Ethics and the Artist series celebrates Leonard Cohen

In this op-ed in the Toronto Star, Avvy Go, panelist at C4E’s Public Issues Forum “How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada” (Dec. 9, 2016), argues that for racialized communities, electoral reform is about more than voting: “We have an opportunity to engage Canadians in a discussion of our democracy — a dialogue with each other on not only the technical aspect of voting, but the kind of society we want to live in.”  
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U of T’s Centre for Ethics takes mandate of open discussion to heart with public events

An analysis of more than one million Twitter posts reveals the political maneuvering in portrayals of Syrian refugees, and the global pivot on the issue triggered by the image of Alan Kurdi in 2015.
By: Chris Tenove, Alexandra Siegel/ October 28, 2016

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Over the past two decades, we have seen growing irrationality in politics, influencing policy decisions and our quality of life. Professor Joseph Heath is sparking a public conversation about what rationality is and how to restore its place in public discourse.

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We are so happy to announce that our faculty associate, Anita Anand is the first research chair for investor rights in North America! Read more about it on UofT News here

Climate change: U of T experts head to Paris for COP21 conference. Among them, Stephen Scharper, who is also a Faculty Associate at the Centre for Ethics. To read the full article, click here.

Professor Randall Hansen, director of the Centre for European, Russian and Euroasian Studies at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs is also a Faculty Associate at the Centre for Ethics. He recently took part of panel to discuss the fight against ISIS and Syrian refugees. To read the full article, click here.

Phil Triadafilopoulos, associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Faculty Associate at the Centre for Ethics, is an expert on immigration and citizenship policies, and how they reflect and reconfigure boundaries of national belonging in liberal-democratic states. Recently,  he spoke with U of T News about Merkel’s leadership and its impact on Germany and beyond. To read the full article, click here.

http://news.utoronto.ca/chancellor-angela-merkel-took-germany-immigration-pariah-leader-now-what

Centre for Ethics’ Ethics in Translation Group Leader, Mohammad Fadel, Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law, was interviewed by CBC’s Sunday Morning host Michael Enright on Sunday, November 29th.

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Former graduate associate, Kiran Banerjee is joined by Craig Damian Smith to argue about values of the nation state and how it clashes with moral beliefs. To listen to the full episode on CBC Radio, click here

Our former director, Simone Chambers was recently on CBC Radio alongside other philosophers, Arthur Ripstein and Michael Blake and IDEAS Executive Producer Greg Kelly to talk about the challenges of war and peace.

Click here to listen to the full episode of part one and click here to listen to the full episode of part two.