The Ethics Center announces the 2022-2023 theme, fall program
The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics has announced the theme for the 2022-2023 academic year: ‘Speculative Futures.’ Several events in the series will be co-sponsored by the University’s Living Writers and Election Series programs.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 3:29 p.m
On speculative futures
Our contemporary moment is shaped by the pressures of multiple simultaneous crises: between the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing crises of political legitimacy, growing economic inequality, attacks by white supremacy and xenophobia, and the looming threat of an irreversible climate disaster, the future seems. intractable and murky.
Long-standing questions about what the future holds are haunted by doubt and the scale of systemic problems. Fears about scarcity and the changing world seem to hinder opportunities for solidarity and coalition building. At the same time, this situation presents an opportunity to reimagine the future we want and how we might get there. By thinking of the future as something speculative, and something we could speculate about, we could collectively resist fatalism and think about the world we hope to create. We might think about how art helps us imagine alternative possibilities, how native and evolving technologies change the way we relate to each other and to the world, how philosophy imperils rearrangements that could unlock future ways of being and to know and how the forms of political commitment change. they offer us new opportunities for resistance.
The 2022-23 Ethics Center Program Directors are Archana Kaku, Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow of Political Science and Dawn Lonsinger, Associate Professor of English. The director of the center is Mark Stein, professor of history.
Program of events autumn 2022
“Binti and Africanfuturism: An Invitation to Conversation.”
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Participants of the panel of teachers: Emanuela Kucik (English and African Studies), Tiffany Montoya (Philosophy) and Sarah Runcie (History)
Lehigh Valley Symposium on CRISPR Implementation and Ethics (LV SCIE)
Saturday, September 17, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m
Lafayette College
“We are proud to present a presentation on the Herero of Namibia, formerly known as South West Africa, of German South West Africa, between the years 1884-1915”
Thursday 29 September and Sunday 2 October 2022
Round table on the work with Hershey Vazquez Millner
Friday, September 30, 2022
Public talk by Fred Moten, co-sponsored with Art and Theater & Dance
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
In conversation with Nnedi Okorafor, co-sponsored with Living Writers
Monday, November 7, 2022
Elisabeth Anker lecture, co-sponsored with the Political Science Election Cycle
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public. At the time of this article’s publication, all attendees are required to wear a mask, regardless of vaccination status. No food or drink will be provided and no outside food or drink will be permitted. If event or visitor policies change, event descriptions and locations (including streaming locations) will be added to this article.
About the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics
The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics seeks to develop our capacities for ethical reflection, moral leadership, and responsible action by engaging community members in scholarly dialogue, intellectual analysis, and self-examination on controversial ethical issues. Through conferences and themed events, the Center for Ethics serves the teaching and study of the liberal arts at Muhlenberg College, providing opportunities for intense conversation and reflection on the ethical dimensions of philosophical, political, economic questions , contemporary social, cultural and scientific. In service of its mission, the Ethics Center hosts special events and programs, offers faculty development opportunities, and provides student programming support.
