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2007 Spring Events:

Ethics at Noon

(about Ethics at Noon)
Gallagher Business Building room L09 room 119 *note* that the Elouise Cobell talk has been moved to the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall to accomodate a larger audience.
12:10-1pm

SUMMER 2007 - Environmental Ethics Institute

This year, as in 2006, we will organize a series of stimulating evening lectures featuring the professors from our courses along with local and regional experts in fields relating to Environmental Ethics. These lectures are free and open to the public and last year drew an engaging and thoughtful audience of community members, University of Montana students, and students who traveled from across the country to attend our Environmental Ethics Institute courses.

Our Current Schedule: (featured speakers)

When Speaker(s) Title Place
July 30 John Engen (Mayor of Missoula, MT) & guests “Local Responses to Global Climate Change.”  *GBB
July 31 Panel with Ben Minteer, Anna Peterson, Dave Strohmaier (City Council, Missoula, MT), and Betsy Hands (Montana House of Representatives) “Building Community: One Moral Value at a Time.”  GBB
Aug. 1 Ben Minteer (Arizona State University) “Civic Agrarianism: New Roots for Environmental Ethics.”  GBB
Aug. 2 Anna Peterson “Walking the Talk: Closing the Gap between Environmental Values and Practices.”  GBB
Aug. 6 Andrew Light “The Future of Environmental Ethics in the age of Global Warming.”  GBB
Aug. 7 Paul Thompson (Michigan State University) “Placing Place: How Agrarian Philosophy Can Help”- cosponsored by Garden City Harvest The PEAS farm
Aug 8 Vicki Colvin (Rice University) “Nanotechnology and the Environment.”  GBB
Aug. 9 Panel discussion featuring Clark Wolf (Iowa State University), Don Brown (Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
University) and Rebecca Bendick (UM)		 “Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change.” GBB

There will also be some overlap between this summer's EEI topics and those discussed in our new program: Debating Science.

* GBB is the Gallagher Business Building on The University of Montana Campus - rooms to be used are 106 and 123.

Speaker Features

Paul ThompsonBen Minteer
Arizona State University
(webpage)
  		Paul ThompsonPaul Thompson
Michigan State University
(webpage)  
Vicki ColvinVicki Colvin
Rice University
(webpage)
  		Donald BrownDon Brown
Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
University
(webpage)  

Ethics at Noon, a bi-weekly speaker series presented by The Center for Ethics, brings professionals and students from the campus and community together to identify and discuss ethics as an integral part of their everyday lives. It is free of charge and open to the public.

See our archive for past Ethics at Noon talks and evening events.

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|| :: Revised: April, 2007 :: ||

Frontpiece photo by Justin Whitaker, website by Justin Whitaker