Annual Meeting

The Nineteenth Annual Meeting will convene at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, 35 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.

The Nineteenth Annual Meeting, open to Association members and nonmembers, welcomes persons from various disciplines and professions for discussion of common concerns in practical and professional ethics. The meeting provides an opportunity to meet practitioners, professionals and scholars who share your interests. The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics was founded in 1991 to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching of high quality in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the practical-theoretical aspects of their subjects. The Association facilitates communication and joint ventures among centers, schools, colleges, business and nonprofit organizations and individuals concerned with the interdisciplinary study and teaching of practical and professional ethics. The Association is also the sponsor of the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl held at the Annual Meeting and the 10 Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowls held under its auspices.

Submissions are invited on ethical issues in various fields (e.g., public administration, law, the environment, accounting, engineering, computer science, research ethics, business, medicine, health care, journalism, higher education) and on issues that cut across professions. Special consideration will be given to topics that deal with ethical issues which cut across at least two disciplines or professions and are co-authored by persons from different disciplines. Teaching demonstrations, discussion of moral education, and presentations on ethics curriculum development are welcome. You do not need to be a member of the Association to make a submission. Submissions will be considered in the following categories: 1) Individual Formal Papers; 2) Panels including Formal Papers; 3) Panels for Round Table Discussions; 4) Pedagogical Demonstrations for Teaching Ethics; 5) Case Study Presentation and Discussion, 6) Author Meets the Critics; 7)Lunch with an Author. You may submit materials in more than one category, but normally only one submission will be accepted for the program for all except the Author Meets the Critics and Lunch With an Author sessions.

The Submission Postmark Deadlines are:
Formal Paper, Panel, Pedagogical Demonstration, Case Study Presentation and Discussion Submission Deadline is October 16, 2009
Lunch With an Author Submission Deadline is October 9, 2009
Undergraduate Submission Deadline is October 30, 2009

Special Paper Competitions

Special Paper Competitions for the Nineteenth Annual Meeting*

1. Competition for the Best Formal Paper by a Early Career Faculty Member - $500 prize
The Association is pleased to announce a competition for the best paper submitted for next year’s Annual Meeting by a Early Career Faculty member (An early career faculty member is defined as one who has received a Ph.D. within the last 8 years.) Up to three awards may be made in this category.

2. Competition for Best Formal Paper by a Graduate Student - $500 prize
The Association is pleased to announce a competition for the best paper submitted by a graduate student for next year’s Annual Meeting. (The registration fee will be paid for all graduate students whose individual paper has been reviewed and accepted for the Annul Meeting.)

A select number of submissions in the above competitions will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Applied Ethics.

3. Competition for Best Formal Paper on Pre-college Ethics - $1,000 prize
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics is pleased to announce that, with support of the Squire Family Foundation, we will sponsor a competition at the next Annual Meeting to advance the work of those interested in pre-college ethics. The Squire Family Foundation Award, along with a check for $1000, will be presented for the best paper submitted on approaches to teaching pre-college ethics and involving pre-college students in ethics education. Papers may address issues of pedagogy, such as those that describe the advancement of a pre-college ethics curriculum; extracurricular activities such as ethics clubs, essay contests, and ethics bowls; school-based ethics centers; or collaboration with post-secondary ethics centers and the community. Analytic and research papers are also eligible. Be sure to indicate on the Submission and Registration Form that you are submitting a paper for the Pre-College Paper Competition.

4. Undergraduate Formal Paper Competition
Undergraduate students are invited to submit papers on any topic in practical and professional ethics. The Annual Meeting registration fee will be paid for those students whose papers have been accepted. Submission Postmark Deadline is October 30, 2009

*All paper competition submissions must follow the Annual Meeting paper submission guidelines and must include a completed Registration and Submission Form indicating for which competition they are submitting a paper; Early Career Faculty, Graduate Student, Pre-College Ethics or Undergraduate.

Hotel Information

The Nineteenth Annual Meeting will convene at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, 35 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. For reservations, call 513-421-9100 or 1-800-HILTONS. Identify yourself with the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics to receive the meeting room rate of $128 single or double plus tax per night. Note: The deadline for hotel reservations at the meeting rate is February 13, 2010.

The Hotel has provided us with a reservation link: Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Reservation Page Please make sure that Association for Practical & Professional Ethics 19th Annual Meeting appears at the of the page before booking your reservation. Please contact the hotel at the reservation number above if you experience any trouble with the hotel weblink.

