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The Prindle Institute is committed to a wide variety of ethics-related programming. It initiates programs on the Institute site but also supports or co-sponsors ethics-related events which are hosted by various departments, programs and organizations on campus. If you would like to include an ethics-related event which your group is sponsoring on this list of upcoming events, please contact Martha Rainbolt, rainbolt@depauw.edu.

Guidelines for co-sponsored ethics-related events

To receive e-mail notifications of events sponsored by The Prindle Institute, submit your e-mail address to prindleinstitute@depauw.edu.

PUBLIC EVENTS
Student Video Blitzes

During the fall semester, on the following evenings students are 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 will view Carl Honore's 20 minute lecture on the fast pace of today's society and how happiness can come from slowing down. Pizza will be served.

Friday, October 9 - A TED video of Jonathon Haidt's presentation on the healthcare debate and how our moral roots skew our reasoning will be shown. Discussion is encouraged throughout the evening. ABC Gyros and Pizza will provide dinner.

Friday, November 6 - The topic of the evening will be Art and Power. Guests will view 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 will be open where DePauw student photographers' works will be on display. Due to other Arts Fest events, this video blitz will begin at 4:15 p.m. A shuttle to the Prindle Institute will leave the Union Building Bus Stop at 4 p.m. and return around 6 p.m.

For more information, please contact The Prindle Institute interns at prindleinstitute@depauw.edu.

 

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

Tim Solso, CEO of Cummins Engine will begin 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. The shuttle will leave the Union Building Bus Stop at 7:15 p.m. and return after the lecture.

On Friday, November 20, I. Jay Bennett, Hyman Resource Director at Integrated Supply Chain at Rolls-Royce, Newt Crenshaw, Vice President of International Corporate Affairs at Eli Lilly and Company, and Matthew Bloom from the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame University will lead a lunchtime discussion from 11:45 until 1:30 p.m. A buffet lunch will be served. A shuttle will depart the Union Building Bus Stop at 11:30 a.m. and make two return trips to campus to accommodate class schedules at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m.

For more information, please contact Kerry Pannell at kpannell@depauw.edu.

Lecture: David Burrell -- April 7, 2010

Dr. David Burrell, Hesburgh Chair of Theology and Philosophy, Kampala, Uganda, will talk about the "Jewish, Christian, Muslim Exchange."

For more information, please contact Nahyan Fancy at nahyanfancy@depauw.edu and P.T. Wilson at ptwilson@depauw.edu.

Lecture: Jeremy Kripal -- Details forthcoming

 

PRIVATE EVENTS

Faculty Reading Groups:

1. Black Skin, White Masks -- Will meet on three Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. throughout the fall semester.

Led by Julie Hollowell, the Schaenen Visiting Scholar, the group will discuss Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. Frantz Fanon, a practicing psychoanalyst from Martinique, is often said to be the author who initiated intellectual critique of colonialism. Black Skin, White Masks, written in 1952 by Fanon, is in essence a study of psychological and social effects of colonization on humanity, including the role of class, race, gender, language, and cultural consciousness. It has had, and continues to have, a major influence on human rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world.

For more information, please contact Julie Hollowell, at juliahollowell@depauw.edu.

2. Universal Grammar of Religion -- November 10 and December 2 at 7:30 p.m. (plus another in the spring to be announced)

Prior to the visit of Henry Rosemont March 7-10, 2010, The Prindle Institute will host three reading group sessions. Terri Bonebright, Professor of Psychology, will join these discussions, the first focusing on selections from Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. Pinker describes language as Noam Chomsky conceptualizes it. At the second and third sessions, the group will discuss Rosemont's Is There A Universal Grammar of Religion?

For more information, please contact Martha Rainbolt at rainbolt@depauw.edu.