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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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