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Fall 2023

Forum in Ethics, Law, and Society (PHIL 205) JOIN US MONDAYS

Mondays, 12:00-12:55 pm, in STEVENSON 1400
Lecture is free and open to the public. General parking is $5 in lots J, E and F with parking permit machines available. Click here to view SSU map.

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Fall 2023

September 11     "Ethical Issue in Space Colonization: AI, Robots, and Existential Risk"

Keith Abney, California Polytechnic State University, Philosophy

 

September 18     "The Privileged Access of the Underprivileged"

Teed Rockwell, Sonoma State University, Philosophy-Emeritus

 

September 25     "Rethinking 'Democratizing AI'"

Ting-An Lin, Stanford, Interdisciplinary Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow, McCoy Family Center of Ethics in Society (EIS) and The Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Click here to see Ting-An Lin's lecture.

 

October 9     "Responsible Use of Generative AI"

John P. Sullins, Sonoma State University, Philosophy

Click here to see Dr. John Sullins' lecture.

 

October 16   "On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other 'AI'"

Damien Patrick Williams, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Philosophy and Data Science

Click here to see Dr. Damien Patrick Williams' lecture.

 

October 30     "Developing Flexibility Awareness"

Anthony Wright, Sonoma State University, Philosophy

Click here to see Anthony Wright's lecture.

 

November 6     "Small Minds Without Spines: Challenging the Moral Discourse Around Insect Consumption"

Rebekah Sinclair, Oregon State University, Philosophy

 

November 13     "An Ethics of Gender Affirmation"

Megan Burke, Sonoma State University, Philosophy

Click here to see Megan Burke's lecture.

 

November 27     Warren Court Prizewinner Presentations

 

 

Fall 2022


September 12     "Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition"  
Betty Ann Hagenau (BAATC)


September 26     "The Arguments Used to Overturn Roe and their Consequences" 
Cynthia Boaz (Sonoma State University)

Click here to see video of Dr. Boaz's lecture.


October 10      "Ethics of AI" 
Will Fleisher (Georgetown)

Click here to see video of Will Fleisher's lecture.


October 17      "The Courage to Transform Knowledge into Wisdom"  
Anthony Wright (Sonoma State University)

Click here to see video of Anthony Wright's lecture.


October 24      "Artificial Wombs" 
Susan Kennedy (Santa Clara University)

Click here to see video of Susan Kennedy's lecture.


October 31      "The Political Realities of Indigenous Communities" 
Silvia Soto (Sonoma State University)

Click here to see video of Silvia Soto's lecture.


November 7      "Citational Rebellion and Applied Ethics" 
Johnathan Flowers (CSU, Northridge)


November 14      "Military and Business Strategy in an Age of AI-aided Decisions"  
Matthew Kwon Johnson (Department of Defense)


November 28      "Warren Court Prize Presentations"  
Prize winners

 

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PREVIOUS LECTURE SERIES

Fall 2021

  August 30     “Sylvia Rivera and the Fight Against the Carceral Machine”

Dr. Andrea Pitts, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Philosophy

Click here to see video of Dr. Pitts' lecture.

 

September 13    “How White People Listen”

Dr. Storm Heter, East Stroudsburg University, Philosophy

 

September 20    “Criminal Punishment and Gender-Based Violence: The Limits of Incarceration”

Dr. Amelia Wirts, University of Washington, Philosophy

Click here to see video of Dr. Wirts' lecture.

 

September 27    “Institutional Timeliness, COVID-19, and Trans Critique”

Dr. Amy Marvin, Gettysburg College, Philosophy

Click here to see video of Dr. Marvin's lecture.

 

October 4        “Black Films Matter”

Professor Law Ware, Oklahoma State University, Philosophy  

                Click here to see video of Professor Ware's lecture.

 

October 18      “Healing at the Intersections: Combating Intersectional Invisibility in Therapy”

RaiNesha L. Miller, PhD., Johns Hopkins University Counseling Center,

Coordinator of Services for Black Students

         Click here to see video of Dr. Miller's lecture.

