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2023

February 19 – "Special Exhibit Tour: Using Media Responsibly,” 1 p.m. February 19 at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. Led by the creator of the Wonder Media: Ask the Questions! exhibit, Sue Ellen Christian, 2021-24 Presidential Innovation Professor in Communication. Meet at the front desk. Co-sponsor: School of Communication. Download flier.

February 21 – “The Ethical Considerations of Conducting Research with Forced Migrants,” 5 p.m. 208 Bernhard Center. Wa'ed Alshoubaki, assistant professor at the University of Jordan. Co-sponsors: Haenicke Institute for Global Education, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Office of Research and Innovation. Download flier.

March 1 – “Bioethics in the Era of COVID-19 … and Beyond,” 1 p.m. on . Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, president of the American Psychiatric Association and associate director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Hosted by the �������� Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Download flier.

March 15 - "Grasslands, Garbage Islands, and Plastic Trees: Working Towards a Future Ecology," 6 p.m. 105 Bernhard. Alec Koppers, master’s student, Department of Philosophy. Part of the �������� Climate Change Working Group’s events for Climate Emergency Month: Creating a Just and Sustainable Future. Co-sponsors: Climate Change Working Group, Department of Philosophy. Download flier.

March 16 – “Navigating a Health Care System Response to Dobbs,” 12 p.m. March 16. In person in the auditorium of the WMed UpJohn Building, 300 Portage Street in downtown Kalamazoo, and online on Teams. Check back for Teams link. Kayte Spector-Bagdady, interim co-director at the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Hosted by the �������� Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Download flier.

March 21 - ���s Ignoring Climate Change Akin to Mass Murder? Troubling Ethical Conclusions about Climate Change and its Effects,” 6 p.m. 208 Bernhard Center. Jonathan Milgrim, faculty specialist in the �������� Department of Philosophy. Part of the �������� Climate Change Working Group’s events for Climate Emergency Month: Creating a Just and Sustainable Future. Co-sponsors: Climate Change Working Group, Department of Philosophy. Download flier.

March 30 – "Between Violence and Resistance: The Challenges of Latin America in the 21st Century," 2023 Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture, 6 p.m. 208 Bernhard Center. Edgar Franco-Vivanco, assistant professor of political science, University of Michigan. Co-sponsors: Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Department of Spanish, Department of Political Science, �������� Native American Affairs Council, Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War (KNOW). This event was canceled and moved to Fall 2023.

September 21 – “From The Crown to All Quiet on the �������� Front: The Notion of Adaptation as Violation,” Lucia Krämer, Professor, English Cultural and Media Studies, University of Passau, 4:30 p.m., Student Center, Meeting Room 2213. Co-Sponsors: Haenicke Institute for Global Education, English. Download flier.

October 24 – “ChatGPT’s Distortions of the Student-Teacher Relationship,” 12 p.m. online on Webex. Part of ��������x’s AI@�������� events series. Noah Smith, Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University. Host: ��������x. Co-sponsor: Philosophy. Download flier. .

October 26 – “Between Violence and Resistance: The Challenges of Latin America in the 21st Century,” 2023 Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture, 6 p.m., Putney Auditorium, Fetzer Center. Edgar Franco-Vivanco, assistant professor of political science, University of Michigan. Co-Sponsors: Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Department of Political Science, Department of Spanish, �������� Native American Affairs Council, Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War (KNOW). Rescheduled from Spring 2023. Download flier. .

November 3 – "Chatbots in Medicine: Helpful Nudge or Biased Manipulation?” Keynote for the Midwest Medical Humanities Conference, 12 p.m. on . Dr. Matthew DeCamp, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz. Host: �������� Medical Humanities Workgroup. Co-sponsor: Department of Philosophy. Download flier. For more information, visit conference website.

November 14 – “Decolonizing Digital Hegemonies: Reframing, Disrupting and Occupying Online Spaces,” 6 p.m. Student Center, Meeting Room 2211.  Lusike Mukhongo, associate professor, School of Communication. Co-sponsors: School of Communication, Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Download flier. .

