Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making at KIE
PBS will be airing a new series, Brains on Trial, hosted by Alan Alda, examining neuroscience and the law. Airings on WUNC-TV will be Wednesday Sep. 11 and Sep. 18 at 10:00 pm.
In addition, KIE faculty Walter Sinnott-Armstrong will be participating in a panel discussion on the subject with other Duke professors to be aired on WUNC-TV Thursday, Sep. 12 at 10:00 pm.
Mary Beth Fallin, PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Duke University, will be speaking on Sept. 9 as part of the Monday Seminar Series from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in room 101, West Duke Building.
Fallin’s primary research areas are cognitive cultural sociology and social psychology. Specifically, how the integration of these two areas can help people to understand how individuals’ perceptions and worldviews shape the information they are likely to share, and how these perceptions and worldviews are shaped, in turn, by the information they are likely to receive.
Institute students, faculty and staff will be invited to join us in kicking off the new semester with a cookout outside the West Duke Building. All who are planning to attend must RSVP to Bashar Alobaidi, bashar.alobaidi@duke.edu by August 22. In addition to dinner, Mona Lisa’s Highway Blues will be on hand!
Thursday, August 29
Lawn by West Duke Building
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Project Change is a pre-orientation program that provides an immersive leadership experience in which participants live, learn, and work in Durham, competing with a team of peers to find ways to solve the city’s critical problems. Students have fun, meet friends, and get to know the city where they’ll call home for the next four years. Co-sponsored by the Duke Women’s Center and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the program invites incoming first years to spend eight intense days of taking risks, making mistakes, and meeting challenges with a select group of students, staff, community leaders, and faculty. They join a diverse team of eighteen peers and are given the adventure of a lifetime—to change the lives of complete strangers in creative and dramatic ways.
Complete information, including required forms, can be found at the Project Change page. Registration is completed through Duke Student Affairs.
Human Rights and Diaspora: Minorities and Liberal Citizenship
What does it mean to be European? Canadian? Are international human rights at odds with rights for national minorities in western countries? How do immigration and religious culture affect European citizenship?
April 25, 4:15-6:00 pm: Jews & Muslims in Canada: Minorities, Diasporas, and the meaning of “Canadian”
April 26, 8:45-4:00 pm: National Minorities in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Law, History, and Social Science
All sessions will be held in the West Duke Building, room 101, East Campus.
If you are interested in attending, please R.S.V.P. to Kelly Lipford, kelly.lipford@duke.edu
This event is offered by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Center for European Studies, with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Office of the Provost, with additional sponsorship by the Center for Canadian Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.
Thursday, April 25
Jews & Muslims in Canada: Minorities, Diasporas, and the Meaning of “Canadian”
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm
101 West Duke Building, East Campus
Reception to follow
Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto | Muslims in Canada? Representations in Media, Policy, and Law
Morton Weinfeld, McGill University | Jewish integration in Canada: Identity, Loyalty, and Challenges of Multiculturalism
Description: Post-WWII Jewish integration in Canada is often presented as a success story of Canadian multiculturalism. In contrast, Canadian responses to Muslim traditionalism and perceived militancy have made integration difficult, and Muslim immigrants’ diverse origins remain a challenge to building communal solidarity. Could any lesson be drawn from Jewish integration for the future of Canadian Muslims?
National Minorities in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Law, History, and Social Science
8:45 am Welcome & Introduction
Malachi Hacohen and Suzanne Shanahan, Duke University
9:15 am From Minority Rights to Human Rights? Group and Individual Rights in the 1940’s and 1950’s
Daniel Cohen, Rice University | Minority Rights in the ‘Human Rights Revolution’
Elazar Barkan, Columbia University | No Return, No Refuge
Chair: Claudia Koonz, Duke University; Discussant: Gil Rubin, Columbia University
11:15 am National Minorities and the Law in Europe
Patrick Macklem, Toronto Law School | Guarding the Perimeter: Militant Democracy and Religious Freedom in Europe
Liav Orgad, IDC Law School | Illiberal Liberalism: Cultural Restrictions on Migration and Access to Citizenship in Europe
Chair: Morton Weinfeld, McGill University; Discussant: Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
1:00 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Old Meets New? The Challenges of New Migrations for National Minorities in Europe
Jennifer Jackson-Preece, London School of Economics | Deconstruction Discourses of Minority/Migrant Rights in Europe
Maria Stoilkova, University of Florida | Populism and Immigration in Contemporary Bulgaria
Chair: Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto; Discussant: Laurie McIntosh, Duke University
3:30 pm Concluding Thoughts
A pasword-protected site has been set up for participants to access all of the papers here.
