Conferences and Lectures

J. L. A. Donohue to attend Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women Faculty in Philosophy

J. L. A. Donohue to attend Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women Faculty in Philosophy

January 26, 2023

J. L. A. Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, will be attending the Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Missouri from Sunday, June 11, to Tuesday June 13.

As its name suggests, the workshop brings together early career women in philosophy with mentors and other early career women to discuss their research as well as strategies for success in the discipline. There is mounting evidence that mentoring is important for success in academia, and the workshop aims to build long-term mentoring relationships between eminent...

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Call for Papers: Inaugural Conference of the Technology Ethics eXchange of the NorthEast

Call for Papers: Inaugural Conference of the Technology Ethics eXchange of the NorthEast

November 22, 2022

The Technology Ethics eXchange of the NorthEast (teχnē) invites submissions of extended abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on research and teaching on the ethics of technology, to be hosted at Harvard on May 18–19, 2023.

Potential topics for submissions include but are not limited to:

  • Philosophical research on AI ethics, the ethics of computing, or the ethics of technology generally

  • Social research on the impacts of technologies

  • Interdisciplinary research in responsible computing and...

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Jenna Donohue to participate in panel at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual conference

October 3, 2022

Jenna Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, is participating in the panel “To Cure, to Assist, or Even to Enhance? Emergent Neurotechnologies and Disability Justice” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual conference (October 26 – 29). She will be presenting some thinking on who stakeholders are and how their interests should be respected when new neurotechnologies are developed, particularly those that have the...

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Zoë Johnson King to give keynote at AGENT conference

Zoë Johnson King to give keynote at AGENT conference

October 2, 2022

Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will be one of the two keynote speakers at this year's Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks (AGENT) conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin’s Philosophy Department on November 11 and 12.

The conference highlights work from graduate students related to ethics, normativity, and value. For more information on the conference see their posting here: https://philevents.org/event/...

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Jenna Donohue attends Stanford University workshop and coauthors case

August 25, 2022

Jenna Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, attended an NSF-funded Workshop on Inclusive and Intersectional Research and Analysis in Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University (August 25-26). She collaborated with researchers from other institutions and disciplines to create a case study for intersectionality in computer science education. See similar case studies (and soon the one she contributed to!) at genderedinnovations.stanford.edu.

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Jenna Donohue presents paper at Dartmouth University workshop

August 8, 2022

Jenna Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, gave a paper, “Click-Gap, Paternalism, and Tech Giants’ Relationships with their Users" at Dartmouth University for a workshop on Information Technology Ethics (August 8 - 10). At the workshop, she collaborated with philosophers, social scientists, and industry representatives as they thought together about tech ethics and the relationship between industry and academia.

For more information on the Dartmouth Workshop on Ethics and Information Technology and its related course, please see this news article:...

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Trystan Goetze and William Cochran present at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Conference

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran present at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Conference

July 30, 2022

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran, both Postdoctoral Fellows in Embedded EthiCS, presented their and Jenna Donohue’s work “Creating a Classroom Community with Unfamiliar Students and Limited Time” at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers’ International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy at Otterbein University (July 27-31).

Their session was one marked as highlighting the conference’s theme of (Re)Newing Communities. The Association describes this theme as: “Meeting head-on the...

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