Archive of Ethics Center Calendars
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FALL SEMESTER 1987
August 10-21
Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Faculty Seminar: Ethics and Values
FALL SEMESTER 1988
August 1-12
Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Faculty Seminar: Ethics and Values. Visiting Scholar: Terry Perlin, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Visiting Scholar: Robert Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
[1989]
FALL SEMESTER 1990
August 13-24
History of Civilization Summer Faculty Seminar: “Integrating Man, Nations, and Nature: Comparing Ideas from Eastern Texts”
Visiting Scholar: Eden Naby, Harvard University
September 20
History of Civilization Seminar: “The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation”
Oscar Jesperson, UVSC
October 18
History of Civilization Seminar: “Martin Luther’s Freedom of a Christian Man”
Eberhart Lehnardt, UVSC
November 15
History of Civilization Seminar: “John Milton’s Paradise Lost.” J.D. Davidson, UVSC
December 20
History of Civilization Seminar: “Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species”
Jim Harris, UVSC
[date unknown]
History of Civilization Lecture: Rabbi Baruch Korpff, “History of Peace.”
SPRING SEMESTER 1991
January 17
History of Civilization Seminar: “The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo”
Paul Taylor, UVSC
February 21
History of Civilization Seminar: “Homer’s The Odyssey”
JaNae Haas, UVSC
March 21
History of Civilization Seminar: “The History of Art”
Bob DeWitt, UVSC
April 18
History of Civilization Seminar: “Newton’s Principia”
Mike Perkins, UVSC
[date unknown]
History of Civilization Lecture: “The Historical Implications of the Gulf War”
Peter Von Seivers
May 20-31
History of Civilization Summer Faculty Seminar: “Survey of History of Science” Visiting Scholar: Frederick Gregory, University of Florida
[date unknown]
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “Feminist Ethics”
Visiting Scholar: Janet Kourany, University of Notre Dame
FALL SEMESTER 1991
September 19
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: FIPSE Seminar Curriculum Workshop
November 20
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “What is Ethics?”
Kerry Romesberg, President, UVSC
December 18
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Judeo-Christian Ethics”
Elaine Englehardt, Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
SPRING SEMESTER 1992
January 15
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethics of Administration”
Lucille Stoddard, Vice President for Academic Affairs, UVSC
February 19
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative” Sharon Staples, Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
February 25
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethical Challenges in Nursing”
Lee Duke, Department of Nursing Advisory Board
March 18
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism”
Edward Jones, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
April 15
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethics of Medicine and Reproduction”
Margaret Battin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
June 1-12
History of Civilization Summer Faculty Seminar: “The Enlightenment and Revolts Against Authority”
Visiting Scholar: Robin Winks, Professor of History, Yale University
June 29-July 3
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “Hellenistic Ethics”
Visiting Scholar: Martha Nussbaum, Brown University
FALL SEMESTER 1992
August 20-21
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: FIPSE Seminar Curriculum Workshop
September 16
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Aristotle, The Ultimate Good”
Grant Flygare, Instructor of Philosophy, UVSC
September 24
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: FIPSE Seminar Curriculum Workshop
October 21
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “John Rawls: The Ethics of Politics”
Joseph Grcic, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
November 12
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethics & Software Piracy”
Visiting Scholar: Ryan Richards, International Attorney for Word Perfect
November 18
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Epictetus on Virtue Ethics”
Jeanille Gooch, Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
December 15-17
Ethics Across the Curriculum consultations with scholars-in-Residence Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins, Professors of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin
December 16
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “The Ethics of Relationships”
Barbra L. Wardle, Professor of Art, UVSC;
“Ethics and Love.” Scholars-in-Residence: Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins, Professors of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin
SPRING SEMESTER 1993
January 20
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “The Ethics of Scientific Research”
Leslie Francis, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
January 21
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “National Dilemmas in Business Ethics: How to Communicate Today’s Problems to Tomorrow’s Leaders”
Richard Nye, Space Industry Businessman
February 16
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethics of Education”
John Bone, Brigham Young University
February 24
Ethics Across the Curriculum Mentor’s meeting
February 25
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Professional Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care”
UVSC Department of Nursing
March 15
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethics of Government”
Peter Appleby, University of Utah
March 26
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Discussing Ethics through Case Studies”
Deni Elliott, Director, Mansfield Ethics Center
Fourth Annual Environmental Ethics Lecture: “Animal Experimentation: All Moral Standing Aside”
Deni Elliott, Director, Mansfield Ethics Center
April 18
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Business Ethics”
James Faulconer, Brigham Young University
May 10-15
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “Identifying and Explaining a Moral Problem.”
May 17-19
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “Continental Philosophy.” Visiting Scholar: Robert Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
FALL SEMESTER 1993
August ??
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “The Ethics of Teaching and Learning”
Visiting Scholar: Donald Schmeltekopf, Academic Vice President, Baylor University and FIPSE Project Outside Evaluator
September 23
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Professional and Applied Ethics”
Larry Holt, Professor of Art and Visual Communications, UVSC
October 22
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Diversity as Part of the Moral Learning Community”
Visiting Scholar: Robert Lawry, Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University
November 18
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Legal Ethics: The Right to a Proper Defense”
Visiting Scholar: Randy Kester, Attorney at Law
December 9
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Social and Political Philosophy: Classical Western Texts in a Feminist and Multi-Cultural Perspective”
Scholars-in-Residence: Janet Kourany and James Sterba, Professors of Philosophy, Notre Dame University
December 10
Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Seminar: “Teaching Moral Imperatives”
Scholars-in-Residence: Janet Kourany and James Sterba, Professors of Philosophy, Notre Dame University
SPRING SEMESTER 1994
January 20
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Organizational Ethics”
Lucille Stoddard, Vice President for Academic Affairs, UVSC
March 3
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Environmental Ethics and Land Use: Preserving the Heritage of our Wonderful Fremont, Anasazi and Other Ancestors”
Visiting Scholar: Charles Wilkinson, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder
March 17
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethical Dilemmas in Higher Education”
Visiting Scholar: Del Wasden, Professor of Educational Law, Brigham Young University
March 24
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “Ethics and Education”
Del Wasden, Professor of Educational Law, Brigham Young University
April 14
Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar: “The Ethics of Banking Sperm”
Visiting Scholar: Robert Romney, Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Director Utah Valley Regional Medical Center
May 9-20
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “The Ethics of Business, Technology, and Science”
[date unknown]
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “Justice”
Visiting Scholar: James Sterba, University of Notre Dame
June 14-18
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Field Trip: Hovenweep and Chaco Canyon
Von Del Chamberlain, Director, Hansen Planetarium
FALL SEMESTER 1994
September 29
Excellence in Ethics Award: “Legal and Judicial Ethics”
The Honorable Michael Zimmerman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the State of Utah
SPRING SEMESTER 1995
January 19
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Journalism Ethics”
Paul Richards, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Herald
March 14
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Religion and Ethics: Some Similarities and Differences”
Don Schmeltekopf, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Baylor University
May [1-14?]
Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Faculty Seminar: “Business Ethics”
Visiting Scholar: Peter Dean, Pennsylvania State University
[May ??-??]
Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Faculty Seminar: “Rules and Consequences of Morality: The Clash Between Personal and Professional Choice”
April 20
Sixth Annual Environmental Ethics Lecture: “The Reintroduction of the Wolf into the Environment.”
[date unknown]
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “Environmental Ethics” Visiting Scholars: Sam Rushforth, Brigham Young University, Kirk Robinson, University of Utah, Jack Smith, Environmental Planner
FALL SEMESTER 1995
September 14
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Affirmative Action and Education”
Janice Clemmer, Professor of Education, Brigham Young University
October 25, 1995
Excellence in Ethics Award: Irene Fisher, “The Reciprocity of Service”
SPRING SEMESTER 1996
[date unknown]
“Genetics, Gender Determination and Homosexuality”
[date unknown]
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “Applied and Professional Ethics” Visiting Scholar: Deni Elliott, University of Montana
FALL SEMESTER 1996
September 27-28
Annual Religion and Humanities Conference. Ninian Smart, University of California—Santa Barbara, Patrick Horn, Southern Baptist College, Peter Appleby, University of Utah, Brian Birch, University of Utah
October 20-25
Ethics Awareness Week
SPRING SEMESTER 1997
February 4
Spring ‘97 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “The Ethics of River Conservation” Zachary Frankel, Executive Director, Utah Rivers Council
February 26
Spring ‘97 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “Mormon Resources for Environmental Ethics”
Dan Wotherspoon, Claremont Graduate School
February 27
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “The Passions”
Robert Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
March 18
Spring ‘97 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “The Importance of Biodiversity”
Renée Van Buren, Assistant Professor of Biology, UVSC
March 19
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Health Care Ethics”
William Nelson, Intermountain Health Care
April 3 & 4
Eight Annual Environmental Ethics Conference: What is the Value of Wilderness?
April 4
Spring ‘97 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “Who Needs the Wild?” David Rothenberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of Technology
April 16
Spring ‘97 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “The Pluses and Minuses of Deep Ecology.” David Keller, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
May 19-23
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: “The Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project.” Visiting Scholar: Eric Juengst, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
FALL SEMESTER 1997
September 18
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Natural Law.” James Siebach, Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University
October [20-25?]
Ethics Awareness Week
October 20
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Medical Ethics.” Jay Jacobsen, M.D.
