2022-2023: Beneficence: Practicing an Ethics of Care

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Beneficence means to do good-to practice kindness, generosity, and charity toward others. It means actively promoting and safeguarding the well-being of others because it is morally right and because you care.

Recent years have produced inspiring examples of beneficence as well as alarming manifestations of polarization and harm. In these challenging times, how should we think about our responsibilities to care for ourselves, for people that we know and love, and for others whom we don’t know, disagree with, or have been harmed by? How are these responsibilities linked, in theory and in practice?

If we aspire to practice beneficence and care within our personal, public, and professional lives, how can we translate these values into actions? How might we increase our capacity for care and compassion? What are some barriers to practicing care for self and others within complex and dynamic relationships and social systems?

The Mudd Center’s 2022-23 program will harness the wisdom of prominent and innovative thinkers whose work addresses concepts and practices of care. In addition to our traditional public lectures, this year the Mudd Center’s program will include an interactive series of events, CareLab, that will personalize our year-long exploration of beneficence and care.

Go to the Beneficence Series Vimeo page to access recordings of all the lectures.

Speakers and Events

Karen Stohr

Public Lecture Title: Good and Bad Helping: Moral Challenges with Beneficence
Thursday, September 15, 2022, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater

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Karen Stohr

Helen Y. Weng

Public Lecture Title: Intersectional Neuroscience: Bringing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the Neuroscience of Meditation
Thursday, September 22, 2022, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater

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Helen Y. Weng

Oscar Jerome Stewart

Public Lecture Title: The Hidden Curricula of Competitive Individualism and its Roots in Business Education
Thursday, November 3, 2022, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater

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Oscar Jerome Stewart

John Lysaker

Public Lecture Title: Become Who You Aren’t: Friendship as Spectacle
Monday, January 30, 2023, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater

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John Lysaker

Seema Gajwani

Public Lecture Title: Restorative vs Adversarial Justice: A New Paradigm for Addressing Crime and Conflict
Thursday, February 9, 2023, 5:00 pm, University Chapel

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Seema Gajwani

Lynn Chin

Public Lecture Title: Belonging in the Bubble: How to Transverse the Indifferences that Divide Us
Thursday, March 2, 2023, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater

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Lynn Chin

Richard Weissbourd

Public Lecture Title: Raising Caring, Justice-Minded Children in a Morally Troubled Time
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 5:30 pm, Virtual

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Richard Weissbourd

CareLab: Ross Gay

CareLab Event Title: We Kin: Lessons of Care from the Garden
Mudd Center Partnership with the Harte Center for Teaching and Learning
Thursday, August 25, 2022, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Virtual

CareLab: Ross Gay

CareLab Pet Project

Mudd Center Partnership with the University Museums and Library
Exhibition in Leyburn Library, November 1, 2022

CareLab Pet Project

CareLab: Ethics of Care Meditation Circle led by Anthony DeMauro

Ethics of Care Meditation Circle
Sundays, Sept. 25, Oct. 2, Oct. 9, Oct. 23, Oct. 30, 2022
5:30 – 6:45 pm, Elrod Commons Sacred Space

Retreat Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022
9:00 am – 4:00 pm, House Mountain Inn/Irvine Estate

CareLab: Ethics of Care Meditation Circle led by Anthony DeMauro

CareLab: Megan Mueller

CareLab Event Title: Compassion and Connection Across Species: The Psychology of Human-Animal Relationships
Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 5:00 pm, Northen Auditorium

Museum Menagerie reception immediately following in Watson Gallery