 

October  25      “Sensorimotor Debility in Digital Cultures”

                  Professor Simon Penny, University of California-Irvine, Art

             Click here to see video of Professor Penny's lecture.

 

November 1       “Yellow Bodies in White Spaces”

Dr. Boram Jeong, University of Colorado-Denver, Philosophy

   Click here to see video of Dr. Jeong's lecture

 

November 8       “Who am I? A Discussion About Transitions, Moral Injury, and Veteran Support”

David Reese, University of Maryland, Coordinator of Veteran Student Life

Click here to see David Reese's lecture.     

                             

November 15     “Mindfulness and Kindness: Resonating with Self and Other”

Dr. Andy Wallace, Sonoma State University, Philosophy

Click here to see Dr. Wallace's lecture.

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2018

 

Raj Patel

March 2, 2018, 1:00pm, Cooperage 3

Co-Sponsor with SSU Hutchins School of Liberal Studies

 

Wendell Wallach, Yale University Center for Bioethics

February 8, 12:05-12:55 Stevenson 1002

Co-sponsored with Computer Science

 

2017

 Nov. 14

The Baumgardt Memorial Lecture II 

FINDING GOODNESS IN DEATH

Joshua Glasgow, Sonoma State University, Philosophy

 

Nov. 7

The Baumgardt Memorial Lecture I

GRATITUDE FOR BAD FACTS

Joshua Glasgow, Sonoma State University, Philosophy

 

Oct. 13

THE FUTURE OF CYBERSECURITY

Betsy Cooper, UC Berkeley, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

 

Oct. 24

TRUST, ANGER, RESENTMENT: ON BLAME AND ITS ASSESSMENT

R. Jay Wallace, UC Berkeley, Philosophy

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Sept. 26

FREE SPEECH AND FAKE NEWS IN THE TRUMP ERA

Paul GullixsonThe Press Democrat

Karl Olson, Cannata, O'Toole, Fickes and Almazan, LLP

Click here for video

 

Sept. 19

CAN RACIAL INEQUALITY BE FIXED BY SEEING RACE AS FLUID?

Aliya Saperstein, Stanford, Sociology

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Sept. 12

VALUES AND FEAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

Bill Hing, University of San Francisco, Law

Click here for video

 

Aug. 29

OUR CHANGING OCEANS

Jennifer Stock, NOAA, Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary

Click here for video

 

May 2

LAW, ORDER, AND ALGORITHMS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA

Sharad Goel, Stanford University, Engineering

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April 25

THE RISE OF THE GOOD FOOD MOVEMENT

Naomi Starkman, Civil Eats

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April 18

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: THE FUTURE OF NON-PROFIT WORK--A PANEL OF EXPERTS

Karin Demarest, Vice President for Programs, Community Foundation Sonoma County

Paul Fordham, Deputy Executive DIrector, Homeward Bound of Marin

Matt Martin, CEO, Social Advocates for Youth

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April 20, 11:15-12, Green Music Center (part of the Investiture conference honoring President Sakaki)

A CELS Co-Sponsored Event

Democracy Roundtable: How do we understand relationships between citizenship, immigration, and xenophobia?

 

April 11

ELECTIONEERING VS. GOVERNING: THE CHALLENGES OF A TRUMP PRESIDENCY AFTER THE FIRST 100 DAYS

David McCuan, SSU, Political Science

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April 11, 7:30PM, Student Center Ballroom A

A CELS Co-Sponsored Event, with the Schulz Endowment, University Library, and the School of Social Sciences

RUNNING A SUB-20 SECOND 200 AND SPEAKING THROUGH SILENCE

Tommie Smith

 

April 4

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IN SONOMA COUNTY

Jen Lewis, Special Projects Director, Sonoma County Department of Health Services

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March 21

HOW DO BLIND PEOPLE UNDERSTAND RACE, AND WHAT CAN THEY TELL US ABOUT COLORBLINDNESS?

