Western Civ Dialogue Series - Spring 2016
The Politics of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
January 22, 2016
Time and Room: TBA
University of Colorado Boulder
Free and open to the public.
This landmark 2014 Supreme Court decision is the first to recognize a corporation’s claim of religious belief, and struck down the requirement that Hobby Lobby provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees. An expert panel will assess the broader implications of this decision.
Climate Change after Paris
February 22, 2016
Time and Room: TBA
University of Colorado Boulder
Free and open to the public.
For 21 years, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been seeking to forge a global agreement to address climate change. A panel of specialists representing a range of perspectives will address some of the dominant moral questions raised by the Paris meetings, including questions of fairness between rich and poor, of responsibility between states, and of what sort of procedures might yield a viable yet just outcome.
The Moral Limits of Free Markets
April 4, 2016
Time and Room: TBA
University of Colorado Boulder
Free and open to the public.
If you may do it for free, may you do it for cash? For instance, may you buy and sell votes? How about buying and selling kidneys? Or buying and selling children? What should be off-limits to the market economy? Or do genuinely free markets permit everything? Scholars representing a wide-range of views discuss the issues.