This September, four online workshops about the ethics of international development practice will be held online for graduate students. Registration is limited to 12 participants. The four 60-minute workshops to be held via Zoom from 12 noon to 1:30 pm (Eastern Time) on September 16, 23, 30 and October 7th. Each workshop builds on the previous workshop, so we ask participants to commit to the full set of 4 workshops.
For more information, please contact: devethicsforum@gmail.com. Click here to register. The deadline for registration is September 15.
Session 1 (September 16): Participants will share their practical questions about ethics in international development. Facilitators will then connect participants’ questions to tools and concepts of development ethics that can help to resolve them.
Session 2 (September 23): Same as session 1 with contributions from remaining participants.
Session 3 (September 30): Deep dive into development ethics based on questions from Sessions 1 & 2.
Session 4 (October 7): Participants will be divided into groups based on their questions and concerns about development ethics. Each group will read and discuss a chapter from The Development Ethics Handbook and then report on key insights.
The organizers: Jay Drydyk (Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University), Lori Keleher (Professor of Philosophy, New Mexico State University), John Cameron (Professor of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University), Gloria Sánchez-Cuevas (PhD student in Ethics and Public Affairs, Carleton University)