Whitewashing Stonewall
Examining the controversy behind a film's re-imagining of the 1969 Stonewall Inn riot.
Frederick Douglass Prize Winner will be the 2015-2016 Schaenen Scholar
The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics is proud to announce that Christopher Hager will be the 2015-2016 Nancy Schaenen Endowed Visiting Scholar of Ethics.
Dr....
Piper Kerman to Visit Campus for Ubben Lecture
The Prindle Institute is excited to welcome Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black, to campus in February as part of the...
The Celebrity Nude Leak: What’s in a View?
By now, most people have heard that nude photos of nearly 100 celebrities, including actress Jennifer Lawrence, were stolen and posted to the internet by...
Cultural Appropriation Dinner & Discussion on Oct.13
Come out to Prindle on Monday, October 13 at 5:30 PM for a dinner and discussion about the ethics of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation...
Mes Aynak’s Intrinsic Cultural Value
One of the many reasons that weighing ethical dilemmas is such a challenge is because we're often faced with a conflict between measurable and immeasurable value. We see this often...
Whiteness and Go Set a Watchman
The release of author Harper Lee's long-awaited second novel, Go Set a Watchman, has sparked controversy even before hitting the shelves. Central among these...
The Peace of Wild Things – Poetry Reading
Joe Heithaus, professor of English at DePauw University, read several poems at The Campus Farm Dinner in October. Here he is reading a famous...
Reclaiming Identity in Srebrenica
Examining the legacy of the Srebrenica genocide through the personal possessions of its victims.
Electronic Empathy: Video Games as Media
The conflict in Syria is a humanitarian catastrophe on a massive scale, with hundreds of thousands dead and millions of others forced to flee...