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2018/2019 Annual Report

Table of Contents
Highlights of the Year………………………………………………………………………….. 1
Overview of Parr Center Programming and Organization of Annual Report…………… 2
On-Campus Programs and Events 2018-19………………………………………………….. 4
Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowship Programs………………………………. 5
Student-Organized Events…………………………………………………………….. 8
Parr Center Invited Speakers………………………………………………………… 12
Parr Center Partnerships……………………………………………………………… 19
Local and National Outreach Programs 2018-19…………………………………………… 23
National High School Ethics Bowl Program………………………………………... 24
Philosophy/Parr Center Outreach Program………………………………………… 27
Overall Calendar of Parr Center Events 2018-19…………………………………………… 29
Appendices
Appendix A: Parr Center Staff 2018-19……………………………………………………… 32
Appendix B: Parr Center Faculty Fellows 2018-19…………………………………………. 34

Highlights of the Year
Academic year 2018-19 marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in the evolution of the
Parr Center, with the arrival of our new Director. Professor Sarah Stroud joined UNC from McGill
University in August 2018, taking up a permanent appointment in the Department of Philosophy
and commencing a five-year term as Director of the Parr Center. An internationally renowned
ethicist and philosopher, Stroud also brought to the table prior experience in cross-disciplinary
academic leadership and a strong vision for the future of the Parr Center.
Throughout its history, the Parr Center has unquestionably benefitted from being physically and
administratively housed within the Department of Philosophy. But the Center’s new leadership
has made it a priority to expand and intensify the Parr Center’s reach beyond Caldwell Hall,
connecting more closely with units across the University. To that end, the Director has initiated
two new prestigious lecture series, the Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture Series and the Ethics Across the
Disciplines lecture series. In both of these new series the Parr Center collaborates with other units
to invite renowned speakers of mutual interest to campus. These new lecture series have exposed
many more constituencies to the Parr Center and are an apt expression of the Parr Center’s firm
belief that ethics is everywhere: that there is no field of endeavor in which questions calling for
ethical reflection do not arise.
The Parr Center is unusual among academic ethics centers in its focus on students—also an area
the new leadership is prioritizing. The Center’s Undergraduate Fellowship program both grew in
size and added further structure in 2018-19. We welcomed the participating students into the
Fellowship at our first ever Induction Ceremony in the fall, and we fêted their accomplishments
and saluted our graduating students at our first ever End-of-Year Celebration and Poster Show in
April, which was a resounding success.
The reach of the National High School Ethics Bowl continues to grow prodigiously. If we compare
the 2017-18 season with the 2018-19 season, the number of regional tournaments grew from 32 (in
25 states) to 36 (in 28 states), and the number of students participating nationwide rose to
approximately 3200. We engaged in some successful external fundraising for the program in
2018-19, yielding new donations and grants which helped us to produce and expand this rapidly
growing program in 2019-20.
The joint Philosophy/Parr Center Outreach Program also presided over a flurry of activity in
2018-19. Outreach Program volunteers—mainly UNC graduate students—led approximately 160
ethics and philosophy discussions in the local community over the course of the year, with
participants who ranged from kindergarteners to residents of retirement communities. The
Outreach Program is proud to have opened a new partnership this year with Phoenix Academy,
the alternative high school of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District, which serves students
who have typically had difficulty at traditional high schools. Philosophy Club at Phoenix
Academy has quickly become a cherished part of their educational menu.

Overview of Parr Center Programming
and Organization of Annual Report
Founded in 2004 thanks to a generous gift from UNC alumnus Gary Parr, the Parr
Center for Ethics is proud to serve as the public face of UNC’s commitment to ethics
and as Carolina’s focal point for inquiry into and discussion of ethical questions.
Housed physically and administratively within UNC’s Department of Philosophy in the
College of Arts and Sciences, the Parr Center has a University-wide mission to nourish
and foster ethical reflection on campus and beyond. The Parr Center is committed to
integrating abstract work in ethical theory with thoughtful, informed exploration of
ethical issues that are important to the University and the communities it serves.
