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The Author Meets Critics Series, which launched in fall 2020, is designed to inspire ethics-related dialogue through debate and cross-disciplinary conversation. Each session includes an author presentation, two critiques, an author response, and a question-and-answer session with the audience. These events are free and open to the public.
Upcoming Events
Author Meets Critics Event featuring author
Prof. Aaron Herold
Oct. 29 | 12:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.
The Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics and welcomes SUNY Geneseo Professor Aaron Herold, who will respond to a group scholars on his recent book, The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Toqueville, and Enlightenment Theolohy. In this book, Prof. Herold speaks about the current state of polarization in democracy and its connection with liberal Enlightenment.
All are welcome to join this in-person and live-stream Zoom event. To register and receive the login information, please email ethics@ubalt.edu
SCHEDULE
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch, Introductions, and Opening Remarks |
| 12:15 p.m. | Author Talk, Prof. Herold |
| 1:00 p.m. | Questions & Answers |
| 1:20 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
Steven Scalet, Hoffberger Center director, and Joshua Kassner, Hoffberger Center research director, will serve as co-chairs.
Past Events
Author Meets Critics Event featuring author
Alec Walen
Nov. 1 | 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
The Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics and the Bob Parsons Veterans Center welcomed Rutgers University Professor Alec Walen, who will respond to a group of international scholars on his recent book, The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War. In this book, Prof. Walen offers a novel theory of rights and assesses what this tells us about permissible killings in war.
Hoffberger Center Welcomes MICA Philosophy Professor, Firmin DeBrabander
On Feb. 25, 2021, the Hoffberger Center welcomed Firmin Debrabander, professor of philosophy at Maryland Institute College of Art, to present his ideas about ethics, privacy, technology, and democracy from his recent book Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society (Cambridge UP). The critics were Steven Scalet, director of The University of Baltimore's Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics, and Christopher Griffin, associate professor of philosophy and associate dean at Northern Arizona University.
Hoffberger Center Hosts Inaugural Author Meets Critics Event
On Nov. 10, 2020, the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics hosted its first-ever Author Meets Critics event, a virtual discussion highlighting McGill University’s Ronald Niezen and his new book, #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice. The critics were UBalt faculty members Joshua Kassner and Ñusta Carranza Ko representing the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Public Affairs, respectively. Co-sponsored by the School of Public and International Affairs and the Philosophy, Law, and Ethics undergraduate program, the event drew over 50 attendees. Ivan Sascha Sheehan, executive director of the School of Public and International Affairs, noted that “Professors Niezen, Kassner, and Ko made all of us think in new and deeper ways about human rights issues in the contemporary world.”