COVE Conference
3rd Annual Graduate Ethics Conference Saturday, May 7th and Sunday, May 8th
Location: 2017 Dunton Tower (FASS Lounge), Carleton University
Keynote Speaker: Jay Drydyk, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University, speaking on "Displacement by Development: Ethics and Responsibilities".
Presenters: Jonathan Courtney
(Carleton): "Exploring a Natural Foundation for Ethics: Positive Affect as the Good"
Philip Shadd
(Queens): "Publicity without Contract: The Eliminability of Contract from Contractarian Accounts"
Alexander Leferman
(Guelph): "The Moral Space of the Promise"
Nalini Elisa Ramlakhan
(Carleton): "Preserving Privacy in the Information Age"
Michael Barnes
(Carleton): "Sweatshop Labour and the Non-Worseness Claim"
Matthew Scarfone
(Acadia): "A Marxist Environmental Ethic"
Selim Alamgir
(Carleton): "Human Security and Climate Change Adaptation"
Tristan Rogers
(Queens): "The Libertarian Case for Open (or No) Borders"
Tara Myketiak
(Concordia): "Justice, Moral Entitlement, and the Social Contract: Providing an Inclusionary Model of Animal Rights"
Katherine Wayne
(Queens): "The Goodness of Taking: Against Principled Veganism"
William Owen Thornton
(Laurier): "The Virtue of Advocacy Hermeneutical Justice"
Jason DeRoche
(Carleton): "Refining Pleasure Through Friendship: A Look at the Process of Pleasure Refinement in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics"
Iain Laidley
(Carleton): "Physical Education"
COVE Conference
A Comparative Ethics Workshop at Carleton, June 23-24
A Transcultural Exploration of Ethics: A Dialogue between Western and Indian Traditions
Tuesday June 23rd - Wednesday June 24th, 2009
Times of sessions TBA
Location: FASS Lounge, 2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
Organized by the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University, in partnership with the University of Delhi Philosophy Department (Delhi, India)
With support from Carleton University’s Office of the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Centre on Values and Ethics, Office of the Vice President of Research / International, the Hindu Fund (College of Humanities, Carleton University) and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis
Ashok Vohra (University of Delhi): “Traditional Indian Humanism in Comparative Perspective” Jay Drydyk (Carleton): “Responsible Pluralism”
11:15-12:45 Session
Shashi Motilal (Univ. of Delhi): “Human Rights, Human Obligations and Moral Relativism” Christine Koggel (Carleton) “Capabilities and Care”
Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Michael Krausz (Bryn Mawr College) “Mapping Relativisms”
3:45-5:15 Sonia Sikka (Univ. of Ottawa): “Philosophy, Anthropology and the Question of Cultural Relativism” Heidi Maibom (Carleton): “Whose Moral Psychology? A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Perspective”
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
9:30-11:00 Session
Ajay Verma (Univ. of Delhi): “Ethics, Language and the Authority of Tradition: A Hermeneutical Appraisal of Grammarian and Mimamsa Schools of Indian Philosophy” Gordon Davis (Carleton): “The Nature of Ethical Discourse: Relativist and Anti-Relativist Perspectives in and around Classical Indian Philosophy”
11:15-12:45 Session
Bindu Puri (Univ. of Delhi): “Gandhi’s Translation of Plato’s Apology: A Dialogue with Socrates” Noel Salmond (Carleton): “Revisiting Gandhi in Responding to the Environmental Ethics of Climate Change”
Lunch
2:15-4:15Session
Rajesh Shukla (Saint Paul University): “Similarities beyond Differences: Mill's Utilitarianism and the Consequentialism of the Bhagavad Gita” Harsha Dehejia (Carleton): “Krishna and the Dilemma of Ethics” Ram Murty (Queen’s): “Brighter than a Thousand Suns: The Gita in the Modern Age”
For further information, please contact Gordon_Davis [at] carleton [dot] ca
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Events for April
2009
COVE Conference
1st Annual Graduate Ethics Conference
Thursday, April 23rd
10:30 AM - 4:00 p.m.
Location: A602 Loeb, Carleton University
With Special Keynote Speaker: Fiona Robinson, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, speaking on "Globalization, Violence and Gender: The Ethics of Care and Human Security".
