The commitment to ethics is a sustained and integral part of the academic life at DePauw. Below is a partial listing of past ethics-related events. We want to emphasize that the work of the Institute would not have been possible without all the emphasis and attention given to ethics by faculty members, students, administrators and alumni for several decades, even generations. We hope that all of them will join us as we continue to enrich and inform the lives of current DePauw students about the things that matter.

PREVIOUS PUBLIC EVENTS

Symposium: The Ethics of Employment Practices -- November 19-20, 2009

Tim Solso, CEO of Cummins Engine began the symposium with his keynote address, "The Employee-Employer Contract in a Global Economy," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 19, in the Prindle auditorium.

Friday's panel discussion was cancelled due to unforseen illnesses/emergencies of the panelists.

Symposium: Boswell Symposium -- November 4-5, 2009

Theme: School Reform and Social Justice

Thomas Bloch, former CEO of H&R Block and a 7th grade teacher as well as school board president at University Academy, an inner-city charter school in Kansas City, Missouri, delivered a lecture on Wednesday, November 4 at 4:15 p.m. in the Prindle auditorium.

Howard Fuller, director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University, co-founder of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, and former Superintendent of Schools in Milwaukee who advocates a variety of options to improve educational opportunities for under-served youth, particularly African-Americans, spoke on November 5 at 4:15 p.m. in the Prindle auditorium.

Bob Herbert, reporter for The New York Times, and Marcus Robinson, DePauw graduate and founder, principal, and CEO of Charles A. Tindley Accelerated Charter School in Indianapolis, served as respondents.

Funding for the Hampton and Esther Boswell Symposium was made possible by a generous gift from Thomas W. Boswell '66 and Cheryl K. Boswell. The symposium is named in honor of Mr. Boswell's parents.

Lecture: Feminist Research as an Engagement with Mess: Social policy and the Democratization of Knowledge -- October 29, 2009

Lecture by Professor Patti Lather of The Ohio State University, School of Educational Policy and Leadership

torture: A critical look at the use of solitary confinement in American prisons -- October 29, 2009

The movie, Up the Ridge, was shown during dinner and afterward a panel of experts led discussion and answered questions about the need for expensive supermaximum security facilities and whether the American penal system is actually reforming society's greatest miscreants or producing mentally unstable individuals and placing them back in society. Planning for this event was a collaboration between the Prindle Institute's undergraduate interns and Frederick Visiting Professor of Ethics Richard Lippke.

Symposium: The State of Journalism: The View From Hoosier land -- October 27, 2009

What do citizens expect and deserve from journalists? How well do traditional "Fourth Estate" journalists and emerging "Fifth Estate" journalists and information providers serve the needs of our communities? Does the public have a responsibility to financially support journalism in a democracy?

These issues and more were explored in a forum of Indiana journalists, citizens from our region, DePauw students and faculty who examined the strengths and struggles of journalism in the Hoosier state.

This event was in collaboration with The Poynter Institute for Media Studies with financial support from the Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr. Lecture Fund. Professor Bob Steele, the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw, hosted the forum and led the discussions.

Lecture: The Ethics of Advertising -- September 23, 2009

Wally Snyder, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute and President Emeritus of the American Advertising Federation delivered a lecture on "The Ethics of Advertising."

Student Video Blitzes

During the fall semester, on the following evenings students were invited to come to the Prindle Institute at 6 p.m., view a short video on a stimulating topic, have dinner, and gather around the Prindle fire circle for s'mores. Following are the dates:

Friday, September 18 - Students watched Carl Honore's 20 minute lecture on the fast pace of today's society and how happiness can come from slowing down.

Friday, October 9 - A TED video of Jonathon Haidt's presentation on the healthcare debate and how our moral roots skew our reasoning was shown.

Friday, November 6 - The topic of the evening was Art and Power. Guests watched a TED video by photographer Edward Burtynsky whose wish is that his images will help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability. After the video and discussion, the Prindle Gallery was open where DePauw student photographers' works were be on display.

Faculty workshop on Ethical Theory-- June 15-19, 2009

Led by Richard Lippke, this workshop brought together twenty faculty members for five days to discuss James and Stuart Rachels' Elements of Moral Philosophy, sixth edition. Together they explored basic issues in ethical theory (including discussions of ethical relativism and the relationship between religion and morality) and normative theories of ethics, such as utilitarianism and Kantian ethical theory, and their application to social and personal issues.