Osagie Obasogie, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

 

March 7

THE NEXT PHASE IN IMMIGRATION LAW AND POLICY

Bernice Espinoza, Sonoma County Public Defender

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February 28

KILLER ROBOTS AND DEMOCRATIC WARS

Christopher Kutz, UC Berkeley Law

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Feb. 21

INEQUALITY IN FILM: ON SCREEN AND BEHIND THE CAMERA

Stacy Smith, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

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Feb. 14

THE ROBOTIC MIRROR: FINDING HUMANITY IN MACHINE VALUES

Shannon Vallor, Santa Clara University, Philosophy

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2016

Oct. 12

THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS: INSIGHTS AND PRACTICES

Dacher Kelter, UC Berkeley Psychology and Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center

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April 18

SUPPORTING EMBODIED LEARNING AT THE SONOMA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION'S LEGO ROBOTICS CHALLENGE

Rick Phelan, Coordinator of Staff Development for Curriculum and technology at the Sonoma County Office of Education, Faculty member of SSU School of Education and Extended Education

 

March 24

COMPASSION

Erika Rosenberg, Stanford University

 

2015

Nov. 17

A PANEL OF EXPERTS: THE FUTURE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION

Susan Hollander, K&L Gates

Judge Brad Seligman, Superior Court of Alameda County

Cometria Cooper, Assistant Director of Career Development, University of San Francisco School of Law

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

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Nov. 10

WHO OWNS YOUR STUFF? COPYRIGHT, EULAs, AND THE FUTURE OF USER CONTROL

Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

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Nov. 3


FOOD, OUR BIOSPHERE, AND YOU

Jeff Baldwin, SSU, Geography and Global Studies

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

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Oct. 27

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A GUILTY MIND

Tania Lombrozo, U.C. Berkeley, Psychology

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

 

Oct. 20

CALIFORNIA'S WATER CHALLENGES: LESSONS FROM THE CURRENT DROUGHT

Caitrin Chappelle, Public Policy Institute of California

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

Click here for video

 

Oct. 6

RACIAL BIAS IN POLICING: PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Jack Glaser, U.C. Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

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Sept. 22

FINDING A PATH TO BENEFICIAL A.I.

John Sullins, SSU, Philosophy

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

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Sept. 15

THE PROBLEMS WITH PRIVATIZATION

Debra Satz, Stanford University, Philosophy

This event was supported in part by St. Joseph Health--Sonoma County and SSU Instructionally Related Activities

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Green Music Center, Weill Hall, Wednesday, September 9. 6:30pm

GLOBAL POVERTY AND WHAT WE OUGHT TO BE DOING ABOUT IT

The Big Ethics and Law Lecture

Peter Singer, A.C. Princeton University and the University of Melbourne

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Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2-4pm, Student Center Ballroom B

READING RACE: FROM FERGUSON, MISSOURI TO MORRISON'S A MERCY AND BACK AGAIN

Paula Moya, Stanford University

Co-sponsored with the SSU Philosophy Club, with the support of Instructionally Related Activities

Click here for video

 

Monday, Feb. 23, 10:30am-noon, Student Center Ballroom B

PROSTITUTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Melissa Farley, Prostitution Education and Research

Co-sponsored with the Sonoma Freedom Project, with the support of Instructionally Related Activities

 

Tuesday, April 14, 7:30pm, Schroeder Hall (Green Music Center)

WHAT IS VEILING?

Dr. Sahar Amer, University of Sydney

Co-sponsored with the School of Arts & Humanities, Dept. of Modern Languages

 

2014

Wednesday, April 16, 2-3:30, Student Center Ballroom B

MULTIRACIAL BELONGING AND BETRAYAL

Ron Sundstrom, Ph.D., University of San Francisco

Co-hosted by CELS and the SSU Philosophy Club

 

Friday, April 11, 9-noon, Weill Hall

IMAGINE YOURSELF: A DIALOGUE AND SYMPOSIUM WITH THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF CALIFORNIA

Chief Justice of California, Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye

with Angelica Quirarte, Jonathan Gomez, and Doug Bosco

Presented by 10,000 Degrees Sonoma County and CELS

 

