Religions and Public Life Speaker: Cardinal Francis George, Feb. 12

Nov 262012
 
 November 26, 2012

“Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Globalization”

Francis Cardinal George, OMI, Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, will be speaking Tuesday, February 12th at 11:30 am as part of the Religions and Public Life speaker series.

Cardinal Francis George is the first Chicago native to become Archbishop of Chicago. He is the thirteenth Ordinary of Chicago since its establishment as a diocese in 1843. The northwest side native, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is the sixth Cardinal to lead the Chicago Archdiocese’s 2.3 million Catholics. He has assumed a prominent position among U.S. bishops, serving as the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2007 to 2010. His pastoral leadership encompasses international and national audiences.

The Religions and Public Life initiative is sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Divinity School, and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

February 12, 11:30 am

Westbrook Building room 0012

Jews & Muslims in South Africa, Feb. 11

Nov 262012
 
 November 26, 2012

KIE Senior Fellow Ebrahim Moosa and Visiting Associate Professor of History Karin Shapiro will be discussing Jews and Muslims in South Africa in Apartheid and After, from 4:30 – 6:00 pm. The event is sponsored by the Duke Center for European Studies and KIE with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

4:30 – 6:00 pm
Jon Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Free parking after 4:00 pm available in the Pickins lot across from the John Hope Franklin Center

Ethics Film Series: Le fils (The Son), Feb. 11

Nov 262012
 
 November 26, 2012

On Monday February 11th, Le fils (The Son)  (2002) will be screened as part of the Ethics Film Series. In this award-winning Belgian-French mystery film, themes of compassion and justice unfold in unexpected ways. Written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Le fils tells the story of a sixteen year old boy who is taken under the wing of a grieving carpenter named Olivier, who lost his son five years ago. As Olivier becomes increasingly interested in the teenager, it is revealed  why he is so fixated on his new apprentice.

The film will begin at 7:00pm  in the Griffith Film Theater in Duke University’s Bryan Center, followed by a post-film discussion with Elisabeth Benfey (Lecturer in the Program in Arts of the Moving Image and Theater Studies), Maria Febbo (Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology), and Joyce Wu (Visiting Assistant Professor in Romance Studies – French).

The screenings are free and open to the public. Refreshments and free parking passes provided.  Please park in the parking deck by the Bryan Center. You will be given a pass to submit to the attendant upon leaving the event.

The theme of the 2013 Ethics Film Series is “Love and Justice.” This year, the film series will be in collaboration with the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival. Each spring, the Kenan Institute for Ethics sponsors a film series in collaboration with Duke’s Screen/Society, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Arts of the Moving Image Program. The films provide popular and accessible vehicles for talking about ethics around a particular theme, and each series as a whole offers rich opportunities for debate and discussion on ethical issues for audiences from both the Duke and Durham communities.

 

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on LGBT Human Rights Advocacy, Feb. 8

Nov 252012
 
 November 25, 2012

This day-long conference is co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for International and Comparative Law at Duke Law School, Women’s Studies and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for LGBT Life at Duke.

Recent efforts to combat violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity have made remarkable progress internationally. But these efforts have also been met with resistance and backlashes in some countries. The rapid changes in the legal, political, social and cultural landscapes for LGBT individuals raise fundamental questions about the strategies that activists, lawyers and NGOs deploy to promote LGBT equality.

The workshop will provide an opportunity to bring together a small group of scholars and practitioners whose work focuses on LGBT advocacy internationally, comparatively, and in different regions of the world. There will be no paper presentations at the workshop.  Instead, we will organize a series of panels focusing on different themes or topics. We hope that participants will share the findings of their research and professional activities, exchange insights about strategies for achieving legal and policy reforms, and engage in a dialogue that is enriched by insights from law, social science, and various types of advocacy and practice.