TEACHING RESEARCH ETHICS WORKSHOP -- MAY 12-15, 2009

Five-day workshop at University of Indiana, Bloomington. As one of the co-sponsors, DePauw sends two faculty members each year.

Samuel Bak Exhibit -- April 13-May 8, 2009

Samuel Bak - "Timepiece"

For both liberal arts and theological teaching and learning, the art of Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak offers a unique opportunity to ponder ethical issues rooted in our most basic understanding of what it means to be human beings living a world in which atrocities against humanity have and continue to occur. Just as Bak’s work unites traditions and themes of artistic production from Michelangelo to Mantegna, his paintings invite us to engage in the shared task of raising the most fundamental questions of academic, political, and spiritual life lived after the Shoah and the shared search for the elusive Tikkun Olam (Hebrew for "repairing the world"). The generous support of Pucker Gallery in Boston in collaboration with Wabash, Drew University and DePauw made this exhibit possible. DePauw’s exhibit was held at the Prindle Institute.

pRindle Video-Blitz: "How biotech will Impact Our evolution" -- April 24, 2009

This public event, by students for students, featured a short video, food (provided by ABC Pizza & Gyro), and music by the fire.

public symposium: "ETHICS AND community-based fieldwork: Sharing lessons Learned And Good Practices" -- April 21, 2009

This symposium explored the ethics of community-based fieldwork, in the context of collaborative research and other forms of community engagement. Participants from diverse backgrounds shared lessons learned from their own on-the-ground experiences, whether the “field” is an Aboriginal Australian community or a major U. S. city, focusing on what principles or guidelines make for good practice in community-based fieldwork.

Sponsored by: The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and its Nancy Schaenan Visiting Scholar Fund, DePauw University, and The Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project: Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics.

Representation And the Holocaust: A multidisciplinary Panel & Discussion -- April 21, 2009

This event was cosponsored by the program in Jewish Studies and the Prindle Institute.

"The Painter's Path: Cultivating Impulse Toward Flow And Fragment" -- April 20, 2009

Painter Josh Goldberg (The Drawing Studio, Tucson) visited DePauw to discuss connections between his own work and Samuel Bak's as part of a larger discussion on memorialization and representation.

William LaFleur -- April 15-16, 2009

Japanologist William LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania), an expert on comparative ethics, provided an international dimension to campus conversations delivering two public lectures:

a) "A 'Wild East' in Biopolitics? Money and Morality in America's Changing Relations with Asia"

b) "Bio-Lust: America's Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics"

HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION SYMPOSIUM -- March 5-7, 2009


SHOWING OF "THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK" -- MARCH 3, 2009

"The Devil Came on Horse Back" is about the genocide and events in Darfur in the Sudan. The film captures the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. The film uses the photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle to take the viewer on a journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction of the international community, Steidle resigned and returned to the US to expose the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed. We witness Steidle's transformation from soldier to observer to witness and, finally, to passionate activist and moral hero (International Film Circuit).

Thomas Norman DeWolf -- fEBRUARY 3, 2009

Author of Inheriting the Trade: a Northern Family Confronts its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History engaged the DePauw and Greencastle communities on issues of race and inheritance to explore racial reconciliation in this Black History Month event. A film screening of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North took pook place, followed by a book discussion and signing.

Hugh LaFollette -- February 5, 2009

LaFollette has done groundbreaking work on the moral issues raised by world hunger, the use of animals for food and medical experimentation, gun control, and parental and personal relationships.

DR. RICHARD B. GUNDERMAN TALK -- NOVEMBER 24, 2008
Richard Gunderman, Associate Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, spoke in the Prindle Auditorium on the topic of "Generosity."

STUDENT OPEN HOUSE-- NOVEMBER 23, 2008


TOUGH CHOICES: JOURNALISM ETHICS AT DEPAUW -- NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Student leaders from The DePauw, WGRE, D3TV, and the Media Fellows program discussed the tough choices they face in news media ethics at DePauw!