December 7 - "Beyond the Algorithm: Exploring AI's Role in the Future of Healthcare," 6 p.m. (appetizers at 5:30 p.m.), �������� Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine's W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus Auditorium (). Panelists: Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, professor of electrical and computer engineering, ��������; Dr. Ash Goel, senior vice president, chief information officer, Bronson Healthcare Group; Dr. Philip Kroth, associate dean for health services research, WMed; and Alessander Santos, professor of physical therapy, ��������. Panel moderator: Tyler S. Gibb, associate professor, medical ethics, humanities & law, WMed. Download flier. Host: WMed.

December 8 – “The Idea of Prison Abolition: Slavery and Its Legacy,” Tommie Shelby, Philosophy, Harvard University, 3 p.m., Rooms 2209/2211, �������� Student Center. Host: Philosophy. Co-Sponsors: Institute for Intercultural and Anthropological Studies, Political Science, Sociology, University Center for the Humanities, �������� Minorities in Philosophy. Download flier.

2022

January 18 - “The Pains of Being (Im)pure at Heart: Moral Enhancement and the Public Good,” panel discussion of , 6 pm. on . Moderator: Michael Redinger, co-chair of WMed’s Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law. Panelists: Parker Crutchfield, associate professor, WMed Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law; Nada Gligorov, associate professor of bioethics and director of graduate studies at Alden March Bioethics Institute; Jonathan Anomaly, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics master’s program at Universidad de las Américas (Mexico); and Fabrice Jotterand, director of the Philosophies of Medical Education Transformation Laboratory (P-METaL) in the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Hosted by �������� Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Download flier. .

February 16 - “Ethics and the Lifespan of a Fact,” 6 p.m. on Webex. Discussion of ethical issues concerning facts, truth and the media facilitated by D. Terry Williams, director of with School of Communication Professor Sue Ellen Christian, English Professor Richard Katrovas and the cast of the play: Paul Stroili, Laurie Carter Rose and Myles Schwarz. Co-sponsors: Farmers Alley Theatre, School of Communication, Department of English. Download flier.

March 14 - “Do We Have an Ethical Duty of Moral Attention?” A conversation with Victoria Vuletich, founder and CEO, Ethics², 6 p.m. on Webex. . Download flier. .

March 24 - "Medical Bondage," 12 p.m. at W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus Auditorium, 300 Portage Street in downtown Kalamazoo. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Additional presentations by Jaide Woods Dawson, M1 WMed medical student; Angie Tsuei, MD, PGY-III WMed OB/Gyn resident; and Catherine Kothari, PhD, WMed community health research faculty. Co-sponsor: �������� Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Download flier.

March 30 - “Business Ethics and Sustainability,” 4 p.m. on Webex. Timothy Palmer, �������� professor of management, Haworth Business College. Co-sponsor: Haworth College of Business Center for Sustainable Business Practices. . Download flier. .

April 5 - “Disputed Memorials and the Moral Standards Question,” a conversation with Ainsley Carry, vice-president for students, University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada), 6 p.m. on Webex. Co-sponsor: Office of Diversity and Inclusion. . Download flier. .

April 12 - Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture with Amitav Ghosh, author of The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021, U of Chicago Press). 7 p.m. on Webex. Presented in partnership with the Climate Change Working Group. Co-sponsors: this is a bookstore & Bookbug, the Kalamazoo Nature Center, the �������� College of Arts and Sciences, the �������� Office for Sustainability, the �������� Department of English, the �������� Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s Gwen Frostic Committee, the �������� Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the University Center for the Humanities. . Download flier. Listen to podcast.

September 23 – “Improving End-of-Life Care: The 3 Wishes Program,” keynote address at the 2022 �������� Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, 4 p.m. on Teams. Thanh Neville, pulmonologist at UCLA Health and assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care at the University of California, Los Angeles. Co-sponsors: �������� Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, �������� Medical Humanities Working Group, �������� Department of Philosophy. to receive Teams meeting link. Download flier.

October 11 - “Unethical Treatment of Marginalized Populations in the Name of Medicine,” 7 p.m. in Room 4010, College of Health and Human Services building. Harriet A. Washington, award-winning medical writer and editor. Book signing directly after the lecture. Co-sponsors: the �������� Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the . Book sales: . Major funding from the �������� Ethics Center’s Shirley Bach Endowment for the Ethics Center. Arrangements for the appearance of Harriet Washington made through UTA Speakers, New York, NY. Download flier.