The Parr Center sees ethical reflection as a pervasive and inescapable element of human
life that is relevant to all fields of endeavor and at all stages of the lifespan. In keeping
with its dual mission to nourish and foster ethical reflection on campus and beyond, the
Parr Center offers both i) a rich menu of programming aimed mainly at campus
(University) constituencies, and ii) a range of activities designed to encourage and
enhance ethical reflection by participants outside the University. The organization of
this report mirrors this twofold focus.
An important fraction of our offerings are aimed principally at UNC students and
faculty (although the public is also welcome at our lectures). These activities are
described further in the “On-Campus Programs and Events” section of this report.
Under this umbrella, we are proud to offer
—co-curricular programs for undergraduates and graduate students interested in
ethics;
—support for numerous student-organized events on ethical themes;
—a vibrant series of invited speakers giving public lectures on ethics; and
—partnerships both within UNC and with other academic institutions to mount joint
endeavors that advance our understanding of ethics.
Looking beyond the walls of our campus, the Parr Center has been a pioneer in
bringing guided ethical reflection to communities outside the University. Our outreach
efforts—which are described further in the “Local and National Outreach Programs”
section of this report—fall into two main categories. On the national level, the Parr
Center is proud to be the co-founder and producer of the National High School Ethics
Bowl program, which has grown so quickly since its creation in 2012 that thousands of
high school students nationwide are now studying the pedagogical materials we
produce and participating in tournaments in their local areas. On the local level, the joint
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Philosophy/Parr Center Outreach Program leads 160-180 activities and discussions in
the Triangle area each year. The Parr Center uses the expertise it has developed in
communicating with non-academic participants to design engaging activities and
content for each community partner. Many of these sessions are led by UNC graduate
students, thereby adding an invaluable element of public engagement to their UNC
education.
Following the text of these two principal sections of the report is a global calendar
listing all of the Parr Center events mentioned in the report. All of the programming
described here is the product of a small team of seven people, whose bios can be seen in
Appendix A. Appendix B lists the Parr Center Faculty Fellows.
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ON-CAMPUS PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
2018-19
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Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowship Programs
The Parr Center offers co-curricular programming to Carolina students at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. The Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowship
Programs are open to students in any area of study who share an interest in ethics.
These programs involve students in a range of activities at the Parr Center, including
many of the offerings described in this annual report. Since the Parr Center offers no
courses of its own, these two programs make up the core of our “student body.”
The Parr Center Undergraduate Fellowship is a selective co-curricular program for
which students are chosen on the basis of a written application and, for the first time in
2018-19, a personal interview with Parr Center staff. Criteria for selection are the
student’s interest in deepening their ethical competencies through co-curricular
enhancement and their likely contribution to team-based and project-based ethical
learning.
Undergraduate Fellows attend Parr Center public events, participate in dedicated
Fellows evening meetings, assist with the North Carolina and National High School
Ethics Bowls, and pursue a year-long ethics-related team project, for which they spend
at least two hours a week in the Parr Center working with their team.
The Undergraduate Fellowship had 35 members in 2018-19, reflecting a 17% increase
from 2017-18. They came from a wide variety of fields of study, including Philosophy,
Slavic Languages, Business, Psychology, Computer Science, Women’s and Gender
Studies, Dramatic Art, Biology, and more.
The Fellowship year began in 2018-19 with an inaugural Induction Ceremony at Wilson
Library, at which new and returning Fellows were introduced and welcomed into the
2018-2019 cohort. The Fellows then met in the evening ten times throughout the
academic year to hear and discuss Fellow-focused lectures from UNC scholars
presenting current research in ethics. (Topics this year included emotions and protests,
the use of artificial intelligence by the private sector, and morality in the face of death.)
