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Rock Colloquia Series - "Online Manipulation" - Daniel Susser
Rock Colloquia Series - Elizabeth Tuttle
Ethics of Policing Conference
Rock Colloquia Series - Sarah Rajtmajer
Restorative Justice Event: "Cries Without an Echo: Mass Incarceration, The Trauma of Prison and the Transformative Power of Art" Ellen Kaplan
Rock Colloquia Series - Student Fellows
The 57th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP57)
Rock Colloquia Series – Désirée Lim
"Dislocation Beyond War’s End: First World War, Armistice, and After" International Colloquium on the Occasion of the Armistice Centenary
Rock Colloquia Series - Elizabeth Ransom
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The Intersex and Trans Invention of Gender: On Children's Self-Determination
Gender and Sex Equity Initiative Speaker Series: The Clinic and Elsewhere "Curiosity, Ethics, and the Medical Management of Intersex Bodies"
The Clinic and Elsewhere Speaker Series: Aren Aizura, "Hell Holes or Saviors: Transnational Visions of Southeast Asian Trans Surgery"
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Bioethics Without Borders
Ethics, Indifference, and Social Concern
Food Ethics
Gender and Climate Change Virtual Seminar
Global Approaches to Intersectionality
The Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture
Health as a Human Right
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Research Ethics
The Richard B. Lippin Lectureship in Ethics
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The Waterbury Lecture
Who Owns Our Species?
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Should we mandate vaccination for your doctor, you and your children?
Masking the Meaningful
Africa and Slavery in Context
Africans in the Americas and African Americans in Africa: the Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in the 21st Century
Alain Locke's "New Negro" and the New Negroes: Of False Manifestoes and Canon Formation
Institutionalized Children - The Medical Community's Guinea Pigs of Choice during the 20th Century
Altarities: Contemporary Chicana Art, Politics, and Spirituality
"Always" Low Wages! The High Cost of Wal-Mart
An Afternoon with Peter Matthiessen (a reading)
An Anti-Citizenship Polemic: Immigration, Identity, and Resistance
Apocalyptic Narratives
Beautiful Souls: Seminar 2
Beautiful Souls: Seminar 3
Beautiful Souls: Seminar 1
Beautiful Souls: Seminar 4
Beauty Below the Surface: Artistic Intentions
Suspecting Child Abuse: Challenges and Guidance
Biodiversity at 25: An Argument for a Critical Understanding of the Normative Role of Biodiversity
Biomedicine in the Atomic Age: The U.S. AEC's Radioisotope Distribution Program
Biosocial Relations of Production: The Bio-Graphies of Body Parts
Black Nuns in Europe: From Slavery to the Convent (and Sanctity)
Driving Speedway Boulevard: A Case Study of the Made World
Constructing Competence: Autism, Voice and the "Disordered" Body
Emerging Moral Minds: The Development of Moral Judgments In Early Childhood
Engaging Latina/o America Reception
Establishing a Native American Genetic Research Program: The Role of the International Biological Program
Ethical Responsibility and Globalization
Ethics and Taboos of War
Evacuating Wounded Heroes: The Technical Logic of Industrialized War
Feminist Philosophy in South America
"Fixing" the Weather and Climate for Civilian and Military Purposes
Food Ethics Lecture Series
Building an Ethical Learning Community in Swedish Schools: Bridging School Practice and Educational Research
Brown Bag Lunch
CANCELLED - Forever Small: Disabled Minds and Altered Bodies
Citizens' Healthcare Working Group: Big Ten Conference
"Climate Change, Climate Justice: Lessons from Copenhagen" a panel discussion
Climate, Resources, and Slavery in the Americas since 1400
Cognitive Liberty: What is the Future of Freedom of Thought in the Age of Neurocops, Brain Fingerprinting, Memory Management Drugs, and Hypersonic Sound?
