The Kenan Institute for Ethics

The Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Film/Video Digital Program are sponsoring a new film series on campus entitled "Sex, Love and Conflict: On the Ethics of Relationships," as part of Duke’s Spring Screen/Society.

This series of four films will address ethical issues surrounding sexuality, love and conflict in our modern lives and will offer opportunities to promote dialogue among men and women at Duke and in Durham.

The films will be shown on the following nights at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater (Bryan Center, West Campus). Each screening will be followed by an engaging discussion led by faculty members. Refreshments will be provided. All screenings are free and open to the public.

February 5: Knocked Up

February 19: Fight Club

March 4: Notes on a Scandal

March 18: In the Bedroom

For more information, visit Duke's Screen/Society or contact the Kenan Institute for Ethics directly by calling us at 919-660-3033 or emailing us at kie@duke.edu.

Screening of "Terror's Advocate"

followed by discussion with
Professor Michael Tigar

Monday, February 18
7:00 pm

Griffith Film Theater

The Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Film/Video Digital Program are sponsoring the screening of Barbet Schroeder's controversial and topical new documentary film, "Terror's Advocate," about the infamous French defense attorney Jacques Vergès.
Despite receiving significant attention abroad, this documentary has only been shown in a few select locations in the United States. We are proud to host its North Carolina premiere at Duke, with comments to follow from renowned legal expert and visiting Duke Law professor, Michael Tigar.

The film addresses a variety of topics including the origins of modern terrorism and the political history of the last half-century. Schroeder explores and questions the history of "blind terrorism" through his penetrating investigation of Vergès and leads us towards shocking revelations that expose long-hidden links in history.

The film will be shown at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater (Bryan Center, West Campus). The screening is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit Duke's Screen/Society, call the Film/Video/Digital Department at 919-660-3030, or email the Kenan Institute for Ethics at kie@duke.edu.

Business and Human Rights:
Perspectives from BP
and the United Nations

Christine Bader

Wednesday, March 19
12:00 pm

RJR Auditorium
Fuqua School of Business

The Kenan Institute for Ethics is pleased to host a lecture by Christine Bader, an executive at BP and Advisor to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights. Bader will share her experiences with the UN and with making human rights central to BP's work across the globe.

Bader is currently on loan from BP to the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for business and human rights, who is charged with creating an overarching framework for practice in these areas, including the clarification of standards of corporate responsibility and the role of governments. Bader received her M.B.A. from Yale University.

From 2000 to 2003, she lived and worked for BP in Indonesia and China, focusing on the social impacts of two of the company's biggest projects: the Tangguh LNG project in West Papua and the Shanghai Ethylene Cracker Company, a BP-Sinopec joint venture. She then moved to BP headquarters in London, where she led the development of the company's Human Rights Guidance Note (available at http://bp.com/humanrights).

This event is cosponsored by the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) and the Human Rights Center.

There will be a lunch buffet following the talk. While the talk is open to all, seating at the lunch is limited. Please RSVP to Ada Gregory at ada.gregory@duke.edu if you'd like to join Ms. Bader for lunch.

E-Ethics:
A Forum on
Student Computer Use

Tuesday, April 1
7:00 pm
Von Canon rooms, Bryan Center

E-Ethics is a one-evening panel discussion featuring experts speaking on ethical issues in student computing and usage, including downloading and sharing copyrighted media files, Facebook and social networking, and plagiarism using online sources. It will also offer alternative solutions to copyright infringement, such as Creative Commons.

Presenters include:
Dr. Leslie Dare, Director, Distance Education & Technology Services at Division of Student Affairs, North Carolina State University
Dr. Hugh Crumley, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education at Duke University Graduate School & The Center for Instructional Technology
Stephen Bryan, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Judicial Affairs, Duke University

This event is presented by the Office of Judicial Affairs and made possible by a grant from the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Light refreshments will be served following the panel. For more information, please contact Valerie Kolko at 919-684-6747 or at valerie.kolko@duke.edu.



The Nature and Nurture of Morality

An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Friday, April 4
8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Rhodes Conference Room,

Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy

The Kenan Institute for Ethics is pleased to host "The Nature and Nurture of Morality," a day-long interdisciplinary workshop on emergent conceptions of morality and the creation of ethical systems. This event is free and open to the public.

