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Heard on Campus - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

  • iconEthics and the Expectations of Gender -By Justin Boren - Laura Ellingson - Barbara Kelley
    Feb. 1, 2012 9:42 AM - "Ethics and the Expectations of Gender: How Should Women and Men Negotiate When Work/Life Roles Change?” -- Professor Justin Boren, SCU Communication -- Professor Laura Ellingson, SCU Communication and Director, SCU Women's and Gender Studies Program -- Professor Barbara Kelley, SCU Communication. Today couples are caught between huge forces of change. In terms of economics, both partners today usually have to work. And in terms of gender, both partners live in a world of changing cultural expectations. So how can couples better navigate the changing norms in the way we work and live? This panel of scholars from the SCU Communication Department will offer theoretical and practical insights into the topic. Co-sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
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  • iconEthics and Venture Capital Reflections of a Silicon Valley Life - By Pitch Johnson
    Jan. 30, 2012 9:18 AM - -- Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company, and Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business William "Pitch" Johnson is one of the founders of Silicon Valley and one its most highly respected venture capitalists. For decades he has also been a leader in thinking about the ethical implications of this dynamic field of finance. At his talk at Santa Clara University, he'll look back on the changing views of ethics and venture capital in the last decades and speak about current challenges.
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  • iconA Case of Conscientious Refusal - Rights and Responsibilities - By Margaret McLean
    Jan. 23, 2012 8:44 PM - A conference held at Santa Clara University November 2011 exploring conscientious refusals in health care
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  • iconConscience, Catholicism, and American Politics Reflections of a Catholic Bishop - Bishop Robert McElroy
    Jan. 19, 2012 8:05 PM - Conscience, Catholicism, and American Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Bishop” Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy, Archdiocese of San Francisco, and author, “Morality and American Foreign Policy” (Princeton 1992)
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  • iconThe Vatican Speaks Out on Financial Reform
    Nov. 8, 2011 6:56 PM - Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics discusses a document from the Vatican, "Toward reforming international financial and monetary systems, in the context of a global public authority," with David DeCosse, Director of Campus Ethics Programs, Judy Nadler,Senior Fellow, Government Ethics and Miriam Schulman, Center Assistant Director.
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  • iconShould College Athletes Be Paid?
    Oct. 28, 2011 7:35 PM - Hackworth Fellows Matt Savage, Kevin Oliver and Jack Penner discuss the raging topic about whether College Athletes should be paid.
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  • iconPolitical Assassinations
    Oct. 12, 2011 5:50 PM - David DeCosse, Director Campus Ethics, Miriam Schulman, Director of Communications, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Peter Minowitz, Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University discuss the increasing use of drones by the United States national security forces in light of the killing in Yemen of an American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.
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  • iconReligious Exemptions
    Aug. 8, 2011 11:44 AM - The emerging issues group, a program of the Markkula Center for Applied of Ethics at Santa Clara University along with Tom Reese, senior research fellow at the Georgetown Woodstock Theological Center discuss the religious exemptions services such as exemption of christian scientists from vaccination laws, and exemptions in uniform codes in the armed forces for Moslems that wish to wear the veil and other such issues.
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  • iconShould the Drinking Age Be Lowered
    Jun. 7, 2011 7:41 PM - Miriam Schulman, Director of Communications, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics discusses the debate on the legal drinking age with and Peter Minowitz, Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University, Kirk Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Judy Nadler, Senior Fellow, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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  • iconWhy I Defended O.J. - A Talk on Defense Attorney Ethics
    May. 19, 2011 8:12 AM - Professor of Law and Director, Edwin A. Heafey Jr. Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, Gerald F. Uelmen talks about why he defended O.J. Simpson
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  • iconWhence Morality: Evolution, Culture, Religion?
    May. 9, 2011 8:25 AM - Sally Lehrman, the Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest introduces Francisco Ayala, Brenn Univeristy Professor, University of California, Irvine, who discusses the issue of evolution.
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  • iconEthical Decision Making in Health Care - Should Cost Play a Role?
    Apr. 18, 2011 9:06 AM - Miriam Schulman discusses whether it is ethical to consider the cost of treatment when making health care decisions, with Margaret McLean, Director of Bioethics,Sally Lehrman, the Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest, Kirk Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Peter Minowitz, Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University
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  • iconEchoes, Ethics, and the Wild
    Apr. 14, 2011 10:33 AM - David DeCosse, Director of Campus Ethics Programs, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Michael Zampelli, S.J., SCU Theater and Dance and Rector, Jesuit Community, Emily Hawley, SCU '13 and Matt Lee, SCU '13, take part in the Santa Clara City Library's Big Read commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Jack London's great story, "The Call of the Wild." London wrote the book while living near what is present-day Bellarmine Prep. The story itself begins in the "sun-drenched Santa Clara Valley." Of course, it ends with the great dog Buck at home in the deep reaches of the north woods.
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  • iconPublic Sector Unions
    Mar. 16, 2011 7:57 PM - Miriam Schulman, Director of Communications, Kirk Hanson, Executive Director, David DeCosse, Director of Campus Ethics, Judy Nadler, Senior Fellow, Government Ethics, Jim Ballasone, Executive in Residence at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Center discuss the public employee unions, specially the situation in Wisconsin with Stephen Diamond, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University.
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  • iconDemocracy and the Unfolding Situation in Egypt
    Feb. 9, 2011 6:38 PM - Miriam Schulman, Director of Communications, Kirk Hanson, Executive Director, David DeCosse, Director Campus Ethics of Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Sally Lehrman, the Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest and Debra Lohse, Assistant Director, Media Relations Office of Marketing and Communications discuss the unfolding situation in Egypt with Farid Senzai, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University
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