November 3 – “Conspiracy Theories in Germany and the U.S.,”4 p.m., 1730 Sangren Hall. Thomas Stelzl, lecturer in history education, University of Passau (Germany). Co-sponsor: �������� Department of History. Download flier.

November 17 – “Uncertain Expertise in Trans Medicine,” 2022 Burian Lecture, 6 p.m., in person in Room 4010, College of Health and Human Services building and live streamed on the . stef shuster, assistant professor of sociology, Michigan State University. Co-sponsors: �������� College of Health and Human Services’ Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; �������� Department of Sociology; �������� Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, �������� School of Social Work. RSVP. Download flier. .

November 30 – “Medical Error and the RaDonda Vaught Verdict,” panel discussion of nurse’s criminal conviction and sentence for administering the wrong medicine to a patient with fatal results, 6 p.m. in person in Room 4010 of the College of Health and Human Services building. Moderator: Elissa Allen, assistant professor, �������� School of Nursing. Panelists: Jamie Brown, president of the Michigan Nurses Association; James “Chip” Falahee Jr., senior vice president of legal and legislative affairs for the Bronson Healthcare Group; Nayeli Guandique-Benitez, third-year student, Bronson School of Nursing; Aaron Lane-Davies, chief of quality for the Bronson Medical Group; Jaide Woods-Dawson, medical student leader, �������� Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine’s Bioethics Interest Group. Co-sponsors: Bronson School of Nursing, �������� Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Download flier.

2021

January 13 - Discussion of "The Infiltrators," 7 p.m. on Zoom. The film is available on Amazon Prime or to rent for $3.99 on YouTube. Netflix subscribers are invited to also view ���mmigration Nation 2020, Episode 4: The New Normal.” Dialogue partners will be Justice for our Neighbors (JFON) legal staff and Executive Director of El Concilio Kalamazoo Adrian Vazquez. The theme is “Standing in the Gap: Human Rights and Immigration Detention.” Part of the Human Rights and Migration Film Discussion Series sponsored by JFON.Co-sponsors: Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the Kalamazoo Film Society, El Concilio and the Kalamazoo Refugee Resource Collaborative. Participants must .  Download flier.

April 5 - Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture, “Political Effectiveness, Negative Externalities, and the Ethics of Economic Sanctions,” 5:30 p.m. on Zoom. Dursun Peksen, Political Science, University of Memphis. Co-Sponsors: Department of Political Science, Department of Economics, Global and International Studies, Haenicke Institute for Global Education. Participants must . Download flier. . Listen to podcast.

September 24 - "The Racialized Imagination and the Practice of Medicine," 12 p.m. on . Patrick T. Smith, Theological Ethics and Bioethics, Duke University Divinity School. Keynote for 11^th annual �������� Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference. All are welcome to attend the on Teams. Email @email for more information. Co-Sponsors: �������� Michigan University Medical Humanities Workgroup, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine and Department of Philosophy

October 11 - "Empathy for the Dead," 4 p.m. at the Amphitheater on the �������� Michigan University campus (between Knauss/Friedman/Dunbar). Ashley Atkins, Philosophy, �������� Michigan University. In case of inclement weather, event will be held virtually on Webex. to be notified and to receive link. Co-Sponsor: Department of Philosophy. Download flier. Listen to the podcast.

October 28 - "A Conversation about Ethics and Carceral Higher Education," 4 p.m. on Webex. Rebecca Ginsburg, Education Justice Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with Dale Brown, Prison Education Outreach Program, �������� Michigan University. . Co-Sponsors: Department of Philosophy and the Educational Foundations M.A. program in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies. Download flier.

November 4 - "A Conversation about Ethics and Political Rhetoric," 5:30 p.m. on WebEx. Peter Loge, Project on Ethics in Political Communication, The George Washington University, with Sandra L. Borden, Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, �������� Michigan University. . Co-sponsors: School of Communication and Department of Political Science. Download flier. .