Schedule:

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:40 a.m. Welcome
Peter Lange (Provost and Political Science, Duke University)

8:45 - 10:30 a.m.
Moral Development and the Cultivation of Character

Daniel Hart (Psychology, Rutgers University)
Melanie Killen (Psychology, University of Maryland)
Judith Smetana (Psychology, University of Rochester)

Discussant: Sam Wells (Dean of the Chapel and Divinity, Duke University)

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:30 p.m.
Neural Correlates and Biological Roots of Morality

James Blair (Psychology and Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health)
Darcia Narvaez (Psychology, Notre Dame)
Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Discussant: Alex Rosenberg (Philosophy, Duke University)

12:30 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Cultural and Civic Perspectives on Morality

Jonathan Haidt (Psychology, University of Virginia)
Rob Reich (Political Science, Stanford University)
Rick Shweder (Cultural Anthropology, University of Chicago)

Discussant: Jeff Spinner-Halev (Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

2:45 - 3:30 p.m. Concluding Discussion
Phil Costanzo (Psychology, Duke University)
Suzanne Shanahan (Sociology and Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University)

This event is cosponsored by the Dean of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Psychology, the Department of Sociology, the Institute for Brain Sciences, the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine.

For more information, contact us at 919-660-3033 or at kie@duke.edu. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP needed.

Human Rights, Essential Medicines, and Intellectual Property: The Moral Case for Reform

Matthew DeCamp, Trent Center Colloquium Series

Tuesday, April 8
5:00 - 6:15 pm

John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240

By some estimates, more than 2 billion people lack regular access to essential medicines. Why is this morally troublesome, and what can be done about it? This lecture will argue that modern human rights discourse – focusing on the human right to health, of which the essential medicines are one part – provides the best account for why this is morally problematic.

Matthew DeCamp, PhD, entered the Duke University Medical Scientist Training (MD/PhD) Program in 2000 and is in his final year of medical school. He has worked with Duke University’s Institutional Review Board; Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and the History of Medicine; the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy; and the Program on Global Health and Technology Access. His thesis, “Global Health: A Normative Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights and Global Distributive Justice,” examines global intellectual property rules and their impact on access to essential medicines.

The Trent Center Colloquium Series explores interdisciplinary topics in ethics and the social and cultural aspects of medicine. It is an opportunity for interested faculty, students, residents and fellows to both engage with current scholarship at Duke and, through informal, lively conversation, find avenues for collaborative exchange.

Refreshments will be served at this event. Free parking is available in the Pickens Clinic lot across from the John Hope
Franklin Center. For more information, please contact the Trent Center at 919-668-9000 or trent-center@duke.edu.

Living Faiths: What Do Religions
Have to Learn from One Another?

A Panel Discussion

Tuesday, April 8
7:30 pm

Freeman Center for Jewish Life

Duke University Chapel presents “Living Faiths: What Do Religions Have to Learn from Each Other?”

Three religious leaders will take part in this panel discussion: W. Deen Mohammed, an American Muslim leader and director of The Mosque Cares; Peter Ochs, professor of modern Judaic studies at UVA; and Ronald Sider, professor at Palmer Theological Seminary and founder of Evangelicals for Social Action. The panel will be moderated by Duke Chapel Dean Sam Wells. Following the discussion there will be break out groups with each of the speakers.

The Kenan Institute for Ethics is proud to cosponsor this event.

For more information, contact Emily Wilson-Hauger, Staff Assistant to the Deans and Faith Council Coordinator at 684-2032.

The Hebrew Republic:
From Greater Israel to
Global Israel

Bernard Avishai

RSVP Required

Wednesday, April 9
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm

Breedlove Room,
204 Perkins Library
West Campus
Duke University

The Kenan Institute for Ethics is pleased to host a lecture by Guggenheim Fellow and political economist Bernard Avishai. Avishai will discuss the connection between Israel's democratic crisis and the problems besetting the nation and make an intriguing case for Israel's new global enterprises to change the country's future for the better.

Bernard Avishai is consulting editor at the Harvard Business Review. He taught business at Duke University and was director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. He holds a doctorate in political economy from the University of Toronto.

Before turning to management, Avishai covered the Middle East as a journalist. He has written for the New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, and Slate, among others. He is the author of three books on Israel, including the widely read, The Tragedy of Zionism, and the forthcoming The Hebrew Republic. He lives in New Hampshire and in Jerusalem.

This event is cosponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Duke-Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar, and Jewish Life at Duke.

Lunch will be available at this event. Please RSVP via email by Friday, April 4 to aimee.rodriguez@duke.edu if you plan to attend (be sure to include any dietary restrictions in your email).

Parking/Directions:
The Bryan Center Parking Deck is the best option for public parking. Visit http://map.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P002&bid=7704 for driving directions and lot information.

From the Bryan Center Parking Deck, walk past the roundabout in front of the Bryan Center toward Duke Chapel. Walk through the Chapel arches to the main quad. Go down the main steps in front of the Chapel and walk along the left side of the drive. Perkins Library will be on your left. Enter in the first door on the left (door faces the Allen Building). Go up the staircase one floor, through the glass door, to the end of the hall. The Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) is at the end of the hall on the left. Visit http://map.duke.edu/?bid=7704 for a map of this area of Duke’s campus.