October 22
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Newspaper Ethics.” Jay Shelledy, editor, The Salt Lake Tribune, Carrie Moore, writer, The Desert News, and Ralph Barney, Media Ethicist
October 23
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Utah’s Ethnic and Cultural Diversity.” Phil Notarianni of the Utah State Historical Society
November 20 & 21
Religion and Views of Nature
(Organized by David R. Keller)
November 20:
“Dolly and the ‘Miracle’ of Personhood in Nature”
Frederick Ferré
12:30-1:30 p.m., Regan Theater
“Spirit of the Dawn: A Navajo Perspective”
Chuck Foster
1:40-2:40 p.m., Regan Theater
“Life is Like a Bagel: Nature in Judaism”
David Rothenberg
2:50-3:50 p.m., Regan Theater
“Heaven and Earth: A Christian Perspective”
Carolyn Tanner Irish
4-5 p.m., Regan Theater
November 21
“Humans as Trustees of the Created Order: the Islamic View of Nature”
Bernard Weiss
12:00-1:00 50 p.m., Regan Theater
“Imaging Nature in Ancient China: The Songs, Analects, Laozi”
Yukio Kachi
1:15-2:15 50 p.m., Regan Theater
“Landscape as Culture—A Discussion of Ethics”
Terry Tempest Williams
2:30-3:30 50 p.m., Regan Theater
Roundtable Discussion (David Keller, moderator)
3:45-5:00 50 p.m., Regan Theater
December 8
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Art, Context, and Meaning.” Campbell Grey, Director of the BYU Museum of Art
December 11
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Integrative Studies.” Lucille Stoddard, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Elaine Englehardt, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Jim Harris, Dean, School of Science and Health, UVSC
SPRING SEMESTER 1998
January 22
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Cloning.” Jim Harris, Dean, School of Science and Health, UVSC
January 29
National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant: “Environmental Ethics for Children.” David Keller, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
February 17
Faculty Bookgroup: Flash Fiction (discussion led by Larry Harper)
February 19
Brown-Bag Seminar: “Art Censorship.” Steven Epperson, Utah Humanities Council
February 19
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Art Censorship.” Steven Epperson, Utah Humanities Council
March 16
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Native American Heritage in the West.” Kelly Robison, Assistant Professor of History
March 24
Faculty Bookgroup: And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (discussion led by Bill Cobb)
April 15
Faculty Bookgroup: The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness (discussion led by David Keller)
April 16
Ninth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference: Natural History and Wilderness: A Tribute to John Muir
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “The Environmental Ethics of John Muir.” Michael Cohen, Professor of Literature, Southern Utah University
Panel discussion: “Religion and Sexual Ethics”
May 18-22
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: Professional and Practical Ethics: A Focus on Technology, Engineering, and Political Ethics. Visiting Scholar: Wade Robison, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
FALL SEMESTER 1998
September 23-25
Women in a World of Change: Gender Issues and Public Policy
September 24
Faculty Bookgroup: Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones (discussion led by the author)
October 26-30
Ethics Awareness Week
November 11
Faculty Bookgroup: James Joyce, Ulysses (discussion led by J.D. Davidson)
November 16
Symposium on Plural Marriage: The Social, Ethical and Legal Implications of Polygamy
November 30
“Why I Became a Philosopher.” Louis Pojman, Professor of Philosophy, West Point Military Academy
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Faith, Doubt, and the Will to Believe.” Louis Pojman, Professor of Philosophy, West Point Military Academy
December 3
Faculty Bookgroup: James Joyce, Ulysses (discussion led by J.D. Davidson)
December 10
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Ethics and Love.” Robert Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Ethics in a Changing Professional Climate.” Robert Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
SPRING SEMESTER 1999
January 21
Faculty Bookgroup: Praying for Sheetrock (discussion led by Jean Van Delinder)
January 28
Symposium on Understanding Sexual Diversity
February 10
Spring ‘99 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “The More You Drive, The Less Intelligent You Are (Or, the Social Implications of the Automobile).” David Rothenberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Ethics Across the Curriculum: “Individualism and the Automobile.” David Rothenberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of Technology
February 18
Faculty Bookgroup: Necessary Loses (discussion led by Jane Fillmore)
March 1
Spring ‘99 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic.” David Keller, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
March 24
Faculty Bookgroup: Bill Cobb, The American Foundation Myth in Vietnam: Reigning Paradigms and Raining Bombs (discussion led by the author)
March 29
Spring ‘99 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series: “The ‘Nature’ of the Aesthetic Experience.” Jon Green, Brigham Young University
March 31
Faculty Bookgroup: Bill Cobb, The American Foundation Myth in Vietnam: Reigning Paradigms and Raining Bombs (discussion led by the author)
April 8
Tenth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference: The Ecology of Health. Visiting Scholar: Sandra Steingraber
Spring ‘99 Environmental Ethics Lecture Series:
“Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.” Sandra Steingraber
Faculty Bookgroup: Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream (discussion led by the author)
May 10-14
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: Business Ethics. Visiting Scholar: Patricia Werhane, Darden School of Business
FALL SEMESTER 1999
September 22
Faculty Bookgroup: Loren Eisley, The Star Thrower (discussion led by Sharon Staples)
September 23 & 24
First Annual Conference by the Faculty:
The Social Construction of Gender: Representations and Repercussions
September 23
The Social Construction of Gender: Representations
Session 1
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Welcome: Lucille Stoddard
Introduction: David Keller, “What is ‘the Social Construction of Gender’?”
The Social Construction of Gender: Historical Perspectives
Eberhard Lehnardt, “Gender Roles in European Society with Special Emphasis on Germanic Culture”
Lyn Bennett, “‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble’: Genderized Witchcraft Accusations in Colonial New England”
Bill Cobb, “Gender and Sea Island Emancipation: The Unambiguous Commitment of Quaker Abolitionist Laura Towne to the South Carolina Lowcountry Freedmen”
Session 2
The Social Construction of Gender: Literary Perspectives
10-11:15 a.m., Ragan Theater
Laura Hamblin, “To Subdue or Transform the World and the Self: Literary Representations of Male and Female Heroic Journeys”
Jen Wahlquist, “Literary Origins of Patti Perfect”
Rob Carney, “Getting It Write: Gender/Voices in the Creative Writing Process”
Session 3
The Social Construction of Gender: Cinematic Perspectives
11:30 AM-12:45 p.m., Ragan Theater
Morris Franklin, “Cinematic Men: Images of Masculinity in Westerns”
Jans Wager, “Dames in the Driver’s Seat: Changes in the Social Construction of Gender”
Session 4
The Social Construction of Gender: Dance Perspectives
Kathie Debenham, Pat Debenham, Kevin Jones Giddins, and Contemporary Danceworks, “Embodying Gender: Dance and Gender Representation (Or, Did Adam and Eve Dance? If So, Who Led?)”
1-2:15 p.m., Ragan Theater
Session 5
The Social Construction of Gender: Mass Media Perspectives
Karin Anderson England, Tamara Fritze, Larry Harper, and Rick McDonald, “How Far Have We Come Baby? Popular Media Images of Femininity and Their Effects on Children”
2:30-3:45 p.m., Ragan Theater
Session 6
Plenary Panel Discussion: The Social Construction of Gender: Cultural Representations
Moderator: Karen Mizell
4-5:15 p.m., Ragan Theater
September 24
The Social Construction of Gender: Repercussions
Welcome: Lyn Bennett
9-9:10 a.m., Ragan Theater
Session 1
9:10-9:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Introduction: Janet Bennion, “An Overview of Issues in Human Behavior in Gender Studies”
Sam Rushforth, “Sex and Gender: What is the Biological Imperative and How Rigid is It?”
Session 2
Jenny Chamberlain, Peggy Pasin, and Carol Verbecky, “Gender Equity”
10-10:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Session 3
The Social Construction of Gender: Sociocultural Perspectives
11-11:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Boyd Bauer, “How Socially Constructed Gender Walls are Cracking in Selected Non-Western Societies: Examples from Bangladesh, Laos, Mongolia, and Kuwait”
Janet Bennion, “What Determines Gender Variation? An Exploration of Cross-Cultural Constructions of Male and Female Roles”
Session 4
The Social Construction of Gender: A Panel Discussion about Current Psychological Perspectives
12-12:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
Jane Fillmore, “Mars and Venus: Interplanetary Travel or A Walk in Your Own Backyard?”
Lisa Lambert, “Marriage and Gender in the Workplace”
David Yells: “‘The Neurobiology of Sexual Orientation: Is Anatomy Destiny?”
Session 5
The Social Construction of Gender: A Personal Narrative
Scott Abbott, a reading from “Immortal for Quite Some Time: A Cultural Construction of Straight and Gay”
1:00-1:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
Session 6
The Social Construction of Gender: Philosophical Perspectives
2-2:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
Jenny Gooch, “Gender Issues for the Twenty-First Century”
Jim Anderson, “Crafting the Masculine: The Rites of Complicity”
David Keller, “The Social Construction of Gender: An Ecological Critique”
Session 7
Plenary Panel Discussion: The Social Construction of Gender: Repercussions for the Twenty-First Century
Moderator: Elaine Englehardt
3-4:15 p.m., Ragan Theater
October 12
Business Ethics Lecture Series
Panel Discussion:
“Is ‘Business Ethics’ an Oxymoron?”
Brent Eagar, Associate Professor of Business Management
Ken Fakler, Owner, Fakler Tire Service
David Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Joanne Losee, Owner, Alard & Losee Jewelers
Moderator: Ian Wilson, Dean, School of Business
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., SC 213b
October 14 & 15
Fourth Annual Religion and Humanities Conference:
Religious Freedom and the First Amendment
Ragan Theater
(Organized by Brian Birch)
October 18
Business Ethics Lecture Series
“Honesty is Good Business”
Omar Kadar, President and CEO, PaL-Tech, Inc.
10-10:50 a.m., SC 213b
November 2 & 3
Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium:
The Ethics of Managed Health Care
Ragan Theater
November 2
Quality Health Care: Ethics and the Management Perspective
Health Care: The Morality of the Marketplace
Can the Hippocratic Oath Survive Managed Health Care?
Rocking the Foundations of Medicine?
Plenary Panel Discussion: The Right to Health Care
November 3
Quality Health Care: Ethics and the Patient Perspective
Ethics and Quality Health in the HMO
Survival and Other Questions
Quality, Scientific Measurements in Medicine: What it Means to the Future Creditability of Managed Health Care
Plenary Panel Discussion
(Speakers include: Robert Provan, a nationally-renown lawyer from Austin, Texas, and advocate and defender of people with disabilities in today’s HMO environment; Val Bateman, Deputy Executive Vice President of the Utah Medical Association; Margaret Battin, Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah; Trisha Beck, Utah House of Representatives, District 48; Leslie Francis, Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah; Jay Jacobson, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chief, Division of Medical Ethics at the University of Utah; Brent James, Vice President of Medical Research and Medical Education, Intermountain Health Care, and Professor of Family and Preventative Medicine, University of Utah; Neil Kochenhour, Medical Director of Hospital Administration, University of Utah Hospital and Clinics; Thom Mansen, Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Utah, College of Nursing, and President, Utah Nurses Association; Steve Minton, Director of Newborn Services for Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, and Medical Director for Newborn Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Life Flight; Gary Pehrson, Urban Region President and CEO for Salt Lake Valley Intermountain Health Care Hospitals; Robert Romney, Former Medical Director of Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and Central Intermountain Health Care Hospitals; Richard Sperry, Associate Vice President for Health Sciences, Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah, and President of the Utah Medical Association)
November 22
Business Ethics Lecture Series
“Principles of True Wealth: Money Making from an Ethical-Religious Perspective”
Jon Taylor, M.B.A., Ph.D.