September 2

RISKS AND LIABILITIES IN CYBERSPACE

Eric Sinrod, Duane Morris LLP

This event was supported in part by Instructionally Related Activities

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September 9

A REVERENTIAL REYDRATION REVOLUTION

Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

This event was supported in part by Instructionally Related Activities

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Sept. 16

COMPASSION AND HAPPINESS

Andy Wallace, SSU Philosophy

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Sept. 23

DOG WHISTLE POLITICS: HOW CODED RACIAL APPEALS HAVE REINVENTED RACISM AND WRECKED THE MIDDLE CLASS

Ian Haney- López, Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley Law) and Demos

This event was supported in part by Instructionally Related Activities

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Sept. 30

NSA SPYING, THE CONSTITUTION, AND YOU

Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation

This event was supported in part by Instructionally Related Activities

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Oct. 14

PHILOSOPHY OF WATER USE TECHNOLOGY

Irene Klaver, University of North Texas

This event was supported in part by Instructionally Related Activities

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Oct. 28

WHALE AWARE: HOW INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT, AND NGOs ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE STRIKES TO WHALES BY LARGE BOATS

Michael Carver and Jennifer Stock, Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary (NOAA)

Click here for video

 

Nov. 18

THE RIGHT TO SPEAK OUR MINDS AND OUR LANGUAGES: TOWARD AN ETHICS OF MULTILINGUALISM IN SCHOOL AND SOCIETY

Robert Train, SSU Modern Languages

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Dec. 2

Warren Court Prize Presentations

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2013

Tuesday, November 19, Noon-1pm, Carson Hall 56

THE WORLD OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: A Q&A WITH DR. MARY BURKE

Mary Burke, Executive Director, The Project to End Human Trafficking and Director, Doctoral Program in Counseling Psychology, Carlow University

 

Wednesday, October 30, 2-3:30, Cooperage 2

STAKEHOLDING AND SAFETY NETS: A CRITIQUE OF LIBERTARIANISM

Teed Rockwell, SSU Philosophy Department

Click here for the paper

Click here for the slides

 

Wednesday, September 25, 12-1pm, Darwin 103

PROBLEMS WITH "BORN THAT WAY": SEXUAL ORIENTATION, SCIENCE, AND THE LAW

Ed Stein, Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and Director of the Gertrud Mainzer Program in Family Law, Policy, and Bioethics at Cardozo Law

 

Thursday, April 11, Location: Schulz 3001, 1:30-3:00

NEGLIGENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY

Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco, Philosophy and Law School

 

Friday, April 5

Frank Wu, Chancellor and Dean, Hastings School of Law

2-3 PM: Q & A about law school with Frank Wu, the Dean and Chancellor of Hastings. Co-sponsored by CELS and the Pre-Law Society. Carson 56

Dean Wu also led a discussion of the film, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, at 7 PM. 

 

Wednesday, March 27

Title IX events

Gender Equity Concerns Workshop for Students and Community Members, 4:30-6 pm in the Cooperage. 

Donna Lopiano “Gender Equity and Title 9: It Isn’t Just About Sports," 7:30 pm The Cooperage

  • Dr. Lopiano has served for 18 years as the University of Texas at Austin Director of Women’s Athletics and is a past-president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. During her tenure at Texas, she constructed what many believed to be the premiere women’s athletics program in the country; twice earning the top program in the nation award. Recognized as one of the foremost national experts on gender equity in sport, Dr. Lopiano has testified about Title IX and gender equity before three Congressional committees and served as a consultant to the U.S. Office for Civil Rights Department of Health, Education and Welfare Title IX Task Force. The Sporting News has repeatedly listed her as one of “The 100 Most Influential People in Sports.”

Gender Equity Issues Workshop for Faculty, Staff, Coaches and Administrators, 10-11:30 am in Schulz 3001

 

Wednesday, February 6, 4 PM

The Center for Ethics, Law, and Society Inaugural Lecture

Judge Brad Seligman: Big Law, Small Law: Old and New Civil Rights in the 21st Century

Come join us hear Judge Seligman, SSU alum and accomplished class action civil rights lawyer, speak about civil rights! Judge Seligman's talk will help us officially open the Center. Wine and cheese reception to follow.

Location: Ives 101 (Warren Auditorium).

 

 

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