Cognitive Science, Disability, and Selfhood: A Conversation with Novelist Richard Powers
From Invisibility to Regulation: Southern Workers, Western Eyes
From Racism to Race and Back: The Strange Career of a Historical Crime
Colonialism, Capitalism, Gender and Informal Sector Work
Genes, Food and Cultural Diversity: Why Some Like It Hot
GMO Panel: What broader ethical issues relate to and conflict with issues of Food Safety and Security?
Conference–Implanting Change: The Ethics of Neural Prosthetics
Getting Lost: Feminism Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science
Conference–Islam and Bioethics: concerns, challenges and responses
Global Warming: Equine Emissions, Ethics, and Opportunities
Conference–Untangling Selfhood: The History and Experience of Alzheimer's Disease
Gut Feelings: Neurology, Psychoanalysis and the Stomach
Conference—Articulating Africana Philosophy
Health and Human Rights No Longer a Question: Moving from Concepts to Action
Health Care Reform: A Medical Emergency
Health Disparities, Bioethics, and Justice
Conference—Educating for Sustainability
Conference—Integrating Development and Climate Change Ethics
Conference—Stewardship or Sacrifice? Religion and the Ethics of Climate Change
From Biopower to Infopower: Toward a Genealogy of Contemporary Political Conduct
From Ethics to Action
From Imperial to Dialogical Cosmopolitanism: Humility, Solidarity, Patience
What Makes Food Good? The Terrain of Food Ethics and the Agrarian Tradition
Health Informatics
Homo sapiens 2007: Primate Senses, Technology, and the Meaning of Humanness
How Are We To Live Our Lives? An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith
Human Molecular Genetics and the Subject of Race: Contrasting the Rhetoric with the Practices in Law and Medicine
HYBRID VIGOR: Mixing Science and Fiction, Splicing Politics with Poetics, and Crossbreeding Points of View
Identities as Embodied Horizons
Institutional Corruption
International Research Ethics: Experiences of researchers and participants in the field, and moving forward with ethics training
International Symposium: The Self as Scientific and Political Project in the Twentieth Century: The Human Sciences Between Utopia and Reform
Invisible Identities, Social Blindness, and Irresponsible Ignorance
After Lipman: A Developmental K-6 Ethics Curriculum
2015 Moral Literacy Colloquium
Freedom Panel
Frantz Fanon Symposium, "The Wretched of the Earth: 50 Years Later"
Forty Acres in the 21st Century: Reparations for Black America
Forget Memory: Imagining the Self after Memory Loss
Conflict and Health: Protecting Civilians and the New Wars
Configuring User Identity
A House for the Senses
"Freedom is a good thing but it means a dearth of slaves": Twentieth Century Solutions to the Abolition of Slavery
The Right to Information Access
Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies Program, University of Kentucky
Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
Distinguished Professor in Health Care Ethics, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
National Institute of Mental Health
Revisiting the American Dilemma after the Cold War
Disability and Democracy
Caring for the Vulnerable by Caring for the Caregiver: The Case of Mental Retardation
Disability and the Holocaust: a History Revealed–a Film and Panel Discussion
About Faces and Disability
The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon
The Necessity of Looking to Nature as Measure
War and Terrorism
Sports Ethics
Child's Play: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
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Live from the Afrikan Resistance!
The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois's 'The Conservation of Races'
Speechless: The Language of Existentialism
Contemporary African Feminism: At the Intersection of Neocolonialism and Postcoloniality
Continued Notes from a Medium Brown Girl
Creation Narratives
Critical Philosophy of Race Symposium
Critical Race Feminism: A Legal Approach to Questions of Race and Gender
Deadly Medicine: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Deadly Medicine: German Doctors and the Nazi State
"Defectives" at the Fair: Constructing Disability at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair
Democracy Institute Roundtable
Difference, Disability, and a Biological Basis for Social Justice
Disability and Democracy
Disability and the Holocaust: a History Revealed--a Film and Panel Discussion
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Do No Harm? Medicine and Ethics on the Anniversary of the Nazi Doctors’ Trial
Phenomenology and the Politics of Love - Hegel and Levinas in Discussion
Is Ethical Capitalism an Oxymoron?
