Co-Sponsored Event: Trapped Film Screening

Trapped is an award winning documentary about the Targeted Regulations on Abortion Providers and how clinics have been fighting to continue providing access to folks seeking an abortion despite these TRAP laws. Come enjoy a FREE screening on Thursday 9/22 at 6:00PM at the State Theatre (130 W. College Ave. State College, PA) Co-Sponsored by Planned Parenthood Generation Action, Planned Parenthood Keystone, The Rock Ethics Institute, Center for Women Students, and UPAC Co-Sponsored Event: Trapped Film Screening - Read More…

Co-Sponsored Event: Moral Progress and Social Transformation

Annual Lippin Lectureship in Ethics - How should we distribute educational goods?': some thoughts about theory and practice

The 2016 Lippin Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Harry Brighouse (Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison) and will focus on educational justice. Dr. Brighouse will discuss his current research relating to egalitarian educational justice, childhood, and education reform. Annual Lippin Lectureship in Ethics - How should we distribute educational goods?': some thoughts about theory and practice - Read More…

Rock Colloquia Series: Ethical literacy across health and healthcare: What might it look like? How do we get there?

Citizen and patient involvement is increasingly promoted as a way to attain sustainable health and quality healthcare. This strategy is acknowledged to pose many practical challenges and to require improved rates of health literacy. Less discussed, is that involvement initiatives across health also present patients, citizens and policy makers with complex, dynamic ethical challenges that require greater ethics literacy and debate if they are to be addressed effectively. The presentation will, by drawing on examples such as childhood vaccination, stigma and ‘vaping’, examine what an ‘engaging’ health ethic might look like and the developments that are needed to attain it. Rock Colloquia Series: Ethical literacy across health and healthcare: What might it look like? How do we get there? - Read More…

Rock Colloquia Series: Is the Cyborg-Athlete “Just around the Corner?” Or is it “Just Here?” A Tentative Approach to the Debate on the Definition of the Cyborg

Abstract: In this paper, I provide an overview of the debate on the definition of the cyborg. In so doing, I identify two sides in the debate: the continuist approach and the exceptionalist approach. The latter regards the cyborg as a fiction being who has never existed, whereas the former conceives of the cyborg as a being that exists in our world. Then, I identify the main proponents of both approaches: first, in the philosophy in general and second, in the philosophy of sport. This overview is the foundational work for addressing the question of whether or not athletes should be regarded as cyborg. Rock Colloquia Series: Is the Cyborg-Athlete “Just around the Corner?” Or is it “Just Here?” A Tentative Approach to the Debate on the Definition of the Cyborg - Read More…

Rock Colloquia Series: Gazan Refugee Children’s Media Uses: Implications for Establishing a Children, Youth, Media and Conflict Zone Lab at Penn State

Responding to research about children and media that has emphasized an analysis of the effects or interpretation by children living in peace zones of fictive violence, nascent literature about children, media and conflict, has instead emphasized an analysis of the effects or interpretation by children living in peace zones of non-fiction violence, or news. In this brownbag I discuss alternative conceptions for the analysis of children, media and conflict based on research I conducted with Palestinian children. Rock Colloquia Series: Gazan Refugee Children’s Media Uses: Implications for Establishing a Children, Youth, Media and Conflict Zone Lab at Penn State - Read More…

Job Talk - Forcing Sex: Violence, Ethics, and South African Masculinities

TEDxPSU - Everyday Ethics: The Significance of Ethics in Our Daily Lives

TEDxPSU: Drive Y(our) Reality - The full event will be streamed at http://www.tedxpsu.com/ TEDxPSU - Everyday Ethics: The Significance of Ethics in Our Daily Lives - Read More…

Boundaries: A Seminar with Rosi Braidotti

This seminar will discuss Rosi Braidotti's work in depth, including what she presents during her public lecture. Attendees will receive a variety of readings prior to the seminar. If you are interested in attending this seminar, please RSVP by emailing arts-humanities@psu.edu. Boundaries: A Seminar with Rosi Braidotti - Read More…

The Contested Posthumanities

This public lecture is presented by Penn State's Institute for the Arts & Humanities. During this lecture, Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, will defend the productivity of a posthuman future for the humanities, accounting for the tensions of our times in a grounded manner without being reductive and critical while avoiding negativity. The Contested Posthumanities - Read More…