Fellows also benefitted throughout the year from private lunches with high-profile
visiting speakers. After training with Parr Center staff, Undergraduate Fellows served
as moderators at the North Carolina and National High School Ethics Bowls
competitions.
Finally, Fellows pursued six year-long team projects in ethics at the Parr Center, under
the close supervision of Parr Center staff. One group of Fellows took on leadership roles
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in UNC’s undergraduate ethics club, the Carolina Forum for Ethics, and organized
several campus events in that capacity (see “Student-Organized Events,” p. 8 below).
These included a panel discussion on Moral Obligations to Returning Veterans and an
Environmental Ethics conference. Another team researched, designed, and led a
#ProfessionalEthics social media campaign, highlighting instances of ethical dilemmas
arising in a variety of professions. One team focused on community outreach, hosting
movie screenings followed by discussion of the ethical issues the films raise. These were
held at the Chapel Hill Public Library. The blog team wrote and edited twelve posts for
the new ParrHeels blog, which is featured on the Parr Center website. Another team
provided support to the NHSEB, and a final group of Fellows began development of an
“ethics app” which diagnoses the user’s preferred ethical theory by raising ethical
questions and dilemmas to which the user responds.
At the conclusion of the spring semester, teams designed academic posters
encapsulating their work for the year. Fellows presented their posters at the inaugural
Parr Center End-of-Year Celebration and Poster Show, at which each graduating Fellow
was honored with a special graduation cord and a certificate.
The Parr Center Graduate Fellowship brought together 17 graduate students (from
Philosophy, Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, and Education) in 2018-19.
Many of these students participated in our Outreach Program (see “Philosophy/Parr
Center Outreach Program,” pp. 27-28 below). They also attended Parr Center public
lectures and were invited (in small numbers) to dine with our visiting speakers after
these talks. Many volunteered as judges at the North Carolina and National High
School Ethics Bowls. For the first time in 2018-19, we took steps toward encouraging the
Graduate Fellows to mentor the Undergraduate Fellows, introducing the two groups to
each other at an Undergrad/Grad Fellows Mixer heartily enjoyed by all. Finally,
Graduate Student Fellows were given priority to present their own research at an
international conference we organized for the first time this year, the CRÉ/Parr Joint
Conference 2019 (see “Parr Center Partnerships,” p. 19 below). Two of our three
speakers at that event were Graduate Fellows.
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Student-Organized Events
The Parr Center is delighted to be able to guide and support student initiatives around
ethics, while helping to hone the students’ organizational and other skills along the
way. Academic year 2018-19 saw a notable uptick in student-organized events held
under our auspices and with our financial and organizational support. We are very
proud of what our students accomplished!
The Parr Center is the official sponsor of the University’s undergraduate ethics club,
the Carolina Forum for Ethics (CFE), which is led by Parr Center Undergraduate
Fellows. The CFE decided to highlight veterans’ issues in fall 2018, holding a film
screening in October and successfully putting together a multispeaker panel on our
obligations toward returning veterans, which took place in November. With the help of
Parr Center staff, students researched the ethical issues, selected and invited
appropriate speakers (both academic and non-academic), planned the format of the
event, and publicized the panel. They even obtained support from a variety of partners
beyond the Parr Center, namely the UNC Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program
(PPE), the UNC Peace, War, and Defense program (PWAD), and the Carolina Veterans
Organization. This event received coverage in the Daily Tar Heel, Carolina’s studentrun
newspaper (see p. 9 below).
CFE leaders repeated this success with another multispeaker conference on
environmental ethics, held in April 2019. In between these two conferences the CFE
held screenings and discussions on other ethical themes: see p. 11 for representative
event publicity. As already mentioned on p. 6 above, a different group of Parr Center
Undergraduate Fellows mounted outreach initiatives aimed at the local community.
See p. 11 below for sample publicity for one of those events.