Jihad and Islamic History
Jihad: Holy War, Just War, or Terrorism?
When We Dance…Mapping the Systemic Ethical Implications of the Research University’s Relationships with Industry
Journalism, War, and Ethics
Keeping Time: Genes, Wives, and History in Yanomami Blood Collections and the Debates about Them
Knowing Ecologically: Remapping the Epistemic Terrain
Latino Spin: The Battle over Latinos' Public Image
Lost For Life Screening
Lost in Translation? Black Feminism, Social Justice and Intersectionality
Love in the War Years: A Reading
Making Money in the Caribbean: Slavery and Aristocratic Wealth
Manifestations of Interconnectedness in (Southern?) African Philosophy
Meditating on Disability
Research Integrity: Individual Decisions, Global Concerns
"Mexican" for a Decade: Science, Racialization, and the Politics of Classification in the 1930 U.S. Census
Modern Living: Death and Genealogy in Foucault and Lyotard
Moral Decency: An Aspiration for Educational Leadership
Morality, Ethics, and Digital Life
'Natural’s Not In It': Music, Politics, and Social Identity in Nietzsche and Rousseau
Nazi Medicine and the Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial
Ordering Nature, Ordering the Polity: The Case of the Human Genome Diversity Project
Pain in Fish: Should This Influence How We Handle and Harvest Them?
Participatory Ethics: Building a Bridge between Disability and Professional Ethics
Partners In Health: From Haiti to Rwanda
Penn State Reads: Beautiful Souls Book Discussion
Personalized Nutrition: Ethical and Regulatory Aspects
Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI)
Philosophy, Subjectivity and Racial Identity: The Janus-Face of Philosophy
Poststructuralist Lines of Flight: Working with "Data" in Multiple Contexts
Preliminary Reflections on the Ethics of Disasters
Preserving the Promise of Genomics: A Civil Rights Route to Protection from Genetic Discrimination
Privacy as Contextual Integrity
SRPoiSE Second Annual Meeting
Slaves' Claims to Family and Property in the Southern Gold Coast and the U.S. South
Slavery's Expansion in the Age of Emancipation: West Africa and the U.S. in the 19th Century
Should we mandate vaccination for your doctor, you and your children?
Screening of An Inconvenient Truth, immediately followed by a discussion with Penn State climate scientists
Science, Values, and Environmental Politics: Probing the Limits of Objectivity
Rethinking Slave Emancipation in the United States
Responsible Science
Remembering Enslavement: Ghana Memories of the Slave Trade
Reimagining Aesthetic Experience and Beauty
Redesigning Ourselves, Engineering Our Children: Knowing When to Stop
Re-Culturing the Land: Writers of Color on Nature and the Wild
Racial and Ethnic Complexities in US American Life: Implications for African-Americans
"Race," Genomics, and Health
Public Health Preparedness, Disease Control, and Social Justice
Suspecting Child Abuse: Challenges and Guidance
Beyond Medicine: Meeting the Challenge of Alzheimer's Today
Beauty Below the Surface: Artistic Intentions
Beautiful Souls: Seminar 4
African American Lives: Searching for Our Identity
Adaptation Issues in the Climate Change Regime
About Faces and Disability
A Tale of Four Hungers
A PIKSI Presentation
A Panther in Africa
A Feminist Social Justice Approach to Reproductive Technologies: A Case Study in the Limits of Liberal Theory
A Celebration of Letters
The Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture on Science, Technology, and Society
6th Annual Moral Literacy Colloquium
5th Annual Moral Literacy Colloquium
Global Echoes of Rape and Resistance
18th Annual Values and Leadership Conference
17th Annual Values & Leadership Conference
16th Annual Values & Leadership Conference
Workshop: Race in Africa
Workshop: Ethics of Genetically Modified Organisms (G.M.O.’s): Food Security vs. Environmental Impact
Whose Stories? Testimony and Testifying on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Whose Media is It? A Media Issues, Activism, and Policy Symposium
Why are HIV rates so high in Africa? And what does this have to do with human rights?