11-11:50 a.m., SC 213c
December 6
Business Ethics Lecture Series
“Moral Foundations of Leadership”
David Kirkwood Hart, William F. Edwards Professor of Public Management, Romney Institute of Public Management, Brigham Young University
11-11:50 a.m., SC 213c
SPRING SEMESTER 2000
January 13
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Bill Evenson, Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University
“Marie Curie and Radiation’s Impact on Science”
January 26
January Ethics Across the Curriculum:
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Panel Discussion
February 2
An Afternoon with UVSC Writer-in-Residence Eugene England
Great Utah Writers, Eugene’s Favorite Essays
February 9
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Leslie Norris, BYU Writer-in-Residence
“‘From Poles of Skull and Toe:’ Dylan Thomas and the Revivification of Language”
February 11
Academic Freedom Symposium:
Utah Valley vs. State College? Academic Freedom and Community Values
February 16
“The Debate on Same-Sex Marriage and the California Knight Initiative”
Lawyers Lynn Wardle (BYU) and Stephen Clark (ACLU)
March 8
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Bruce Landesman, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah
“How John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has Changed Political Philosophy”
March 21
Conference on the Study of Mormon Culture
(March Ethics Across the Curriculum)
March 27
Bud Welch, “Rage or Reconciliation? The Ethics of Capital Punishment”
April 7
Eleventh Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
The Ethics of River Conservation
April 8
Environmental Ethics Conference Field Trip
Proposed Bear River Dam Sites and Bear River Refuge
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Michael Cohen, Professor of Language and Literature, Southern Utah University
“John Muir and the Values of American Wilderness”
May 15-19
Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Seminar:
Ethics and the Sciences of Behavior
Featured Scholar: John Granrose, Director of Studies, Jung Institute, Zürich, Switzerland
FALL SEMESTER 2000
September 6
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Martha Peacock, Professor of Art History, Brigham Young University
“Cézanne: The Birth of Modern Art”
September 18-22: Ethics Awareness Week
September 19
Ethics Panel Discussions:
Ethics and Journalism
The Provo-Orem Student Housing Crisis
Ethics and the Water Profession
September 20
Ethics Panel Discussions:
Ethics and History: “Religion, the Handmaiden of Slavery: How Christianity Commended—and Condemned—Slavery in the Antebellum Period”
Why is Gender Equity Important in the Life of a UVSC Student?
The Self and Society: Readings by the English Faculty
September 21 & 22
Second Annual UVSC Conference by the Faculty:
Biology in the Twenty-First Century: New Horizons for the Sciences, Humanities, and Business
September 22
Ethics Awareness Week Keynote Address:
Robert Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas—Austin
“Can’t We Just Skip the Ethics?”
(September Ethics Across the Curriculum)
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Louis Pojman, Professor of Philosophy, West Point Military Academy
“The Greatest Philosopher of the Twentieth Century: Bertrand Russell”
October 12 & 13
Fifth Annual Religion and the Humanities Conference:
Great Religious Teachers and Their Contemporary Relevance
October 19-21
Philosophical Issues in Ethics Across the Curriculum Conference
Hotel Monaco, Salt Lake City
October 24
Symposium on Service and Learning
October 30
Utah Third Congressional District Candidates Debate
November 1
Second Annual Medical Ethics Symposium:
Medical Science and Religious Faith
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Val Sheffield, Director, Interdepartmental Research Program in Human Molecular Genetics and Department of Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics, University of Iowa
“Watson and Crick: The Discovery of DNA”
December 6
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Aden Ross, Playwright
“The Masks of Luigi Pirandello”
SPRING SEMESTER 2001
January 10
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Steven Epperson, Interim Minister, South Valley Unitarian Church
“Darwin’s Impact on Twentieth Century Religious ‘Map Making’”
January 17
Religious Studies Lecture Series: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
Michael Austin, Chair, English Department, Shepard College, West Virginia
“Models of Mormon Cultural Studies”
January 31
“A Celebration of Poets”
Rob Carney, UVSC Assistant Professor of English
Eugene England, UVSC Writer-in-Residence
Laura Hamblin, UVSC Assistant Professor of English
Leslie Norris, BYU Poet-in-Residence
February 7
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
Frank Ferguson, Architect, FFKR Architecture/Planning/Interior Design
“Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus”
February 14
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Renée Van Buren, Assistant Professor of Biology: “Loco for Locoweeds: Two Species in Peril”
Religious Studies Lecture Series: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
Jan Shipps, Emeritus Professor of History and Religious Studies, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
“Gentle Gentile: A Non-Mormon Scholar as Insider/Outsider”
February 27
Cedric Chatterly, Photographer
“I was content and not content”
February 27-March 30
Photographic Exhibition by Cedric Chatterly: “I was content and not content”
Losee LRC Library Art Gallery
March 7
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
David Yells, Assistant Professor Of Psychology
“Animal Models of Psychological Disorders”
Great Thinkers of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series
James Cannon, Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University
“Science’s Silent Partner: Great Mathematical Ideas and Personalities of the Twentieth Century”
March 21
Religious Studies Lecture Series: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
Terryl Givens, Associate Professor of English, University of Richmond
“Twentieth Century Anti-Mormonism: Heroes and Vipers in the Great American Saga”
April 6
Twelfth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference
Activism!
(Excellence in Environmental Ethics Award: Lillian Hayes)
April 11
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Jans Wager, Assistant Professor of English
“Sexing the Paradigm: Rereading Film Theory”
May 8-12
Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Seminar:
Religious Diversity and Pedagogy
May 8: Judaism. Visiting scholar: Rabbi Frederick Wenger, Kol Ami Congregation, Salt Lake City.
May 9: Christianity. Visiting scholar: Donald D. Schmeltekopf, Ph.D. Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University.
May 10: Islam. Visiting scholar: Brad Cook, Ph.D., Vice President for College Relations, Utah Valley State College.
May 11: Religion in the Curriculum? Visiting scholar: Marcia Beauchamp, Ph.D., Religious Freedom Programs Coordinator, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, San Francisco.
May 12: Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. Visiting scholar: James A. Santucci, Ph.D., Professor of Comparative Religion, California State University—Fullerton.
Keynote address: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
FALL SEMESTER 2001
September 5
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
David Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley State College
“Aldo Leopold: How an Ecologist Revolutionized Moral Philosophy”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 117
September 12
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
JaNae Brown Haas, “Homer as Jazz Master: Oral Poetry”
12-12:50 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
September 18
Islam and the Western World Discussion Series
“Putting the Attack on America in Perspective: Coping with Terrorism in an Open Society”
Introductory Remarks: Lucille Stoddard, Vice President for Academic Affairs
Brad Cook, Vice President for College Relations
Faridul Islam, Assistant Professor of Business Management
Masoud Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Political Science
J. Bonner Ritchie, Acting Dean, School of Business
Moderator: David Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
1-2:15 p.m., Ragan Theater
October 1-5: Ethics Awareness Week
October 1:
Ethics Awareness Week Keynote Address:
Robert Solomon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
“Emotional Responsibility”
9 a.m.-9:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Ethics Panel Discussions:
10-10:50 a.m.: On the Possibility of an Existentialist Ethics, AD 204
11-11:50 a.m.: Personal Responsibility in the Age of Globalization, AD 204
12-12:50 p.m.: Difficult Decisions and the Funeral Industry, AD 204 (box lunches)
1-1:50 p.m.: Islam and the Western World Discussion Series, “The Ethics of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” Ragan Theater
October 2
Ethics Panel Discussions:
10-11:15 a.m.: Rethinking Circumcision, South Presidential Suite
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: The Ethics of Sport Hunting, South Presidential Suite (box lunches provided)
1-2:15 p.m., The Challenges of Distance Education, South Presidential Suite
October 3 & 4
Third Annual UVSC Conference by the Faculty: American Studies
October 3
9 a.m.-3:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
October 4
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Ragan Theater
Eugene England Religious Studies Lecture Series:
Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
October 4
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“From Bumper Stickers to Academe: How Well-Behaved Women Make History”
7-8:30 p.m., Ragan Theater
October 5
The Goshute Nuclear Repository Controversy
1-1:50 p.m.: Philosophy Club Debate, SC 117
October 10
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Pierre Lamarche, “Whatever, or: Towards a Genealogy of Languor”
12-12:50 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
October 15
Excellence in Ethics Award
Pamela Atkinson
7:00-8:00 p.m., Ragan Theater
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Janet Kournay, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
“Anne Fausto-Sterling: Rethinking Sex and Gender”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 117
October 18 & 19
Sixth Annual Religion Studies Conference:
Religion and Violence: Advocacy and Resistance
October 18
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Ragan Theater
October 19
9 a.m.-12:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
November 7
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Scott Abbott, Director, Integrated Studies, Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
“Goethe: A Renaissance-Enlightenment Man”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 117
November 14
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
James Price and Wayne Whaley, “Butterfly Genetics”
12-12:50 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
November 27
Islam and the Western World Discussion Series
Faisal al-Rfouh, Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Jordan
“The Future of Jerusalem: A Muslim’s Perspective”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404
November 28
Islam and the Western World Discussion Series
“A World Without Women? The Importance of Education for All”
Lucille Stoddard, Vice President for Academic Affairs, UVSC
9-9:50 a.m., AD 204
November 29
Islam and the Western World Discussion Series
Mansour Farhang, Professor of Politics, Bennington College
“Why Do They Hate Us? Issues Leading Up to the September 11th Disaster”
Faisal al-Rfouh, Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Jordan
“Overcoming Stereotypes after September 11: Mutual Images of the Arabs and the West”
1-2:15 p.m., CS 404
December 5
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Sandy McGunigall-Smith, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
“Michel Foucault on the Power to Punish”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 117
SPRING SEMESTER 2002
January 16
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Alex Simon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UVSC
“Green Washing: Assessing the Success of Corporate Propaganda Amongst British Columbia’s Pulp Mill Workers”
12-12:50 p.m., SC 206g & SC 206h (box lunches provided)
January 17
Stephan Millett, Director of Philosophy and Ethical Inquiry, Wesley College, Australia
“Ethics and Metaphysics in an Age of Technological Convergence”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
January 22
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 p.m., CS 404
January 23
Symposium on Political Activism
Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder, School of the Americas Watch
“The School of the Americas: Teaching Death?”
Panel Discussion on Local Activism:
Maura Carabello, Director, Utahns Against Gun Violence
Gayle Ruzicka, Chair, Utah Eagle Forum
Chip Ward, Co-Founder, West Desert HEAL, FAIR
Luke Peterson, Moderator
6:30-9 p.m., CS 404
January 24
Islam & the Western World Discussion Series
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
January 25
Third Annual Medical Ethics Symposium:
Moral Dimensions of Reproductive Choices
Session 1
“Can We Talk? Discourse and the Abortion Battles”
Judith Andre, Professor of Philosophy, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences
Michigan State University
9-9:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Session 2
“Fertility Respect: Medical, Social, and Moral Dimensions”
Joseph Stanford, Assistant Professor of Family Health & Preventive Medicine, University of Utah
10-10:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Session 3
“Civil Law and the Fetus: A Philosophical Perspective”
Jeff Bulger, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley State College
11-11:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Session 4
“A Feminist View of Emerging Reproductive Technologies”
Valerie M. Hudson, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University
12-12:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
Session 5
Plenary Panel Discussion
Judith Andre, Jeff Bulger, Valerie Hudson, Joseph Stanford
1-1:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
February 6
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Omar Kadar, President, Planning and Learning Technologies
“Muhammad: Prophet of Islam”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 206c
February 12
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 p.m., CS 404
February 14
Symposium on Ethics and Journalism
8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m., CS 404
February 20
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Paul Bybee, Associate Professor of Physical Science, UVSC
“The New T-Rex”
12-12:50 p.m., SC 206c (box lunches provided)
February 21
Islam & the Western World Discussion Series
“Islam and Pluralism: Contrary or Compatible?”