Presenters:
John-Harmen Valk (Political Science): "Peacebuilding as Social Practice: A MacIntyrean Narrative-based Virtue ethic Approach to the Transformation of Conflict" Angela Livingstone (Political Science): "Re-inventing Ecological Citizenship: An Ecofeminist Critique" Megan McIntosh (Political Science): "Ethical Empowerment: Caring about Women's Education" Deirdre Kelly (Philosophy): "Sufficient Future Obligations: Ethical Frameworks and Intergenerational Justice" Jean Fraser (Philosophy): "Agency and Wrongdoing in Sen's Capabilities Approach"
Keynote speaker at 2:30: Dr. Fiona Robinson, speaking on "Globalization, Violence and Gender: The Ethics of Care and Human Security".
Cove Seminar Title: Globalization, Violence and Gender: The Ethics of Care and Human Security
Thursday, April 23rd
2:30 p.m.
Location: A602 Loeb, Carleton University
Speaker: Fiona Robinson, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Events for January
2009
COVE Supported Talk
Title: Our Personal Responsibility for Pollution Harms to Children Wednesday, January 28th
7:30 p.m
Location: 303 Paterson Hall
Speaker:
Kristin Shrader-Frechette
O'Neill Family Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy University of Notre Dame
Abstract
Children in Canada and the US are experiencing a 1.4 percent annual increase in their cancer rates, while adults are experiencing only a 1 percent increase. According to the latest medical literature from top journals and from the World Health Organization, virtually all these childhood cancers are environmentally induced. This talk shows how and why each of us contributes to childhood respiratory and cancer problems. Many of our pollution contributions (to the cancer and respiratory disease that harm children) arise because of our use of oil and auto products, pesticides, and municipal waste incineration. The talk outlines pollution harms to children, how we cause them, and what we can do to stop them. In particular, the talk focuses on renewable energy alternatives.
Sponsors
Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE), Carleton University
Office of the Vice-President (Research and International), Carleton University
Events for March
2009
COVE Distinguished Lecture on Values and Ethics
Title: Cover-up: The Islamic head scarf and gender equality in France
Monday, March 23rd
7:30 p.m
Location: 303 Paterson Hall
Speaker:
Joan Wallach Scott
Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ
Sponsors
Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE)
Carleton University Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, Calgary, AB
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Office of the Vice President (Research and International) (OVPRI)
Abstract: There are many explanations for the French law of 2004 banning Islamic headscarves in public schools and there are many explanations given for headscarves by the girls and women who choose to wear them. In this lecture, I am interested in the way in which headscarves were taken by some French intellectuals and politicians to have only one meaning: a symbol of the oppression of women. In contrast, France was said to be a country in which gender equality was a primordial value. I argue that conflicting approaches to gender and sexuality lay at the heart of the debates. French supporters of the ban viewed sexual openness as a standard for normalcy, emancipation, and individuality. From this perspective Muslim emphasis on sexual modesty seemed abnormal, even perverse. It became proof that Muslims, though they lived in France and were often citizens, could never become fully French.
Panel Discussion
Title: Gender Equality and Secularism
Tuesday, March 24th
10 a.m. to 12 noon
Location: 2017 Dunton Tower
Speakers:
Salima Ebrahim recently completed a fellowship at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights where she looked at the state of Muslim women in Canada . She currently works for the federal government and is a National Board Member with the Canadian Council of Muslim Women
Eléonore Lépinard teaches in the department of political science of University of Montreal. She is the author of L'égalité introuvable, la parité, les féministes et la République, a book that explains the constitutional reform introducing gender parity in electoral politics in France.
Howard Duncan, Executive Head, Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Metropolis is an international network for comparative research and public policy development on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world.
Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical Separation
Thursday, January 10, 2008
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: 2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
Speaker: Christine Overall
Professor of Philosophy and Queen's University Research Chair
Abstract: The birth in British Columbia on October 25, 2006, of conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista Simms immediately prompted media discussions, fuelled by medical speculation, of whether or not the twins could be surgically separated. Since surgical separation often results in the death or severe disability of one or both twins, the question whether separation is justified for any given pair of conjoined twins is inevitably controversial. I argue that the debate remains unsettled at least partly because of insufficient attention to the actual metaphysical status of conjoined twins, in particular, attention to their embodied personhood.
Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect: From Theory to Practice
Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: 102 Azrieli Theatre Speaker: Louise Fréchette
Madame Louise Fréchette is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation of Waterloo, Ontario. She is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Trudeau Foundation, the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, as well as a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo. From 1998 to 2006, Madame Fréchette was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first incumbent of the post, she assisted Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the full range of his responsibilities. Prior to this, Madame Fréchette pursued a career in the Public Service of Canada, serving notably as Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay (1985-1988), Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1992-1994), Associate Deputy Minister of Finance (1995), and Deputy Minister of National Defence (1995-1998).
Co-produced and sponsored by Carleton University’s Centre on Values and Ethics, the Centre for Security and Defence Studies, and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.
“An Eye for Facts and a Sense of Values”: Social Work as Moral Philosophy? Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: 2203 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
Speaker: Sarah Banks, Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK
Sarah Banks has a background in community development and worked in the voluntary sector and local authority social services before joining Durham University. Her degrees are in philosophy, social history, and social work. Her research interests include professional ethics, community development, and work with young people.
She initiated the European Social Ethics Project that comprises a group of academics from various countries undertaking research and curriculum development work on the theme of teaching practical ethics for the social professions. She has been involved in developing and revising codes of ethics for several national and international bodies, including the National Youth Agency and International Federation of Social Workers.
She is currently working on two books (with colleagues from other institutions): Critical Community Practice and Professional Ethics in Health and Social Welfare: A Virtue-based Approach. She is co-editor of a new international journal, Ethics and Social Welfare.
Abstract: This talk will explore aspects of what might be the mutually beneficial relationship between social work and moral philosophy. The quotation in the title is taken from a lecture by Bernard Bosanquet, a late nineteenth century idealist philosopher and social reformer. Bosanquet wrote prolifically on highly abstract philosophical themes, while also writing about and being deeply involved with the development of early social casework. While some more recent commentators have described social work as “practical philosophy”, “doing philosophy” or “moral philosophising”, Bosanquet’s claim was more modest: that philosophy and social work share a similar orientation and set of skills insofar as they both require “an eye for facts and a sense of values”. In this talk we will explore what this means by examining one of the meeting points between social work and moral philosophy, namely professional ethics. Often equated with codes of ethics, rule-following, analysis of difficult cases, and the development of ethical decision-making models, we will examine a range of alternative approaches to the study and practice of professional ethics in social work, drawing on insights from moral philosophy and professional practice.
For More Information Please Contact Pat McGregor: service@epac-apec.caor 613-547-2615
The Ethics Practitioners’ Association of Canada invites you to a unique event. Hear Donna Boehme, an internationally recognized expert on ethics and corporate governance, speak on the “View from the Trenches: the Imperative of Ethical Leadership” at the EPAC AGM. This event is being supported by the Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE) at Carleton University.
Speaker: Donna Boehme, principal of Compliance Strategists LLC
Donna Boehme has served as the global compliance and ethics officer for BP Plc, and the BOC Group, the multinational industrial gases company. She currently serves on the advisory boards of the RAND Center of Corporate Ethics, Law and Governance, and of the Corporate Compliance Center, South Texas College of Law and is a Director Emeritus of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, the largest worldwide organization of compliance and ethics professionals. Ms. Boehme is principal of Compliance Strategists LLC, which provides high level strategic consultation to broad spectrum of companies and public sector entities. She also serves as Special Advisor to Compliance Systems Legal Group, the leading law firm specializing exclusively in corporate governance, compliance and ethics. Ms. Boehme speaks on corporate governance and ethics issues to business and professional groups including Association of Corporate Counsel, Practicing Law Institute, Conference Board, Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, Ethics Resource Center, Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics, Institute of Business Ethics and the House of Lords. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of Association of Corporate Counsel – Europe and a founding member of the Compliance and Ethics Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board.
Breaking the Silence
International Conference on The Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Friday Sept. 26 – Saturday Sept. 27 2008
Location: University of Montréal
Sponsors
Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM)
Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE), Carleton University
The Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
COVE Talk Responsible Investing: Shareholder Value and Shareholders' Values
Thursday, October 16th
7:30 p.m
Location: Loeb B149, Carleton University
Speaker:
Tessa Hebb Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton University, Senior Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. She was Senior Research Associate in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School through June 2008.
