Events

Fifth Annual Workshop September 28, 2019 The Schedule, In Brief  (For a full program including abstracts, click here): 9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Coffee 9:30-10:30am Session A:  “In Praise (and Blame) of Roleplaying” by Andrew Kissel  “Don’t Tap the Glass: Examining the Ethical Dimensions of Notice During Social Media Data Collection” by Nicholas Proferes 10:30-10:45am Break 10:45-11:45am Session […]

The Ethics Center is enormously pleased to be a part of a recently awarded $1 million NSF grant to build a “Federal Advanced Data and Statistics Hub” (F-DASH)! F-DASH aims to solve a problem in the availability of information about government.  Much of the public policy U.S. citizens encounter every day regarding their health, welfare, […]

It’s time to think about the next five years!  To help us, please follow the link here (or through the QR code below) to answer a brief set of questions about Center progamming and how it can be useful to you!

Scientific research increasingly points to the importance of “epigenetics” – factors that alter gene activity without changing the underlying sequence – to health.  Epigenetic modifications can change when and how a gene expresses itself, for example, and can lead to increased risks of conditions ranging from metabolic syndrome to lupus to various cancers. Some of […]

Please join us for the annual Ethics Center Breakfast on Wed. Sept. 11, 7:30-9:00, Cone 112! We’ll have our annual opportunity to reconnect with one another, as well as announcements and discussion about Center programming for the upcoming year.  We’re very excited about some of what we’ve been able to line up, including an in-depth series […]

 Schedule HGHR April 2019 conference.pdf The UNC Charlotte Center for Professional and Applied Ethics is honored to be among the sponsors of the first International Conference of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies. The conference will be held on April 13 – 14, at the UNC Charlotte Center City campus. A PDF of the conference […]

 Flyer Ethics Conference Updated 31419.pdf Registration for the Annual Ethics and Social Work Conference is now open! The Conference theme is “Ethics of Trauma and Resilience in Integrated Behavioral Healthcare.” Social work professionals participating in the conference will receive 4.5 continuing ethics-education credits sufficient to meet annual NASW requirements.  All conference events will be held at UNC Charlotte […]

People that are socially dead are people that are denied the right to have rights; they are denied personhood and can be violated with little repercussions. Social death is produced through processes of social valuing, of considering some life more valuable than other, and the criminal legal system is essential to these valuing processes. In […]

A lot of theoretical and applied discussion of biohacking has focused on either making an argument for its revolutionary potential to democratize access to biotechnologies or warn of the possible destructive and dangerous potential of the practice. This talk aims to move the conversation beyond these two binaries. Instead of making an argument about whether […]

Justice Morgan will start with some remarks from the podium and then will sit down with two Pre-law Society leaders for a wide ranging conversation about the role of courts, his career and advice he may have for our students.  Toward the end of the hour we will also allow audience members to ask him […]