10-11:15 a.m., CS 404
February 26
Screening of the History Channel documentary, “The True Story of Blackhawk Down”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Ragan Theater
Comments by Lieutenant Dan Shilling
1-2:15 p.m., Ragan Theater
February 26
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 p.m., CS 404
March 6
Lucy Lippard, Author and Art Critic
“Art and The Landscape”
9-11:30 a.m., 1-2:50 p.m.
Ragan Theater
March 6
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Lucy Lippard, Author and Art Critic
“Brinckerhoff Jackson, Art and the Landscape”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 206c
March 12
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 p.m., CS 404
March 13
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Phil Gordon, Assistant Professor of Communication, UVSC:
“‘Common Sense’ about the Exxon Valdez: The Culture of an Oil Spill”
12-12:50 p.m., SC 206c (box lunches provided)
March 21
Jon Crane, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina—Charlotte
“Keeping It Real: The Ethics of Cultural Production and Verisimilitude”
10-11:15 a.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
March 21
Faculty Brownbag Lunch:
Jon Crane, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina—Charlotte
“Theories and Methods of Cultural Analysis”
12-12:50 p.m., BU 238 (box lunches provided)
March 21
Islam & the Western World Discussion Series
“The Contributions of Islam to the Western Intellectual Tradition”
1-2:15 p.m., CS 404
March 25
Annual Mormon Studies Conference:
Conference on Mormon Philosophy
9 a.m.-4:50 p.m., SC 206a
March 26
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 p.m., CS 404
April 2
Fifteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Environmental Studies: Understanding the Human Place in Nature
Richard Ingebretsen, President, Glen Canyon Institute
Draining Lake Powell and the Restoration of Glen Canyon
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404
Zack Frankel, Director, Utah Rivers Council
Laurie Packard
Just One Dam Minute: A film by Laurie Packard
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
Gaylon Cook
1-2:15 p.m., CS 404
April 3
Second Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference and
Fifteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Environmental Studies: Understanding the Human Place in Nature
9 a.m.-2:50 p.m., Ragan Theater
April 3
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
David Rothenberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of Technology
“Arne Naess: Philosopher, Mountaineer, Deep Ecologist”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 206c
April 4
First Annual Wasatch Philosophy Conference
Second Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference:
Self-Knowledge
10 a.m.-2:15 p.m., CS 404
April 5
First Annual Wasatch Philosophy Conference:
Self-Knowledge
University of Utah
April 9
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Video/Discussion Series:
Customs, Traditions and Celebrations: The Human Drive for Community
Discussion led by Karen Mizell
7-9 p.m., CS 404
April 10
John Frohnmayer, Lawyer, Author, Ethicist
11-11:50 a.m., SC206a
Lunch with the Faculty
12-12:50 p.m., SC 215 (box lunches provided)
May 6-10
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
The Ethics of Ecology
Visiting Scholar: J. Baird Callicott
1-4 p.m., SC 206c
FALL SEMESTER 2002
September 4
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Bryce Rytting, Assistant Professor of Music History and Theory, UVSC
“How Beethoven Intimidated Everyone, and what Brahms (and Mahler) Did About It”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 206a
September 11
One Year After the Attack on America: A Dialogue on Peace
Randy Kester, Attorney at Law, et al.
Session One
9-9:50 a.m., SC 206c
Session Two
10-10:50 a.m., SC 206c
September 12
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Chris Jones, Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator of Recreation
“Leave No Trace: Rock Climbing Ethics in Rock Canyon”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
September 20-27
Ethics Awareness Week
September 20
Civil Society Lecture
Laurie Anne Whitt, Michigan Technical University, and Alan W. Clarke, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
“The Strange Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty”
11-12:50, SC206a
Poetry Reading
Laurie Ann Whitt, Michigan Technical University
“Boundry Forms”
3-3:50, SC 206a
September 23
Keynote Address
“Moral Education for Business and Professional Life”
Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University
9-9:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Discussion on Pedagogy
Discussion led by Elaine Englehardt and Michael Pritchard
3-4:30 p.m., SC 206a
September 24
Ethics Panel Discussions
8:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., SC 206c
September 25
Ethics Panel Discussions
9 a.m.-12:50 p.m., SC 206c
Excellence in Ethics Award
Bill Pope, Business and Industry Leader
Presented by Lucille Stoddard, Acting President, UVSC
7-8 p.m., SC 206c
September 26
Fourth Annual Conference by the Faculty: What is ‘Postmodernism’?
8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m., CS 404
September 27
Philosophy Forum Open Discussion:
“The Nature and Practice of Altruism”
1-1:50 p.m., SC 206c
October 2
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Brian Birch, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
“Not Your ‘Ordinary’ Philosopher: A Brief Sketch of the Life and Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein”
7-8:30 p.m., Trustees Suite (SC 213c)
October 10
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
October 17 & 18
Seventh Annual Religion and the Humanities Conference:
Narrative, Character, and Virtue: Ancient, Contemporary, and Religious Perspectives
October 17
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Ragan Theater
Keynote Address
7-8:30 p.m., Ragan Theater
October 18
9-11:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
October 21
Lecture on International Justice
John Washburn, International Criminal Court
“The International Criminal Court and the United States’ Relationship to It”
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 206c
November 6
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Christa Albrecht-Crane, Assistant Professor of English, UVSC
“Of Nomads and Schizos: Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy”
7-8:30 p.m.
SC 206a
November 14
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
December 4
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Scott Hammond, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Communication, UVSC
“Oops! I discovered Chaos: Edward Lorenz’s Contribution to Organizational Theory and the Social Sciences”
7-8:30 p.m., Trustees Suite (SC 213c)
SPRING SEMESTER 2003
January 9
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Matthew Horn, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
“Ultrafast Spectroscopy: How a Billionth of a Second Becomes an Infinity of Time”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
January 23
Fourth Annual Medical Ethics Symposium:
The Ethical Dimensions of Health Care
10 a.m.-2:15 p.m., CS 404
January 28
Religious Studies Brownbag Lecture
Peter Gardella, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
“Academic Fantasies of Religious Pluralism”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404
January 31
Palestinian Ambassador Lecture and Panel Discussion
H.E. Dr. Nasser Al-Kidwa
Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
1:00-3:00 p.m., CS 404
February 5
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Bruce Parker, Professor of Biology, UVSC
“Darwin and Evolutionary Law”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
February 13
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Mark Jeffreys, Associate Professor of Integrated Studies and Anthropology
“Love, War, and Insurance in Human Evolution”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
February 21-22
Annual Mormon Studies Conference:
Passing the Portals: Mormon Literature in the Twenty-First Century
February 21—South Presidential Suite (8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)
February 22—CS 404 (8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.)
March 5
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Brenda Scheer, Dean, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah
“Jane Jacobs on the Death and Life of American Cities”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
March 13
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Utah Valley State College Dance Faculty
“A Trio of Dancers”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
March 25
Religious Studies Brownbag Discussion
Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia
“Jewish Material Culture”
11:30 a.m.—12:45 p.m. (box lunches provided)
SC 206a
April 3
Sixteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Conference
“All Used Up and Nowhere to Glow: Storing Nuclear Waste in Utah”
8:30 a.m.-1:45P M, CS 404
April 9
Religious Studies Brownbag Discussion
Lemond Tullis, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Brigham Young University
“Schismatic Religious Movements: The Case for the Third Convention on Mexico”
1:00- 2:00 p.m.
April 11
Luiz Jimenez
1-1:50 p.m., BU 112
April 17
Guest Lecture
William Meinecke, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 5-9
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
“Sustainability in Theory and Practice”
Lisa Newton, Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University
1-4 p.m., SC 213b
FALL SEMESTER 2003
September 3
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
JaNae Brown Haas, Professor of History, UVSC
“The Athenian Democracy: A Two Hundred Year Experiment that Began with Solon”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
September 4
Democracy Project Panel Discussion
“Building Democracy in Post-Saddam Iraq”
Brad Cook, Vice President for Academic Affairs, UVSC
Masoud Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UVSC
J. Bonner Ritchie, Visiting Scholar, UVSC
10-11:15 a.m., CS 404
September 11
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
David Keller, Philosophy
“Procreation and Consumption: The Ecology of Democracy”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
September 15-19
Ethics Awareness Week: Democracy and Public Policy
September 15
Keynote Address
Vern Anderson, Editorial Page Editor, Salt Lake Tribune
“The Necessity of Responsible Journalism for Democracy”
9-9:50 a.m., SC 206 abc
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Pedagogy Discussion
3-4:30 p.m., SC 213b
September 16
Ethics Panel Discussions
8:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., SC 213b
September 17
Ethics Panel Discussions
9 a.m.-1:50 p.m., SC 213b
Excellence in Ethics Service Award
Jon Huntsman, accepted by Karen Huntsman
Presented by President Sederburg
7-8 p.m., SC 206 abc
September 18
Fifth Annual Conference by the Faculty
“Sustainability in Theory and Practice”
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., CS 404
September 19
Philosophy Forum Open Discussion
“Is Democracy the Best Form of Government, or Not?”
1-1:50 p.m., SC 206a
October 1
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Michael Minch, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
“Hobbes: Lessons from the First Great English Philosopher”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
October 9
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
“Does the Rest of the World Matter? International Human Rights Law and the American Death Penalty”
Alan Clarke, Integrated Studies
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
October 23
Eighth Annual Religion and the Humanities Conference
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., SC 206 a&b
Keynote Address, 7-8:30 p.m., SC 206 a&b
November 5
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Deen Chatterjee, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
“Feminism and Cosmopolitan Justice: The Ideas of Amartya Sen and
Martha Nussbaum”
7-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
November 13
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
David Knowlton, Anthropology
“The Burned Palace and the State in Flames: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Sovereignty in Bolivia”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
Democracy Project Keynote Address
“Paradigms of the American Power Structure”
Masoud Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Alex Simon, Assistant Professor of Sociology
6:30-7:30 p.m., SC 206a
November 20
“Mahatma Gandhi and the American Imagination”
S.S. Moorty, Professor of English, Southern Utah University
1-2:15 p.m., CS 404
December 3
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Ardean Watts, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Utah
7-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
December 5
Richard E. Ottoo, Assistant Professor of Finance, Pace University
“The African AIDS Apocalypse”
12-1:50 p.m., Center Stage
SPRING SEMESTER 2004
January 7
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Laura Hamblin, Assistant Professor of English, UVSC
“Technology, Freedom and Community: A Postmodern Application of Martin Buber’s ‘I and Thou’”
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
January 14-16
51st Annual Far Western Philosophy of Education Society Conference
Keynote Speaker: John Searle, Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Languages, University of California, Berkeley
January 15
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Karin Anderson, Associate Professor of English, UVSC
“Margery’s Wail, Bonnie’s Cry: Reading the Unrepresentable in the Distortions of Narrative Shape”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
January 20
Stephen L. Adams Memorial Panel Discussion Series: Ethics in the Digital Age
“The Open Source Movement”
Roger DeBry, Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences and Networking Services, UVSC; Mike Heath, software developer; David Heldenbrand, Associate Professor of Computer Sciences and Networking Services, UVSC; Tim Petru, software developer; Drew Williams, software developer
10:00-11:15 a.m., CS 404
February 4
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Chandran Kukathas, Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory, University of Utah
“David Hume and the Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth”
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
February 5
Patricia Werhane, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
“Corporate Leadership after the Meltdown”
12:00 noon-1:00 p.m., CS 404
February 5
Business Ethics Seminar
Patricia Werhane, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
2:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213b
February 5
Kirk Englehardt Memorial Business Ethics Keynote Address
Patricia Werhane, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
“Environmental Challenges to Business”
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
February 6
Business Ethics Seminar
Patricia Werhane, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
1:00-3:00 p.m., AD 212
February 10
Stephen L. Adams Memorial Panel Discussion Series: Ethics in the Digital Age
“Copyright Issues in the Digital Age”
10:00-11:15 a.m., CS 404
February 12
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Sandy McGunigall-Smith
“Challenges to Traditional Criminological Theory: Life on Death Row in a U.S. Supermax Facility”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
February 19
Democracy Project Lecture
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)
“Can’t We All Just Get Along: Working with the Politically Different”
1:00-2:15 p.m., SC Centre Stage
February 19
Contemporary Issues Panel Discussion
Jeff Halper and John Reese
“The Middle East Peace Process: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond”
2:40-4:00 p.m., SC 213b
February 24
Religious Diversity Roundtable Discussion
“Religious Diversity in a Homogeneous Culture”
Participants: Greg Johnson, Director, Standing Together. Father Michael Sciumbatto, St. Francis of Assisi, Orem. Elder Donald J. Butler, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah South Area. Imam Mohammed Shoaibuddin, Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake City. Robert Millett, Manager of Outreach and Interfaith Relations, Public Affairs Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scott McKinney, Pastor, Christ Evangelical Church, Orem. Caru Das, Krishna Consciousness Temple, Spanish Fork. Brian Davis, Weber State University, Pluralism Project. Janet Riley, Pastor, Springville Community Presbyterian Church. Terek Nossier, Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake City.