Transportation Information
Transportation to Cincinnati is served by the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). Transportation from the airport:
Shuttles Service: Airport Executive Shuttle provides transportation to hotels and local attractions; $20 to Downtown $30 round-trip; Walk-up service is welcome, but call to guarantee reservations; Service available via shuttle desks in bag claim areas; Call (859) 261-8841 or (800) 990-8841
Taxicab Service: For service visit the taxi desk in Terminal 3 bag claim or use the courtesy phone in Terminal 2 bag claim. $27 fares from CVG to downtown Cincinnati; Service is available 24 hours a day; Call (859) 767-3260
Public Transit: To downtown & Covington; Daily from 5 a.m. to midnight; Board outside Terminal 3 bag claim; Call (859) 331-8265 or www.tankbus.org

Important Deadlines

October 16, 2009 Presentation Submissions Postmark Deadline and Audio Visual Requests

Registration

Early Bird Registration ends November 27, 2009
On-Time Registration ends January 25, 2010
Late Registration Fees apply beginning January 26, 2010

Click here for Submission and Registration Form, which requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader. This is an interactive form that will allow you to complete the form and submit it using the following options: e-mail without payment informaiton, print and fax the completed form to 812.856.4969 or mail the completed form with payment to:

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 618 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405

A Microsoft 2007 Word version is available here: Submission and Registration Form (MS Word). If you would like a hard copy of the registration form, please let us know, and we will be happy to mail or fax a copy to you. Please call our office at (812) 855-6450 or send an e-mail message to appe@indiana.edu

Registration fees are not required with submissions, but are due two weeks after you have received notification of acceptance of your submission. Please note that persons on the program are expected to pay the registration fee. The registration fee will be paid by the Association for full-time graduate and undergraduate students whose papers are formally reviewed and accepted for presentation. On-Time registration ends January 25, 2010. Persons paying after January 25, 2010 will pay the late registration fee. (Early Bird registration rates are available before November 27, 2009 for those already planning to attend the Annual Meeting.)

Keynote Speaker

The keynote speaker for the Nineteenth Annual Meeting will be Marc Rotenberg, the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC.

Marc Rotenberg teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on “Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism.”

Dr. Rotenberg has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He currently chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection and is the former Chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain. He is editor of Privacy and Human Rights and The Privacy Law Sourcebook, and co-editor (with Daniel J. Solove and Paul Schwartz) of Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing 2007).

Pre-conference Workshop (PAIT)

Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology (PAIT)
March 3-4, 2010, Cincinnati, Ohio
http://poynter.indiana.edu/pait/

For the purposes of this workshop, we consider terms such as “pervasive computing,” “ubiquitous computing,” “ubicomp,” “everyware,” and “ambient computing” to be roughly synonymous. We use the term “information technology” to highlight the important role of hardware not usually associated with computers, such as advanced sensing and communication devices, involved in most pervasive IT. Our shorthand for these technologies and their application is PAIT.

The goal of the project is to create a firm ethical foundation for this nascent field by convening an international meeting of experts in PAIT, ethicists well versed in practical ethics, and other stakeholders. The meeting will feature discussions of previously-prepared case studies describing actual and anticipated uses of PAIT, invited presentations on key issues, working groups to identify and categorize ethical concerns, and other activities aimed at community-building and formulating ethical principles that will help researchers and designers of such systems recognize and address ethical issues at every stage, from design to deployment to obsolescence.

This workshop will be held in Conjunction with the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel. The workshop is open to all at no charge, but does require registration in advance. For registration go to: http://poynter.indiana.edu/pait/registration.shtml

The workshop will meet 8:00am-5:00 pm Wednesday, March 3rd, and 9:00am-5:00 pm Thursday, March 4th. Box lunches will be provided to all participants.

Formal presentations will be made by

The bulk of the workshop will be dedicated to plenary and breakout discussions of case studies and position papers, many developed specifically for this workshop, on ethical issues in PAIT. Brainstorming and free-form discussion will become sharpened and focused as the workshop proceeds with an aim to creating consensus, or at least general agreement, on core ethical issues and principles, as well as next steps to build on the workshop (publications, presentations, policy forums, etc.)

