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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.

PUBLIC EVENTS

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 will be held in the summer and early fall of 2008.

For more information, contact Leslie Hanson, lesliehanson@broadreach.net.

other ethics-related opportunities

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

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
For more information, see TRE Workshop - Overview or contact John Caraher (johncaraher@depauw.edu).

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

Led by Tamara Beauboeuf, this workshop will bring 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.

PRIVATE EVENTS

Faculty Reading Groups:

1. Humanitarian Intervention Reading Group -- will meet on Monday evenings at the Prindle Institute.

Led by Brett O'Bannon, the group will discuss Anne Orford's Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International and Comparative Law and Chatterjee and Scheid, eds., Ethics and Foreign Intervention.

For more information, contact Brett O'Bannon at bobannon@depauw.edu.

2. One World Reading Group -- will convene for six meetings, some of the group meeting on Wednesdays (4:30 until 6:00) and some on Thursdays (5:00 until 7:00).

Led by Alyssa Bernstein, this year's Schaenen Scholar, the members of this group will read and discuss Peter Singer's One World: The Ethics of Globalization (2002).

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

3. Buddhist Ethics Reading Group -- will meet the first Wednesday of the month to continue its reading and discussion of Buddhist Ethics.

Led by Paul Watt, this semester the group will read the poetry of Basho and Wang Wei, as well as essays by the Dalai Lama, selected by Darrell La Lone, and some more general texts on Buddhist ethics, selected by Jason Fuller.

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