The Husson Symposium on Ethics and the Sacred is an annual Spring event dedicated to practical dialogue between ethicists, business leaders, and persons of faith. Each year it is focused on a different topic. It began in 2008 on the topic of healthcare and religion: "Healing and Curing in Downeast Maine."
2010 SymposiumTwo Myths, One Special NightWednesday, March 24, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Richard E. Dyke Center for Family Business
Husson University in Bangor
Free and open to the public.
| The Myth of Choice
Our love affair with choosing everything...and the reasons why your choices are less free than you think. |
| Special Guest: Kent Greenfield |
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| Kent Greenfield is Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston College Law School,
where he teaches and writes in the areas of business law,
constitutional law, legal theory, and economic analysis of law. He is
the Chair-Elect of the Section on Business Associations of the American Association of Law Schools. He is also the author of the book The Failure of Corporate Law,
published by University of Chicago Press. The book has been called
"simply the best and most well-reasoned progressive critique of
corporate law yet written." Greenfield also has had journal articles
published in the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, and the Tulane Law Review,
among others. His articles are widely cited, and he has been called
"the leading figure" and "the most creative thinker" in the
progressive, stakeholder school of corporate law scholarship.
Greenfield has presented papers or lectured in 30 states, 69
institutions, and 7 countries (including Harvard, Yale, Brown,
Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and
the London School of Economics). |
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| The Myth of Morality
Why you think you are a better person than you really are...and your religion probably isn't helping. |
| Presenter: Cliff Guthrie |
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| Cliff Guthrie, Circle Professor of Religion and Humanities at Husson
University, received his B.S. in Political Science and Religion from Duke University and his M.Div. with Honors from Candler School of Theology from Emory University.
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while a graduate student and after receiving his M.Div., he served as a
pastor in churches in Kentucky and Georgia. Cliff then went on to round
out his academic studies by receiving a Ph.D. in Religion from the
Department of Theological Studies at Emory University.
He began his professional career in academics as an adjunct faculty
member at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Since then,
his journey has involved posts such as Adjunct Faculty, Drew
University; Assistant Professor, Bangor Theological Seminary; Visiting
Scholar, Columbia University; Associate Professor, Bangor Theological
Seminary; and Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University. |
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2009 SymposiumAnimal Rights and Animal Wrongs
Religious, Ethical, and Economic Perspectives on the Humane Treatment of Other Animals Thursday, April 16, 2009 9 to 2 p.m. The utilitarian ethicist Peter Singer notes that, "The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment." The passage of California's Proposition 2 regulating animal confinement in intensive farming is the latest of a series of initiatives in various states to improve food animal conditions. Viral videos spread images of sick cattle being prodded and dragged to the slaughterhouse. With increasing demand for natural, cage-free, and humane animal products, the public conscience seems to have been pricked on these issues.
Will Maine see a similar legislative effort to California’s Proposition 2? Should it? How should people of faith respond when it seems like jobs, food prices, and animal welfare compete for our ethical attention? With the economy in deep recession, people unable to afford groceries, dairy and chicken farms struggling to stay afloat, is this a good time to worry about animal rights? How do we provide good and affordable food for an increasingly urban population so far removed from its food sources? How does our use of farm animals relate to our other humane concerns: habitat destruction and extinction, animal research, pet treatment? Join us for a day of practical reflection as we engage leaders in the faith community, animal welfare experts, farmers, food suppliers, and ethicists.
Speakers for the event will include
- Hugh Curran, Peace and Reconciliation Program, University of Maine, Buddhist practitioner and teacher
- Dr. Clifton F. Guthrie, Circle Professor of Religion and Humanities, Husson University
- Donald E. Hoenig, VMD, State Veterinarian and Director of the Division of Animal Health and Industry of the Maine Department of Agriculture
- Rabbi Darah Lerner: Rabbi of Congregation Beth El, "Neo-Kosher? New issues between Jews and Food."
- Katie Lisnik, Maine State Director for the Humane Society of the United States. "Animal Welfare: Changing the way we impact animals, the environment and ourselves."
- Diane Schivera, Organic Livestock Specialist, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, MOFGA
- Nancy Smith, Monmouth dairy farmer, representative to the Maine Legislature and a member of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee in the Legislature.
Plus: A 25-minute film produced by The Humane Society of the United States: "Eating Mercifully."
Cost: $30.00. Includes lunch.
Free for Pre-registered Husson University, NESCOM, and Bangor Theological Seminary students.
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