Subtitle:
As part of Coevality: Global Ethics in a Time of Total Change Speaker Series
Activity Type:
Symposium
Presenter:
Peter Singer
Date:
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 19:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall
Contact Person:
Global Studies Center
Contact Phone:
412-648-5085
Contact Email:
global@pitt.edu
Event Web Site:
Cost:
Free
The most important issues we face today are global rather than national: climate change, economic globalization, extreme poverty, immigration and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in. We need to challenge both the prudence and the ethics of those who put forward narrow nationalistic perspectives. In the long run we cannot be secure and prosperous, or claim to be acting justly, if we fail to play our part in overcoming the world’s problems. Professor Singer will discuss both the perils and the potentials inherent in globalization, and put forward an ethical approach to them.
UCIS Unit:
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Humanities Center
Office of the Provost's Year of the Humanities Initiative
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Non-University Sponsors:
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh