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