Parr Center talk: Maryse Mitchell-Brody
Campus YIn a collaboration between the Parr Center for Ethics and the Campus Y, Maryse Mitchell-Brody will present "Working Ourselves Out of a Job: Liberation and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex".
Event Category: 2016 - 2017
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2016 - 2017
Teaching Workshop
213 Caldwell HallTeaching workshop on best and worst practices in prepping and grading (teaching behind the scenes!) Do prepping and grading take up all your time? Do you meticulously write 10 pages of notes on the reading before you feel ready to … Read more
Department talk: Gillian Russell, “Speech Acts and Speaking Up”
213 Caldwell HallEthics Around the Table with Rachel Schaevitz
Hyde Hall, University RoomRachel joined the Program in Humanities and Human Values for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Public Humanities through Fall 2017. She comes to Chapel Hill from Philadelphia, where she earned her Ph.D. in Media & Communication from Temple University, … Read more
For Their Eyes Only: Ag Gag Laws, Body Cam Laws, & the Right to Know
Caldwell 105 ,For Their Eyes Only: ag-gag laws, body cam laws, and the right to know Thursday, March 23, 6:00-7:30pm Many states are passing laws that restrict access to important information about public and private affairs. Two recent examples in North Carolina … Read more
Talk: Jack Spencer (MIT)
Caldwell 105 ,Prof. Jack Spencer, from MIT, will be visiting on March 24th to present his latest work in the formal epistemology reading group. All are encouraged to attend. There will be free lunch! "The Forward Principle" According to David Lewis, an … Read more
Parr Center Presents: Peter Railton
Caldwell 105 ,Peter Railton, "Well-Being and Global Climate Change" Psychological research on human happiness has developed a vast literature on what is called subjective well-being, which is a measure that combines positive feelings and a sense of how well one’s life is … Read more
Polanyi Lecture: Janet Browne (Harvard)
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fed Ex Global 301 Pittsboro Street , Chapel Hill , NCJoin us on Tuesday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the Mandela Auditorium of FedEx Global Center for the Michael Polanyi Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Janet Browne (Harvard), … Read more