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Overview
Ethics Here and Now: Racial Justice, Reproductive Justice, Climate Justice is a day-long ethics symposium designed to identify and amplify the calls to justice embedded within scholarly and activist approaches to climate change, reproductive politics, and racial injustice. It aims to both further scholarly research on the interstices of this complex web of inter-related concerns and to assist in building the solidarity necessary to address them by bringing together a diverse, interdisciplinary collection of scholars, students, and community activists. In this, the symposium advances integration of Fairfield’s core curriculum, and illuminates the connection between theory and practice that is necessary for effective ethical leadership.
The symposium’s panels are designed to highlight both global issues and local expressions of those issues, and will include participation from faculty, students, and members of the community, as well as a collection of invited scholars engaged in groundbreaking work on the intersection of these issues. Participants will walk away with a keener sense of the connections between the most pressing ethical problems of our day, and a deeper understanding of the modes of conceptual and practical cooperation necessary to address them.
Registration
The Ethics Here and Now symposium is free and open to the public and will be held on Friday, October 4, 2019. The event’s supporting panels will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Barone Campus Center Dogwood Room and the keynote panel will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Dolan School of Business Event Hall.
Schedule of Events
Ethics Here and Now:
Racial Justice, Reproductive Justice, Climate Justice
Friday, October 4, 2019
Barone Campus Center Dogwood Room
9-9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
9:30-11 a.m. Panel 1: Racial Justice
Alfred Frankowski, PhD
Devonya Havis, PhD
Chiara Ricciardone, PhD
Moderator: Kris Sealey, PhD
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Panel 2: Reproductive Justice
Cinzia Arruzza. PhD
Namita Goswami. PhD
Sina Kramer, PhD
Moderator: Sara Brill, PhD
12:45-2:15 p.m.: Lunch
2:30-4 p.m. Panel 3: Climate Justice
Souta Calling Last
Marion Hourdequin, PhD
Esme Murdock, PhD
Moderator, Toby Svoboda
4-4:30 p.m. Coffee break
Dolan School of Business Event Hall
4:30-6:30 p.m. Keynote Panel
Myisha Cherry, PhD
Ashwini Tambe, PhD
Kyle Whyte, PhD
Featured Panelists
Keynote Panelists
Myisha Cherry, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
UC Riverside
Host of the Unmute podcast
Ashwini Tambe, PhD
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
University of Maryland
Kyle Whyte, PhD
Timnick Chair in the Humanities
Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability
Michigan State University
Supporting Panelists
Cinzia Aruzza, PhD
Associate Professor of Philosophy
The New School
Souta Calling Last
Founder and Director
Indigenous Vision
Alfred Frankowski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Southern Illinois University
Namita Goswami
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Indiana State University
Devonya Havis, PhD
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women & Gender Studies
Canisius College
Marion Hourdequin, PhD
Associate Philosophy Professor
Colorado College
Sina Kramer, PhD
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
Loyola Marymount, LA
Esme Murdock, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
San Diego State University
Chiara Ricciardone, PhD
Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center
Bard College
Co-founder of the Activist Graduate School
Affiliated Faculty
Michael Andreychik
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel
Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
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David Downie
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies
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Johanna X. K. Garvey
Associate Professor
English
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Olivia Harriott
Associate Professor
Biology
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Elizabeth Hohl
Assistant Professor of the Practice
History
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Sonya Huber
Professor
English
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Shannon Kelley
Associate Professor
English
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Anna Lawrence
Associate Professor
History
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Janie L. Leatherman
Professor
Politics & International Studies
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Silvia Marsans-Sakly
Associate Professor of the Practice
History
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Martin Nguyen
Professor
Religious Studies
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Emily Orlando
Professor
English
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Sunil Purushotham
Associate Professor of History
History
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Sponsors
The Department of Philosophy, in partnership with the Humanities Institute, would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the Ethics Here and Now symposium:
- The College of Arts and Sciences Common Ground Lecture Series
- Anthropology/Sociology Department
- Communication Department
- English Department
- History Department
- Modern Languages and Literatures Department
- Politics Department
- Visual and Performing Arts Department
- Applied Ethics Program
- Black Studies Program
- Black Studies Program
- Catholic Studies Program
- Classical Studies Program
- Environmental Studies Program
- International Studies Program
- Islamic World Studies Program
- Judaic Studies Program
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
- Peace and Justice Studies Program
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program