The University of Notre Dame announced the opening of the new Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. The Center, directed by David Solomon of Notre Dame’s philosophy department, is dedicated to coordinating, focusing, and amplifying the University’s resources in ethics. This work is grounded in the Christian, and especially Catholic, intellectual tradition.
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture scheduled its first three conferences. The first was in the fall of 2000. We appreciate all who shared the following call for papers with groups with which you are affiliated that had been interested.
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture announced its first conference series:
A CULTURE OF DEATH
University of Notre Dame
Center for Continuing Education
OCTOBER 12-14, 2000
The Center received submissions covering a broad range of topics related to discussion of the culture of death, including:
*abortion
*capital punishment
*racism and diversity
*oppression of women
*threats of totalitarianism
*technology and human flourishing
*responsibility of mass communication and the media
*euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
*responsibility of the business world
*exploitation of developing nations
*human dignity and human rights
*poverty and children
*war
Deadline for submissions was June 1, 2000. Notification of acceptance was mailed by July 15, 2000.
The conference included separate sessions for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates. The Center welcomed submissions from members of all these groups. One-page abstracts for individual papers included name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address (if possible). Session presentations were limited to twenty minutes and plenary presentations were one hour. Proposals for panel discussions and author-meets-critics sessions were also encouraged.
