious Studies Speaker Series

Topic: Beyond Dr. Dobson: Women, Girls, and Focus on the Family

Speaker: Dr. Colleen McDannell, University of Utah

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20020206_cmcdan.htm

October 25, 2001

Open House Talks

Topic: September 11 and Its Aftermath: Perspectives from Philosophy and Religious Studies

Speakers: Talks from the Dept of Philosophy/Ethics Center Open House

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20011025_openhouse.htm

September 25, 2001

Bioethics Discussion

Topic: When the Born and the Unborn Collide - Lives and Rights at Risk

Speakers: Open Forum / Panel Discussion

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20010925_abortion.htm

September 13, 2001

Amnesty International Lecture

Topic: In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All

Speaker: Dr. William Schultz, Executive Director, Amnesty International

Web site: http://www.unf.edu/dept/ceppp/Events/20010913_Schultz.htm


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