Witnessing Ethics
Women on the Frontlines: Rethinking War Narrative Post 9/11
Working it Out? Welfare Policies and Poor Single-Mother Families
A Game-based Experiential Approach to Teaching Professional Ethics
A Conversation with Meave Leakey
Who Owns the Past? An Archaeologist Looks at Stakeholders, Tourism, and Cultural HeritageThis lecture is part of the Who Owns Our Species? Past, Present, Future Lecture Series.
Who Owns the Bones? Pondering the Ethical Issues Surrounding the Recovery and Display of Ancient Human Remains
Who Cares? Why We Need a New Social Contract
Who Acts? Reflections on Identity, Selfhood, and Autonomous Agents
A Return to (Real) Metaphysics
Industry Sponsorship and Health-Related Food Research: Institutional Integrity, Ethical Challenges, and Policy Implications
Privilege, Power, and Pharmaceuticals: Medical Research in a New Era
Sham Health Care Reforms: The Ethics of Health Policy Placebos
Universal Health Care in Action: A Thought Experiment
Health Care Reform: A Medical Emergency
Cheap and Available: The American Medical and Pharmaceutical Community’s Love Affair with Prison Inmates
The Transformation of Women's Health Care into Reproductive Medicine: A Cautionary Tale
Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense
Why We're Exposed and Others are Protected: The Ethics of Toxic Chemical Regulation
A Conversation with Mark Schapiro
Confronting Climate Instability: Health Consequences and Healthy Solutions
The Ethics of Food Choice: Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility
A Conversation with Marion Nestle
The Ethical Foundation of Addressing Scientific Conflict of Interest
The Guatemala STD Experiments: What they are, how they happened, and why they matter to you
Morality, Understanding of Intentionality, and Intergroup Attitudes
SRPoiSE Workshop
Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies
Strategic Morality
Educating for Moral Literacy
The CSLEE 19th Annual Values and Leadership Conference
The Ethics of Food Security
The Food Safety Modernization Act: Creating a Level Playing Field that Promotes Ethics in the Industry
The Human Face of Climate Change: Food, Faith and Other Necessities of Life
The Human Dimensions of Disaster
The Haplotype Map Project: Refiguring the Genome with Respect to Population (and Politics)
The Future of Bioethics: From the Microscope to the Macroscopic
The Ethics of Environmental Activism and Social Justice
The Ethics of "Brain Drain": Recruiting Healthcare Professionals from Abroad
The Best Health Care in the World?
Tax Justice and Injustice: The Politics of Citizenship, Ownership, and Responsibility
What Makes Food Good? The Terrain of Food Ethics and the Agrarian Tradition
Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Disability Life Writing
Thinking About Aesthetics
The Work of Friendship: Nurturing Manhood in the Great Migration
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of the Market Economy in West Africa
The Segregated Genome: Exploring the Intersections of Law, Commerce, and Race in Biotechnology
The Secular Sacred in Archaeological Preservation Ethics: Academic Enclosures, Chimpanzee Artifacts, and Conflicting Epistemologies of Loot
There’s Racism in Canada? Blackness, Race and Racism from a Canadian Perspective
Thinking Desire: Taking Perspectives Seriously
To Die For: Gender, Suicide, and Moral Personhood in a South Asian Village
Transnational Challenges: Reflecting on Local Feminism and the Development of Africa
Universal Design of the Built Environment: The New Paradigm
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
What's Wrong with Health Inequalities?