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Parr Center Invited Speakers
A key component of the Parr Center’s programming is its dynamic speakers’ series,
which brought nine renowned speakers to campus to deliver public lectures on ethical
themes in 2018-19. To customize and differentiate our offerings, we run several different
branded lecture series, which are described below. The public, as well as UNC students
and faculty, is invited to all of these lectures; audience size for these public programs
typically ranges from 30 to 75+.
Parr Center Presents
Our “classic” evening lecture series, in which nationally renowned scholars and
practitioners give a talk to a diverse public audience, followed by discussion. Total
session length is 90 minutes. The speaker’s visit to campus usually lasts two days and
has room for ancillary activities such as lunch with undergraduates, dinner with faculty
members and graduate students, and other occasions for individual and small-group
discussion.
Five events under this banner in 2018-19:
• September 25: Adelle Waldman (novelist), “Reading Austen and Eliot in the #MeToo
Era”
• October 15: Justin Erlich (Voyage, formerly Uber), “The Ethics of Autonomous
Vehicles” (co-sponsored by UNC PPE)
• November 13: Jennifer Morton (CUNY), “The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility” (cosponsored
by UNC PPE)
• February 4: Jason Smith (Aspen Center for Environmental Studies), “Changing Our
Food Perspectives: A New View of Eating and Farming”
• March 21: Jennifer Hawkins (Duke), “Artistic Achievement, Suffering, and Living a
Good Life”
Ethics Around the Table (E.A.T.)
This popular lunchtime lecture series, a little more informal than Parr Center Presents,
features a public presentation by a researcher or practitioner of their ethics-related
work, followed by discussion over lunch (provided). Total session length is 60 minutes.
We often feature UNC scholars from different departments and schools, or other
notable figures from the Triangle area, on this series, although we are also opportunistic
about booking speakers who are on campus for other reasons for a lunchtime talk.
Two events under this banner in 2018-19:
• March 7: Karolyn Tyson (UNC), “Trust in Times of Crisis and Change: Black Parents
and Trust in Schools in the Aftermath of Desegregation”
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• March 27: Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin), “Why Instructional Quality is the Most
Important Equity Issue on Campus”
Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture Series — new!
We are delighted to have this year forged and inaugurated a partnership with a campus
unit whose interests overlap with our own: the Center for Bioethics in the School of
Medicine. The two Centers have resolved to jointly invite a distinguished speaker of
interest to both Centers to campus each semester. While on campus, the visitor will give
one talk at the Center for Bioethics and a public lecture for a more diverse audience at
the Parr Center. The speaker’s visit will typically have room for dinner and discussion
with faculty members and graduate students from both Centers. Total session length for
the public lecture (followed by Q&A) is 90 minutes.
One event under this banner in 2018-19:
• April 4: Steven Joffe (Penn), “Our Ethical Obligations Toward Research Subjects”
Ethics Across the Disciplines Lecture Series — new!
One of the Parr Center’s key messages is that ethics is everywhere: there is no field of
endeavor in which questions calling for ethical reflection do not arise. In order to
demonstrate and reinforce this message, and with the further aims of exposing new
campus constituencies to the Parr Center and forging closer connections with units
across campus, we are proud to have introduced a new interdisciplinary speakers’
series this year. For each event in the new Ethics Across the Disciplines lecture series, the
Parr Center will partner with another campus unit (a different one each time) to bring
in a highly regarded scholar or practitioner to give a public lecture highlighting the
ethical issues that arise in that particular field. Total session length (for lecture plus
discussion) is 90 minutes.
One event under this banner in 2018-19:
•February 25: Paula McAvoy (NC State), “The Ethics of Steering Class Discussions,”
co-sponsored by the UNC School of Education
We were delighted that this event garnered coverage in the Daily Tar Heel, Carolina’s
student-run newspaper.