Sponsors
The PAIT workshop is made possible by funding and other support from

Mini Conference

“Engineering Towards a More Just and Sustainable World”

The Association's 2010 Annual Meeting will feature a mini conference Co-Sponsored by the Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society, National Academy of Engineering March 6-7, 2010. The Keynote Presentation is open to all Annual Meeting attendees, however the remainder of the sessions will be open only to those who registered to attend the the Mini Conference.

Engineers and engineering shape our social, physical, and built environments in profound ways. As that influence grows, deliberation and debate about underlying choices and directions become ever more important. To aid these critical reflections, a mini conference, “Engineering Towards a More Just and Sustainable World” will be held Saturday afternoon, March 6 through Sunday Noon March 7, 2010. The meeting will bring together engineers and scholars in ethics and in science and technology studies to explore the connections between engineering and justice.

Registration is $40 for those registered for the preconference workshop, “Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology (PAIT)” or for the Annual Meeting. Registration for the Mini Conference alone is $70.

Agenda

Keynote address: "Technology and Global Justice" by Indira Nair, Vice-Provost for Education, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University.

How do we educate tomorrow's engineer and some of today's engineers to think about global justice in the context of their profession and work? Educating engineers to think about global justice in a global technological system requires thinking beyond technology as an answer to human needs, to technology in contexts where justice is a pressing need. Metrics of success need to include long-term social welfare and human dignity, not just those of efficiency and cost. These are the questions for a new technological imperative, and engineers trying to span this educational bridge need to articulate thoughts about global justice in a language and framework that the engineering world will appreciate, as eloquently as the philosopher Thomas Pogge has done with his work examining the metrics for poverty and gender inequality.

Responding to her remarks are Greg Allgood, Director, Children’s Safe Drinking Water, and Senior Fellow in Sustainability at Proctor and Gamble, Inc.; and David Crocker, Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland-College Park.

Moderator: Rachelle D. Hollander, Director, Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society, National Academy of Engineering.

Two panel sessions that follow on Saturday evening and Sunday morning will examine both difficulties and opportunities for connecting engineering and social and environmental justice, from the perspectives of engineers and scholars in the social sciences and humanities.

7:30pm – 9:00pm Panel One: Engineering and Social Justice: What Are the Difficulties? What Are the Possibilities?

9:00am – 10:30am Panel Two: Engineering Sustainability and Environmental Justice: What Are the Difficulties? What Are the Possibilities?

The final panel of engineers will discuss resources available to engineers and organizations that wish to encourage engineering for justice.

What assistance can and do organizations provide to engineers who wish to contribute to a more socially and environmentally just and sustainable world? This panel approaches the question from the points of view of engineers in organizations undertaking programs or developing resources that can or do address it.

Graduate Seminar on Teaching Practical and Professional Ethics

A special four-hour seminar on the teaching of ethics, open only to graduate students in all disciplines, will be offered during the Annual Meeting on Thursday, March 4, 2010. The seminar will be taught by Richard Momeyer, Miami University of Ohio. The seminar will focus on the problems, pitfalls and resources for teaching practical and professional ethics. Enrollment will be limited to a first come basis. Participants need not register for the Annual Meeting. There will be a $25 registration fee for the seminar.

Ethics Center Colloquium

Ethics Center Colloquium “Outreach, Consultation and Survival in Economic Hard Times”

This year’s Ethics Center Colloquium, “Outreach, Consultation and Survival in Economic Hard Times” will convene on Thursday, March 4, 2010, from 1:00-5:30 p.m. The Covenor for this year’s Annual Meeting is Aine Donovan, Research Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College.

Featured presenters include Jan Boxill, Director, Parr Center for Ethics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Noah Pickus, Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University; David Ozar, Loyola University Chicago; Lyn Boyd-Judson, Director, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, University of Southern California; and Shlomo Sher, Levan Institute of Humanities and Ethics.

The Ethics Center Colloquium is designed for ethics center directors or their representatives, those considering establishing an ethics center, and other interested persons. It provides a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow directors, share common experiences, typical problems, and new program ideas. The Colloquium represents the largest assembly of Ethics Center Directors in the U.S. and usually has from 80-100 participants in attendance.

The Ethics Center Colloquium is designed to appeal to ethics center directors or their representatives, those considering establishing an ethics center, and other interested persons. It provides a wonderful opportunity to share common experiences, typical problems, and new program ideas. Past colloquia have drawn up to 100 participants. The registration fee is free for those registered for the Annual Meeting. Registration for the Colloquium alone is $40.

