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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

Art Exhibit: "cOMMUNIST tOUR OF moMA" by Yevgeniy Fiks -- mARCH 4-26, 2010

In an installation that consists of works on paper, reenacted speeches (circa 1950s) by former US Congressman from Michigan George A. Dondero, and modified MoMA publications, Moscow-born and New York-based Post-Soviet artist Yevgeniy Fiks will feature Modern artists who identified as Communists or had Communists ties in a show entitled "Communist Tour of MoMa." This project departs from the history of Modern Art and MoMA as subjects of investigations during the McCarthy era and essentially brings to our attention the role of MoMA in defining Modern Art away from the modern artists' political ideologies.

Lecture: "Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist" by Yevgeniy Fiks, Thursday,
March 4, 7 p.m., location tba.

In his talk entitled, "Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist," giving examples of his own art practice, Fiks will discuss the conceptual framework of addressing the Soviet experience today--after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Fiks will highlight the question of historical responsibility as fundamental to the construction of the post-Soviet discourse. Fiks will give a special focus to the historical context of this project "Communist Tour of MoMA."

Opening Reception: March 5, 7 p.m., Low Road Gallery

Fiks' visit is made possible with the support of DePauw's Art Department, Communications Department, Conflict Studies Department, Feminista!, The Low Road Gallery, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, The Prindle Institute for Ethics, Russian Studies Department, the Student Arts Council, and United DePauw.

For more information, please contact Marc Climaco at mjclimaco@gmail.com.

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.

Undergraduate Ethics Symposium -- April 8-10, 2010

 

Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century -- April 14, 2010

In celebration of the publication of the volume of poetry, BETWEEN WATER AND SONG:  NEW POETS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, the Prindle Institute and the DePauw English Department will sponsor a poetry reading and book signing on Wednesday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Room of the Prindle Institute.

Norm Minnick, the editor of the volume, along with Maurice Manning, Malena Morling, and Eugene Gloria (all poets included in the volume) will attend. Maurice, Malena and Eugene will read. Reception and book signing will follow.

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

Lecture: Joseph Kupfer -- April 19-20, 2010

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, December 2, and February 10 at 7:30 p.m.

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 -- February 11 and April 22 at 7 p.m.

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 -- February 9, March 2, and April 6 at 7:30 p.m.

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.

5. David Sloan Wilson’s Evolution for Everyone -- February 17, March 3 & 17 and April 7 at 7 p.m.

David Sloan Wilson is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist who is coming to DePauw during the spring semester in support of our participation in the new EvoS (evolutionary studies) consortium. He will also be one of the keynote speakers for the Prindle Institute’s Undergraduate Ethics Symposium. Wilson’s argument in Evolution for Everyone is that the evolutionary framework can inspire original insights in every sphere of knowledge. Rick Lippke and Darrell LaLone will lead discussion of Wilson's book that is chock full of case studies in evolutionary thinking—the hypotheses it generates and the efforts by scientists to confirm them. As one reviewer commented, his work is “A mind- stretching and unforgettable synthesis of biology, psychology, religion, and politics, [his] engrossing story is evolutionary biology at its very best.”

6. The Nature of Moral Judgment - dates to be announced.

Erik Wielenberg and Bruce Serlin will partner to lead group discussion on two seminal works by a leader in the field of neuronal-based moral judgment, Jonathan Haidt.  Haidt and his colleagues have developed a model of the processes that produce human moral judgments called the “Social Intuitionist Model” (SIM).  The goal here is to introduce members of the group to SIM and some of the evidence for it and to consider how the evidence fits or doesn’t fit into their world view.  Individuals will be encouraged to bring materials they feel support their thinking on this topic and try understanding why various opinions are held.

For more information, contact Erik Wielenberg at ewielenberg@depauw.edu or Bruce Serlin at dance @depauw.edu.