Dr. Eunice Kamaara VISIT -- November 6, 2008

Kenyan scholar and researcher Dr. Eunice Kamaara at DePauw visited on Thursday, November 6, speaking for the Women in Science Luncheon and an open class session immediately following. Dr. Kamaara's topic was "The 2007/08 Post-Election Violence in Kenya: 'Yesterday is Today.'"

DR. JOHN P. O'CALLAGHAN LECTURE -- OCTOBER 29, 2008
Dr. John O'Callaghan, of Notre Dame University, lectured on "The Paragon of Animals: How Like a God." Dr. O'Callaghan is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame.

Dr. hussein fancy Talk -- october 31, 2008

Dr. Hussein Fancy, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan, gave a lecture entitled: "Mercenary Logic: Beyond Tolerance and Intolerance."

Dr. Fancy's work deals with the cultural, social, and intellectual history of religious interaction in medieval Spain and North Africa, a subject that poses vexing problems for not only medieval history but also contemporary discussions of religious tolerance and intolerance.

forsyth Lecture -- October 13, 2008

Jannic Durand, Curator of Medieval Art at the Louvre, spoke on October 13 on "Saints in Boxes: Relics and Reliquaries in the Middle Ages."

Dr. Durand visited DePauw under the auspices of the inaugural Forsyth Lecture Series sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art. DePauw was chosen, along with University of Michigan and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to host a medieval art history scholar with broad appeal.

THOMAS S. HIBBS VISIT -- September 24-25, 2008

Thomas Hibbs, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University, visited campus to dialogue with students and faculty on ethics and film studies, giving a student talk called "America's Shame: How to Lose Your Soul on the Campus of Our Pleasure-Seeking, Consumer-Driven Universities," and a faculty talk entitled "All Brains, No Soul: Academic Life, Student Life, and the Formation of Character."

DePauw Discourse: America's Role in the World -- September 18-20, 2008

Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, keynoted DePauw Discourse 2008. She was joined by Lee Hamilton, former U.S. Congressman, and Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian pro-democrary activist, and other presenters to discuss "America's Role in the World."

Workshop on Ethics and Pedagogy-- September 22, 2008

Kenneth Pimple, Director of the Teaching Research Ethics Program at the Poynter Center at Indiana University, led a workshop on "Research Ethics in the Undergraduate Curriculum."

Boswell Symposium -- September 14 & 15, 2008

The Boswell Symposium was presented in conjunction with the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, on the topic "Ethics, Globalism and Education." Dr. Cornel West, Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University's Center of African American Studies delivered the keynote address in Meharry Hall.

A panel discussion featured Dr. Adedayo O. Adekson, Program Officer with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Dr. Harold “Hal” Foster, Distinguished Professor of English Education and Literacy at the University of Akron, and Dr. Josephine R.B. Wright, the Josephine Lincoln Morris Professor of Black Studies and Professor of Music at The College of Wooster.

Read to Understand -- Summer and Early Fall, 2008

Read to Understand is a community project designed to promote discussions on race, ethinicity, identity and diversity, that invites local residents to read and then discuss the book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum. This series of discussions is co-sponsored with the Greencastle League of Women Voters, Greencastle NAACP, the Putnam County Public Library, the Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce, and the Banner Graphic. The discussions were held in the summer and early fall of 2008.

teaching research ethics workshop -- May 13-16, 2008

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Faculty workshop on ethics and education -- June 3-9, 2008

Led by Tamara Beauboeuf, this workshop brought together twenty faculty members for five days to discuss Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach, and Ken Bain's What the Best College Teachers Do, along with a number of essays and selections from other books by Paulo Freire and bell hooks, among others.

Lecture by CLARK WOLF of iOWA STATE uNIVERSITY on the subject of "jUSTICE AND THE FURTHER FUTURE: cLIMATE AS AN eXHAUSTIBLE rESOURCE " -- 7:30 pm, tUesday, mAY 6, in THE pULLIAM cENTER FOR cONTEMPORARY mEDIA, wATSON fORUM

For more information, contact Alyssa Bernstein, alyssabernstein@depauw.edu.

Lecture by Ben Valentino of Dartmouth College, "War By Any Other Name: The Perils of Limited Humanitarian Intervention" -- 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 9, Peeler Auditorium

Hosted by Alyssa Bernstein, Schaenen Scholar, 2008-2009.