Ethics Bowl

Ethics Bowl is a team competition that combines the excitement and fun of a competitive game with an innovative approach to education in practical and professional ethics. On Thursday, March 4, 2010, 32 teams of undergraduates who qualify at ten regional competitions will participate in the Sixteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition. See Ethics Bowl for more information about the March 4th competition, for information about the regional competitions in the fall, and for information about registering Ethics Bowl competitors to attend the Annual Meeting.

Thirty-two teams will be selected from regional ethics bowls. To enter a team or for more information, please contact: Pat Croskery, IEB Executive Board Chair, Ohio Northern University, PH (419)772-2197. Email p-croskery@onu.edu; Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB).

Social Workers

The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics seeks to facilitate collaboration between social workers and ethicists on ethical issue related to social work or social work ethics education. One form of collaboration could be joint papers or panels for the Association’s Annual Meeting. Anyone interested in such collaboration is invited to contact the Association for further information.

Media Ethics Division Meeting

The Media Ethics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication will hold its mid-year meeting in conjunction with the Annual Meeting. The Media Ethics Division invites papers and panel proposals on all topics related to ethics in the media (journalism, public relations, advertising, entertainment media and the Internet). Interdisciplinary submissions are encouraged. Collaborations involving scholars from other fields are especially welcome.

For information about interdisciplinary submissions, including possible collaborators, please contact Wendy Wyatt at: University of St. Thomas Wendy Wyatt or by phone:(651) 962-5253.

Papers should be submitted to the Association under the guidelines for paper submissions for the Association’s Annual Meeting, as indicated elsewhere in this Call for Papers. That includes submission of a completed Submission and Registration Form with the paper; papers will not be reviewed without a completed form. Authors should indicate on the title page if they wish to be reviewed as part of the Media Ethics Division paper competition; papers must be postmarked by October 16, 2009 . All papers submitted to this competition will be reviewed by members of the Media Ethics Division. Presenters of accepted papers and other Media Ethics division attendees at the Annual Meeting will be expected to register and pay registration fees at the regular announced rates for the Annual Meeting.

The Pre-college Ethics Interest Group (PEIG) will hold its business meeting in conjunction with the Association's Eighteenth Annual meeting. PEIG members include those developing pre-college ethics bowls, those teaching ethics in pre-college curriculum, and those developing pre-college ethics curricula.

If you are interested in attending this meeting, please contact Roberta Israeloff, director of the Squire Family Foundation, via the contact page of its website: www.squirefoundation.org.

Lunch with an Author

Annual Meeting participants are invited to have lunch Friday and Saturday with authors who have recently published books. Space for this event is available by reservation on a first come, first served basis. The schedule and book descirptions are now available. 2010 Lunch with an Author Schedule

Authors, who do not submit for Lunch With an Author, if you would like to reserve a table to display your book, please click here for a registration form Exhibit Room Registration Form and contact our Exhibit Room coordinator, Mary Ulmet at marywill@indiana.edu. (Lunch Authors, this is requirement for submission)

Information for Publishers

The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics invites publishers and distributers to exhibit titles for sale in the Book Exhibit Room at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting being held March 4-7, 2010 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Annual Meeting attracts more than 450 scholars, teachers, practitioners, and students who have special interest in the interdisciplinary areas that make up the field of Practical and Professional Ethics. Those interests include, but are not limited to bioethics, business ethics, engineering ethics, environmental ethics, archaeological ethics, ethics and sport, media ethics, as well as ethics in fund raising, health management, government, law, and the military. The Book Exhibit Room consistently ranks high in importance on attendee evaluations. Last year, books and materials from more than 40 publishing and production houses, as well as professional ethics associations, ethics centers, and academic programs were exhibited.

Cost
Charges for exhibiting books, journals, videos or CD-ROMs are as follows:
1-10 titles $100.00
11-25 titles $125.00
26-50 titles $150.00
For information tables with no items for sale, the charge is $75/table.

Charges assume that exhibit copies of materials will be donated to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. If publishers choose to have exhibit copies returned, arrangements must be made in advance and will include a $150 service fee, plus shipping costs.

Exhibit space is supervised and secure. It will be managed by meeting staff and Annual Meeting participants will purchase materials directly from the publisher using order forms and price lists supplied by the publisher.

