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Parr Center PartnershipsThe Parr Center prioritizes forming meaningful partnerships in order to jointly produceprogramming of interest to multiple constituencies. Some of these partnerships havealready been discussed in the “Parr Center Invited Speakers” section, p. 13 above: thenew Ethics Across the Disciplines lecture series, which involves partnering with adifferent UNC unit each time; the Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture Series, co-produced by thetwo UNC centers focused on ethics; and sometime co-sponsorships with otherinterested units for individual speakers within our branded lecture series. Anotherimportant aspect of our programming described below (pp. 27-28) also rests onpartnership: the joint Philosophy/Parr Center Outreach Program, under which all ourlocal outreach activities are conducted, is a co-production of the PhilosophyDepartment 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 inEthics of Montreal, Canada to bring our researchers together for an annual academicconference, alternating between Chapel Hill and Montreal. This joint endeavor will giveprecious opportunities to Parr Center affiliates to present their work to an internationalaudience and to keep abreast of the latest research trends in ethics. It will also bringincreased international exposure to the Parr Center and enhance our reputation withinthe worldwide network of ethics centers.For this first edition of the joint conference we invited the Montreal delegation to visitChapel Hill in March 2019. The conference featured six speakers, three from Montrealand three from UNC. The Parr Center’s three speakers were our Associate Director andtwo Ph.D. students from among the Parr Center Graduate Fellows.Kenan Moral Purpose AwardsThe Parr Center partners each year with its counterpart at Duke University, the KenanInstitute 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 isgiven for the best undergraduate student essay on the role a liberal arts education playsin students’ exploration of the personal and social purposes by which to orient theirfuture and the intellectual, emotional, and moral commitments that make for a full life.19
Winners are jointly selected by the Parr Center and the Kenan Institute. UNC’s 2019winner was Adesh Ranganna ’19, who majors in Nutrition and Public Policy with aMinor in Chemistry, for his essay “What Ignorance Reveals.”The Parr Center also lent its support to or co-sponsored several events initiated orproduced elsewhere, including—participation in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl: the Parr Center sponsors UNC’s teamin this activity, and financially supported the 2018 team’s registration for and travel tothe regional competition in Georgia in November. The team is made up of UNCundergraduates enrolled in PHIL 261, which is taught by the Parr Center’s graduatestudent Research Assistant.—the Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop in March 2019: a major internationalacademic conference extending over three days, with eight speakers—“A Theory of Justice,” a talk by Robert Paul Wolff in March 201920
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