Title: Embodied Dignity: Human Rights and the Wrongs of Oppression, Torture, & Rape Thursday, November 13th
7:00 p.m
Location: 2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
Speaker:
Debra Bergoffen
Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies George Mason University, Washington, DC
Sponsors
Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE), Carleton University
Department of Philosophy, Carleton University
Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies, Carleton University
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Human Rights, Carleton University
International Guidelines on Research Ethics - Consensus and Conflicts Wednesday, January 10, 2007
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Economics Department Seminar Room, C869 Loeb Building
Speaker:
John Williams
Adjuct Professor, Carleton University, and Former Director of Ethics, World Medical Association
The Ethics of Intelligence Collection Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: FASS Lounge, 2017 Dunton Tower
Reception to Follow
Speaker:
Angela Gendron
Fellow, Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
Co-sponsored by the Centre on Security and Defence Studies and the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies
COVE Speaker
Ethics with a Public Face Thursday, February 8th, 2007
19:00 pm - 20:30 pm
Location: Alumni Theatre, Southam Hall
Speaker:
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities & Director, Centre for Comparative Literature, Columbia University
The Museum of Art-thropology: Twenty-first Century Imbroglios and Ethical Implications for Museum Practice Wednesday, March 14, 2007
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Economics Department Seminar Room, C869 Loeb Building
Speaker:
Ruth Phillips
Canadian Research Chair in Art History, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University
COVE Conference
Ethical, Legal, and Social Perspectives on Physician-Assisted Suicide
March 23-24, 2007
100 St. Patrick's Building
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
Quelles sont les limites de la liberté de'expression - le cas de Charlie Hebdo
9th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival
Wednesday-Sunday, April 25-29, 2007
Location: DELTA CENTRE-VILLE Hotel, 777, University Street, Montreal, Quebec
Language: French
Speaker: Phillipe Val
Directeur, Charlie Hebdo, French Satirical Newspaper
For registration: www.bluemetropolis.org
Co-sponsors: Centre de Recherche en Ethique de l'Université de Montréal and the Sheldon M. Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Empowerment in Development: Obstacles, Flaws, Achievements Friday, May 4, 2007
Location: 2203 Dunton Tower
Speakers: Jan Newberry (Lethbridge), Robert Fox (Oxfam Canada), Methodius Kusumahadi (USC-SATUNAMA, Indonesia), Patti Petesch (World Bank), Shirin Rai (Warwick), David Crocker (Maryland), Naila Kabeer (IDS, Sussex)
Bridges of Understanding between Islam and the West Thursday, October 25, 2007
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: 2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
Speaker:
Hadeer A. Nagah
Visiting Scholar, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies,
Carleton University, and former professor of English Literature at the State University of New York, Fulbright Scholar, and author of a series of 10 books introducing Islam to English readers.
Abstract for Hadeer Nagah talk
While cultures and civilizations seem to be at odds and the world seems to prepare for a clash of civilization, misunderstanding, confusion, and stereotyping prevails. Now more than ever before, thinkers, educators and devoted humans from all around the globe are needed to build bridges of understanding and shatter the stereotypes. What does Islam mean? Who is Allah? Who is Muhammad? What are the main concepts of the Quran? What are the main practices of Muslims? What is the status of women in Islam? Dr. Hadeer A. Nagah will answer these questions and others with an aim of developing bridges of understanding between Islam as a religion and culture and Western culture.
COVE Seminar, joint with the
Seminar in Economics, Politics, and Public Policy
The Challenge of Ethics in Government
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Location:Arts Faculty Lounge (2017 DT)
Speaker: Bernard Shapiro
Ethics Commissioner of Canada
COVE Seminar The Rise of a New Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Britain
Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: Arts Faculty Lounge (2017 DT)
Speaker:
Shalom Lappin
Department of Philosophy
King's College, London
In recent years anti-Jewish discourse has moved from the fringes of
public opinion into mainstream political discourse in Britain.
Frequently packaged as extreme anti-Israel or anti-Zionist comment it
goes well beyond reasonable (and much warranted) criticism of Israel's
occupation of Palestinian territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem,
and the systematic human rights abuses that this occupation involves. It
seeks to deligitimize Israel as a country, promote hatred and violence
against Israeli civilians, and villify Jews in the diaspora who insist
on Israel's right to exist. It substitutes anti-Zionist for anti-Semitic
rhetoric in order to trade on modified versions of traditional
anti-Jewish imagery, most prominently the spectre of a quasi criminal
Jewish conspiracy pulling the levers of international politics and
finance. The new anti-Semitism is not, in general, directed against
individual Jews, but against Jews as a people, identified in collective
terms. It has made its appearance among policy statements of major
British politicians and public figures, who have given it
respectability. The factors that are driving this development are, in
large part, local to the British and general European scene. The
Manichean view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which is coming to
define discussion of the Middle East in Britain, and in Europe
generally, is increasingly detached from events in this region. The new
anti-Semitism poses a serious challenge both to the long term future of
the British Jewish Community, and to the robustness of a richly textured
pluralist democracy in Britain.
