Join us for a conversation about the future of AI with Dr. John Basl on March 26, from 5:30–6:30 p.m. As organizations and individuals work to navigate the social and ethical complexities of AI, missteps and failures are still all too common.

In this discussion, we’ll explore the key challenges of unlocking AI’s potential while minimizing ethical risks, highlighting prominent examples and current approaches to AI ethics. We’ll also explore what it takes to build an ethics ecosystem to manage these challenges and what we can do to help build such an ecosystem.

About the speaker: Dr. John Basl is a philosophy professor at Northeastern University. He researched, teaches, and otherwise works in moral philosophy and applied of practical ethics, especially in the area of AI and data ethics. He is also the Associate Director of Northeastern's AI and Data Ethics Initiatives.

Free and open to the public with registration. There will be a cash bar and light hors d'oeuvres will be provided.

Spotlight Room at the Palace
96 Hanover St, Manchester, NH 03101
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Join us for the “Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” conference, happening from March 27–29 at Saint Anselm College. This 3-day event, will bring together panelists to explore the ethical dimensions of artistic creation, consumption, and identity, with a focus on how race and gender shape the arts.

Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public with registration. Both in-person and remote.

Day One of Conference
THURSDAY, March 27 - 4:30pm

Keynote Talk #1 “Modeling Ethics and Care: The Potential of Operatic Spaces Today” Naomi André, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Location: Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College
 

To learn more and to see complete conference schedule: https://www.drawingtheline2025.com/

To register for the March 27^th event, please email Tara Nichols directly at tnichols@anselm.edu.
 

Sponsored by: Fine Arts Department, Center for Ethics in Society, Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics & the Common Good.

Join us for the “Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” conference, happening from March 27–29 at Saint Anselm College. This 3-day event, will bring together panelists to explore the ethical dimensions of artistic creation, consumption, and identity, with a focus on how race and gender shape the arts.

Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public with registration. Both in-person and remote.

Day Two Schedule:

12:45pm—Arrive at New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College for coffee and cookies

1pm—Welcome

1:10-2pm—Session 1: Black Bodies and Literature [Jesse Saywell, moderator]

“Black Bodies That Matter: The Case for Beautiful Rage” - James Garrison, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“‘A Good Negro Woman’: The Eighteenth-Century Stereotype in Literature and Art” - Bindu Malieckal, Saint Anselm College

2:00pm—Keynote Talk #2 “Pauline Viardot, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and the Ethics of Collaboration” - Hilary Poriss, Professor of Music and Chair, Music Department, Northeastern University

2:45-4:30pm—Panel “Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” [Chani Marchiselli, moderator]

     Speakers:

• Hilary Poriss (Northeastern University, Music)
• Ann Holbrook (Saint Anselm, English Literature)
• Laura Shea (Saint Anselm, Art History)
• Katie Collins (Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord)
• Tina Philibotte (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Justice Advocate & Consultant)
• Aaron Tolson (Saint Anselm, Dance)
   

4:30-4:50pm—Guerilla Girls Exhibition walk-through at Living Learning Commons (led by Laura Shea)

5-6pm—Happy Hour and Zoom with the Guerilla Girls LLC Commons
 

To learn more and to see complete conference schedule: https://www.drawingtheline2025.com/

To register: https://form.jotform.com/250514401405139
 

Sponsored by: Fine Arts Department, Center for Ethics in Society, Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics & the Common Good.

Join us for the “Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts” conference, happening from March 27–29 at Saint Anselm College. This 3-day event, will bring together panelists to explore the ethical dimensions of artistic creation, consumption, and identity, with a focus on how race and gender shape the arts.

Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public with registration. Both in-person and remote.
 