Moral Mathematics:
The Science of Human Rights
Conference

Keynote Speaker
Shirin Ebadi

Friday, April 11, 5:30 pm

Keynote

Saturday, April 12,
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Conference

Multiple Locations

"Moral Mathematics: The Science of Modern Human Rights" is a one-day conference that examines how the quantitative sciences, including statistics, economics, and demography, as well as certain kinds of sociology and political science, can contribute to human rights improvement around the world.

Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace prize, will deliver the keynote lecture on Friday, April 11 at 5:30 pm in the Richard White Auditorium on Duke's East Campus.

The conference will take place on Saturday, April 12 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in the Old Chemistry Building, Room 116, on Duke's West Campus.

Both the keynote and conference events are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by Duke University's Human Rights Center and RTI International. The Kenan Institute for Ethics is proud to be a cosponsor of this event.

For more information, visit http://www.duke.edu/web/rightsatduke/calendar.html, call 919-668-6511 or email rights@duke.edu.



On the Border of Order:
Contemporary U.S. Immigration
Principles and Policies

A Symposium

Monday, April 14
12:00-5:00 pm

Doris Duke Center
Sarah P. Duke Gardens

The Kenan Institute for Ethics's 2008 Annual Public Ethics Spring Symposium tackles the topic of immigration in America.

Disaffection with the deadlock in U.S. immigration policy is widespread. These concerns are rooted in competing claims about human rights and the rule of law, social order and national identity, and the economic and civic dimensions of citizenship. The symposium gathers scholars, policymakers, and community leaders to assess the principles at stake in national policy debates, the meaning of citizenship at the state and local level, and the implications for social cohesion of large-scale demographic change.

Program:

Noon - 12:15 p.m.
Welcome & Introduction
Noah Pickus, Kenan Institute for Ethics and Sanford Institute of Public Policy

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Immigration’s Future: Amnesty, Enforcement, Guest-Workers and Beyond
Tamar Jacoby, ImmigrationWorks USA (Presenter)
Hiroshi Motomura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School (Respondent)
Carol Swain, Vanderbilt University Law School (Respondent)
Gunther Peck, Department of History and Sanford Institute of Public Policy (Chair)

Background information for this panel:
"Immigration Nation," Foreign Affairs
"Immigration Bomb is Dud," The Arizona Republic
"The American Way on Immigration -- Or Germany's?" washingtonpost.com

1:45 - 3:00 p.m.
Good Neighbors and Citizens: Beyond the Legal-Illegal Debate
Peter Skerry, Boston College and the Brookings Institution (Presenter)
Juan Rangel, United Neighborhoods Organization (Respondent)
John Herrera, Carrboro Board of Alderman (Respondent)
David Schanzer, Sanford Institute of Public Policy (Chair)

Background information for this panel:
Debating Immigration, Chapter 7

3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Immigrant Assimilation in the United States: Economic, Cultural and Civic
Jake Vigdor, Sanford Institute of Public Policy (Presenter)
Paula McClain, Department of Political Science (Respondent)
José Saldívar, Latino/a Studies (Respondent)
Emilio Parrado, Department of Sociology (Chair)

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Concluding Comments and Discussion
Suzanne Shanahan, Kenan Institute for Ethics and Department of Sociology
Noah Pickus, Kenan Institute for Ethics and Sanford Institute of Public Policy

The symposium is made possible by support from the Matt and Susan Mackowski Fund.

The Kenan Institute for Ethics is grateful to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens for the use of the Doris Duke Center.

The symposium is cosponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Center for Documentary Studies, Latino/a Studies, the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, the Wildacres Leadership Initiative, and the Department of Political Science.

This event is free and open to the public. Participants may attend all or any portion of the symposium. Free parking is available at the Doris Duke Center. Boxed lunches will be available starting at 11:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please call 919-660-3033 or email kie@duke.edu for additional information.



Beasts of No Nation

Uzodinma Iweala

Wednesday, April 16, 4:30 pm

Gothic Bookshop

Uzodinma Iweala, acclaimed author of Beasts of No Nation, will give a reading and discussion about fiction, politics , and contemporary Africa on Wednesday, April 16 at the Gothic Bookshop in the Bryan Center.

A lunch with interested undergraduates will precede the reading. The lunch will be at 12:00 noon in the English Department lounge (Allen 328).

This event is sponsored by the Franklin Collection, the English Department, and the Center for International Studies. The Kenan Institute for Ethics is proud to be a cosponsor of this event.

For more information, please contact Bart Keeton at bck2@duke.edu or Nathan Hensley at nathan.hensley@duke.edu.