Bio
Shalom Lappin is Professor of Computational Linguistics at King's
College, London. He is has been active in social democratic and labour
organizations in Canada, Israel, and Britain. He was a member of Peace
Now and a supporter of Meretz in Israel. He is a frequent contributor to
Dissent magazine and a member of the Engage Journal editorial board.
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Philosophy Seminar Room, Paterson 3A36, Carleton University
Speaker:
Bruce Mabley
Title: The Theoretical Roots of Contemporary Islamism
Department of Philosophy
Carleton University
This talk will seek to explore some of the theoretical origins of
contemporary Islamist thought. Specifically I will trace these origins with
the Islamic law tradition from which these Islamist thinkers sought
inspiration and a doctrine.
Bio
Bruce Mabley holds a Ph.D. degree in Philosophy and is presently
completing a Doctor of Laws degree at Laval University (Quebec, Canada). His fields of research specialization in Law are as follows: Philosophy of
Law, Islamic and Transnational Law, International Public Law and Comparative
Law. After having spent 10 years working as a Canadian diplomat in Europe
and the Middle East, Dr. Mabley became Director of International Cooperation
and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Concordia University in
Montreal. He is the author of numerous articles related to Islamic Law and
Political Philosophy.
COVE Seminar, co-sponsored by Sheldon Chumir Foundation
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Gillespie Seminar Room, 8th floor, Tower C, Loeb Building
Speaker: Madelaine
Drohan, 2004-2005 Sheldon Chumir Foundation Media Fellow
Title: Scandals and their Aftermath: Why we are doomed to repeat our mistakes
COVE Seminar
Thursday, October 6, 2005
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: FASS Lounge, 2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University (followed by a wine and cheese)
Speaker: Margaret O. Little, Philosophy Department, Georgetown
University
Title: Exploitation & the ethics of clinical research in developing
countries
COVE Seminar
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Philosophy Seminar Room, Paterson 3A36, Carleton University
Speaker: Idil Boran, Philosophy Department, UQAM
Title: Assurances and Threats in Negotiations
Debate: Would Proportional Representation be Good for Canada?
Thursday, October 27, 2005
7:00 pm
Location: Alumni Theatre, Carleton University
Moderator and Organizer: André Blais, Canadian Research Chair in
Electoral Studies
In Defense of First Past the Post
Richard S. Katz, Professor of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins
University
In Defense of Proportional Representation
R. Kenneth Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of
British Columbia
Speaker: André Blais, Political Science Department, University
of Montreal
Title: The Impact of Electoral Systems: Parties and Governments
Under Plurality and PR Systems
COVE Seminar
Friday, November 11, 2005
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: 240 Tory Building, Carleton University
Speaker: Aluf Benn, Diplomatic Editor, Ha'aretz, Israel
Title: After Disengagement: Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
COVE Seminar
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Philosophy Seminar Room, Paterson 3A36, Carleton University
Speaker: Shereen Miller, Director General, Rights, Redress and
Resolution, Correctional Service of Canada
Title: Ethics in Prison: where human rights may be most at risk
COVE Seminar
Monday, November 29th, 2004
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: C869 Loeb Building
Speaker: Susan
Sherwin, Professor of Philosophy
Dalhousie University
Title: Determining Health Care Needs
after the Human Genome Project:
Reflections on Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
Speaker: Gebhard Kirchgässner
Title: On Minimal Morals
University of St. Gallen
Swiss Institute of International Economics
and Applied Economic Analysis and CESifo
Abstract
First, a definition and classification of moral (or altruistic)
behaviour is given. Then, we discuss the necessity of moral behaviour
for the functioning of a market economic and a democratic political
order. We also refer to attempts which have been undertaken in order
to show that such moral be-haviour is not necessary. Moral behaviour
can, however, only be stable if certain conditions hold. We present
five such conditions. Finally we point to some dangers of relying
on moral behaviour.