Opening remarks by Brian Birch, Director, Religious Studies Program, Utah Valley State College. Roundtable moderated by Charles Randall Paul, Director, Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy.
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 206a&b
March 3
Great Thinkers Lecture Series
Keith Snedegar, Associate Professor of History, UVSC
“Medieval Res Publica: Dante’s De Monarchia”
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
March 4
Democracy Project Symposium
“How to Build a Democracy”
First Session, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion: “The Impact of the Media on the Development and Maturation of Democracy throughout the World”
Ken Rogerson, Research Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, Duke University
Eliza Tanner-Hawkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, BYU
Jingdong Liang, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, UVSC
Second Session, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
Keynote Address: “What Are the Necessary Conditions for Building a Democracy?”
Tom Melia, Director of Research, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
Third Session, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “Is Islam Compatible with Democracy?”
Abdullahi Gallab, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, BYU
Abdul Mohmand, PhD candidate, University of Utah, and Instructor of Political Science, BYU
Masoud Kazemzadeh, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UVSC
J. Bonner Ritchie, Scholar in Residence, UVSC, and Professor Emeritus, Organizational Behavior, BYU
March 5
Student Conference on Gender, Diversity, and Identity: An International and Interdisciplinary Women’s Forum
9:00 a.m., West Ballroom, Union Building, University of Utah
March 9
Stephen L. Adams Memorial Panel Discussion Series: Ethics in the Digital Age
“Privacy Rights in the Digital Age”
Moderated by Tom McFarland, Acting Dean, School of Computer Sciences and Engineering
10:00-11:15 a.m., CS 404
March 11
Eugene England Religious Studies Lecture Series: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other
Richard Holzaphel, Professor of Religion, Brigham Young University
“‘It is Better to Light One Candle than to Curse the Darkness’: The Unending Quest of a Mormon Historian”
7:00 p.m., LA 101
March 19 & 20
Annual Mormon Studies Conference
“Conference on Mormon Theology”
Location: Friday, Hampton Inn and Suites (851 W 1250 S, Orem); Saturday, SC 206abc
April 1
Seventeenth Annual Environmental Ethics Forum: Environmental Racism
Deen Chatterjee, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
“Global Environmental Crisis: A Question of Justice?”
David Keller, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
“The Challenge of Environmental Racism for American Democracy”
Ruth Merrill Olson, BYU
“South African Communal Farmers: Problems and Solutions”
Alex Simon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UVSC
“Environmental Racism is a Misnomer”
Amanda Tammen, BYU
“Public Housing: Environmental Effects on Those without a Choice”
10:00-11:15 a.m., CS 404
April 2
Religious Studies Lecture
“Historical Versus Structural Understanding and the Fate of Transcendental Optimism”
D. Z. Phillips, Danforth Chair in the Philosophy of Religion and Rush Rhees Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea
1:00-3:00 p.m., SC 213b
April 5
Democracy Project Lecture
Representative Chris Cannon (R-Utah)
“The Federal Government: How It Affects You and Why”
10:00 a.m., Presidential South Suite, McKay Events Center
April 8
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research
Catherine Stephen
“Conservation of Caribbean Iguanas through Science and Education”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
April 12
Poetry Reading
“Iced at the Ward/Burned at the Stake”
Paul Swenson, Adjunct Faculty, UVSC Department of Communication
11:00-11:50 a.m., SC 213b (box lunches provided)
April 15
Religious Diversity Roundtable Discussion
“Latino Religiosity in Utah County”
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 206a
May 10-14-Monday through Friday
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar
“Law, Justice, and Obligation”
Robert P. Lawry, Professor of Law, Director, Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
1:00-4:00 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room in Learning Center
May 11-Tuesday
Session on Democracy, Law, and Justice with the Philosophy Faculty
Robert P. Lawry, Professor of Law, Director, Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, Faculty Seminar Room in Learning Center
May 13-Thursday
Democracy Project Keynote Address
“Law, Justice, and Obligation”
Robert P. Lawry, Professor of Law, Director, Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
FALL SEMESTER 2004
September 1
Monthly Ethics Forum:
Great Thinkers: Ideas that Have Changed Our World
“Mary Wollstonecraft and the Nature of Character”
Jan Wellington, Assistant Professor of English and Literature
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
September 9
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research:
Scott Abbott, “Immortal for Quite Some Time”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
September 10
Global Justice Project:
The Lost Boys of Sudan Exhibit Opening Reception
7-8 p.m., UVSC Woodbury Art Museum, University Mall
September 14
Ethics in the Digital Age Panel Discussion Series:
“Ethical Issues and the Internet”
Pete Ashdown, Owner and President, XMission
Myke Place, XMission Systems Administrator
Grant Sperry, XMission Technical Services Manager
10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m., CS 404
September 27-October 1
Ethics Awareness Week: Global Justice
September 27
Global Justice Project Inaugural Commemoration:
Honorary Degree awarded to the First Lady of Kyrgyzstan, Mairam Akaeva
10 a.m.-10:50, Ragan Theater
Keynote Address:
Abdullahi Gallab, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University
“A Drift in University Avenue: Movement from Local to Global Worlds”
11:00-11:50 a.m., SC 206bc
Feature Presentation:
Atem Aleu, student and artist from Sudan
Noon-12:50 a.m., SC 206bc
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Pedagogy Discussion:
“Engaging Students on Their Own Ground: Teaching Critical Thinking in a Conservative Context”
3:00-4:30 p.m., SC 213b
September 28-Tuesday
Ethics Panel Discussions
8:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., SC 213b
1-2:15 p.m., CS 404
A Celebration of Sudanese Culture:
Sudanese Poetry Reading
8:00-9:00 p.m., Student Center Grande Ballroom
September 29-Wednesday
Ethics Panel Discussions
9:00 a.m.-1:50 p.m., SC 213b
September 30-Thursday
Sixth Annual Conference by the Faculty:
Law and Justice
8:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404
1-5 p.m.,
October 1-Friday
Philosophy Forum Open Discussion:
“Does Globalization Promote International Justice or Exacerbate Injustice?”
1:00-1:50 p.m., SC 213b
Cultural Night
African story-telling and music
7-9 p.m., UVSC Woodbury Art Museum, University Mall
October 6
Monthly Ethics Forum:
Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, ABD Public Policy, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
“The School Choice Debate”
7:00-8:30 p.m., SC 213b
October 12
Ethics in the Digital Age Panel Discussion Series:
“Democracy in the Digital Age”
10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m., CS 404
October 14
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research:
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
October 20
Global Justice Project:
UVSC Woodbury Art Museum’s Evening for Educators:
Abdullahi Gallab, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University, and Atem Alou, student and artist from Sudan
6:00-9:00 p.m., UVSC Woodbury Art Museum, University Mall
October 21-22
Annual Religion and Humanities Conference:
Religious Perspectives on Social Justice
October 21:
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., 7-8:30 p.m., LA 101
October 22:
10 a.m.-noon, Roundtable Discussion, LA 101
November 3
Monthly Ethics Forum:
Wayne Hanewicz, Visiting Professor, Technology Management, UVSC
“The Importance of the Study of Interdisciplinary Technology for the Twenty-First Century”
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
November 9
Ethics in the Digital Age Panel Discussion Series:
10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m., CS 404
November 11
Integrated Studies Forum for Faculty Research:
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404 (box lunches provided)
November 19
Global Justice Project:
Lawrence Kiwanuka Nsereko, Community Outreach Fellow, Dutchess Community College
“Laying the Foundation for Social Justice in Africa”
Introduction by Keri Douglas, Creative and Strategic Communications
12-12:50 p.m., LA 101
SPRING SEMESTER 2005
January 11
Ethics in the Digital Age Panel Discussion Series:
Mike Anderson, Supervisor, Provo FBI and fraud expert
“White Collar CyberCrime”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404
January 20
Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium:
Globalization and Justice
8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
January 24-28
Conference on Educational Issues for the Next Decade: Diversity
January 24
11 a.m.-1:50 p.m., SC 206a
January 25
11:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m., CS 404
February 1
“Ethics and the Media”
John Stossel, Anchor, ABC News
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., CS 404
February 2
Monthly Ethics Forum
“Assessing the Moore Controversy and UVSC’s Role in the USHE”
Kay Anderson, Community representative
Phil Clegg, Director, Student Leadership & Activities, UVSC
Daniel Garcia, Student, UVSC
Leland Page, Vice President of Academics, ASUVSC
Michael Shaw, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
Paul Swenson, Instructor of Communication, UVSC
Paul A. Tanner, Professor of English, UVSC
Moderator: David R. Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
February 3
Fourth Annual Eugene England Memorial Lecture
“To Whom Shall We Go?: Historical Patterns of Restoration Believers
with Serious Doubts”
D. Michael Quinn
7 p.m., LA 101
February 8
Ethics in the Digital Age Panel Discussion Series
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404
February 9
Money in Politics Discussion Series
Peter Corroon, Salt Lake County Mayor
Steven White, Utah County Commissioner
11-11:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
February 10
Igor Grazin, Vice President, Provost & Dean of the Law School Academy, Nord, Estonia
“2010: The Dissolution of the European Union?”
