On Monday March 18th, Brother Number One  (2011) will be screened as part of the Ethics Film Series. Through New Zealander Rob Hamill’s story of his brother’s death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Brother Number One explores how the regime and its followers killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. Thirty years later, Rob has a rare chance to take the stand as a witness at the Cambodia War Crimes Tribunal. In this documentary,  Rob retraces his brother’s final days, meeting survivors who tell the story of what countless families across Cambodia experienced at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

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 Luke Bretherton (Duke Divinity School) and Jeffrey Sonis (UNC Department of Social Medicine).

The screenings are free and open to the public. Refreshments and free parking passes provided.

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.

March 5, 2013
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building

Opening Reception
Survival in Sarajevo: The Story of La Benevolencija. Jews, Muslims, Croats & Serbs working together during the Bosnian War, 1992-1995.

This photographic exhibit, made possible by Centropa, will be on display from March 1-29, 2013.

Parking available behind the Friedl Building. From Buchanan St., turn left into East Campus; free after 5:00 pm.

Sponsored by the Duke Center for European Studies, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University.

What Philosophers Believe (about Ethics, and other things)

Kieran Healy, Associate Professor in Sociology and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, will be speaking March 4th as part of the Monday Seminar Series from 12:00-1:30 in room 101, West Duke Building.

Healy’s presentation will include results from a survey about the beliefs and intellectual commitments of professional philosophers. Although the data is noisy, some patterns emerge, particularly around questions of religious belief and scientific naturalism, as well as other areas relevant to ethics. These findings are linked to ongoing debates in the U.S. about the moral and political beliefs of faculty. Amongst philosophers, while some consensus is apparent, there is little evidence that the social location of philosophers (e.g., the prestige of their employer) is systematically connected to particular ideological commitments.

Healy’s research interests are in economic sociology, the sociology of culture, the sociology of organizations, and social theory. He is the author of Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Healy earned an undergraduate degree in sociology and geography at the National University of Ireland (Cork) and a Ph.D in sociology from Princeton University. His current focus is on the moral order of market society, the effect of quantification on the emergence and stabilization of social categories, and the link between these two topics.