Perfect Duluth Day

Local/Global Food Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Confucian Ethics Speakers @ UMD

Come to the February 2011 UMD Center for Ethics and Public Policy Speaker Series. Talks are free and open to the public.

“Down-Home Global Cooking: Why Cosmopolitanism versus Localism is a False Dichotomy, and How Our Food Can Show Us the Way to a Third Option”
Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus College,
Friday, Feb 18, 3 pm, Humanities 314.

“Chinese Philosophy and Environmental Ethics: China’s Three Gorges Dam, Western Pressures and Eastern Principles”
Ben Huff, Randolph-Macon College,
Thursday, Feb 24, 5 pm, Solon Campus Center 120.

“In Search of the Missing Virtue(s) in the East and West”
Heidi Giebel, St Thomas University,
Friday, Feb 25, 3 pm, Humanities 314.