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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

Health Care Week

The undergraduate interns have planned two events on the subject of healthcare:

December 1 at 7 - 8 p.m. -- A fact-finding panel consisting of Professor Kerry Pannell and Dr. Thomas Mote will talk about the healthcare economics and healthcare from a physicians perspective.

December 3 at 4:15 - 5:15 p.m. -- Clips from the PBS documentary "Sick Around the World" will be shown and selected international students will lead discussion concerning healthcare programs across the globe.

For more information, please e-mail the Prindle Institute interns at prindleinstitute@depauw.edu.

Art Exhibit: "tHE cOMMUNIST tOUR OF mOMA" by Yevgeniy Fiks -- mARCH 4 - 6, 2010

This event will be co-sponsored with The Low Road Gallery. Details are forthcoming.

Lecture: Henry Rosemont -- March 8, 2010

Dr. Henry Rosemont will speak on Monday, March 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, Watson Forum. Title to be announced.

This lecture is being supported by the Ann and David Johnson Speaker Fund for the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.

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

Colloquium: John Hope Franklin Colloquium -- March 12, 2010

Professor Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, will deliver the keynote address of the John Hope Franklin Colloquium on Friday, March 12, 2010. Further details are forthcoming.

This event is co-sponsored by the Black Studies Program at DePauw University and The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.

For more information, please contact Leslie James at ljames@depauw.edu.

LECTURE: Dr. Mohammed Abu Nimer -- March 2010

Dr. Mohammed Abu Nimer will explore the nexus of religion and peace-building and bring a broader perspective on conflict practice to DePauw. Details forthcoming.

For more information, please contact Jeremy Rinker at jeremyrinker@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

World-renowned scholar of religion Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Ryazor Chair in Religious Studies at Rice University, will deliver talks titled, "Ethics, Trauma and Mystical States," Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion," and "Authors of the Impossible: Reading the Paranormal Writing Us."

For more information, please contact Jason Fuller at jfuller@depauw.edu.

Lecture: Joseph Kupfer -- Details Forthcoming

Dr. Joseph Kupfer, University Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, will deliver two lectures during his visit to DePauw, one on ethical issues raised in popular film and one on virtue theory.

For more information, please contact Richard Lippke at richardlippke@depauw.edu.

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.

3. The Colonial and post-Colonial Worlds of CLR James -- Dates to be announced.

Robert Dewey will lead discussion on two different texts by author C.L.R. James. Minty Alley, which analyzes social class, colonialism, education, and everyday lives in Trinidad will be discussed in the spring of 2010. In the fall 2010 semester, the group will read and discuss Beyond a Boundary, a reflection on cricket as an emblem of British imperialism, its re-appropriation by West Indians and site of resistance.

For more information, please contact Robert Dewey at rdewey@depauw.edu.

4. The work of Alvin Plantinga -- 3 dates during spring 2010 semester to be announced.

Professor Alvin Plantinga of the University of Notre Dame is the preeminent philosopher of religion working today. Marcia McKelligan and Erik Wielenberg will lead discussion on some of Professor Plantinga's more accessible works before his visit to DePauw on April 13, 2010. In Dr. Plantinga's long career he has written about such vital issues as the existence of God, the problem of evil, and free will.

For more information, please contact Marcia McKelligan at mamck@depauw.edu or Erik Wielenberg at ewielenberg@depauw.edu.