Hanagan earned her B.A. from Wesleyan College and her Ph.D. from Duke University. Her research focuses on questions of democratic citizenship and responsibility in the history of American political thought.

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Jessica Collett

Jessica Collett joined the Notre Dame faculty in fall 2006. Her current work focuses on how exchange contexts – that is the conditions under which social exchanges occur – affect the relational outcomes of exchange including perceptions of fairness, affective reactions, and levels of commitment, cohesion, and trust. Recent research appears in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Social Forces.

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Julian Savulescu

Julian Savulescu is a Romanian–Australian philosopher and bioethicist. He is Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University, and Head of the Melbourne–Oxford Stem Cell Collaboration, which is devoted to examining the ethical implications of cloning and embryonic stem cell research. He is the editor of the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics, which was until 2005 the highest impact journal in medical and applied ethics (as ranked by Thomson-ISI Journal Citation Indices). In addition to his background in applied ethics and philosophy, he also has a background in medicine and completed his MBBS (Hons) at Monash University.

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Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making at KIE

Friday, October 25
3:30-5:30 pm
202 West Duke Building

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Noah Pickus

Noah Pickus also co-directs the Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable and is the author of True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism, Becoming American/America Becoming, and Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century. Prior to joining the Kenan Institute for Ethics, he was the founding director of the Institute for Emerging Issues and taught at Duke and at Middlebury College. He has held fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the A.W. Mellon Foundation, and the H.B. Earhart Foundation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan and a doctorate in politics from Princeton University. He is currently working on immigration policy, academic integrity, and global ethical challenges.

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RSVP to amber.diaz@duke.edu by Sunday, September 22.

Religious Freedom and Persecution
Tuesday, September 24, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
101 West Duke Building

Panelists: Carolyn Warner, Arizona State University, Anthony Gill, University of Washington
Discussant/Moderator: Michael Gillespie, Duke University

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This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Wednesday, Sept. 18
12:15 pm-1:15 pm
3037 Law

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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is a faculty leader of KIE’s Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making program area. He has served as the co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project and co-investigator at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He has worked on ethics (theoretical, applied, and empirical), philosophy of law, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and informal logic. Sinnott-Armstrong is the author of Morality Without God? and Moral Skepticisms and editor of Moral Psychology, volumes I-III. His articles have appeared in a variety of philosophical, scientific, and popular journals and collections. He has received fellowships from the Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, the Princeton Center for Human Values, the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, and the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sinnott-Armstrong earned his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and his doctorate from Yale University. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as the uses of neuroscience in legal systems.

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Please register if you plan to attend.

This initiative represents a partnership of the Duke Human Rights Center at KIE, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, with funding from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation.

Friday, September 13, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Smith Warehouse
Garage C105 Bay 4
Lunch provided

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