2020

January 16 - "Ethics by the Book: Current Issues in Medicine and Climate Policy," 4 p.m., Waldo Library, Meader Room (third floor). Panelists: Fritz Allhoff, Professor, Department of Philosophy, ��������; Sandra L. Borden, Professor, School of Communication, ��������; Ron Kramer, Professor, Department of Sociology, ��������. Co-sponsor: Waldo Libraries. Download flier.

February 6 - "The Menace and Ethics of Fake News: Imaginary Outlaws, Exalted Heroes and the Death of Ned Christie," 5 p.m., 1025 Brown Hall. Devon Mihesuah, Professor, Department of Humanities, University of Kansas. Co-sponsors: College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Multicultural Affairs, Institute for Intercultural and Anthropological Studies, Department of Philosophy. Download flier.

September 25 - “‘You Took an Oath!’ The Role of Oaths and Codes in Medical Education and their Representation in Film and Television,” noon on Microsoft Teams. Kayhan Parsi, professor of bioethics and health policy at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago, and Nanette Elster, associate professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Part of the 10th annual �������� Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference. Co-Sponsors: �������� Michigan University Medical Humanities Workgroup and �������� Michigan University Dr. Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Check back for link. Download flier.

October 13 - Discussion of the films “Crossing Arizona” available on Amazon and ���mmigration Nation, Episode 6” available on Netflix, 7 p.m. on Zoom. Nicole Smith and Austin Shipman from the Undocumented Migration Project will be the dialogue partners. The theme is “Beyond Border Politics.” Part of the Human Rights and Migration Film Discussion Series sponsored by Justice for our Neighbors.Co-sponsors: Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the Kalamazoo Film Society, El Concilio and the Kalamazoo Refugee Resource Collaborative. Participants must . Download flier.

November 11 - Discussion of excerpts from "" and "," 7 p.m. on Zoom. Dialogue partners will be Maria Roche-Dean, �������� Bronson School of Nursing and Kalamazoo Refugee Resource Collaborative Board member Shukurani Nsengiyumva; and a filmmaker and film subject from Community Sponsored Films in Massachusetts who highlight aspects of refugee resettlement in their work. The theme is "In Their Own Voices: Refugee Resettlement." Part of the Human Rights and Migration Film Discussion Series sponsored by Justice for our Neighbors.Co-sponsors: Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the Kalamazoo Film Society, El Concilio and the Kalamazoo Refugee Resource Collaborative. Participants must . Download flier.

December 17 - Discussion of "," 7 p.m. on Zoom. Dialogue partners will be Sandra Borden, director of the �������� Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, and Alvaro Paz, who has specialized expertise in youth engagement and international relations. The theme is "Ethical Migration." Part of the Human Rights and Migration Film Discussion Series sponsored by Justice for our Neighbors.Co-sponsors: Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the Kalamazoo Film Society, El Concilio and the Kalamazoo Refugee Resource Collaborative. Participants must . Download flier.

2019

January 22 - Mitchell Winget, graduate student, Department of Philosophy, and Arthur Woodworth, pre-engineering major, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, "Essay Contest Winners on Making Ethics Vital," 4 p.m., 211 Bernhard Center. Download flier. .

February 6 - Laura Black, Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, “Engaging Communities in Difficult Conversations: Dialogue, Deliberation, and Engaged Scholarship,” 5 p.m. 1028 Brown Hall. Co-sponsors: School of Communication, Visiting Scholars and Artists Program, �������� Cooley Law School Center for Civil Discourse. Download flier. .

February 12 - Parker Crutchfield, Associate Professor, Program in Medical Humanities, Ethics and Law, �������� Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, "Making People Better: Saving Us from Ourselves through Moral Enhancement,” 6:30 p.m., 211 Bernhard Center. Co-sponsors: �������� Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Department of Psychology. Download flier. .

March 12 - Charlie Kurth, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department,“Should Politicians be Anxious?” 6 p.m., 211 Bernhard Center. Co-sponsors: Department of History, Department of Political Science. Download flier. . .

