Feb. 24, 2022 (Chicago)
Thursday morning, 9:00am – 12:00pm
Celebrating the Work of Bat-Ami Bar On
G2M. Concerned Philosophers for Peace 1
Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society
Chair: Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)
Speakers:
Jennifer Kling (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
“Resettling Refugees: State Obligations, Egalitarian Concerns”
Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)
“Nonviolence When Everyone is a Citizen-Soldier”
Wim Laven (Instructor of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Governing Council of International Peace Research Association)
“Daring To Be Good: The Moral Demands of Bat-Ami Bar On”
Thursday evening, 7:15pm – 10:15pm
Racism, Pacifism, and Avoiding Atrocities and War
G3Q. Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Chair: Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)
Speakers:
Rashad Rehman and Lydia Clarke Rehman (The University of Toronto)
“The Moral Responsibility of Whom? Re-thinking Water Inequality in Canadian Indigenous Communities”
Joel Ballivian (UW-Madison)
“Racial Apathy and the Persistence of Injustice”
Carlo Filice (SUNY Geneseo)
“How Absolute is the Pacifism of Jesus?”
Leonard Kahn (Loyola University New Orleans and the United States Naval Academy)
“Just Cause and Risk Transfer”
Will Barnes (University of New Mexico)
“The Virtue of not-Knowing: Hannah Arendt and Auto-Deconstruction”
Wim Laven (Instructor of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Governing Council of International Peace Research Association)
“The Role of Philosophy in Healing a Divided America”