Conference Schedule Day 3:

Saturday, March 29

8:30am— Continental breakfast and coffee

8:45-9am—Introduction, Sean Parr

9am—Keynote Talk #3, Courtney Elkin Mohler, Associate Professor of Theatre, Boston College

9:45-11am—Governments [Kate Bentz, moderator]

• “The Labor of Caring: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s and Haruka Sakaguchi’s Photographic Practices” - Corey Dzenko, Monmouth University
• “Art and ‘Traditional Values’ in Modern Russia: Subordination to Imperatives of Power as an Ethical Choice” - Elena Rovenko, Strasbourg University
• “Dominican Art During the Rafael Trujillo Dictatorship” - Natalie McCollum, Dexter Southfield School
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11:05-12:20—Music, Politics, and the Public [Sheila Liotta, moderator]

• “‘Okay, Ladies, Now Let's Get in Formation’: Identity Politics as First-Day Activities” - Anne Flaherty and Laura Moore Pruett, Merrimack College
• “Representation, Activism, and the University Orchestra” - Mark Seto, Brown University
• “Parsing the Price Revival: An Examination of Public Scholarship’s Potential for Activism in Music” - Virginia Jansen, University of California, Davis

12:30-1pm—Lunch provided

1-2pm—Two Concurrent Sessions

     (a) Contemporary Opera [Andrew Haringer, moderator]

• “New Genre Public Opera: Criticism and Aesthetics in Another City” - Kathryn Caton, University of Houston
• “What Qualifies as a Feminist Opera in the Twenty-First Century? Confronting the Reception of Svadba (2011) and Written on Skin (2012)” - Zoey Cochran, University of Montreal
   

     (b) Settler Artists and Colonialism [Jennifer Thorn, moderator]

• “White Girl Seeking Kin in Settler Colonial Context” - Jessica Jacobson-Konefall, University of Lethbridge
• “Vicious Dilapidation: Everyday Aesthetic Engagements with Abandoned Barns in Wabanakik” - Madeleine Léger, Georgetown University
   

2-3:15pm—Visual Arts

• “Sensing Affective Acoustics: Film as Engaged Scholarship with Hong Kong as a Case Study” - Winnie W. C. Lai, Dartmouth College
• “(Hu)Man Enough: The Ethics of Design Interventions for Familial Conversations About Masculine Gender Expression” - Joshua Pridemore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• “Gender and Sexuality in Diego Rivera’s Aesthetic-Politics”- Megan Flattley, University of Michigan
   

3:20-4:35 Queering Pop Culture [Ann Holbrook, moderator]

• “Ballroom and Blackbird Reparations: How Beyoncé Reclaims BIPOC History in Video and Musical Assemblage” - Christian Gregory, Saint Anselm College
• “A Contextual Queering of Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Club’” - Ash Mach, University of Rochester
• “‘Feminism Has Killed More People than the Atomic Bomb’: Reflecting on the Gender Politics of Barbenheimer” - Jonathan Lupo, Saint Anselm College
   

4:35 Coffee and Snacks

4:40-5pm—A Response, Naomi André (15-30 minutes)

5-5:15pm Concluding remarks, Laura Shea
 

To learn more and to see complete conference schedule: https://www.drawingtheline2025.com/

To register: https://form.jotform.com/250514401405139
 

Sponsored by: Fine Arts Department, Center for Ethics in Society, Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics & the Common Good.

Join us on Friday, April 4th for a discussion on Democracy vs. Authoritarianism. Global politics is increasingly depicted as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. Meanwhile, in America, democracy is being dragged into destructive partisan political battles. Professor Thomson from Arizona State University will discuss what is at stake when we discuss democracy and authoritarianism today, and what we as citizens can expect from American democracy.

About the speaker:

Dr. Henry Thomson is a political economist and Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Originally from New Zealand, he studied Political Science, Economics, International Relations and German literature at Wellington, Tübingen, Berlin and Minnesota. Before joining ASU he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research focuses on economic development, authoritarian regimes and democracy

Free and open to the public.

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We invite you to participate in the upcoming Democracy and Liberty Colloquium, hosted by the Center for Ethics in Society and facilitated by Philosophy Professor Tom Larson and Dr. Henry Thomson from Arizona State University. This event promises a weekend of thoughtful study, reflection, and engaging conversations about excerpts from Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy and Timothy Garton Ash's The Magic Lantern. Students will read nearly 100 pages in preparation for this colloquium and will receive a $150 stipend for their participation.

Application deadline: March 25                                Apply here →

Event Dates:

     Friday, April 4, 2025              6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
     Saturday, April 5, 2025          9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Thomson's bio: 

Dr. Henry Thomson is a political economist and Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Originally from New Zealand, he studied Political Science, Economics, International Relations and German literature at Wellington, Tübingen, Berlin and Minnesota. Before joining ASU he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research focuses on economic development, authoritarian regimes, and democracy.