Upcoming Events

Title: "Privacy Rights and Wrongs: Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century"
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 4 pm
Location: McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
Contact:  Adam Fried
With presentations from a number of well-known academics and experts, this multidisciplinary conference will explore a number of issues related to the topic of privacy and privacy rights, especially in light of recent technological developments and current concerns about terror. In addition, this conference will address the problem of defining and defending "privacy rights" within the context of varying legal, moral, and political discourses as well as the importance of understanding the value of privacy against the backdrop of other values and concerns, such as the doing of justice, the preserving of the common good, and the maintenance and fostering of personal accountability.

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Recent Events

April 22, 2008   McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus 

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Conference Description:
This conference addressed major issues at the intersection of gender and social justice, and the role religious traditions play in understanding and advancing positions on these issues in the public arena, particularly in the United States in an election year. We live in an era of change and public contention over a host of issues relating to marriage, family and men’s and women’s participation in communities, workplaces and politics. Because they involve understandings of justice and well-being for individuals and groups, gender-related social and political debates inevitably implicate moral and religious questions. Offering a spectrum of informed religious and interdisciplinary perspectives, the conference aimed to provide a forum for considering social justice and equality for men and women, as well as illuminating ways that gender-related beliefs and practices, which are often religiously influenced, affect economic and social policy and female representation in government. Special attention was given to how these questions may influence the 2008 presidential campaign and its outcomes.

Keynote Address:  
Donna Brazile, Chair of the Democratic National Committee Voting Rights Institute, former campaign manager for Gore 2000 and author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004).

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