ETHICS WEEK EVENTS, March 18-23

March 13, 2024

Ethics Week 2024 will take place March 18-23. 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 next week around ethical issues as they relate to your subject or discipline. The following distinguished guests will be speaking at Baruch at open forums, as below:

MONDAY, MARCH 18
The winners of the 2023 Briloff Prizes in Ethics will be announced.

TUESDAY, MARCH 19
NVC 14-220, 12:00 – 2:15 PM
Navigating Congestion Pricing: Balancing Mobility, Sustainability, and Equity

• Prof. David Rosenberg | Director, Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity and 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
  
  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.

NVC 14-270, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Who decides? Balancing respect and care for the individual in Western and East Asian medical decision-making

• Prof. Laura Specker-Sullivan | Fordham University
  An Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, Dr. Specker-Sullivan 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.

  In Western countries like the US, doctors usually ask patients directly what they want to do. This shows respect for patients’ 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, Prof. Specker-Sullivan will show how both ways of giving consent can be based on the same value: autonomy.

 Prof. Wenqing Zhao, Moderator, Department of Philosophy

THURSDAY, MARCH 21
Reimagining Ethical Care in Global Contexts of Trauma and Adversity

Virtual Meeting via Zoom,  6:15-7:15pm

     Register for Zoom: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdeqsrDsrH92oThJO5pAnsq7bsvh1hL1e#/registration 

• Dr. Adam Brown | The New School for Social Research

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.

Prof. Sarah Bishop’s Global Communication Class PAF 9420 will host Dr. Adam Brown, 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, and is the recipient of grants from the National Institute of Health, USAID, Fulbright, and several private foundations. His work appears in numerous peer-reviewed journals and books.

An annual event at Baruch since 2004,

Ethics Week evolved from curricula

in our three Schools that include emphases

on ethical reasoning and/or decision-making.

Ethics Week is generously supported by the

Charles Dreifus Ethics-Across-the-Curriculum Initiative.