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Human Rights and Disability

News

28.02.2017:

New Book Series "Philosophy and Human Rights" at Brill. The new series provides a venue for outstanding scholarship on contemporary and newly emerging issues in the context of human rights theory and practice in philosophy. The series favors monographs on human rights that work at the cutting edge of ethics/moral philosophy, social- and political philosophy, and law. Prof. Dr. John-Stewart Gordon is the general editor of the book series.

13.02.2017:

Workshop announcement:

Our next workshop is devoted to promote PhD students from all faculties who work on issues related to applied ethics and philosophy. The students will present work in progress and receive valuable feedback. In case you are interested to present something, please, get in contact with us asap. The workshop will be held on 28.04.2017. Please, see "Events" for additional information.

05.01.2017:

Workshop announcement: Our next workshop on "Current Issues in Applied Ethics" will be from 10AM to 7 PM on January 20. Please, see Events for further details.

30.11.2016:

Radio Interview: Moral Rights and Artificial Intelligent Robots (Prof. Dr. John-Stewart Gordon)

30.11.2016:

I am happy to announce that our Research Group Applied Ethics has become the new Research Cluster for Applied Ethics at VDU. Cheers to all!

25.11.2016:

The next lecture on "Human Rights and Disability" (Prof. Dr. Jonas Ruškus) will be on 07.12.2016. There will also be a Wine & Cheese event after the lecture.

09.11.2016:

The next lecture on "Moral Rights for Intelligent Machines?" (Prof. Dr. John-Stewart Gordon) will be held on 23.11.2016.

07.11.2016:

The next lecture on "Corporate Ethics" (Prof. Szymanski), 09.11.2016, is cancelled.

28.10.2016:

There will be a new workshop on "Current Issues in Appplied Ethics" on the 20.01.2017. Please, check for further details - which will be continuously up-dated - under Events.

28.10.2016:

Our next lecture on "Corporate Ethics" will be given by Prof. Dr. Charles Szymanski on 09.11.2016.

24.10.2016:

The talk "Ethical dilemmas in decision making within the health care and higher education contexts" given by Prof. Dr. Vilma Žydžiūnaitė on 26.10.2016 must be postponed. An alternate date will be advertised in due course (now: 20.01.2017). For further details, see Events.

07.10.2016:

Please, be reminded that we will have our first international workshop on "Natural Human Rights" on 12.10.2016 from 12 to 6 PM followed by a public lecture from 6-8 PM on the same day; please, see Events for further information.

20.09.2016:

The Research Group Applied Ethics (RGAE) is now on FACEBOOK where you can get additional information of our activities:
https://www.facebook.com/researchgroupappliedethics/

20.09.2016:

Our series of lectures on applied ethics will continue on 28.09.2016 with a lecture on "Smart Law" (Dr. Paulius Astromskis), see Events for further information!

21.08.2016:

International Workshop on Natural Human Rights & Public Lecture (Prof. Dr. Michael Boylan, USA), 12.10.2016, see Events for further information

15.08.2016:

Our series of lectures on applied ethics will start on 14.09.2016 with an "Introduction to Applied Ethics" (Prof. Dr. John-Stewart Gordon), see Events for further information!

8.06.2016:

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