We're Here, We're Queer, and We've Got Heritage: Sex and Gender at Ellis Island
The Illegalities of Brownness
The Limits of Scientific Knowledge and the Ethics of Dietary Guidance
The Meaning of Modern Human Genetic Variation
The Rise, Retreat, and Revival of Human Rights in South Africa
The Scopes Monkey Trial: The Context for the Controversy
The Role and Value of Intercollegiate Athletics
The Racial Contract and Beyond
The Racial and Gender Dynamics of Being "Foreign" in America
The Nuremberg Medical Trial and the Origins of Informed Consent
The moving finger
The Nazis' Deadly Medicine: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead
My Travels in Scott-land
On the Idiom of the Ethical
Indifference, Description, Difference
Whatever is Hardest: Charles Scott’s Practice of Philosophy
Improper Times, or the Burden of Latin American Thought's Borders and Encroachments
Narrative as Trauma and Resilience: Charles Scott’s Living with Indifference
The Middle Voice of Charles Scott: The Intimacy of Attentiveness and the Life of Wonder
On Freedom in Another Sense
Bodily Being and Indifference
Gappiness in Dimensional Accounts
The Sense of Plain Things
Once Again: What's the Matter with 'Nature'?
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference, COP 17
"Gender and Climate Change: Women, Research, and Action" Conference
Sustainability Ethics Panel Discussion
Eleven Domains of Climate Ethics: Steps toward a Comprehensive Approach"
Conference - Sustainability Ethics
Environmental Ethics within a Framework of Communicative Action
Gender and Climate Change - Australia
Feminism, Economics, Values, and (the Lack of) U.S. Policy on Climate Change
Psychology and Climate Change
Adaptation, Justice, and Rights
Climate Change and Journalisms Practice: Ups and Downs
Institutions for Food Security: Global Insights from Rural India
Women's Work: Gendered Knowledge Production and Adaptation in Central Mexico
What Does It Mean To Adapt?: Gender, Climate Change, and Post-Conflict Transition in Nepal
A talk that is part of the Virtual Seminar Series
20th Annual CSLEE Values & Leadership Conference
Annual Lippin Lectureship in Ethics - How should we distribute educational goods?': some thoughts about theory and practice
Homer's Philosophy: The Vernaculars of the Humanum
Faculty Panel Discussion: Animality
Speaking Up and Out: How Pope Francis’ encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ has raised the volume on a moral response to climate change
Levinas: a merciless Ethics
Competencies vs. Credit Hours in Digital Badges
Food System Fragility and Resilience in the Aftermath of Disruption and Controversy
Workshop: Race and the Anthropocene
A Schilling Memorial Lecture - Natural Freedom: Human/Nature Nondualism in Japanese Thought
They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: Explaining the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later
The Form that Freedom Takes: Foucault, Ethics, and Governmentality
The Road Through the Paris Climate Agreement
Job Talk - Moral Development and Social Exclusion in Intergroup Contexts
Job Talk - Individual differences in moral judgment development: A social domain approach
Job Talk - Promoting Moral Development in Adolescence through Educational Interventions
The Contested Posthumanities
Boundaries: A Seminar with Rosi Braidotti
The Politics of Voice: Ethics and Narrative in Research
Co-Sponored Event: Film & Panel Discussion of "This Changes Everything"
Job Talk - Sodomy's Penumbra
Public Health Ethics: Implications for Research Integrity
Job Talk: Mothers, Daughters and Siblings: Ordinary Ethics and the Reconfiguration of Kinship Affinities in the Wake of Sexual Violence
Job Talk - Forcing Sex: Violence, Ethics, and South African Masculinities
2016 Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light Bike Trip to DC
PSU Research in Africa: Building Synergy within the Community