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Parr Center Partnerships
The Parr Center prioritizes forming meaningful partnerships in order to jointly produce
programming of interest to multiple constituencies. Some of these partnerships have
already been discussed in the “Parr Center Invited Speakers” section, p. 13 above: the
new Ethics Across the Disciplines lecture series, which involves partnering with a
different UNC unit each time; the Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture Series, co-produced by the
two UNC centers focused on ethics; and sometime co-sponsorships with other
interested units for individual speakers within our branded lecture series. Another
important aspect of our programming described below (pp. 27-28) also rests on
partnership: the joint Philosophy/Parr Center Outreach Program, under which all our
local outreach activities are conducted, is a co-production of the Philosophy
Department and the Parr Center.
Parr Center partnerships not described elsewhere in this report include:
CRÉ-Parr Joint Conference — new!
We are delighted to have forged an ongoing partnership with the Centre for Research in
Ethics of Montreal, Canada to bring our researchers together for an annual academic
conference, alternating between Chapel Hill and Montreal. This joint endeavor will give
precious opportunities to Parr Center affiliates to present their work to an international
audience and to keep abreast of the latest research trends in ethics. It will also bring
increased international exposure to the Parr Center and enhance our reputation within
the worldwide network of ethics centers.
For this first edition of the joint conference we invited the Montreal delegation to visit
Chapel Hill in March 2019. The conference featured six speakers, three from Montreal
and three from UNC. The Parr Center’s three speakers were our Associate Director and
two Ph.D. students from among the Parr Center Graduate Fellows.
Kenan Moral Purpose Awards
The Parr Center partners each year with its counterpart at Duke University, the Kenan
Institute for Ethics, to award two Kenan Moral Purpose Awards in the amount of $1000:
one to a Duke undergraduate and one to a UNC undergraduate. This annual award is
given for the best undergraduate student essay on the role a liberal arts education plays
in students’ exploration of the personal and social purposes by which to orient their
future and the intellectual, emotional, and moral commitments that make for a full life.
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Winners are jointly selected by the Parr Center and the Kenan Institute. UNC’s 2019
winner was Adesh Ranganna ’19, who majors in Nutrition and Public Policy with a
Minor in Chemistry, for his essay “What Ignorance Reveals.”
The Parr Center also lent its support to or co-sponsored several events initiated or
produced elsewhere, including
—participation in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl: the Parr Center sponsors UNC’s team
in this activity, and financially supported the 2018 team’s registration for and travel to
the regional competition in Georgia in November. The team is made up of UNC
undergraduates enrolled in PHIL 261, which is taught by the Parr Center’s graduate
student Research Assistant.
—the Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop in March 2019: a major international
academic conference extending over three days, with eight speakers
—“A Theory of Justice,” a talk by Robert Paul Wolff in March 2019
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LOCAL AND NATIONAL OUTREACH
2018-19
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National High School Ethics Bowl Program
The Parr Center is very proud to be the home and producer of the National High School
Ethics Bowl (NHSEB) Program. NHSEB is a remarkable program that promotes
respectful, supportive, and in-depth discussion of ethics among high school students
nationwide. Through participation in the NHSEB Program, students learn the value of
collaborative thinking about the most vital and contentious issues of the day. Students
are rewarded for the depth of their thought, their ability to inhabit the views of those
they disagree with, and the respect they show to opposing teams. Students thus
cultivate the central virtues of democratic citizens—an appreciation for diverse
viewpoints, an ability to articulate the reasons that support their considered judgments,
and a reluctance to settle for superficial thinking. The NHSEB Program helps students
become more thoughtful, articulate citizens who are better able to navigate the moral
complexities that confront us all.
The Parr Center was one of the co-founders of the NHSEB Program in 2012 and has
been the Program’s home, headquarters, and producer ever since. The Program has
experienced explosive growth in its short life: having started from a base of around a
thousand high school student participants in eleven states in 2012-13, it now (in 2018-
19) boasts over three thousand student participants in 28 states. These students compete
locally in tournaments organized on a volunteer basis by institutions of higher learning
in their region; there are now around 40 colleges and universities nationwide who
support the Program by organizing these regional tournaments. The Parr Center runs
its own regional tournament, the North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl, held on
UNC’s campus every January, and we host the national championship every April. This
event brings together the top 24 teams from across the country for a weekend of intense
discussions, moderated and judged by members of the Carolina and broader Triangle
communities.