Lecture by Jerry Fowler, Director of the Save Darfur Foundation, "Darfur: The Challenge of Stopping Genocide" -- 7:30 PM, Monday, April 7, 2008

Hosted by John Roth, Frederick Professor of Ethics, 2008-2009.

Undergraduate Ethics Symposium -- April 3-5, 2008


BUrleigh Lecture -- John O'Callaghan of Notre Dame, "Honor Among Thieves" Justice, Prudence, and Imperfection in Politics" -- 7 pm, Wednesday, March 12, 2008, in Watson Forum


Ethics and pedagogy -- Workshop One -- 4:15 until 5:30, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 -- Prindle Institute

Workshop for faculty members led by John Roth and Rebecca Schindler. How does one address ethical issues in the classroom? What works and what doesn't?

The DePauw Colloquium for the Liberal Arts: The Liberal Arts in a Time of Climate Crisis -- 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Monday, February 4, 2008 -- Prindle Institute

After a light dinner, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, spoke on "Boldness, Prudence, and Freedom: Tough Choices for the Liberal Arts in a Warming World."

Focus the Nation: Sustainability -- January 31, 2008


Gruveller -- December 5 & 6, 2007

Gruveller, a Play, Written by student Femi Akeredolu and directed by Professor Ron Dye. 7:30, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 5 and 6, Moore Theatre.
Femi encouraged us all by this description: "Don't miss this diverse and exciting cast in a highly original piece that explores issues such as immigration and political manipulation, with music, poetic language, and folktale sensibility -- at times bawdy and comedic, at times poignant and thought-provoking."

Inaugural Event -- October 26, 2007

Dedication of the Prindle Institute for Ethics; lecture by the Rev. Dr. James Alexander Forbes, Jr., the Senior Minister Emeritus of The Riverside Church. Forbes is the first African-American to serve as Senior Minister of one of the largest multicultural congregations in the nation.

ARTSFEST -- October 25 - November 4, 2007

Arts and the Environment

Burleigh Lectures -- October 10-12, 2007

Thomas Hibbs, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University, presented the Burleigh Lecture "Wide Awake: Religioius Quests in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan" at 7:30 on Wednesday, October 10, in Watson Forum, Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media.

Lecture by Maxwell Anderson, Director, Indianapolis Museum of Art, "Ethics of Museum Acquisition of Antiquities" -- October 8, 2007


DePauw Discourse, 2007: “Sustainability and Global Citizenship” -- October 4-6, 2007


Boswell Symposium -- “Grassroots Environmental Activism: Race, Economics and Technology” -- September 23-25, 2007


'FEMINIST ETHICS' WORKSHOP -- JUNE 2007

Twenty-five participants, drawn from across the DePauw community (faculty members from Asian Studies, Biology, Education, Economics, English, Geology, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Political Science,  Sociology and Anthropology, plus a librarian, an instructional technologist, and a community activist, both women and men, and from every academic generation) gathered for a week-long, intensive interdisciplinary survey of this important area in women’s studies.

The topics included Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Care and Dependency, Intersectionalities and Privilege, Feminism and Environmentalism, Women and Citizenship, the Nature of Oppression, Nationalism, Colonialism, and War, and the reading list ranged from Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas to Siobhan Somerville’s “Scientific Racism and the Homosexual Body” to Sandra Lee Bartky’s “Shame and Gender” to Jamesina King’s “Gender and Reparation in Sierra Leone, ending with three feminist approaches to Sophocles’ Antigone.

PREVIOUS PRIVATE EVENTS
FACULTY READING GROUPS

2009-2010
Fall
Justice as Fairness

2008-2009
Fall
Ethics of Islam
Criminal Law

Spring
Ethics of Islam
Methodology, Research, Pedagogy
Overcriminalization
Common Values

2007-2008
Fall
Holocaust Reading Group
Sustainability
Buddhist Ethics

Spring
Peter Singer's One World
Humanitarian Intervention
Buddhist Ethics

2006-2007
Fall
Global Social Justice Pedagogy

Spring
Religion in Public Discourse: Does It Help or Hinder Justice?
Buddhist Ethics Reading Group

2005-2006
Ethics of Teaching
Multicultural Ethics and Literature
Research Ethics

2004-2005
Faculty Seminar on Ethics and Aging