10-11:15 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
February 24
“The Miss UVSC Selection Process”
Homecoming Week
March 2
Monthly Ethics Forum
“Bush Administration Environmental Public Policy in Utah”
Wayne Y. Hoskisson, Spokesperson, Utah Sierra Club,
Former Executive Director, Red Rock Forests
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
March 3-5
Fifth Annual Mormon Studies Conference:
All Are Unlike Unto God: Mormonism and Social Justice
Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
March 8
Ethics in the Digital Age Panel Discussion Series:
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CS 404
March 31
Excellence in Ethics Award
Michael Young, President, University of Utah
Presented by President Sederburg
7-8 p.m., LA 101
April 6
Monthly Ethics Forum:
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
April 7
Eighteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Forum:
“Globalization and Environmental Justice”
Keynote Address:
Rocky Anderson, Mayor, Salt Lake City
10-11:15 a.m., Ragan Theater
Visiting Scholar:
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine, Associate Professor of English, University of Houston—Downtown
11:30-12:45 p.m.
Omar Kader, President and CEO, Planning and Learning Technologies
“The Bush Doctrine and Global Environmental Policy”
1-2:15 p.m.
May 9-13
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
“Global Justice”
James Sterba, Professor of Philosophy, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University
1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213c (Trustees Suite)
FALL SEMESTER 2005
September 7
Monthly Ethics Forum
“From Past to Future: Assessing UVSC Changing Role as an Institution of Higher Education”
Errin Julkunen, UVSC Student
Norman Nielson, Former State Representative, Former Board Member, UVSC Development Committee, Current Member, UVSC Community Relations Committee
Vegor Pedersen, UVSC Student and former Editor, The College Times
Michael Shaw, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
Paul Swenson, Instructor of Communication, UVSC
Paul A. Tanner, Professor of English, UVSC
Moderator: David R. Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 12
“Ethics in Government”
Representative Chris Cannon
11-11:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 8
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion
“The Intelligent Design/Public Education Debate”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Discussion led by David R. Keller, Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
(For suggested discussion readings, please email ethics.center@uvsc.edu>
September 19-23
Ethics Awareness Week
(For full schedule, see http://ethicscenter.info/)
September 19
Congressman Rob Bishop
“Practical Politics in Governing”
9-9:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Co-sponsored with the Constitution Day Initiative Committee)
“A Personal Perspectives from Death Row”
Gary Gauger, Former Death Row Inmate
10 a.m.-10:50, Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies and Legal Studies Programs)
“The Growing Conservative Opposition to the Death Penalty’
Michael Radelet, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
11-11:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies and Legal Studies Programs)
“Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction: Theoretical Implications and Practical Solutions”
Daniel S. Medwed, Associate Professor of Law, S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
12-12:50 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies Program and the Constitution Day Initiative Committee)
Panel discussion:
“Post-Conviction Litigation in Utah”
Jensie Anderson, University of Utah-S.J. Quinney College of Law, President, Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
Tom Brunker, Utah State Attorney General's Office
Erik Luna, University of Utah-S.J. Quinney College of Law;
Erin Riley, Utah State Attorney General's Office
Board of Directors, Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
Moderator: Daniel S. Medwed, Associate Professor of Law, S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
1-1:50 p.m.
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies and Legal Studies Programs
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Discussion on Pedagogy:
“Pedagogy, Plagiarism, and Communication Across the Curriculum”
3:00-4:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with Communication Across the Curriculum)
Evening Panel Discussion:
“Personal and Academic Perspectives on Capital Punishment”
Gary Gauger, Former Death Row inmate
Sandy McGunigall-Smith, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, UVSC
Michael Radelet, Professor of Sociology, Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
7-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Co-sponsored with the Integrated Studies and Legal Studies Programs)
September 20
Ethics Panel Discussions
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Film screening: Shadow of Hope
7-8:30 p.m., CS 404
September 21
Ethics Panel Discussions
9:00 a.m.-3:50 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 22
Ethics and Public Policy Conference
“Symposium on Utah Lake”
September 22:
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 24: Field trip
For full schedule http://ethicscenter.info/
October 5
Monthly Ethics Forum
“Do We Have a Moral Duty to Conserve Biological Diversity?”
Kirk C. Robinson, Executive Director, Western Wildlife Conservancy
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
October 6, 7, and 8
Humanities and Technology Conference
Cliff Lodge, Snowbird
(Cosponsored with the Humanities and Technology Association, School of Computing, Engineering and Technology, the School of Humanities and Social Science)
For more information http://www.uvsc.edu/tech/hta/
October 13
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion
“The Ethics of Downloading”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Discussion led by Michael G. Wisland, Assistant Professor of Multimedia Communication Technology
(For suggested discussion readings, please email ethics.center@uvsc.edu>
November 2
Monthly Ethics Forum
Readings by Global Awareness Writing Contest Winners:
First Place Winner: Preston Radford, “My New World”
Second Place Winner: Rachel Foulger, “Ich Liebe Dich—Going Global”
Third Place Winner: Jennifer Jenne, "Making a Difference in the Lives of Others"
Poetry Winner: Scott Hatch, “O’Keefe at Abiquiu” (and other poems of the author's choice)
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Reception begins at 6:30 p.m., with refreshments provided by the Butler Institute for International Understanding
(Co-Sponsored with the Office of International Affairs and the Butler
Institute for International Understanding)
November 6-12
Global Awareness Week
(Sponsored by Office of International Affairs and Butler Institute for International Understanding, and supported by the Center for the Study of Ethics)
November 10
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
“Mayday or Payday? The Ethics of Loans with Triple Digit Interest”
Discussion led by Jill Jasperson and Marty Val Hill
Panelists:
R. Paul Allred, Deputy Commissioner, Utah Dept of Financial Institutions
Steve Averett, Judge pro-tempore and familiar with payday lenders in his court
Kip Cashmore, Payday Lender Business Owner
Linda Hilton, Consumer Advocate
(For suggested discussion readings, please email ethics.center@uvsc.edu>
November 15
“Healing Broken Hearts: Symposium on Sexual Abuse & Ultimate Betrayals”
Marilyn Van Derbur, Former Miss America and author of Miss America By Day
10-11:15 a.m., Student Center Ballroom
(Sponsored by Equity in Education, Dean of Continuing Education, Turning Point, Sunshine Center, Center for the Study of Ethics)
SPRING SEMESTER 2006
January 12
“Syria: Challenges and Crisis”
H. E. Imad Moustapha, Ambassador of Syria to the U.S.A.
10-11:15 a.m., LA 101
(Cosponsored with the Butler Institute for International Understanding)
January 12
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion
Discussion on Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Discussion led by William Cobb, Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
(For suggested discussion reading, please email <ethics.center@uvsc.edu>
January 19
Annual Conference by the Faculty”
Spheres of Globalization
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
January 27
“Drawing for Democracy: The Role of Political Cartooning in
American History”
Steve Benson, Editorial Cartoonist, Arizona Republic
11:00-11:50 a.m., PS 115
Reception, 12-1 p.m., Trustees Suite (SC 213)
(Cosponsored with the School of Science and Health, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, Integrated Studies Program, Department of History and Political Science, and the Snow College Convocation Program)
February 1
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions”
Steven E. Jones, Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University
7:00-8:30 p.m., CS 404
Overflow room, CS 401
(Cosponsored with the School of Science and Health)
February 9
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion:
“Alternatives to Violent Revolt in Kant and Foucault”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Discussion led by Samuel G. Taylor, Senior UVSC Philosophy Major
Introduction by Jeff Bulger, Associate Professor of Philosophy
(For suggested discussion reading, please email <ethics.center@uvsc.edu>
February 10
“U.S. Issues in Energy and Transportation”
Jim Matheson, U.S. Congressman, State of Utah
3-3:50 p.m., LA 101
(Cosponsored with the Office of the President)
February 22
Film Screening and Panel Discussion:
“Invisible Children”
6:30-7:30 p.m., CS 404
Panel discussion with Film Makers:
7:30-8 p.m., CS 404
For more information <http://invisiblechildren.com>
(Cosponsored with The Valley Project and Reel Film Series)
February 24
“Personal and Professional Integrity in Politics: Inherent Dilemmas”
Bob Bennett, U.S. Senator, State of Utah
9:30-10:30 a.m., Ragan Theater
(Cosponsored with the Office of the President)
March 1
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“The Poetry of May Swenson”
Paul Swenson, Author and Instructor of Communication, UVSC
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the Integrated Studies Program)
March 9
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion:
George McGovern et al., Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge To Persons Of Faith
Discussion led by Barbara G. Hammond, Assistant Dean for External Relations, School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(For suggested discussion readings, please email <ethics.center@uvsc.edu>
March 16
Claudia Stevens:
Workshop on Performance Art
4-5:15 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
“An Evening with Madame F”
7-8:30 p.m., Ragan Theater
(Cosponsored with ASUVSC)
March 21
Orrin G. Hatch, U.S. Senator, State of Utah
10-11 a.m., Centre Stage
March 29
Philosophy Colloquium:
Ethics & Values Twentieth Anniversary Celebration
2-4 p.m., SC 206 a & b
Keynote Address:
“Ethics & Values: A Genesis of Distinction for Students, Critical Thinking, and National Conversation”
Elaine Englehardt, Distinguished Professor in Ethics
2-2:50 p.m., SC 206 a & b
Ethics & Values Student Essay Contest Winners
First Place: Don LaVange
Second Place: Loyd Ericson
Third Place: Rebecca Coleman and Matthew Hill
3-3:50 p.m., SC 206 a & b
Food Provided!
(Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)
March 31
Kirk R. Englehardt Business Ethics Keynote Address and Excellence in Ethics Award Presentation:
“Leadership, Integrity and Corporate Accountability”
Kim Clark, President, Brigham Young University—Idaho,
Former Dean, Harvard School of Business
10-10:50 a.m., Ragan Theater
Reception: 11 a.m.-noon, Center Stage
(Cosponsored with the Office of the President and the School of Business)
April 3-7
Environmental Ethics Awareness Week:
“Politics, Power, & Dependency: The Science and Politics of Energy”
(Cosponsored with ASUVSC Green Club)
April 3
Earth Day Table Displays:
Central Utah Water Conservancy District
June Sucker Recovery Program
Orem City
Save Our Canyons
U.S. Forest Service
Utah Clean Energy
Utah Department of Environmental Quality’
Utah Department of Natural Resources
Utah Rivers Council
UVSC Green Club
...and more!
9 a.m.-5 p.m., PE Concourse
“Stakeholders in the Value of Utah Lake”
Chris Keleher, Assistant Director, Utah Department of Natural Resources as the Recovery Programs
6:30-7 p.m.