March 18 - Ron A. Cisler, Dean, College of Health and Human Services, “Does Community-Wide Public Health Prevention Work? From Reducing Teen Births to Addressing Today’s Opioid Epidemic,” 6 p.m., 210 Bernhard. Co-sponsor: College of Health and Human Services. Download flier. Rescheduled from Jan. 29.

March 25 - Susan Benesch, Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Director, Dangerous Speech Project, "Social Media and Mass Violence," Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture, 6 p.m., Brown & Gold Room, Bernhard Center. Co-sponsors: School of Communication, Department of Political Science, Global and International Studies, Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War (KNOW), �������� Cooley Law School Center for Civil Discourse. Download flier. .

September 4 - Bernhard Stahl, International Politics, University of Passau (Germany), "Politics of Denial: Germany's International Responsibility and the Silencing of Mass Atrocities," 3:30 p.m. Brown & Gold Room, Bernhard Center. Co-Sponsors: Department of Political Science and Haenicke Institute for Global Education. Download flier. Listen to interview. Listen to lecture.

September 20 - Jason Marker, M.D., Memorial Hospital (South Bend, IN), ���f the United States Promised Health Care as a ‘Right,’ What Would We REALLY Have to Deliver?" Keynote, 2019 �������� Medical Humanities Conference, 5 p.m., Auditorium, �������� Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, 300 Portage Street. Co-sponsors: �������� Medical Humanities Workgroup, �������� Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Download flier.

October 4 - Ashley Atkins, Philosophy, �������� Michigan University, “Race and the Politics of Loss: Revisiting the Legacy of Emmett Till,” 3:30 p.m., 2008 Richmond Center for Visual Arts. Co-sponsors: Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Frostic School of Art, Lewis Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations. Download talk. Download flier. Listen to interview.

October 10 - Juan Cole, History, University of Michigan, "The Saudi Crisis in the Contemporary Middle East,” 6:45 p.m. Kirsch Auditorium, Fetzer Center. H. Nicholas Hamner Lecture. Co-Sponsors: Department of History, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Visiting Scholars and Artists Program, Department of Sociology, Colleagues International, Southwest Michigan Educational Initiative on the Eastern Indian Ocean, Islam in Global Perspective Speakers Series, Institute of Intercultural and Anthropological Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Haenicke Institute for Global Education. Download flier.

October 23 - David J. Gunkel, Communication, Northern Illinois University, 6 p.m. Brown & Gold Room, Bernhard Center. Co-sponsors: Communication and Social Robotics Labs, School of Communication. Download flier.

November 6 - Anna Popkova and Taylor Koopman, Communication, “Populism, Social Media and Democratic Participation,” 6 p.m. Brown & Gold Room, Bernhard Center. Co-sponsor: School of Communication. Download flier.

November 22 - Saba Bazargan-Forward, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, "Justifying the Beneficiary Pays Principle," 5 p.m., 157 Bernhard Center. Keynote speaker, Philosophy Graduate Conference. Co-Sponsors: Department of Philosophy, Graduate Student Association. Download flier.

2018

January 25 - “Where Do You Stand in Times of Trouble?” 7 p.m., 157 Bernhard Center. Panel moderator: Dale Brown, Philosophy graduate student. Part of 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Co-sponsor: Department of Philosophy. Download poster. .

February 8 - David Denby, staff writer and former film critic for The New Yorker, “The Humanities in the Age of Demagoguery,” 7 p.m., 3508 Knauss Hall. Part of the Center for the Humanities' “Promise of Education” speaker series. Download poster. .

February 28 - “Legal Ethics in the Media: How Does Fiction Influence Reality?” 4 p.m., Brown and Gold Room–Bernhard Center. Panelists: Norman Hawker, Professor, Department of Finance and Commercial Law, Haworth College of Business; Tonya Krause-Phelan, auxiliary dean, �������� Cooley Law School; and Victoria Vuletich, professor, �������� Cooley Law School. Co-Sponsors: Haworth College of Business, �������� Cooley Law School and School of Communication. Light refreshments.Download poster. .

March 29 - Christian Appy, professor of history, University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Why We Don't Have a Peace Memorial: The Vietnam War and the Distorted Memory of Dissent," 7 p.m., 1028 Brown Hall. Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture. Co-sponsors: Southwest Michigan Educational Initiative on the East Indian Ocean, Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Department of History and Department of Sociology. Download poster. Watch video and . Watch on "Critical Issues, Alternative Views."

