Co-Sponsorship: Into the Abode of Death Crossing the Empty Quarter

Introduction by Kathleen Ridolfo, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Centre, Washington D.C. Evans will describe his 49-day, 1300km journey, accompanied by two fellow Omani explorers, last winter on foot and by camel across the world’s biggest sand desert, tracing Bertram Thomas’ first and only previous crossing in 1930. Evans also will talk about his experiences of starting the first Outward Bound School in the Middle East and building three residential outdoor centers Co-Sponsorship: Into the Abode of Death Crossing the Empty Quarter - Read More…

Co-Sponsorship: Guest Speaker MARK EVANS, MBE

Mark Evans, MBE is the Executive Director of Outward Bound Oman, the first Outward Bound school in the Arab world. He is Patron of the Andrew Croft Memorial Fund, a fellow of The Explorers Club, and the founder of Connecting Cultures, an educational initiative endorsed by UNESCO that uses the desert wilderness to bring future leaders together on journeys of intercultural dialogue. Connecting Cultures was cited by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations as one of the world’s leading civil society initiatives Co-Sponsorship: Guest Speaker MARK EVANS, MBE - Read More…

Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture - AI and a Future Worth Wanting: How to Harmonize Machine and Human Values

Co-Sponsorship - Human Rights Around the Globe: Flourishing or Failing?

Rock Ethics Institute Colloquia Series: Student Fellows Presentations

Join us this year's undergraduate and graduate student fellows give short presentations outlining their ongoing research projects. Rock Ethics Institute Colloquia Series: Student Fellows Presentations - Read More…

Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Eleanor Brown, The Blacks Who Got Their 40 Acres

The Richard B. Lippin Lecture Series: Moral Development in the Context of Group Games

Group games are a vital aspect of constructivist early education, providing opportunities for academic learning (e.g., number, logical reasoning, spatial reasoning, literacy) as well as social and moral development. Dr. Hildebrandt will discuss the comparative benefits of cooperative and competitive games, and the importance of allowing children to create and regulate their own games within democratic, constructivist classrooms. The Richard B. Lippin Lecture Series: Moral Development in the Context of Group Games - Read More…

An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From Death Penalty Reform to Prison Abolition

In Derrida’s lectures on the death penalty, the United States figures as “both exemplary and exceptional.” Derrida acknowledges the racist structure of state violence in the United States, and he cites data and specific cases to support this point, but he does not develop a critical analysis of race or racism in the lecture series. Drawing on the work of incarcerated intellectual Mumia Abu-Jamal, critical race theorists Cheryl Harris and Angela Davis, and contemporary prison abolitionists, I argue that racism is an issue, not only in the particular context of the United States, but also for the logic of the death penalty that Derrida proposes to deconstruct. Derrida’s own account of indemnity, interest, and condemnation in the Tenth Session is incomplete without a supplementary analysis of black civil death and the construction of whiteness as property. In conclusion, I argue that an abolitionism worthy of the name would have to move beyond the death penalty, towards the (im)possible project of prison abolition and the abolition of white supremacy. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From Death Penalty Reform to Prison Abolition - Read More…

Sport Ethics Conference

Join us at the Sport Ethics Conference to engage in a discussion on the integration of ethics into sports organizations and practices. Penn State sport practitioners and administrators will raise issues and ethical concerns that they face in their day-to-day engagement in sport. To help navigate the issues and concerns in a more ethically sound manner, world leading sport ethicist will provide a critical analysis of them. The following are some of the topics that will be explored: athletes’ role modeling, the pedagogical potential of sport participation, the environmental impact of sport events organization, and the commercialization of sport. Sport Ethics Conference - Read More…

Queer Green Sex Objects

A Rock Co-sponsored Event. Queer Green Sex Objects - Read More…