2020-2021: Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities

2020-2021: Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities A Year Long Series

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As the COVID-19 pandemic works its way across the globe, few if any nations are immune from unprecedented threats to health and economic stability. One commentator posits that the crisis is forcing us to “rethink how the world works together.” And other daunting questions arise: What ethical, political, and economic questions about the international world order were being framed before the pandemic, and have those questions changed in nature or become all the more important? In 2020-21, the Mudd Center for Ethics and the Center for International Education will collaborate on a vital series exploring the nature of ethical responsibilities in international relations pre- and post-pandemic, the moral consequences of various approaches to foreign policy, and the potential replacements for the post-World War II liberal international order. Speakers from different perspectives and disciplines will probe the implications of the crisis for public health, the global economy, and continuing concerns over climate change and food shortages. We hope to prompt serious discussion of these and other issues that appear to have put “global ethics” at the top of the current policy agenda.

Below is a list of upcoming theme-related events and activities. To receive information about these and other Mudd Center events, please join our mailing list.

Speakers and Events

Reuben Brigety

Reuben Brigety

Talk Title: Black Lives Matter - An International Moment
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Talk Title: Renewing the Promise of America: Looking Back to Move Forward
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Thomas H. Speedy Rice

Thomas H. Speedy Rice

Talk Title: Cultural Norms and the Export of the W&L Honor System
Monday, October 19, 2020

Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert

Talk Title: Climate Change and Its Impact on the World Order (moderated conversation)
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Jonathan Wortham

Jonathan Wortham

Talk Title: Ethical Problems in Public Health Practice
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Erin Taylor and Ralph Caldroney

Talk Title: Ethical Issues in the Context of Covid-19
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Valerie Hudson

Valerie Hudson

Talk Title: The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
Monday, February 15, 2021

Felix Kwame Yeboah

Talk Title: Africa’s Youth and Agrifood System: Pathways for Job Creation and Economic Transformation
Monday, March 15, 2021

Katrina Forrester

Talk Title: Feminist Internationalism Revisited
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Jason De León

Jason De León

Talk Title: Understanding the Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

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