April 2 - "Educational Equity: From the 'Kalamazoo Case' to the 'Kalamazoo Promise' and Beyond," 6 p.m., 204 Bernhard Center. Co-moderators: Kathy Purnell, instructor, Department of Political Science, and Ashley Atkins, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy. Panelists: Jim Robb, general counsel and associate dean of alumni and public relations, �������� Cooley Law School; Cyekeia Lee, director of outreach and partnerships, Kalamazoo Promise; Michael Evans, executive director, Kalamazoo Literacy Council; and Sandra Standish, executive director, KC Ready 4s. Co-sponsors: �������� Cooley Law School and College of Education and Human Development. Download poster. .

April 12 - Danielle Allen, professor of government, Harvard University, ���nequality, Citizenship, and the Promise of Education,” 7 p.m., 2452 Knauss Hall. Part of the Center for the Humanities' “Promise of Education” speaker series. Download poster. .

April 18 (rescheduled) - Diane Ravitch, research professor of education, New York University, “Education Reform and the Promise of Public Education,” rescheduled for 7 p.m., Room 2000–Schneider Hall. Part of the Center for the Humanities' “Promise of Education” speaker series. Download poster. .

September 13 - Stephanie J. Bird, former Vice President for Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Putting Science in Its Place: Neuroscience and Neuroethics," 5:30 p.m., Auditorium–�������� Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Part of 2018 �������� Medical Humanities Conference (no need to register for conference to attend). Co-sponsors: �������� Stryker MD School of Medicine, Medical Humanities Workgroup. Download flier. .

September 25 and 26 - Black History 101 Mobile Museum special exhibit "'68: How Far Have We Come?," 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Atrium–Richmond Center for the Visual Arts. In partnership with the Richmond Center’s exhibition. On the Inside Out and the Center for the Humanities' “TRUTH” speaker series, and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion's Real Talk series. Co-sponsored by the School of Communication, the Department of History, the Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations, Lee Honors College, the College of Arts and Sciences,the College of Education and Human Development, and the Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies. Download flier.

September 25 - Khalid el-Hakim, curator of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum, “The Truth Hurts: Black History, Honesty and Healing the Racial Divide,” 3:30 p.m., Room 2008–Richmond Center for the Visual Arts. Reception to follow in Room 1004.

October 4 - “‘68: How Far Have We Come?” Black History 101 Mobile Museum exhibit follow-up discussion, 3:30 p.m., October 4, Multicultural Center–Trimpe Building. Facilitated by Dr. Candy McCorkle, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, with participation by Lindsey Palar and Mike Ramirez from the Diversity Education unit of the Office for Diversity and Inclusion.

October 24 - Carla Koretsky, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, �������� Michigan University, "Invisible Salt and Urban Dead Seas: Who Is Responsible?” 4 p.m., 105-107 Bernhard Center. Co-Sponsors: Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. *Please note location change* Download flier.

November 5 - ���ntegrating Research Ethics into the High School Science Classroom,” 6 p.m., 1710 Sangren Hall. Moderator: Susan Stapleton, Dean of the Graduate College, ��������. Panelists: Cheryl A. Dickson, Associate Dean for Health Equity and Community Affairs at �������� Homer Styker School of Medicine; Carrie Ferrario, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, The University of Michigan Medical School; Luke Perry, STEM Education Director, Battle Creek Area Math & Science Center; and Michael Tanoff, Director of the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center. Download flier. .

November 9 - Justin C. Clark, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hamilton College, “Plato's Dialogues of Definition: What is Socrates Looking for?" 3 p.m., 157 Bernhard Center. Part of �������� Graduate Philosophy Conference. Co-sponsors: Department of Philosophy, Graduate Student Association, Visiting Scholars and Artists Program. *Please note time change* Download flier.

