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Past LHU Ethics Center Events

      *October 26, 2010

          Film: "Gone Baby Gone"

            Dr. Daniel Shaw, Discussant

       *September 28, 2010

         Film: "Up in the Air"

             Dr. Karen Kline and Dr. Heather Erb, Discussants

       *April 21, 2010

         Celebration of Scholarship Presentation

         Congratulations to Megan Hoy, our Essay Contest winner!

         "Ethics and the Criminal Justice System"

  • February 22, 2010
    Dr. David Crocker
    Center for Public Policy, University of Maryland
    "Ethics and Development"
    6:30 p.m.    , Hamblin Hall of Flags , Robinson 115
  • Monday, October 26, 2009, 12:15 p.m., PUB 2
    Dr. Rita C. Manning,     Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University “Philosophical Ethics and Punishment”
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:15 p.m., PUB 2
    Dr. Scott Stroud,     Professor of Communication Studies, University of Texas “Ethics and Communication”
  • Public Lectures
    October 28, 2009,
    6:30-9 p.m., Hall of Flags, Robinson 115
    “Living and Leading with Integrity”

    “Introduction”
    Dr. Scott Stroud
    “Integrity in Punishment and Prison Reform”
    Dr. Rita C. Manning
    Dr. Manning and Dr. Stroud are the co-authors of A Practical Guide to Ethics, Living and Living with Integrity.
  • September 15, 2009
    Health Care in America:     Is it Ethical or Sustainable?
    Dr. Paul Simon
    Co-sponsored by the Sociology Program (Conversation on Issues Forum)
  • Spring 2009
    Scholarship Day         , April 15, 2009
    Ethics across the Curriculum Panel         "Ethics and the Media" Ethics Essay Contest Presentation
    William J. Dowd, III

  • Ethics across Cultures Lecture Series
    Dr. Douglas Birsch
    Professor of Philosophy
    Shippensburg University
    Author of Ethics Insights: An Introduction         on Buddhist Ethics and the New Millennium
    February 23, 2009, Hamblin Hall of Flags
  • November 6, 2008
    Ms. Asra Nomani
    Journalist & Georgetown University Visiting Scholar: "Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam—A Conversation with Asra" and "Jihad bil Qallam: How an American Muslim Journalist Decided to Wage a “Holy Struggle with the Pen” for Peace and Understanding in the World"

    These events are sponsored by the Ethics Center, with a generous grant from the LHU Foundation.

    Dr. Elliott Wreh-Wilson
    Professor of Philosophy
    Edinboro University
    "African Philosophies and Ethics"
    Friday, October 24, 2008, 12:30-2 p.m., PUB #2
  • Ethics across the Curriculum Discussion Group
    Tuesday, 10/21//08
    Akeley International Conference Room
    Discussion Leader: Dr. Chris Offutt
    file://lark/home/jhoff/riskethics.pdf

  • Kevin Fandl, Esq.
    George Mason University
    "Ethics and World Trade"
     Monday, April 14, 2008,
    Hamblin Hall of Flags

 

