The Ethics of Practice in the Social Sciences and Humanities
This one-day symposium is designed to call attention to graduate student-initiated scholarship on ethics in the humanities and social sciences, and to help make ethical considerations and sensitivity to human subjects more integral and ever present in the scholarly practice on this campus. It has three parts:
(1) Morning: The Ethics of Practice in the Social Sciences and Humanities on Campus: Graduate Student Perspectives (papers from graduate students in the humanities and social sciences)
(2) Afternoon: The Effect of Ethics and Human Subjects Regulations on Grant Supported Research: the Example of Anthropology. Four internationally renowned anthropologists have been invited as keynote speakers to discuss the topic from their vantage points. They have been chosen to represent the width and breadth of anthropology (which itself straddles the social sciences and humanities) and they are recipients of major grants and gatekeepers at major funding sources in the social sciences and humanities. Their experience thus gives them a good vantage point to comment on how ethics and funding are related. Key note speakers are anthropological archaeologist Dr. Margaret Conkey, Professor of Anthropology, Class of 1960 Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley; biological anthropologist Dr. George J. Armelagos, Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Emory University (Professor emeritus, U of Massachusetts); anthropological linguist Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford; past president, American Anthropological Association; and cultural anthropologist Dr. Sydel Silverman, professor emerita, City University of New York and past director, Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
(3) Afternoon: Ethics on Campus: Where Should We Go Next? Immediately following the afternoon session, a round-table discussion, involving the participants in the morning session, the key note speakers, and the audience, will address this question. Our goal is to make this conference an annual affair (with different disciplines as organizers each year), and to discuss concrete steps to take on campus to build on the momentum from this conference.