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CPP @ APA Central 2023

Concerned Philosophers for Peace Group Sessions

Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society


SESSION 1 

Thursday, February 23

7:00pm – 10:00pm

G4J. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Moral Thought on Peace and Nonviolence

Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society

Speakers:

Gregory Bock (The University of Texas at Tyler) and Court Lewis (Pellissippi State Community College)
“Illuminating Bonhoeffer’s Conception of Forgiveness”

William Barnes (New Mexico Highlands University)
“Simone De Beauvoir: The Virtue of Un-Knowing”

Talhah Mustafa (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
“Racial Powers”

Joel Ballivian (UW-Madison)
“Reparations for Historic Racism: What Does Benefitting Have to Do With It?”

Solomon A Laleye (Adekunle Ajasin University)
“Advanced Cyber-Crime, Ritual Killings and Their Mutual Exclusiveness”

John Park (California State University, Sacramento)
“Why Regulations on Empirical Claims in the Media Are Justified”


SESSION 2

Friday, February 24

7:00pm – 10:00pm

G5D. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

Visions of Peace and Nonviolence in Popular Culture

Co-sponsored by The Gandhi, King, Chavez, Addams Society


Speakers:


Kate C.S. Schmidt (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
“Batman Never Kills: Envisioning the Moral Costs of Violence in Popular Culture”


Katie Harster (Boston College)
““For Light and Life”: Peace in Thoreau and the Jedi of Star Wars: The High Republic”


Colin J. Lewis (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
“Hegemons, Peace-seeking, and The Godfather”


Jennifer Kling (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
“Nonviolent Activism in Lord of the Rings”

The meeting will be held February 22-25, 2023 at the Hilton Denver City Central in Denver, CO. 

By mopress

Writer, Editor, Social Democrat

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