Ethics Week 2024
This page last updated on: March 6, 2024
This year, Ethics Week at Baruch will take place March 18-23. An annual event since 2004, Ethics Week evolved from curricula in our three Schools that include emphases on ethical reasoning and/or decision-making. Generously supported by the Charles Dreifus Ethics-Across-the-Curriculum Initiative, the week typically features these components:
- classroom discussions led by instructors on issues related to their courses or disciplines;
- speakers invited to address classes;
- public workshops or presentations by invited guests; and
- announcement of the student and faculty winners of the annual Abraham J. Briloff Prizes in Ethics.
Please consider organizing some of your class time during Ethics Week this spring around ethical issues as they relate to your subject or discipline—emphasis that falls naturally within our academic mission. We invite you to invite distinguished guests to speak that week—in your classes or in an event open to all. Modest stipends for speakers are available. Please contact Associate Provost Dennis Slavin <dennis.slavin@baruch.cuny.edu> as soon as possible if you are interested in inviting someone.
MONDAY, MARCH 18
The winners of the 2023 Briloff Prize in Ethics will be announced.
TUESDAY, MARCH 19
- 12:00 – 2:15 PM
Navigating Congestion Pricing: Balancing Mobility, Sustainability and Equity
David Rosenberg | Director, Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and Associate Professor, Department of Law, Baruch College
Nicole Gelinas | Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Contributing editor of City Journal, and Columnist at the New York Post
Charles Komanoff | Economist, President of the New York City Transportation Alternatives, and Director of Carbon Tax Center
Arif Ullah | Executive Director, South Bronx Unite
NVC 14-220
Join Baruch College’s Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity for an in-depth exploration of the benefits and drawbacks of the forthcoming implementation of congestion pricing in New York City. This program aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of congestion pricing’s potential impact on mobility, sustainability, pollution, social equity, and the urban economy.
Please click here to register.
- 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Who decides? Balancing respect and care for the individual in Western and East Asian medical decision-making
Laura Specker-Sullivan | Assistant Professor, Fordham University
NVC 14-270
In Western countries like the US, doctors usually ask patients directly what they want to do. This shows respect for their personal choices. But in East Asian countries, doctors often talk to patients’ families first, helping them understand the situation and deciding together what is best for the patient. This shows care for the patient, but does it come at the cost of personal choice? What justifies these diverging practices? In this presentation, Specker-Sullivan will show how both ways of giving consent can be based on the same value: autonomy. RSVP here.
Moderator: Prof. Wenqing Zhao, Department of Philosophy
Laura Specker Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. She is a specialist in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural ethics who incorporates her experience in clinical ethics consultation and qualitative research into her philosophical work on autonomy, trust, and consent.
THUSDAY, MARCH 21
- 12:30 -2:00 PM
Are Frozen “Embryos” People?
Prof. Douglas Lackey | Department of Philosophy
Prof. Vincent Peluce | Department of Philosophy
NVC 13-155.
Professors Douglas Lackey and Vincent Peluce of the Philosophy Department will debate the concept of person as applied to frozen embryos. Co-sponsored by the Baruch Philosophy Club.
RSVP here.
- 6:15-7:15pm
Reimagining Ethical Care in Global Contexts of Trauma and Adversity
Dr. Adam Brown | The New School for Social Research
Zoom
Considerable gaps exist globally in the identification and treatment of mental health issues. An emerging strategy to help provide inclusive and accessible care is through the training of community members and lay-providers in the delivery of brief mental health interventions. This talk will present results from several contexts on the adaptation and implementation of community-led mental health care. Register here.
Adam Brown is an Associate Professor of Psychology at and Vice Provost for Research at The New School. He has extensive experience developing programs to promote mental health awareness, providing trainings, technical guidance, and support in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of scalable mental health strategies. He has served as a mental health consultant for many international companies and organizations such as the United Nations, UNICEF, and Amnesty International. He is the recipient of grants from the National Institute of Health, USAID, Fulbright, and numerous private foundations. His work appears in numerous peer-reviewed journals and books.
Explore past Ethics Week’s programs below:
- Ethics Week 2023
- Ethics Week 2022
- Ethics Week 2021
- Ethics Week 2020
- Ethics Week 2019
- Ethics Week 2018
- Ethics Week 2017
- Ethics Week 2016
- Ethics Week 2015
- Ethics Week 2014
- Ethics Week 2013
- Ethics Week 2012
- Ethics Week 2011
- Ethics Week 2010
- Ethics Week 2009
- Ethics Week 2008
- Ethics Week 2007
- Ethics Week 2006
- Ethics Week 2005
- Ethics Week 2004