Shielding the Mountains: Tibetan cultures of nature
Emily Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be speaking April 22nd as of the Monday Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:30 in room 101, West Duke Building. This talk is part of the Environmental Justice Initiative in collaboration with Nicholas School of the Environment.
Why have Tibetans become environmentalists in recent years? How do Tibetans conceptualize “nature” and the relationship between human bodies and the surrounding world? This presentation will start with a 20 minute film by the presenter that explores these questions. This will be followed by a short presentation about contemporary articulations of Tibetan Buddhist ethics, culture and environmental protection, and the role of Tibet in the formation of China’s environmental movement.
Yeh conducts research on nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the PRC, including the political ecology of pastoral environment and development policies, the relationship between ideologies of nature and nation, natural resource commodity chains, indigenous knowledge about climate change, and emerging environmental subjectivities. In addition she has worked on the cultural politics and political economy of development in Tibet, discussed in her forthcoming book, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.
The twelve students currently enrolled in KIE’s DukeImmerse program “Uprooted/Rerouted” will perform dramatic readings of refugee life stories collected during their recent field work in Egypt and Nepal. This is the second year of the program and of the presentations (last year’s readings can be seen on the KIE YouTube channel).
The students spent a month working either with Iraqi refugees in Cairo or Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.
Sunday, April 21
6:00 pm (Reception to follow)
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
Join us April 19th at noon for a wide-ranging discussion on politics and globalization with this year’s Kenan Distinguished Lecturer in Ethics, Michael Ignatieff. Dr. Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian scholar, author, television and radio broadcaster, and former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party (2008-2011). Dr. Ignatieff has published on subjects such as the English penal system, the human need for community, modern warfare, and human rights. His more recent work has also addressed the ethics of waging wars against terrorism. In addition to his non-fiction work, Ignatieff wrote a television play, Dialogue in the Dark, and his second novel Scar Tissue (1993) was short-listed for both the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. He currently holds joint appointments at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and is also the Chair for the Carnegie Council Centennial Project, “Ethics for a Connected World,” meant to stimulate current and future generations to consider the role of ethics in an increasingly interconnected world.
When: April 19th at noon
Where: West Duke 107F
RSVP: Via this link by April 17th
The Ethics of Globalization and the Globalization of Ethics
The annual Kenan Distinguished Lecture for 2013 features Canadian scholar, author and former politician Michael Ignatieff. He will be speaking on the globalization of ethics that has accompanied the globalization of commerce and communications. What ethical values do human beings share across all our differences of race, religion, ethnicity, national identity, and material wealth?
Ignatieff served in the Parliament of Canada and was Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He currently holds joint appointments at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. His books include The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992),Blood and Belonging (1993), The Warriors Honour (1997), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004).
Thursday, April 18
Fleishman Commons, Sanford School of Public Policy Building
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. (Reception to follow)
Free parking will be available in the Sanford Lot behind the Sanford Building.
This event has additional support from the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke.
Collaboration for Managing Risk in Complex Systems: An Aviation Success Story
Christopher Hart, Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), will be speaking on Monday, April 15. This event is cosponsored by Rethinking Regulation at KIE and the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership Ethics.
Hart has a long history in transportation safety, including serving in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as Deputy Director for Air Traffic Safety Oversight and Assistant Administrator for the Office of System Safety. Additionally, he served as Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. From 1973 until 1990, Hart held a series of legal positions, mostly in the private sector. He holds a law degree from Harvard University and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.
Monday, April 15
2:00 – 3:30
HCA Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business
Free and open to the public