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September 2019
Border Beliefs: Understanding the Ethical Challenges to Migration Reform
Faculty and first-year undergraduates at the Kenan Institute for Ethics are participating in a panel discussion on migration reform. Bringing together diverse perspectives, the conversation will explore what is right, just and fair in immigration policy.
Find out more »Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism
Julie E. Cohen is the Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about surveillance, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, information platforms, and the ways that networked information and communication technologies are reshaping legal institutions. In this talk, she will discuss her latest book project which provides an account of how our current legal system, adapted to provide accountability for industrial-age harms, is becoming more attuned to providing accountability…
Find out more »Human Rights, Faith and the Border
Imam Omar Suleiman is a world renowned scholar and theologically driven activist for human rights. He is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University. He's also the resident scholar of the Valley Ranch Islamic Center and Co-Chair Emeritus of Faith Forward Dallas at Thanks-Giving Square, a multi-faith coalition of clergy for peace and justice. He frequently writes for CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, Huffpo, and The…
Find out more »Providential Modernity Seminar with Michael Gillespie
Religions and Public Life at KIE enters the second year of the interdisciplinary Providential Modernity seminar. For the first meeting of the fall, participants will discuss a short overview of a new book project by Michael Gillespie (Duke, Political Science), "The Antitrinitarian Origins of American Liberalism," at 1:00PM on Thursday, September 26, in Classroom Building 229. A vegetarian lunch will be served. Email Amber Díaz Pearson to receive a copy of the paper. Michael Gillespie describes the book project: In…
Find out more »October 2019
Ethical Tech: Moral Imperative to Actionable Steps
Katherine Zhou (T’17) a product designer at IBM and creator of the “Design Ethically” project, will share lessons learned from piloting her ethical design methodology with artificial intelligence teams at IBM. She will also discuss what scaling the tech ethics movement means for individual employees, companies and/or startups, as well as the entire industry. Lunch Provided| RSVP to Tom DeGeorges <td112@duke.edu>
Find out more »Only Zeus is Free – Luce Lecture with Jane Bennett
For the Fall 2019 Luce Lecture, Jane Bennett, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, will be giving a talk entitled 'Only Zeus is Free': On Human Effort in the Anthropocene. Following her talk, she will dialogue with a Duke faculty, before responding to open Q and A. The Luce lectures are a series of talk on environmental issues, climate…
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