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April 12, 2010
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Upcoming
Events
Cancellation - Journalism and Media Lecture Series: Harold Evans, Wednesday, April 14, 7:00 p.m.
The Journalism and Media Lecture Series featuring Harold Evans on Wednesday, April 14, at 7:00 p.m. at the Cleveland Botanical Garden has been canceled due to illness. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East
David Makovsky, Senior Fellow and Director, Project on the Middle East Peace
Process, Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Wednesday April 14, 2010
4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Clark Hall, Room 309, 11130 Bellflower Road, Case Western Reserve University. Sponsored by the Cleveland Hillel Foundation, CWRU Program in Judaic Studies, CWRU Center for Policy Studies, Israel Campus Coalition, Jewish Law Students Association, and Case Students for Israel.
Award-winning journalist David Makovsky covered diplomacy involving Israel and its neighbors from 1989-2000, serving as Diplomatic Correspondent for Haaretz and later as Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post. His topic is the title of his recent book with Dennis Ross, long one of the leading U.S. diplomats involved in the same issues.
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About
the Friday Lunch Newsletter
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Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Brown University
Friday April 16, 2010
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Crawford Hall - Room 9
Inamori Center
Case Western Reserve University
Dear
Colleagues,
In the recent health reform debate a lot of controversy erupted over a claim that the legislation included "death panels." But that lie was made more plausible by a sliver of reality.
That reality is a literature within the bioethics field which suggests that society's obligation to help any individual live must be limited by concern for some greater good. The greater good that received the most attention during debate over the past few years was the need to control costs. Articles frequently pointed out that the reform process was ignoring the "need" for rationing; that rationing should not be a dirty word, and the like. (For a prominent example see http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=peter+singer&st=nyt )
But the argument can be taken further. Population growth means that humans use more and more of the world's resources. In the name of "sustainability," one can argue, that consumption needs to be limited. But whose consumption should be limited, and by what principle?
I do not know what Professor Ackerman will say. But I figure she will say it in a pithy way. She may have the world record for letters published in the New York Times. http://www.ivygateblog.com/2006/11/new-ny-times-policy-requires-all-letters-to-be-from-single-brown-professor-update/ Or so some claim.
As usual, we will gather in Room 9 of the Inamori International Center
for Ethics and Excellence, on the lower level of Crawford Hall, for
free cookies, beverages, and brown bag lunch.
Best regards,
Joe White
About
Our Guest
Felicia Nimue Ackerman's current research interests include bioethics, moral psychology, and philosophy in literature. Her current work revolves around philosophical themes in Malory's Morte Darthur, the ethics of end-of-life issues, and moral psychology. She writes short stories and poems as well as essays dealing with this material.
Her essays have appeared in The Hastings Center Report, The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, and elsewhere. Her short stories have appeared in Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards, Commentary, Playgirl, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in The Providence Journal, Free Inquiry, English Studies Forum, and elsewhere. She writes a monthly column for The Providence Journal.
Ackerman has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences/National Endowment for the Humanities fellow.
Her recent seminar topics include 1.) ethics and character in Malory's Morte Darthur 2.) disability, fiction and bioethics .
Friday
Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
April 23: Science in the Courts.
With Wendy Wagner, Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor, University of
Texas School of Law.
The
Friday Lunch discussions are held on the lower (ground) level of
Crawford Hall. Visitors with mobility issues may find it easiest to
take advantage of special arrangements we have made. On most Fridays, a
few parking spaces in the V.I.P. lot in between Crawford Hall and Amasa
Stone Chapel are held for participants in the lunch discussion.
Visitors then can avoid walking up the hill to the first floor of
Crawford by entering the building on the ground level, through the
garage area under the building. The further door on the left in that
garage will be left unlocked during the period before the Friday lunch.
On occasion, parking will be unavailable because of other university
events.
For more information about these and other Center for Policy Studies
programs, please see http://policy.case.edu. |
