Events

In cooperation with the Science and Technology Studies program at Virginia Tech, the Center is sponsoring the Fourth Annual Southeastern Ethics and Philosophy of Technology (SEPOT) conference on Sept. 29, at the Center City building in Charlotte.  The schedule is here. 

Please join us for the annual Ethics Center Breakfast on Wed. Sept. 12, 7:30-9:00, Cone 112! We’ll have our annual opportunity to reconnect with one another, as well as announcements and discussion about Center programming for the upcoming year.  We’re very excited about some of what we’ve been able to line up, including a series on […]

“Biohacking” refers most broadly to self-help or DIY efforts by people to modify the functioning of their bodies, with goals of improved health or improved physical and mental performance.  The term has been appropriated by advocates of everything from nutritional supplements to quantified-self technologies (like FitBits) to cyborg-style implants to attempts to modify one’s own […]

Few topics in current discourse are either more deeply contested or more immediately morally relvant than immigration, as the Trump administration pursues a vision for immigration that is sharply different from the last fifty years of policy.  Currently proposed changes range from radically increased efforts to prevent border crossings; to ending the DACA program designed […]

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Half-day conference for Social Work Professionals; earn 4 CEU’s for attending.  Topic include Review of New Code of Ethics, Advanced Care Planning, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking.  Registration $50, now open – click here!

Of potential interest… The Philosophy Department will host Dr. Perry Zurn for a colloquium on “The Ethics and Politics of Curiousity:” See the flyer here (pdf or png)

Of potential interest… The Witness in Residence Initiative will host a  conversation about the death penalty with Henderson Hill, executive director of the national organization 8th Amendment Project. Hill, previously a criminal defense and civil rights attorney with Ferguson Stein Chambers in Charlotte, also is the founder and first director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham. Hill […]

Mary Anne Franks, Prof. of Law, University of Miami, presents: “STOPPING REVENGE PORN“ PUBLIC LECTURE, MON. MARCH 26, 2018, CONE 210, 2:00-3:30. Nonconsensual pornography is a massive problem: according to a recent study, 1 in 8 social media users in America has been victimized by threats or posts of private, sexually explicit images without their permission. With the click […]