As producer of the Program, the Parr Center relies on the special expertise it has
developed in effectively fostering ethical reflection among non-university constituencies
and in particular among adolescents. The thousands of students participating in the
Program nationwide are all working from pedagogical materials produced each year by
the Parr Center. The Case Sets (archived by year and indexed by topic here) are
collections of richly detailed and described real-life case studies that raise complex
ethical issues which the students are invited to think through. Study Questions written
by the Parr Center are appended to each case to help guide the students’ reflections. The
Parr Center produces two sets of around 15 cases each year: one for use in the regional
tournaments across the country, and a second set which is used exclusively for the
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national championship in Chapel Hill. Students spend the fall semester studying and
discussing the Regional Case Set in their schools with their coaches; those regional
tournament winners who are fortunate enough to earn a berth at the national
championship work in their schools on the National Case Set between February and
April.
With its nationwide reach and rapidly rising numbers, the NHSEB Program is one of
the Parr Center’s major commitments and one of its biggest successes. Parr Center staff
spend hundreds of hours collecting, writing, and editing cases for the Case Sets, and
many additional hours organizing the two events we host on campus: the North
Carolina and National High School Ethics Bowls. (Each of these requires recruiting over
a hundred volunteers to serve as moderators, judges, and general event staff.) As HQ
for the nationwide Program, we also oversee and provide support for the regional
tournaments which take place across the country, of which there were 36 in winter 2019.
Finally, in addition to this real-time consultation and support, we produce and post
many written and video resources for the use of coaches, organizers, and students
participating in the Program.
We are very fortunate that the NHSEB Program has attracted additional support from a
variety of funders who see the Program’s importance and value. These include, in 2018-
19, the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund for Ethics,
the Marc Sanders Foundation, the A. J. Fletcher Foundation, UNC Department of
Philosophy, UNC Undergraduate Admissions, UNC’s Humanities for the Public Good
initiative, and the Howell Family Charitable Foundation. We engaged in some further
successful external fundraising for the Program in 2018-19, yielding new donations and
grants which helped us to produce and expand this rapidly growing program in 2019-
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Philosophy/Parr Center Outreach Program
The aim of the joint Philosophy/Parr Center Outreach Program is to use the intellectual
resources of the Philosophy Department and the Parr Center (i) to help people in the
local community think carefully and clearly about a broad range of ideas, commitments,
and practices that regularly shape their lives, and (ii) to get them excited about
philosophy and ethics.
The Outreach Program is motivated by the conviction that philosophical activity and
ethical thought contribute to a flourishing life by helping us to develop a sense of
ourselves and the world around us through reflection on our beliefs and values.
Through our community partnerships, Outreach participants (including UNC
undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty) facilitate philosophical and ethical
discussions and guide community members as they explore interesting and important
questions together.
In 2018-2019, Outreach volunteers led approximately 160 community discussions
about ethics and philosophy in Chapel Hill and the surrounding area. These included:
● nearly 30 discussions for children in classrooms and afterschool programs at two
elementary schools: Durham Academy (1st grade) and Chapel Hill’s Ephesus
Elementary (K-5th grade). These discussions were led by Carolina undergraduate and
graduate students.
● nearly 60 discussions for high school students. In the fall, Carolina undergraduates
worked regularly with students at six area high schools to help prepare them for the
2019 North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl. In addition, Outreach volunteers met
with members of Hillside High School’s Ethics Club throughout the school year and
helped support Hillside’s 4th Annual Summer Send Off High School Ethics Bowl
competition, in which four teams competed. The Outreach Program was proud to
establish a new partnership this year with Phoenix Academy, an alternative school in
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system which serves students who have typically
had difficulty at traditional high schools. Outreach volunteers created and led a regular
Philosophy Club at Phoenix Academy.
