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

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, will led a workshop on "Research Ethics in the Undergraduate Curriculum" on Monday, September 22, from 4:15 until 5:30 at the Prindle Insitute.

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" on September 14-15. Dr. Cornel West, Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University's Center of African American Studies delivered the keynote address in Meharry Hall on Sunday evening, September 14 (see the press release on DePauw's Web site: http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=22028 ).

A panel discussion took place in Watson Forum in the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media on September 15. Panelists were 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. Dr. Robert G. Bottoms, President Emeritus and Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics will moderate. For additional details about the symposium and the participants, please see http://www.depauw.edu/admin/acadaffairs/Boswell/Symposium_2008.asp

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

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

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

For more information, contact John Roth, johnroth@depauw.edu.

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

For more information, contact Marcia McKelligan, mamck@depauw.edu.

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

For more information, contact Jen Everett, jennifereverett@depauw.edu, or Michele Villlinski, mvillinski@depauw.edu.

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

For more information, contact Rebecca Schindler, rschindler@depauw.edu, or click here.

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

For more information, contact Steve Setchell, ssetchell@depauw.edu, or visit DePauw Discourse online.

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

For more information, contact Yvonne Williams, ywilliams@depauw.edu, or visit the Academic Affairs site here.

PREVIOUS PRIVATE EVENTS
FACULTY READING GROUPS:

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