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Facilitated by Javiera Benavente with the Seed Team The Ethics & the Common Good Project is excited to announce an upcoming week-long campus residency with trainers from The Relational Center. This workshop series will strengthen collaborative leadership skills, celebrate resilience, and cultivate interdependence and reciprocity. All are welcome to join us for lunch and learn […]
A panel discussion in celebration of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition, eds. Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts (New York: Palgrave, 2015), with chapters by Hampshire faculty Stephen Dillon and Falguni Sheth. Panelists staged a conversation between Foucault’s legacy and the challenges of prison activism today. Speakers include: […]
A panel with ECG Summer Interns The Ethics and the Common Good Project supported 18 summer interns this year, in collaboration with several other programs on campus. The students here today will give you a taste of some of this amazing work. Whether it’s in Amherst, Holyoke, Cuba, or Rwanda, these students have listened to […]
The forthcoming climate summit in Paris – officially the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (or COP-21) – will no doubt prove the most significant climate negotiations of modern times. Parties to the convention, including the US, China, the EU, India, Brazil, and most other nations, have pledged to […]
This dinner formally recognizes the ingenuity, passion, and achievement of our students who received summer internship grants. The grants were funded by programs like the Ethics and the Common Good Project, Civil Liberties and Public Policy, Critical Studies in Childhood, Youth, and Learning Program, and Community Partnerships for Social Change.
Taught by kara lynch and Javiera Benavente This course will focus on installation and performance in conversation with diverse media and the local ecosystem. The thematic focus of the seminar will critically engage in the question: How can we create a sustainable environment in which to pursue and create artistic, agricultural, ecological, and socio-economic equity? […]
Taught by Perry Zurn This course will offer students an introduction to the primary subfields of applied ethics: business ethics, biomedical ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and food ethics. Unconventionally, however, it will do so through the thematic of the prison. The course will analyze prison labor, mental and physical healthcare in prison, the aging prison […]
Taught by Perr Zurn This course is an in-depth study of environmental ethics. Reading widely in classic environmental literature, we begin by interrogating the changing referent of the term “nature,” from animals and wilderness to city parks and the organics movement. We then critically compare 1) “nature” with forms of life that are socially naturalized […]
By Judith Kelliher Originally published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette AMHERST— A new program offered this fall at Hampshire College will introduce students from all disciplines academic courses and other educational opportunities that specifically focus on ethics and what it means to do good in the world. The Ethics and the Common Good Program, initially […]
Hampshire College formally launched the Ethics and the Common Good Project with a public presentation entitled Ethics and the Common Good: What Kind of World Do You Want to Live In? on February 12, 2015. The launch also included a series of workshops facilitated by author and Commons activist David Bollier and choreographer, performer, and […]