Rock Co-sponsored Event - We Shall Not Be Moved: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Job Talk - International Water and Food Security: Performance Evaluation and Assessment of Research Needs
TEDxPSU - Everyday Ethics: The Significance of Ethics in Our Daily Lives
Job Talk - The Global Food Trade System’s Impact on Local Water Sustainability
Idioms of Ethical Life: A Conference in Honor of the Work of Dr. Dennis J. Schmidt
Co-Sponsored Event: Moral Progress and Social Transformation
Job Talk: Technical and Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Flight
Job Talk: Interpersonal Autopilots: Developing Autonomous Drones which are Interactive, Intuitive, and Ethical
Job Talk: Decision making of autonomous systems in aerospace and automotive applications
Care vs. Autonomy: Nudging for Health and Relational Judgment in Reflective Professional Practice
Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems: Justice and Sustainability
A Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture: Big Data, Ethics, and Philosophy
The Richard B. Lippin Lecture Series: Moral Development in the Context of Group Games
Co-sponsored Event: 4th Annual Rural Studies Student Conference - Reconceptualizing Rural Contexts
Co-sponsored Event: African Feminisms around the World
Co-sponsored Event - Western Bombs, Eastern Societies: The Destruction of Nations and Responsibility to Protect
Co-Sponsored Event: Trapped Film Screening
Co-Sponsored Event: Beating Injustice: Police Killings, Mass Incarceration, and Making Real Change Happen Right Now
Rock Colloquia Series - Food Power and Food Ethics: Food Security in a Complex World
From Abode to Dissemination
Co-sponsored Event: Every 28 Hours
24th Annual Critical Theory Roundtable
Film Screening: "Tower"
Lecture & Panel Discussion: Privacy, Identity, and Online Literacy: A Three-Pronged Approach
Rock Colloquia Series: The Ethics of Yoga - Walt Whitman’s Spiritual Democracy
Film Screening & Panel Discussion: After Coal
Rock Colloquia Series: Gazan Refugee Children’s Media Uses: Implications for Establishing a Children, Youth, Media and Conflict Zone Lab at Penn State
Rock Colloquia Series: Positioning Penn State as a global leader in food and agricultural ethics scholarship: Research agendas, institutional capacities, and future pathways
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
Rock Colloquia Series: Ethical literacy across health and healthcare: What might it look like? How do we get there?
Virtual Interdisciplinary Research Symposium in Foodservice Decisions
Co-Sponsored Event - The Stuff of Fiction: The Rise of the Environmental Novel
Sport Ethics Conference
Making Good: Can We Realize Our Moral Aspirations?
Colloquium: Morality in Language
Rock Colloquia Series - Beyond White Privilege: Geographies of White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism
Job Talk - Migration, Social Movements, and the Right to Place
Job Talk - Just Borders: Place-Specific Duties and the Rights of Immigrants
Job Talk - The Injustice of the “Migrant Journey” to the United States
Co-Sponsored Event - Coffee Hour with Derek Alderman: MLK Streets as Unfinished Civil Rights Work: The Need for Counter-Storytelling in a Trump America
Caring Across Species: Cripping Animal Ethics
Right from Wrong: Creating Robots Which Learn How to Behave
An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From Death Penalty Reform to Prison Abolition
Job Talk - Queer Intimacies: Visualizing Black Lesbian Desire in Contemporary South Africa
Job Talk - Stripped to the Bone: Sequencing Queerness in the Comic Strip Work of Joe Brainard and David Wojnarowicz
Job Talk - Side Affects: Transnormativity, Eurocentricity, and the Necropolitics of Gender Transition
Rock Colloquia Series: Empathy is a choice - The limits of empathy are more apparent than real
Czech Turistika and Outdoor Education in Czech
What if you could walk to peace?
How do we learn peace?
