Past Events
Previous major events initiated by the Center include:
10 Years of Innovative Approaches to Global Coexistence and Justice
Acting Together on the World Stage
Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle
9/11 – Reflections Five Years Later
For round-ups of other past events, see our News section or use the "Search" function above to search for a specific event or topic.
Cosponsorship guidelines
For information about Ethics Center cosponsorship of your campus event, click here.
Upcoming Events
* = Event coordinated by the Ethics Center
*TMI: Social Justice in the Age of Facebook (*TMI: Too Much Information)
Thursday and Friday, September 10-11, 2009
Location: Hassenfeld Conference Center
Schedule of Events
Thursday, September 10
“Whom Can You Believe? How Do You Know?”
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm
Speaker: Charles Nesson, lawyer and professor, founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Faculty Respondent: Laura J. Miller, professor of Sociology, Brandeis University
“Better than the Tube: Are New Media Always Improved?”
Time: 3:45-5:15 pm
Speaker: Jeffrey Scheuer, author of The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence and The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left
Faculty Respondent: Maura Jane Farrelly, professor of American Studies and director of the Journalism Program, Brandeis University
“Limits: Why? Where? Whose?”
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
Speaker: Tracy Mitrano, director of the Information Technology Office at Cornell University and co-director of EDUCAUSE Institute for Computer Policy and Law
Faculty Respondent: Andreas Teuber, professor and chair of the Philosophy Department, Brandeis University
Friday, September 11
“North-South: Does Digital Deepen the Divide?”
Time: 9:00-11:00 am
Speaker: TBA
Faculty Respondent: Theodore Johnson, professor in the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence, Brandeis University
“Students Speak”
Time: 11:15 am-12:30 pm
Session Leaders: Charles Radin, Director of Global Operations and Communications, Brandeis University and Rajiv Ramakrishnan '10, a senior at Brandeis studying political economy
For more information, contact us here.
*Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: TBA
The producer of the documentary, Abigael E. Disney, will be present for the screening as will one of its protagonists, Janet Johnson Bryant, a Liberian journalist. Both participants will respond to questions at the conclusion of the film.
The film screening is part of the newly launched Social Justice Leadership Series. Support for this event comes from Coexistence International and The Goldfarb Library.
For more information, contact Jessica Berns.
*Hassan Jallow, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda -- Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in International Justice and Human Rights
Monday, November 30, 2009
Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, will deliver the inaugural Distinguished Lecture in International Justice and Human Rights. Justice Jallow served as Gambia’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 1984 to 1994 and subsequently as a Judge of the Gambia’s Supreme Court from 1998 to 2002. In 1998, he was appointed by the United Nations Secretary General to serve as an international legal expert and carry out a judicial evaluation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. He also has served as a legal expert for the Organisation of African Unity and worked on the drafting and conclusion of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. Until his appointment as Chief Prosecutor to the ICTR, Justice Jallow was a Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone on the appointment of the UN Secretary-General in 2002 as well as a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal. For more information on the ICTR, click here.
The Distinguished Lecture in International Justice and Human Rights, made possible by the Planethood Foundation, brings a distinguished figure in international justice and human rights to campus to address vital and timely topics in the field. For more information, contact us here.
*Hoseob Yoon from Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
Distinguished Visiting Practitioner residency
February 8-12, 2010
Hoseob Yoon, an artist specializing in incorporating environmental themes into his work in education and design, will serve as the Center’s fourth Distinguished Visiting Practitioner. The residency will include class visits, art demonstrations, exhibits, and one-on-one visits with students and members of the community, in which Yoon will share his message about the risk of climate change and the threats it poses to agriculture, water supplies, health, and biodiversity. For Professor Yoon's C.V., click here.
View Professor Yoon’s environmentally-focused designs.
View Professor Yoon’s “Green Canvas,” where he features the work of his students.
The Distinguished Visiting Practitioner program brings respected practitioners in any field to campus for several days to examine the ethical challenges and dilemmas of that field. Distinguished Practitioners are in residence at Brandeis from three to five days, to offer public events, visit classes, and engage students interested in pursuing a career in their field.
A full schedule of events will be posted soon. This residency is hosted by Eric Olson, Senior Lecturer in Ecology in the Program in Sustainable International Development. It is part of a several day event to be held in spring 2010, focused on the issues of climate change, justice, and coexistence. For more information, contact us here.