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The Ethics of Now: Anita Sarkeesian

Durham Arts Council 120 Morris St, Durham, NC

Media critic Anita Sarkeesian’s clarity during GamerGate and after have made us more reflective but have also garnered her death threats and ongoing harassment. With a powerful mix of intellectual insight and striking courage, Sarkeesian illuminates how the virtual becomes the real. She brings a critic’s eye to the video game industry and shows how […]

Ethics of Now: Kiese Laymon

Durham Arts Council 120 Morris St, Durham, NC

Kiese Laymon does not dissemble. By turns raw, real, fantastical, and funny, his memoirs and fiction articulate the slow death of living amidst state violence and the poetic transcendence of managing to keep on keeping on nonetheless. Personal but public, his writing speaks to and for all of us. Kiese Laymon's books will be available […]

Postponed // Ethics of Now: Francisco Cantú

Durham Arts Council 120 Morris St, Durham, NC

Postponed The Ethics of Now is a series of conversations between Duke historian Adriane Lentz Smith and a range of artists, advocates, and authors that explore the ethical challenges facing the Durham and Duke communities.”

Privacy versus Public Health in a Pandemic: What are the ethical trade-offs?

The Ethics of Now with Adriane Lentz-Smith continues from home with a series of brief, thoughtful and timely conversations about the ethical dilemmas of this historic moment. This week, join Professor Lentz-Smith and Washington and Lee law and cyber ethics expert, Margaret Hu for a conversation about the ethical challenges of privacy during a pandemic: "Privacy versus […]

Who Gets the Ventilator? and other ethical challenges from COVID-19

The Ethics of Now with Adriane Lentz-Smith continues from home with a series of brief, thoughtful and timely conversations about the ethical dilemmas of this historic moment.  This week, join Professor Lentz-Smith and Stillman Professor of Ethics Walter Sinnott-Armstrong for a conversation about "Who Gets the Ventilator? and other ethical challenges from COVID-19 ."  After […]

Shifting Foundations: Values and Cultural Changes During and After a Pandemic

The Ethics of Now with Adriane Lentz-Smith continues from home with a series of brief, thoughtful and timely conversations about the ethical dilemmas of this historic moment.  This week, join Professor Lentz-Smith and Professor of Sociology Stephen Vaisey for the conversation “Shifting Foundations: Values and Cultural Changes During and After a Pandemic.”   After registering, […]