Philosophy and Diversity: Implications and Questions for Education
Rock Colloquia Series: Developing Robots that Learn How to be Ethical
Job Talk - The economic impacts of large-scale water infrastructure improvements in urban Zarqa, Jordan
Job Talk - Global Grains: Feed, Food, and the World Economy
Job Talk - How much energy do we 'need'? Assessing the climate development conflict
Job Talk - Fishy Behavior: A Field Experiment on (Dis)honesty in the Marketplace
Job Talk - Eco Camp: Queer(ing) Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene
Queer Green Sex Objects
The End of All Things: A Phenomenology of Elemental Time
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Eleanor Brown, The Blacks Who Got Their 40 Acres
Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture - AI and a Future Worth Wanting: How to Harmonize Machine and Human Values
Rock Colloquia Series - Caitlin Grady International Water and Food Security: Performance Evaluation and Assessment of Research Needs
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Tim Balliett, Organizational Ethics of a Top 20 Public University: Challenges and Success
Are Machines Taking Over? How to Build Moral Artificial Intelligence
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Hilary Malatino, Rage, Rupture, Resilience: Trans Explorations of Negative Affect
Co-Sponsorship - Human Rights Around the Globe: Flourishing or Failing?
Co-Sponsorship - Public Conversation: Artists and Water
Co-Sponsorship - Locking up our Own: Crime and Punishment of Black America
Rock Ethics Institute Colloquia Series: Student Fellows Presentations
Co-Sponsorship: Guest Speaker MARK EVANS, MBE
Co-Sponsorship: Into the Abode of Death Crossing the Empty Quarter
Research Unplugged: Democratic Emotions — From Resentment to Gratitude
Fionn & Jonathan Angus
Co-Sponsorship - Film Screening of Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
Co-Sponsorship – “Tickling Giants”
Co-Sponsorship - The Nelson Mandela Lecture
The New Frantz Fanon
Co-Sponsorship - Plastic Entanglements
Co-Sponsorship - Comparative Animal Ethics - Food Source Animals in East Asian Religions
Co-Sponsorship - Decolonizing Ethics: Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation
2018 Stand Up Award Ceremony
Co-Sponsorship - "Prayer and Devotion: Buddhist and Christian Perspectives"
Co-Sponsorship -Paul Hawken
Race in the Americas Conference 2017
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Céline Leboeuf - “ ‘What Are You?’ – Alienation and Objectification in Mixed-Race Experience”
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - William Paris - "'One Does Not Write for Slaves': Wynter, Sartre, and the Poetic Phenomenology of Invention"
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Gary Adler - “Empathy Beyond Borders: How Civic Organizations Motivate Transnational Engagement”
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Casey Helgeson - “Responsible Communication of Uncertainty in Science: The Framing of Uncertainties in Scientific Publications”
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series: Rock Student Fellows
Rock Ethics Colloquia Series - Martin Pietrucha - “The Ethical Dimensions of Mobility Versus Access in Transportation”
Co-Sponsorship: Post-Holocaust Antisemitism & the Psychiatry of Trauma
2018 PIKSI Rock "Philosophy and Public Life"
Co-Sponsorship: 2018 Mark Luchinksy Memorial Lecture: "Morality in an Age of Hubris - What Matter Most and Why"
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Co-Sponsorship: Plastic Entanglements - Artist Lecture Series: Dianna Cohen - "Rethink Plastics"
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Co-Sponsorship: Plastic Entanglements - Artist Lecture Series - Mark Dion - “Misadventures of a Contemporary Naturalist”
Co-Sponsorship: Plastic Entanglements - Artist Lecture Series: Ifeoma U. Anyaeji - “Plasto-Art: An Eco-Aesthetic Process of Remaking”
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Co-Sponsorship: Plastic Entanglements - Artist Lecture Series: Pamela Longobardi - “Art, Environmental Activism, and Moral Repair: A (Not-So-)Modest Proposal for Our Times”
Co-Sponsorship: Plastic Entanglements - Artist Lecture Series: Morehshin Allahyari - “On Digital Colonialism and Monstrosity”
2018 Lippin Lecture - "Toward Decolonial Feminisms: A Conference Inspired by the Work of María Lugones"
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Sawyer Seminar Series: James Forman - "Can the Criminal Justice System Ever Be Just?"