  • Dr. Michael Brannigan
    Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Philosophy
    The College of Saint Rose
    "Ethics across Cultures"
    Monday         , April 21, 2008 , PUB #2
    Meet and Greet Dr. Brannigan at 6:30 p.m.     &
    Tuesday         , Founders Hall, Clearfield Campus
  • October 17, 2007: Bob Heisse
    "The push for open records in PA: the ethical concerns, and the benefits for journalists and citizens"
    Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on Environmental Issues
    Co-sponsored by the following Departments: English, Philosophy, Biology, Geology, Recreation
  • Thursday, October 18, 2007
    Philosophy Club         presentation by Dr. Tom Young
    "Ecosabotage"     10/18/07
  • Congratulations to our Essay Contest Winner!!!!
    Tri Nguyen "Ethical Issues of Life and Death" Scholarship Day Presentation, April 23, 2008
  • Congratulations to our Essay Contest Winners!
    "The Ethics of Pre-emptive War"
    1st prize:  Mr. John Varner
    2nd prize:  Mr. Shawn Pickering
    Scholarship Day Presentations by Mr. Varner and Mr. Pickering
    April 25, 2007
    Ethics across the Curriculum Poster Presentation
    April 25, 2007
  • Scholar in Residence,
    March 1-2, 2007
    Dr. Wade Robison
    Hale Applied Ethics Chair
    Professor of Philosophy
    Rochester Institute of Technology
    Founder of the of the Society for
    Ethics across the Curriculum
  • Public Lecture “Professional Ethics and Nanotechnology”
    All professional decisions have consequences, and so when a professional is considering alternative solutions to a problem, one variable concerns the various consequences. Nanotechnology presents special difficulties in this regard in part because material at the nano-level does not act in predictable ways and in part because nano-particles are small enough to penetrate the membranes of cells. These features of nano-particles make ethical decision-making in nanotechnology of particular concern. We shall examine these problems in some detail, but solving them is quite another matter given the enormous benefits nanotechnology offers.
    Thursday, March 1, 2007
  • "Ethics Across The Curriculum"
    Faculty Workshop with Dr. Wade Robison
    March 1, 2007
    “A Game-plan for Introducing Ethics Across the Curriculum    ”
    Neither practitioners within a discipline nor philosophers are the best positioned to introduce ethics within a discipline. The practitioners are trained to think like engineers, say, or historians, or accountants. We will succeed in teaching them to the extent that they graduate as engineers, historians, or accountants. Success means squeezing out other ways of thinking about their discipline. So they are not well-positioned even to see ethical issues within their discipline. Philosophers, however well-trained some may be in ethics, lack the background in the various disciplines that allows them to understand how ethical issues they may see within those disciplines can affect the practitioners and what they have been taught to do. So their remarks about a discipline will lack traction for its practitioners. Given that dilemma, what is the best way to proceed to introduce ethics into the various disciplines? The only way to proceed that has had any success at all is for philosophers trained in ethics to provide help for those within the various disciplines with uncovering ethical issues that are internal to the discipline. Philosophers need to know enough about a discipline to engage in helpful discussions with its practitioners, and practitioners in the various disciplines need to be open to seeing that their very training into a form of thinking may blind them to seeing some kinds of moral problems. Ethics across the disciplines must be a joint enterprise, with willing and open partners, if it is to succeed.
  • Thursday , March 1, 2007
  •   Lunch Discussion
    Dr. Wade Robison
    "Nanobiotechnology and Health Concerns."
    Clearfield Campus , March 2, 2007
  • Public Lecture
    "Respect for the Game: The Role of Sports in Moral Education"
    Dr. Robert M. Timko
    Professor of Philosophy and Chair
    Mansfield University
    November 28, 2006
  • October 19 - 21, 2005

    Visiting Scholar
    Dr. Krishna Mallick
    Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Peace Institute
    Salem State University
    "The Chipko (Enviromental) Movement in India"
    October 20, 2005
  • "Women in the Chipko Movement"
    October 21, 2005
    (Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program)
  • October 11 - 14, 2005

    Visiting Scholar     Dr. Rita C. Manning
    Professor of Philosophy
    San Jose State University
  • "Human Rights and the Global Economy"
    October 12, 2005

    "         Justice and Katrina"
    October 13, 2005

    "Care and Consent"
    October 14, 2005
    Clearfield Campus

  • "Legal and Ethical Issues in End of Life Care" Matthew J. Parker, Esq.
    The Elder Law Firm of Marshall & Associates
    April 7, 2005
  • "Terrorism and Just War Theory
    Dr. Scott Lowe
    Professor of Philosophy, Bloomsburg University
    October 27, 2004
  • Working Ethics: A Challenge for the New Century"
    Mr. Paul Fantasky
    Senior Community Banking Manager, Sovereign Bank
    April 23, 2004
  • "Ethics and the New Reproductive Frontier, Shootout at the 'Is That OK?' Corral"
    Dr. Robert Shabanowitz
    Laboratory Director at the ART/Andrology Laboratories, Geisinger Medical Center
    March 29, 2004
  • Ethics and the New Reproductive Frontier Shootout at the Is That OK Corral.ppt
    "Physician Assisted Suicide"
    Dr. Joel Berberich
    Chairman of Anesthesiology, Geisinger Health System
    February 18, 2004
    Physician Assisted Death 2-18-03.ppt