The Ethicist Speaks of Identity

The Ethicist Speaks of Identity WHEN-- February 27, 2024 4:30‐6pm WHERE--19 Washington Square North WHO-- NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in New York OPEN TO THE PUBLIC This talk navigates the complex waters of ethical understanding, guided by insights from the author of The New York Times Sunday Magazine's The Ethicist column. Professor Appiah examines how social identities, including […]

Curls, Coils, and Waves: The Afro-Latina Experience

Curls, Coils, and Waves: The Afro-Latina Experience Wednesday, February 28, 2024 6:30 PM  8:00 PM Hosted by the NYU Latinx Alumni Network, join this panel conversation on Afro-Latinindad and an exclusive sizzle reel preview screening of I’m Not My Hair, a documentary by Cynthia Bastidas chronicling the natural hair journey of an Afro-Latina woman, Cristina Garcia […]

Co-Opting AI: Campaigning

Co-Opting AI: Campaigning 02/29 Thursday | 5pm NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Sloane Lab, and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia invite you to a new discussion in the series “Co-Opting AI.” This will be a completely virtual event. This event will discuss the role data-driven systems and AI play in political campaigning and […]

Women’s Property Rights Under CEDAW

Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW Date: Friday, March 1, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m. (Eastern) Furman Hall 326 and via Zoom Register This event is co-sponsored by the APEC Study Center at Columbia University About the event: Ensuring women’s property rights has long been seen as essential to ensuring their enjoyment of other human rights, from […]

Oneness and Ecology

Oneness and Ecology 03/01 Friday | 3pm NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the Center on Modernity in Transition, and the Rock Ethics Institute invite you to a discussion in the series “The New Discourse on Oneness.” This will be a completely virtual event. Please register for the event here. Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-director of the Yale […]

Night in the Library: Out of Darkness

On Saturday, March 16 from 7 pm-2 am, join us at this year’s Night in the Library: Out of Darkness at the Brooklyn Public Library:an all-night symposium on the philosophy, […]

Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Johann Frick

The Center for Bioethics Presents: Spring 2024 Colloquium Series The Value of Life, the Value of Virtue Dr. Johann Frick Wednesday, April 3rd 2:00 - 3:30 pm Location TBD It is sometimes said that, just as Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, the field of population ethics is the graveyard of moral theories. Ethical views […]

Is Any Embryo an “Unborn Child”? The Ancient Jewish Debate

Is Any Embryo an "Unborn Child"? The Ancient Jewish Debate Noam J. Zohar, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Visiting Scholar, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Dr. Zohar specializes in Moral and Political Philosophy, with an emphasis on applied ethics - especially bioethics and morality in war - philosophy of Jewish Halacha […]