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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
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    • 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
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    • Building an Ethical Learning Community in Swedish Schools: Bridging School Practice and Educational Research
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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
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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
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    • Co-Sponsorship - Film Screening of Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
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    • The New Frantz Fanon
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    • Co-Sponsorship - Comparative Animal Ethics - Food Source Animals in East Asian Religions 
    • Co-Sponsorship - Decolonizing Ethics: Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation
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    • 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”
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    • Mark Dion
    • Co-Sponsorship: Plastic Entanglements - Artist Lecture Series - Mark Dion - “Misadventures of a Contemporary Naturalist”
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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”
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    • 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”
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    • Co-Sponsorship: "Zero Weeks: America's Family Leave Crisis" Film Screening
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    • Implicit Robotics Conference - Public Panel Discussion "Considering the Implications of Creating Ethical Robots"
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    • Initiative Event: Religion, Spirituality & Public Life - “What Religious People Think About Science and Scientists Think About Religion” - Elaine Ecklund
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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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    • Keynote: The Seeds of the Sunflower, Ashraf Rushdy
    • Keynote: No Mad Home, Kazim Ali
    • Hilary Malatino - Author Meets Critics
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    • Richard Rorty Society, Second Meeting
    • Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics: Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks—Canceled
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    • Expanding Empathy Speaker Series, Paul Conway—Canceled
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    • Expanding Empathy Speaker Series, Abigail Marsh—Canceled
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