Past Events

Thursday, November 5, 2009
H1N1: Is the sky really falling?
Dr. Holly Gaff, Assistant Professor, Community and Environmental Health & Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center
12:30-1:20 p.m., BAL 9024

April 13, 2009
Panel Discussion: "Making Waves in Hampton Roads: Ethical Issues at the Waterfront"
7:30 p.m., Mills Godwin Building Room 102

Moderator: Cathy Lewis, Host of "HearSay," WHRO Public Radio

Panelists:

• Christy Everett, Assistant Director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Dr. Carl Hershner, Director of the Center for Coastal Resources Management and Associate Professor of Marine Science, College of William and Mary
• Dr. Bill Jones, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University
• Dr. Charles Sapp, Director of Management Services at REMSA (Research, Environmental and Management Support), Inc. and adjunct professor, Organizational Leadership and Management, Regent University
  

October 28, 2008
Dr. Larry Filer, Department of Economics, Old Dominion University
"Making Sense of the Nonsense: An Explanation of the 2008 Financial Crisis"
12:30-1:20 p.m., BAL 9024

September 18, 2008
Panel Discussion: "Morality and the Constitution"
7:30 p.m., MGB 102
Moderator: Tom Robotham
Panelists:
Hon. Rebecca Beach Smith, Federal Judge, U.S. District of Eastern Virginia
Prof. William Van Alstyne, Lee Professor of Law, College of William & Mary
Prof. Dale E. Miller, Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University

November 26, 2007
Derrick Darby, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas
"Race, Rights, and the South African Constitution"
7:00--8:30 P.M., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine Arts Building

November 30, 2006
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. , Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics
& John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Georgetown University
Medical Center
"Ethics at the End of Life:  Decisions We Must All Face"

October 23, 2006
Kathy L. Cerminara, J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. , Professor of Law at the Nova
Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
"Collateral Damage: The Aftermath of Schiavo"

March 2006
Philip J. Langlais, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research, Old Dominion University.
"Ethics for the Next Generation"

February 9, 2006
Dr. Jonathan Moreno, Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia, Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American  Progress.
"Integrity in Research with Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Ethics and Deliberations on Federal Policy"

January 26, 2006
Panel Discussion: "Fighting the Global War on Terror: Ethical and Legal Issues in the Treatment of Detainees"

April 27, 2005
Paul McNeill, Associate Professor of Ethics and law in Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales
"Teaching Ethics from Multiple Perspectives: A Model and Justification"

April 26, 2005
Max de Gaynesford, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The College of William and Mary
"Is Contempt a Virtue?"

November 5, 2004
Steven Medvic, Professor of Government, Franklin and Marshall College
"Shades of Grey: Ethics and the Election of 2004"

October 21, 2004
George Klosko, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
"Multiple Principles of Obligation" and "Listening to Citizens About Their Obligations"

April 18, 2003
Faculty Forum: "Student Evaluation of Teaching"

April 4, 2003
Alan H. Goldman, Kenan Professor of Philosophy, College of William and Mary
"Sexual Ethics"

November 15, 2002
Jonathan Riley, Professor of Philosophy, Tulane University "Is J. S. Mill a Free Speech Absolutist?"

December 6, 2001
Faculty Forum: "The Rights and Responsibilities of Scholars and Teachers During Wartime"