Panels will be held in West Duke Building, Room 101, from morning to mid-afternoon.
Free and open to the public, Registration is required. Please email Kelly Lipford, kelly.lipford@duke.edu

Participants

  • Clifford Bob, Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair in International Relations, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Julie Dorf, Senior Advisor, The Council for Global Equality, Washington, DC
  • Stephen Engel, Assistant Professor of Politics, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
  • Elizabeth M. Glazer, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
  • Laurence Helfer, Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law, Duke University
  • Cymene Howe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, TX
  • Allison Jernow, Senior Legal Adviser, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Paul Johnson, Anniversary Reader, Department of Sociology, University of York, UK
  • Holning Lau, Assistant Professor of Law, UNC Law School, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Colin Robinson, Executive Director of CAISO and Secretariat of the Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities (CariFLAGS), Trinidad & Tobago
  • Suzanne Shanahan, Acting Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Associate Research Professor in Sociology, Duke University
  • Amy Stone, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
  • Kees Waaldijk, Professor of Comparative Sexual Orientation Law, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law, Kings College London, UK

Schedule

8:45-9:15  Continental breakfast and coffee

9:15-9:30  Welcome and introductions

9:30-10:45  Reports from the field: Recent achievements and challenges in LGBT human rights advocacy 

10:45-11:00  Break

11:00-12:15  Transnational mobilization for LGBT rights: Alternative advocacy strategies and the relevance of law and lawyers

12:15-1:30  Working Lunch—LGBT equality and religious freedom: Conflict or coexistence?

1:30-2:45  Backlashes to LGBT rights and strategies to counter them 

2:45-3:00  Break

3:00-4:15  Connecting academia to advocacy: Research resources and priorities across disciplines 

The workshop will also provide an opportunity to highlight, both as part of the panel discussions and more broadly, several recently-published books by the participants, including:

  • Clifford Bob, The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (Cambridge 2012)
  • Cymene Howe, Mediating Sexuality: Activism and the Politics of Sexual Rights in Nicaragua (Duke 2013)
  • Allison Jernow, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Justice: A Comparative Law Casebook (International Commission of Jurists 2012)
  • Paul Johnson, Homosexuality and the European Court of Human Rights (Routledge 2012)
  • Amy Stone, Gay Rights at the Ballot Box (Minnesota 2012)

 

 

Environmental Justice Speaker: Julian Agyeman, Feb. 5

Nov 222012
 
 November 22, 2012

“Just Sustainabilities: Re-imagining (E)quality, Living Within Limits”

On Tuesday, February 5th, Julian Agyeman will be speaking as part of the Environmental Justice series co-sponsored by KIE and the Nicholas School of the Environment.

Julian Agyeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the originator of the concept of “just sustainability,” the full integration of social justice and sustainability, defined as “the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems.”

12:00 noon – 1:30 pm
L.S.R.C. A158
Free and open to the public

 

Humanitarianism Workshop, Jan. 25

Nov 202012
 
 November 20, 2012

Conflict, Migration and Humanitarianism: The Ethics and Politics of Intervention 

On Friday, January 25th, the Kenan Institute for Ethics will be sponsoring a workshop on the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in contexts of migration and conflict. The program will bring together scholars whose work engages theoretical perspectives on medical, psychosocial and legal humanitarianism. Particular attention will be paid to the ways humanitarian intervention intersects with diverse forms of migration and displacement, particularly in post-conflict settings. Participants will present work based on ethnographic research in a wide range of global and institutional contexts.

Panel themes will address the complex ethical commitments and dilemmas faced by aid workers; tensions between security and humanitarianism in contexts of asylum; humanitarianism and temporality; the experiential implications of intervention for humanitarians and recipients; the challenges of humanitarianism in contexts of protracted displacement; and humanitarian interventions as sites of governance and care.

Participants include:

Heath Cabot (College of the Atlantic)
Nadia El-Shaarawi (Duke)
Ilana Feldman (George Washington University)
Bridget Haas (UC San Diego)
Erica Caple James (MIT)
Sara Lewis (Columbia)
Pierre Minn (UC SF/UC Berkeley)
Peter Redfield (UNC Chapel Hill)
Charles Watters (Rutgers)
Saiba Varma (Duke)

This workshop is invitation only. For more information, please contact Nadia El-Shaarawi, nadia.el-shaarawi@duke.edu.

Islam in Context: Dr. Robert Jones, Jan. 24

Nov 202012
 
 November 20, 2012

The Duke Islamic Studies Center, ISLAMiCommentary, KIE, the Religion Department, and the Center for Muslim Life will be hosting a talk by Dr. Robert P. Jones, founding CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and a leading scholar and commentator on religion, values, and public life.