If publishers send a representative to manage their exhibit where sales are separate and display materials are not donated to the Association, the charge is $500. (If the representative wishes to attend the Annual Meeting, there will be an additional fee.)

Advertising
Advertising space is available in the Annual Meeting Program at the cost of $100 for a full page (6.5 x 9.5) or $50 for a half page (6.5 x 4.75). All copy must be sent camera ready. The advertising deadline is January 15, 2010.

Audio Visual
For exhibits using audio-visual equipment, there will be an additional charge. Please contact Mary Ulmet at marywill@indiana.edu for more information.

The Book Exhibit Room set-up will be Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 6:00pm. Materials should arrive at the hotel prior to set-up. Detailed instructions for shipping exhibit titles and order forms to the hotel will be sent in January.

If you are interested in buying space in the exhibition room or if you are interested in advertising space in the Annual Meeting program, please contact:

Mary E. Ulmet
Book Exhibit Room Coordinator
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
618 E. Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
TEL: 812-855-6450 • FAX: 812-856-4969
marywill@indiana.edu

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Eighteenth Annual Meeting Highlights

March 5 - 8, 2009, Cincinnati, OH

The Eighteenth Annual Meeting Keynote address by Martha Minow, The Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard University was entitled: “Just Following Orders, Limits of the Old Excuse.”

If you would like to read an earlier published version of that presentation, see: Martha Minow, “Living Up to Rules: Holding Soldiers Responsible for Abusive Conduct and the Dilemma of the Superior Orders Defense,” McGill Law Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 1-55, click on the following link: http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/documents/1219617374_Minow.pdf

The Mini Conference, “Virtue Ethics in Business” Covenor: Howard Harris, the Group for Research in Integrity and Governance, School of Management, University of South Australia, included a keynote address by Geoff Moore, Professor of Business Ethics, Durham Business School, Durham University, Australia. A copy of the address entitled, “Virtue Ethics in Business.” can be found by clicking here: Eighteenth Annual Meeting Mini Conference Keynote Address which requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.

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updated October 2009

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Nineteenth Annual Meeting

March 4 - 7, 2010
Cincinnati, OH

Meeting Information

Special Paper Competitions

Special Paper Competitions for the Nineteenth Annual Meeting*

Hotel Information

Important Deadlines

Registration

Keynote Speaker

Pre-conference Workshop (PAIT)

Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology (PAIT)
March 3-4, 2010, Cincinnati, Ohio
http://poynter.indiana.edu/pait/

Formal presentations will be made by

Mini Conference

“Engineering Towards a More Just and Sustainable World”

Agenda

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Graduate Seminar on Teaching Practical and Professional Ethics

Ethics Center Colloquium

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Ethics Bowl

Social Workers

Media Ethics Division Meeting

Lunch with an Author

Information for Publishers

Program Schedule for Nineteenth Annual Meeting in 2010

Coming in January 2010

Program for Nineteenth Annual Meeting in 2010

Coming in February 2010

Back to top

Abstracts

Coming in January 2010

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Eighteenth Annual Meeting Highlights

March 5 - 8, 2009, Cincinnati, OH

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updated October 2009

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Nineteenth Annual Meeting

March 4 - 7, 2010 Cincinnati, OH

Meeting Information

Special Paper Competitions

Special Paper Competitions for the Nineteenth Annual Meeting*

Hotel Information

Important Deadlines

Registration

Keynote Speaker

Pre-conference Workshop (PAIT)

Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology (PAIT) March 3-4, 2010, Cincinnati, Ohio http://poynter.indiana.edu/pait/

Formal presentations will be made by

Mini Conference

“Engineering Towards a More Just and Sustainable World”

Agenda

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Graduate Seminar on Teaching Practical and Professional Ethics

Ethics Center Colloquium

Back to top

Ethics Bowl

Social Workers

Media Ethics Division Meeting

Lunch with an Author

Information for Publishers

Program Schedule for Nineteenth Annual Meeting in 2010

Coming in January 2010

Program for Nineteenth Annual Meeting in 2010

Coming in February 2010

Back to top

Abstracts

Coming in January 2010

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Eighteenth Annual Meeting Highlights

March 5 - 8, 2009, Cincinnati, OH

Back to top

March 4 - 7, 2010
Cincinnati, OH

Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology (PAIT)
March 3-4, 2010, Cincinnati, Ohio
http://poynter.indiana.edu/pait/