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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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