Sawyer Seminar Series: Screening of “Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of Rebels” & Q&A with Marcus Rediker and Tony Buba
Sawyer Seminar Series - Jessica Luther - “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: The Intersections of Sport and Sexual Violence”
Sawyer Seminar Series: “Runaway Genres: Global Afterlives of Slavery”—Roger Reeves in Conversation with Yogita Goyal
Sawyer Seminar Series: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - ‘Unsophisticated Buyers’: Homeownership and the end of the Urban Crisis in the 1970s”
Sawyer Seminar Series: David Leonard - “Playing While White: Power, Privilege and the Politics of Protest”
Sawyer Seminar Series: Junaid Rana - “Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy”
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Co-Sponsorship: "Zero Weeks: America's Family Leave Crisis" Film Screening
Trans-feminisms" Graduate in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Annual Conference
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Graduates in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Annual Conference
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2018 Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture - "Lethal Autonomous Robots and the Plight of the Noncombatant" - Ron Arkin
“Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter and How Doping Undermines them" Thomas Murray
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Implicit Robotics Conference - Public Panel Discussion "Considering the Implications of Creating Ethical Robots"
Co-Sponsorship - “Planetary Health: An Upstream Approach to Addressing the Needs of Patients and Communities" - Ruth McDermott Levy
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Initiative Event: Religion, Spirituality & Public Life - “What Religious People Think About Science and Scientists Think About Religion” - Elaine Ecklund
Co-Sponsorship - Paterno Fellows Forum - “A Discussion of Place and Ideas: What is Common Good, and Should We Always Promote It”
Paterno Fellows Forum
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Co-Sponsorship - "Challenging the Status Quo: Potential Blind Spots in our Teaching" Scott Wurdinger
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Free U
Free U - Connecting Cultures in the Oman Desert
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Initiative Event: Moral Agency & Moral Development - Those Who Disregard the Past are Doomed…to Blame Others Harshly" Michael Gill
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Restorative Justice Initiative - Impact of Incarceration & Approaches to Reentry
Bryan Stevenson, March 20, 2019, Eisenhower Auditorium
Expanding Empathy Speaker Series: Mina Cikara, "Their Pain, Our Pleasure"
The Clinic and Elsewhere Speaker Series: Eric Plemons, "Surgery Without Surgeons: How Clinical Gaps Shape Trans-Embodiment"
Expanding Empathy Speaker Series: Michael Poulin, "Must We Feel Bad to Do Good?"
Expanding Empathy Speaker Series: Kurt Gray, "Explaining Moral Judgment"
The Clinic and Elsewhere Speaker Series: Susan Stryker, "Psychedelic Trans: Whiteness, Plasticity, and Socio-Somatic Transformation"
Prison Education Summit - Education, Rehabilitation, and Reentry: All In for Prison Education at Penn State
Expanding Empathy Speaker Series: Sara Konrath, "Spread Thin"
Rock Colloquia Series: Tano Posteraro, "The Virtual and the Vital: Bergson's Philosophy of Biology Reconsidered"
Rock Colloquia Series: Victoria Lupascu, "Disease, Disposability, Dissent: The Biopolitical Cultures of Health in China and Romania between 1976 and 2014"
Rock Colloquium: Forrest Briscoe, "Genomic Privacy and Security: Public Perceptions, Ethical Considerations, and Implications for Management of DNA Databases"
Rock Colloquium: Kathryn Sophia Belle, "The Ethics of Buddhism at the Intersections of Race and Black Feminism"
Rock Colloquia Series: José Soto, "Empathy Avoidance as a Possible Mechanism for Understanding Racial Disparities in Society"
Race & Revolution: Still Separate - Still Unequal; Larry Ossei-Mensah & Katie Fuller
Lisa Cacho - "Tragic But Not Criminal, Challenging the 'Objective Reasonableness' of Police Killings"
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Legacies of Lynching
Rock Student Fellow Colloquium
Dennis Downey 2.14.2019
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Forgiveness and the Unforgivable
Keynote: The Seeds of the Sunflower, Ashraf Rushdy
Keynote: No Mad Home, Kazim Ali
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