● more than 70 discussions for residents of four area retirement communities.
Outreach volunteers worked with participants to choose topics, select short readings,
and facilitate these weekly or bi-monthly conversations.
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The Outreach Program works closely with the National High School Ethics Bowl
Program. For example, the Outreach Director and the NHSEB Director together
presented on High School Ethics Bowl and case-based ethics education strategies for the
classroom in workshops and professional development opportunities for K-12 and
community college educators organized by World View, a UNC public service
program. The Outreach Director also offered an NHSEB information and coach/judge
training session for a new NHSEB regional competition in Spartanburg, SC in
November 2018. A video of this session has been posted on the NHSEB website as a
resource.
The Outreach Program also lends its expertise to other UNC units. For example, at the
request of UNC’s Office of Human Resources, the Outreach Director led an Ethics in
the Workplace training session for employees in January 2019. The goal of the session
was to provide an opportunity for employees to consider ethical issues arising in the
workplace and to provide them with tools for evaluating and successfully resolving
these issues.
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Overall Calendar of Parr Center Events, 2018-19
August 2018
20 “Making Bad Decisions in College” (Undergraduate Fellows event)
September 2018
October 2018
25 Parr Center Presents public lecture: Adelle Waldman (novelist),
“Reading Austen and Eliot in the #MeToo Era”
10 Undergraduate Fellowship Induction Ceremony at Wilson Library
15 Parr Center Presents public lecture, co-sponsored by UNC PPE: Justin
Erlich (Voyage, formerly Uber), “The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles”
25 Carolina Forum for Ethics: screening and discussion of “Thank You for
Your Service” (student-organized event)
November 2018
1 screening and discussion of “Groundhog Day” at the Chapel Hill
Public Library (student-organized event)
13 Parr Center Presents public lecture, co-sponsored by UNC PPE: Jennifer
Morton (CUNY), “The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility”
15 Carolina Forum for Ethics: panel on “Moral Obligations to Returning
Veterans” (student-organized event, with additional support from UNC
PPE, UNC PWAD, and Carolina Veterans Organization)
29 screening and discussion of “Beasts of the Southern Wild” at the
Chapel Hill Public Library (student-organized event)
This calendar lists only events initiated and executed by the Parr Center. See “Parr Center
Partnerships,” p. 20, for events we supported which were initiated by other units.
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January 2019
February 2019
26 North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl
4 Parr Center Presents public lecture: Jason Smith (Aspen Center for
Environmental Studies), “Changing Our Food Perspectives: A New
View of Eating and Farming”
25 Ethics Across the Disciplines public lecture, co-sponsored by the UNC
School of Education: Paula McAvoy (NC State), “The Ethics of
Steering Class Discussions”
28 Carolina Forum for Ethics: screening and discussion of “The Good
Place” (student-organized event)
March 2019
7 Ethics Around the Table public lecture: Karolyn Tyson (UNC), “Trust in
Times of Crisis and Change: Black Parents and Trust in Schools in the
Aftermath of Desegregation”
12 CRE/Parr Joint Conference 2019: academic conference with six
speakers from the Parr Center and the Centre for Research in Ethics,
Montreal
21 Parr Center Presents public lecture: Jennifer Hawkins (Duke), “Artistic
Achievement, Suffering, and Living a Good Life”
25 Carolina Forum for Ethics discussion: the trolley problem (studentorganized
event)
27 Ethics Around the Table public lecture: Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin),
“Why Instructional Quality is the Most Important Equity Issue on
Campus”
27 screening and discussion of “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the
Mistress, and the Tangerine” (student-organized event)
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April 2019
4 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture Series public lecture: Steven Joffe (Penn),
“Our Ethical Obligations Toward Research Subjects”
7 National High School Ethics Bowl
11 Carolina Forum for Ethics: Environmental Ethics Conference (studentorganized
event)
25 Undergraduate Fellowship End-of-Year Celebration and Poster Show
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