Documentary on June Sucker Recovery Program:
“Utah Lake: Legacy”
7-8 p.m., CS 404
April 4
Nineteenth Annual Environmental Ethics Symposium:
“Exploring Alternative Energy”
“Global Climate Change”
Bill Dinklage, Assistant Professor of Geology
Moderator: Reed Howard James, Biology and Secondary Education Major, UVSC,
8:30-9:45 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
“Exploring Alternative Environmental Designs at UVSC Facilities”
Jim Michaelis, Associate Vice President of Faculties: Water
Denny Rucker, Director of the Central Plant: Energy
Paul Tayler, Professor of Earth Science: Sleeping Rainbow Ranch
Frank Young, Director of Space Development: “Incorporating Sustainability into Building Design and Campus Infrastructure”
Moderator: Camille Johnson, Student, UVSC
10-11:15 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Panel Discussion:
“Renewable Energy for Rural Economic Development: A U.S. Department of Energy Sponsored Research Program”
Cathy Hartman and Ed Stafford, Co-Directors, Center for the Transfer and Commercialization of Cleaner Technology, College of Business, Utah State University
Sarah Wright, Executive Director, Utah Clean Energy
Moderator: Adam Schaffer, Environmental Management Major, UVSC
11:30 A.M.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Lunch
1-2:15 p.m.
Keynote Address:
Rocky Anderson, Mayor, Salt Lake City
“What Salt Lake City is Doing About Global Climate Change”
Introduction by Amanda Tammen Peterson
2:30-3:45 p.m., Ragan Theater
(Cosponsored with the ASUVSC Green Club)
April 5
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“The End of Oil”
E. Ivan White, Environmental Consultant
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
April 6
“Lessons Learned since the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: A 100-Year Anniversary Seismic Retrospective”
Danny Horns, Chair, Department of Earth Science, UVSC
12:00-12:50 p.m., PS 115
Environmental Ethics Awareness Week Film Screening:
“Advertising and the End of the World”
7:00-8:00 p.m., CS 404
Discussion led by Alex Simon, Associate Professor of Sociology, UVSC
8-8:30 p.m.
(Cosponsored with the Reel Film Series)
May 8-12
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
“Professional Ethics”
Visiting Scholar: Michael Pritchard, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University
1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213c (Trustees Suite) (except for Thursday, May 11, room TBA)
June 28
An Open Interfaith Dialogue with Solange Mello, Pastor, Aguas Lindas Presbyterian Church, Brazil
Welcome and Introduction: Janet Riley, Pastor, Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
Translator: Debora Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, UVSC
10 a.m.-noon, SC213a
(Cosponsored with the Springville Presbyterian Church and the UVSC Religious Studies Program)
FALL SEMESTER 2006
October 26
“The Rising Influence of Iran in the Middle East Conflict: How Did it Happen and What are the Likely Consequences to the US?”
Omar Kader, Founder, Past President and CEO, Planning and Learning Technologies
10-11:15 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Faculty Bookgroup:
Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East
Discussion led by Omar Kader, Founder, Past President and CEO, Planning and Learning Technologies
3-4:30 p.m., PS 203
(Sponsored by the UVSC Library. For more information, contact Mike Freeman <FREEMAMI@uvsc.edu>, Faculty Bookgroup Coordinator)
October 27
Utah Lake Symposium, Round 2
8 a.m.-5 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program, the School of Science and Health, and the Environmental Studies Program)
November 1
“Ethics, Democracy and the Right to Vote and Debate”
Christian Burridge, Candidate, U.S. Congress, Third District
4-4:50 p.m., LA 104
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“Tortured Times for American Values”
David Irvine, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (retired)
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
November 2
“Ethics, Democracy, and Politics”
U.S. Congressman Chris Cannon
10:00 a.m., LA 025
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics, and The Office of the President.
November 3
U.S Senator Bob Bennett
10:00 am, LA 023
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics, The Office of the President, ASUVSC, and Dennis Farnsworth.
November 9
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion:
“Lies that Tell the Truth: Creative Writers as Ethicists”
Rob Carney, Associate Professor, English and Literature, UVSC
Stephen D. Gibson Assistant Professor, English and Literature, UVSC
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
SPRING SEMESTER 2007
January 24 & 25
Eighth Annual Conference by the Faculty:
“Ethics in the Professions”
January 24:
9 a.m.-3:50 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
4-5:50 p.m., PE 152
January 25:
8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
5:30-6:45 p.m., Centre Stage
Full Schedule available at <http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pcAO9q1ucWJa6yl6ii0QmaA>
(Organized by Rick McDonald and David Yells)
February 6
Barton Dahneke, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, Caltech, University of Rochester, University of Arkansas
“Meaning in Scientific, Religious, and Ethical Belief”
10-11:15 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the School of Science and Health and the Religious Studies Program)
February 7
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“Tortured Times for American Values”
David Irvine, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (retired)
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
February 8
Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion:
Ethics and Freedom of Expression
Discussion led by:
Simon Blundell (Art and Visual Communications)
Steve Bule (Art and Visual Communications)
Stott Harston (Legal Studies)
Hyumee Lee (Art and Visual Communications)
Lee Mortensen (English and Literature)
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
March 7
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“Access to Education: Hispanics in Utah Today and Tomorrow...”
Joanne Milner, Community Relations Program Manager at Horizonte Instruction and Training Center
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
March 12
Union of Concerned Scientists Live Webcast:
“Closed Doors, Open Democracies?”
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Bring your cell phone to join the live discussion!
(Organized by Jim V. Price, Professor of Biology)
March 19
“Cross-Cultural Challenges of Building Democracy in Iraq”
James B. Mayfield, Emeritus Professor of Middle East Studies, University of Utah
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., SC 206a
(Organized by Robert Norton, Cosponsored with the Peace and Justice Program and the Department of Behavioral Science)
March 28
Annual Kirk R. Englehardt Business Ethics Lecture:
Joel C. Peterson, Lecturer in Business, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University:
“Business Ethics: An Oxymoron?”
10-10:50 a.m., Centre Stage
Public Reception: 11-11:50 a.m., Centre Stage
(Cosponsored with the School of Business)
April 2-6
Environmental Awareness Week
April 4
Annual Environmental Ethics Symposium &
Annual Mormon Studies Conference:
“Mormonism and the Environment”
8:00 a.m.-3:50 p.m., SC 213b
(Cosponsored with the Mormon Studies Program)
April 4
Monthly Ethics Forum:
Stephen Goldsmith, Architecture, Sculptor, and Former Salt Lake City Planner
“Learning from New Orleans; A Teachable Moment in Environmental Stewardship”
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
April 19
Open Public Forum:
“Gun Violence on Campus: Lessons of the Virginia Tech Massacre for UVSC”
Panelists:
Phil Clegg, Senior Director, Student Life
Kris Coles, President Elect, ASUVSC
Justin Davies, Executive Vice President Elect, ASUVSC
Jack Jensen, Director of Mental Health Services
Cameron John, Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, UVSC
Joe Marrott, Director, Risk Management, Safety, and Health
Bob Rasmussen, Dean of Students, Assistant Vice President, Student Life
Chris Rockwood, Interim Chief of Police, UVSC, Orem Police Department (Retired)
Andrew Stone, President, ASUVSC
Moderator: Elaine E. Englehardt, Distinguished Professor of Ethics
Noon-1 p.m., SC 206a
April 30-May 4
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
Bioethics
1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213c (Trustees Suite)
April 30
Jay Jacobson M.D.: Introducing the Division of Medical Ethics;
Leslie Francis Ph.D., J.D.: Central Legal Cases in Bioethics: How the Law Works
Tuesday, May 1
Armand Antommaria M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.P.: The Role of Religion in Bioethics
Wednesday, May 2
Peggy Battin, Ph.D.: The Basics of Ethical Theory in Bioethics
Jay Jacobson M.D.: The Role of Medicine in Bioethics
Thursday, May 3
Tess Jones, Ph.D.: Medical Humanities, Narrative Medicine, and Bioethics
Friday, May 4
Jeffrey Botkin, M.D.: Newborn Screening, Genetics, and Other Policy Challenges in Bioethics
FALL SEMESTER 2007
September 5
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“Levinasian Ethics and Skepticism”
Pierre Lamarche, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVSC
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 13
Lunchtime Ethics and Integrity Open Discussion:
“Leave No Trace Wilderness Ethics”
Discussion led by:
Kim Reynolds, UVSC Outdoor Education Coordinator
Betsy Lindley, Assistant Professor, Physical Education and Recreation
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 17-21
Ethics Awareness Week
(For full schedule, see http://ethicscenter.info/)
September 17
Ethics Awareness Week Keynote Address:
“Where Have All Our Children Gone? Ethical Issues in Health and Obesity”
Peter Corroon, Salt Lake County Mayor
11-11:50 a.m., SC 206 C
Reception with Mayor Corroon:
Noon-12:30 p.m., Trustees Suite (SC 213c)
Refreshments provided
(Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs)
September 18
Ethics Panel Discussions
8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m.
September 19
Ethics Panel Discussions
9 a.m.-2:50 p.m.
Annual Excellence in Ethics Award Presentation and Address:
David Dominguez, Professor of Law, Brigham Young University
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 20
Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium:
“Democracy and Immigration”
8:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m., SC 213A
(Part of the Democracy House Initiative; Organized by Jeffrey Nielsen)
September 21
Ethics Awareness Week Documentary Film and Discussion:
Standing Silent Nation
Preview movie <http://standingsilentnation.com/trailer.html>
10-11 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (SC 243)
Panel discussion:
Dustin (“Dusty”) Jansen, Adjunct Instructor, Legal Studies, UVSC
Forest Cuch, Utah Department of Indian Affairs (Ute tribe)
11-11:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Organized by Naomi Roberts)
October 3
Monthly Ethics Forum:
The School Voucher Issue
Kim Burningham, Chair, State Board of Education
Patrick Byrne, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Overstock.com
Marilyn Kofford, Former Utah State PTA Education Commissioner
Paul T. Mero, President, Sutherland Institute
Moderator: Jill Jasperson, Associate Professor of Legal Studies, UVSC
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Organized by Jill Jasperson)
October 11
Lunchtime Ethics and Integrity Open Discussion:
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
October 16
“What’s at Stake in Iraq for America?”
Omar Kader, Founder, Past President and CEO, Planning and Learning Technologies
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
November 7
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“Appreciating the Breadth and Depth of Cultural Diversity in Northern Utah”
Ross L. Olsen, Executive Director
Utah Cultural Celebration Center
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
November 8
Lunchtime Ethics and Integrity Open Discussion:
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
November 27
Open Forum: Ethics and Public Policy
Orrin G. Hatch, U.S. Senator, State of Utah
10-11 a.m., Centre Stage
(Cosponsored with the Center for Engaged Learning)
December 4
“In Our Own Voice”
National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI)
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the UVSC NAMI Club and UVSC Mental Health Services)
SPRING SEMESTER 2008
January 11
Representative Chris Cannon (R-Utah)
“Civility, Democracy and Elections”
10-10:50 a.m., room TBA
January 23 & 24
Ninth Annual Conference by the Faculty:
“Bioethics”
January 23:
9 a.m.-4:50 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
January 24:
8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
February 6
Monthly Ethics Forum:
“Tortured Times for American Values”
David Irvine, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (retired)
7:00-8:30 p.m., [Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)]
February 11
Ethan Bronner, Reporter, The New York Times
“War and Terror: How The New York Times Covers Today’s Big Global Conflicts”
3-4:30 p.m. [Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)]
February 14
Lunchtime People of Integrity Open Discussion:
“Ethics and People of Integrity”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Organized by Wayne Hanewicz, Program Coordinator, Persons of Integrity Initiative)
March 5
Annual Kirk Englehardt Business Ethics Lecture:
Jeanette Lynton, Founder and CEO, Close to My Heart Corporation
10-10:50 a.m. Regan Theater
Public Reception:
11:00-11:30 a.m., Trustees Suite (SC 213c)
Monthly Ethics Forum:
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
March 31-April 4
Environmental Awareness Week
April 1 and 2
Twenty-First Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Public Health and the Environment
April 1
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. [Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)]
Public Health and the Environment Keynote Address:
Brian Moench, M.D.
President, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
“Utah’s Air Pollution: Should You Give Up & Move Out of State?”
10-11:15 a.m.
April 2
9 a.m.-3 p.m., [Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)]
Environmental Stewardship Award:
“The Future of Environmental Stewardship in Utah”
Jon Huntsman Jr., Governor, State of Utah
Presented by William A. Sederburg, President, UVSC
10-10:50 a.m., [Regan Theater]
Reception
11-11:30 a.m., [Trustees Suite, SC213c]
(Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program)
April 2
Monthly Ethics Forum:
Public Health and the Environment Keynote Address:
Chip Ward, Author and Environmental Activist
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the Peace and Justice Studies Program)
April 3
Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference:
“The Greening of Ethics”
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., [Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)]
Second Annual G. Lawrence Anderson Keynote Address:
“The Future of Environmental Ethics”
Holmes Rolston, III, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Book Discussion Group with the Author:
Rolston’s Genes, Genesis, and God
4-5:30 a.m., [Trustees Suite, SC213c]
(Cosponsored with the Department of Philosophy and Humanities and the Honors Program)
April 10
Lunchtime Ethics and Integrity Open Discussion:
Book Discussion Group of Shirin Ebadi’s Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country
Discussion led by by Kathy French and John Macfarlane
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the UVSC Library)
April 18
World Leaders Lecture Forum:
Shirin Ebadi
Recipient, Nobel Peace Prize, 2003
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2003/ebadi-autobio.html
11 a.m., University of Utah Union Ballroom (200 South Central Campus Dr.)
(Organized by the Tanner Humanities Center; Supported by the Center for the Study of Ethics)
April 28-May 2
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
“International Justice and Peace”
Omar Kader, President and CEO, Planning and Learning Technologies;
J. Bonner Ritchie, Professor Emeritus of International Organizational Behavior, Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management, and Scholar in Residence at Utah Valley University
1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213c (Trustees Suite)
FALL SEMESTER 2008
September 3
Monthly Ethics Forum: Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy
“The Ancient Athenian Experiment”
JaNae Brown Haas, Professor of History, UVU
3-4:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
September 15-19
Ethics Awareness Week
(For full schedule, see http://ethicscenter.info/)
September 15
Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Discussion on Pedagogy:
Engaged Learning: Ethics and Integrity
A panel discussion including participants of Communities of Engaged Learners (CEL) grants
(see http://www.uvu.edu/engage/)
3-4:30 PM, SC 213B
(Organized by Jill Jasperson, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Ethics, and Wayne Hanewicz, Persons of Integrity Program Coordinator of the CEL initiative)
September 16
Ethics Panel Discussions
8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m.
Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
University Faculty Fellow in Ethics Keynote Address:
Laura Hamblin, Professor of English & Literature, UVU
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Presentation and Ethics Awareness Week Keynote Address:
Christine M. Durham, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Utah
Keynote Address:
“Regulating Ethical Behavior in a ‘Just Society’”
Award Presentation by David B. Winder, Chair, Community Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Ethics
7:00-8:00 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
September 18
Annual Ethics and Public Policy Symposium:
Science, Government & Society: Policy for the Common Good
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., SC 213A
(Organized by David R. Keller and James V. Price)
Keynote Address: Andrew Revkin, Science Reporter, The New York Times
10-11:15 AM, Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
September 19
A Tribute to the Moral Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon
11-11:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Organized by Pierre Lamarche)
October 1
Monthly Ethics Forum:
Utah Third Congressional District Candidate Debate
Jason Chaffetz (Republican)
Jim Noorlander (Constitution)
Bennion Spencer (Democrat)
Moderator: Randy Wright, Managing Editor of the Daily Herald
7-8 p.m., Grand Ballroom, Student Center
Public Reception, 6:15-7:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom Foyer
(Cosponsored with The Daily Herald, UVU Associated Students, and the Office of the President; Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
October 9
“Democracy and the Vote”
with Q & A
Congressman Jim Matheson, Second Congressional District
10-11:15 a.m., Library Lakeview Room
(Organized by Elaine Englehardt, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, UVU; Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
October 22
Bob Bennett, U.S. Senator, State of Utah
“Democracy, Elections, and Finance Scandals”
4-4:50 p.m., LA 101
(Organized by Elaine Englehardt, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, UVU; Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
November 6
Monthly Ethics Forum: Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy
“Thomas Paine’s Vision for a New Nation”
Vikki J. Vickers, Assistant Professor of History, Weber State University
3-4:30 p.m., Timpanogos Room, UVU Library, Fourth Floor
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
December 8
“An Update on Afghanistan: Security, Development and Relations with the U.S.”
Mr. M. Ashraf Haidari, Counselor
Political, Security & Development Affairs
The Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington, DC
10-10:50 a.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
Open Discussion with Mr. Haidari
11-11:50 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
(Cosponsored by the Office of International Affairs & Diplomacy)
(Organized by Najibullah Niazi, Student, UVU)
SPRING SEMESTER 2009
January 21 & 22
Tenth Annual Conference by the Faculty:
"The New Globalism: What Role for the United States?"
(Organized by Jill Jasperson, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Ethics)
January 21:
9 a.m.-2:50 p.m., SC 206C
January 22:
10 a.m.-2:15 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
January 27
Tenth Annual Conference by the Faculty Fellow in Ethics Keynote Address:
Waiting in Amman: Iraqi Women Refugees’ Oral Histories”
Laura Hamblin, University Faculty Fellow in Ethics 2007-2008
10-11:15 a.m., Ragan Theatre
February 5
Mini-Symposium: The Ethics and Public Policy of Earthquake Geology
"The History of Prehistoric Earthquakes on the Wasatch Fault"
Daniel Horns, Associate Professor of Geology, UVU
10-11:15 a.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
"Carnage in Asia: What is Our Ethical Responsibility Towards Those in Harm’s Way of Natural Hazards?"
Ron A. Harris, Professor of Structural Geology and Tectonics, Brigham Young University, and Founder, In Harm’s Way Disaster Prevention Fund
(see <http://inharmswayhelp.org/default.aspx>)
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Cosponsored with the Department of Earth Science)
Monthly Ethics Forum: Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy
"The Democratic Soul: From Tocqueville to Emerson and Beyond"
Mark Button, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Utah
2:30-3:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
February 10
Panel Discussion on the Obama Presidency: A Turning Point in History?
Jay DeSart, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UVU
Joseph Quin Monson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University
Vikki J. Vickers, Assistant Professor of History, Weber State University
Moderator: David R. Connelly, Associate Professor of Political Science
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
February 19
The Ethics of Civil Disobedience
Tim DeChristopher, Environmental Activist
Introduction: Jim Westwater, President, Utah Valley Sierra Forum
4‑5:15 p.m., Timpanogos Room, UVU Library
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
March 3
"Distant Lands, Diverse Cultures"
Readings by Satyam S. Moorty, Emeritus Professor of English, Southern Utah University
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Cosponsored with Guest Author Series)
March 5
Monthly Ethics Forum: Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy
"Andrey Sakharov and Democracy-building in Commonwealth of Independent States"
Alexey Semyonov, Vice-President and Director, Andrei Sakharov Foundation
2:30-3:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project; Cosponsored with the Department of History and Political Science, and the Office of International Affairs & Diplomacy UVU)
March 24
Annual Kirk R. Englehardt Business Ethics Award and Address:
Orin Richards Woodbury, Former President and CEO of Woodbury Corporation
Public Reception for Mr. Woodbury:
11-11:30 a.m., Center Stage
Keynote Address by Mr. Woodbury:
11:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m., Center Stage
Presentation of Award by Elizabeth J. Hitch, Interim President, UVU
(Cosponsored with the Woodbury School of Business)
March 24
The Ethics and Dynamics of Group Deliberation
Michael S. Pritchard, Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, Visiting Scholar, Utah Valley University
2:30‑3:45 PM, Lakeview Room, UVU Library
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
March 30-April 3
Environmental Awareness Week
March 30
Environmental Awareness Week Documentary Film:
“The Story of Stuff”
4:30-5 p.m., LA101
March 31
"What Wolves Are..."
Kirk C. Robinson, Executive Director, Western Wildlife Conservancy
10-11:15 a.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
"...And Why We Should Care About Them"
Bob Blackwell, Emeritus Professor of Biology, UVSC
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Organized by Karen Mizell)
April 1 and 2
Twenty-Second Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Energy Alternatives for the Twenty-First Century
(Organized by Dave Winder, Chair, Center for the Study of Ethics Community Advisory Board; Cosponsored with the Environmental Studies Program)
April 1:
The Future of Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy Sources
9 a.m.-1:50 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
April 2:
The Future of Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy Sources
8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
April 2
World Leaders Lecture Forum:
“Leadership in an Uncertain World”
Cesar Gaviria, Former President of Columbia and Secretary General of the Organization of American States
11 a.m., University of Utah Union Ballroom (200 South Central Campus Drive)
(Organized by the Tanner Humanities Center;
Supported by the Center for the Study of Ethics)
April 9
“Mending a Torn World: Women in Interreligious Dialogue”
Maura O'Neill, Professor of Philosophy, Chaffey College
10-11:15 a.m., SC206C
Faculty Book discussion with the Author over Lunch: Mending a Torn World: Women in Interreligious Dialogue
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., SC206G/H
April 9
Monthly Ethics Forum: Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy
Michael Minch, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVU
"Hobbes and the Social Contract"
2:30-3:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
April 10
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)
Introduction by Matthew S. Holland, President-Select, UVU
10-10:50 a.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Organized by Elaine Englehardt, Special Assistant to the President; Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
May 4-8
Annual Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar:
The Ethics of the Free-Market Political Economy
Days One and Two (May 4 and 5):
The Philosophical and Economic Foundations of Free-Market Economics:
Korkut Erturk, Professor of Economics and Chair, Department of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Utah
May 4: 1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213C (Trustees Suite)
May 5: 1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213C (Trustees Suite)
Days Three, Four, and Five (May 6. 7, and 8):
The Ethics and Public Implications of Free-Market Economics
Mark Sagoff, Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland
May 5: 1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213C (Trustees Suite)
May 6: 1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213B
May 7: 1:00-4:00 p.m., SC 213C (Trustees Suite)