2017

April 6 - Alexander Guerrero, Philosophy, Rutgers University, “Again Toward Perpetual Peace: Elections, World Government, and Lottocracy,” 6 p.m., 213 Bernhard Center, Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture. Co-Sponsors: Department of Philosophy, Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Department of Political Science, Kalamazoo Peace Center, Pax Christi Kalamazoo, St. Thomas More Social Justice, St. Joseph Social Justice, and Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents of War (KNOW).

March 22 - Rebecca Dresser, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, "Does Everyone Have a Duty to Volunteer for Research?" 6 p.m. W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus Auditorium, �������� Stryker School of Medicine, 300 Portage Street, Kalamazoo. 5:30 p.m. reception. Co-sponsors: WMed Program in Medical Ethics, Humanities & Law, �������� Cooley Law School and West Michigan Cancer Center. .
March 16 - Kristopher Phillips, Philosophy, Southern Utah University, “Do We Have a Moral Obligation to Study the Liberal Arts?” 6 p.m., 213 Bernhard Center. Co-sponsors: Department of Philosophy and Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies, ��������.

March 1 - Tonya Krause-Phelan, �������� Cooley Law School, panel moderator, ���ntegrity in the Criminal Justice System,” 7 p.m., 211 Bernhard Center. Co-Sponsor: �������� Cooley Law School.

February 22 - Asha Noor, National Network for Arab American Communities, and Alisa Perkins, Comparative Religion, ��������, "How to Take on Hate: A Dialogue on Islamophobia and Race," 12 p.m., Lee Honors College Lounge. Part of Lee Honors College Lyceum lecture series and Department of Comparative Religion’s Islam in Global Perspectives lecture series. .

February 8 - Stacey Connaughton, Purdue Peace Project, “Organizing To Prevent Violence and Build Peace: The Transformative Potential of Everyday Citizens in West Africa and Central America,” 6:30 p.m. 2028 Brown Hall. Coffee and dessert after talk in 2026 Brown Hall. Co-Sponsor: School of Communication. Part of 2016-17 Visiting Scholars and Artists Program. .

February 2 - Jonathan Milgrim, Philosophy, ��������, panel moderator; Keagan Potts, Jenji Learn and Andrew Marquis, Philosophy, ��������, panelists, “The Unifying Power of Education,” 6 p.m., 213 Bernhard Center. Part of 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

December 9 - Charles Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York, "Liberalism and Racial Justice,” 4:45 p.m., 157 Bernhard Center. Part of �������� Michigan University Graduate Philosophy Conference. Co-sponsors: Department of Philosophy, Graduate Student Association, Visiting Scholars and Artists Program.Download poster. See abstract.

December 6 - Gayle Salamon, Associate Professor of English, Princeton University, “The Life and Death of Latisha King,” 12 p.m., Lee Honors College Lounge. Part of Lee Honors College’s Lyceum series. Co-sponsors: Lee Honors College, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Philosophy. Download poster. See abstract.

November 9 - Ronald Kramer, Professor of Sociology, �������� Michigan University, "Criminal Justice, Social Justice and Climate Justice,” 6 p.m., Brown & Gold Room, Bernhard Center. Reception to follow. Download poster. See abstract.

October 19 - Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan, “The Kindling of a Flame: Analogies to Light the Way for Technology in Education,” 7 p.m., 2452 Knauss Hall. Part of the �������� Michigan University Center for the Humanities’ Promise of Education series. Download poster. See abstract.

October 12 - ���mmigrant to Neighbor: Journeying through Hope and Fear,” 7 p.m., Brown & Gold Room, Bernhard Center, panel featuring readings from recently published anthology "Immigration & Justice for Our Neighbors." Download poster. See abstract.

September 28 - Mark Edmundson, University Professor, University of Virginia, ���n Defense of Ideals,” 7 p.m., 3502 Knauss Hall. Part of the �������� Michigan Univesity Center for the Humanities’ Promise of Education series. Download poster. See abstract.

September 14 - Jay Baruch, M.D., Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, “Why Doctors Must be Creative,” 6 p.m., auditorium, �������� Homer Stryker MD Medical School downtown campus. Part of 2017 �������� Medical Humanities Conference. Co-sponsors: �������� Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Medical Humanities Workgroup, Department of Philosophy. This talk is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required: Email @email. Download poster. See abstract.