The Mark Rosen Memorial Lecture Series presents

The Wertheimer Symposium

“Ethics in Public Life”

April 15, 2005

 

Reception and Welcome

8:30 a.m., John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill

 

 

 Can Political Legitimacy be Coerced? The Case of Iraq
9:30 a.m. John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill

Arthur Applbaum

Professor of Ethics and Public Policy at the Harvard Center for Ethics and the Professions

 

 

 Gay Relationships and Judicial Activism:

A View from the Bench”

1:30 p.m. Memorial Lounge, Waterman

John Dooley

Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court

(introduced by former governor Madeleine Kunin)

 

 

 “Campaign Ethics:

The 2004 Presidential Race and Beyond”

3:30 p.m. Memorial Lounge, Waterman

Dennis Thompson

Director, Edmond Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and

Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard

 

A reception for Professor Wertheimer follows Professor Thompson’s talk

 

Symposium Moderator is Nancy Rosenblum

Clark Professor of Ethics and Chair of Dept. of Government, Harvard

 

Also sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the President’s Speakers Fund and the Honors College. All events are free and open to the public. Individuals requiring special accommodations should contact Patty Redmond at patricia.redmond@uvm.edu or 802-656-0427.