Dr. Jones writes a weekly “Figuring Faith” column at the Washington Post’s On Faith section. Dr. Jones serves on the national steering committees for both the Religion and Politics Section and the Religion and the Social Sciences Section at the American Academy of Religion and is a member of the editorial board for “Politics and Religion,” a journal of the American Political Science Association. He is also an active member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Society of Christian Ethics, and the American Association of Public Opinion Research. He holds a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University, where he specialized in sociology of religion, politics, and religious ethics. He also holds a M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Before founding PRRI, Dr. Jones worked as a consultant and senior research fellow at several think tanks in Washington, DC, and was assistant professor of religious studies at Missouri State University.  Dr. Jones is frequently featured in major national media such as CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and others. Dr. Jones’ two books are Progressive & Religious: How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life and Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality.

Religious Minorities in America: Islam in Context
Thursday, January 24
4:00PM – 5:30PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240

“Finding Consciousness” Workshop, Jan. 23-25

Nov 192012
 
 November 19, 2012

Neuroscientists have recently developed ways to detect consciousness in patients with severe brain injury who show little or no outward sign of consciousness. These new methods raise a host of questions for scientists, philosophers, lawyers, ethicists and medical practitioners.
Join us for the workshop “Finding Consciousness” to discuss these interdisciplinary issues.

The workshop is free and open to the public. However, space is limited and registration is required. For registration and a full schedule, visit the conference website.

Speakers include:
Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD · Timothy Bayne, PhD · James Bernat, MD · Nita Farahany, JD, PhD · Jack Gallant, PhD · Valerie Gray Hardcastle, PhD · Jennifer Hawkins, PhD · Adrian Owen, PhD · Richard Payne, MD · Nicholas Schiff, MD · Caroline Schnakers, PhD

This conference is sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; Bioethics at the NIH; Duke Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences; Kenan Institute for Ethics; Duke Department of Philosophy; and Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Ethics Film Series: Gran Torino, Jan. 14

Nov 182012
 
 November 18, 2012

On Monday January 14, Gran Torino (2008) will be screened as part of the Ethics Film Series. In the film, disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.

The film will begin at 7:00pm  in the Griffith Film Theater in Duke University’s Bryan Center, followed by a post-film discussion with Professor Marianna Torgovnick (English Department and Arts of the Moving Image). Torgovnick’s research and teaching expertise relates to film and media studies, cultural criticism, religion, and contemporary American issues, and and she will lead discussion around the ethical and social issues raised by the film.

The screenings are free and open to the public. Refreshments and free parking passes provided.  Please park in the parking deck by the Bryan Center. You will be given a pass to submit to the attendant upon leaving the event.

The theme of the 2013 Ethics Film Series is “Love and Justice.” This year, the film series will be in collaboration with the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival. Each spring, the Kenan Institute for Ethics sponsors a film series in collaboration with Duke’s Screen/Society, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Arts of the Moving Image Program. The films provide popular and accessible vehicles for talking about ethics around a particular theme, and each series as a whole offers rich opportunities for debate and discussion on ethical issues for audiences from both the Duke and Durham communities.

 

Perspectives on Migration, Governance, and Citizenship symposium, Jan. 10-11

Nov 172012
 
 November 17, 2012

This January, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy, and the Law School’s Program in Public Law will be sponsoring a symposium on legal issues of global migration. This one-day program will bring together scholars from law, political theory, and history to discuss the theoretical and historical underpinnings of contemporary immigration law, pre-emption and federalism in the United States, and comparative approaches to policy.

Thursday, January 10
There will be a small session on State and Local Immigration Enforcement in the Goodson Law Library beginning at 4:30 pm.

Friday, January 11
The symposium panels will be held in Law School room 3043, and the lunch and keynote address in the Burdman Lounge, room 3000.

8:30 am: Introductory remarks

8:45-10:15 am: The Political Theory of Immigration Policy

10:30 am-12:00 pm: Separation of Powers and Federalism in the Immigration Context

12:00 – 1:00 pm: Lunch and Keynote Address, “The Forgotten Equality Norm in Immigration Preemption”

1:15-2:45 pm: International Approaches Compared: Central-Level Control over Immigration in the European Union

3:00 pm: Closing remarks

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