Submission and Registration Form
updated September 8, 2011
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Twenty-first Annual Meeting
March 1 - 4, 2012
Cincinnati, OH
Meeting Information
The Twenty-first Annual Meeting will convene at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, 35 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.
Association's Annual Meeting
The Twenty-first 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.
The Preliminary Program is now available HERE.
Hotel Information
The Twenty-first 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 $126 single or double plus tax per night. Note: The deadline for hotel reservations at the meeting rate is February 8, 2012.
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. Our Group code is AFP which you will need to enter once you have selected the city and the Netherlands as the hotel. This will present you with the group rate and show what rooms are available. 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; 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. 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
January 13, 2012 Deadline for AV Changes DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN. 20, 2012
January 13, 2012 National Ethics Bowl Team Registration Deadline
January 13, 2012 Deadline for Publisher Ads
January 23, 2012 End of On-Time Registration DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN. 27, 2012
February 08, 2012 Deadline for Hotel Reservations
February 16, 2012 Deadline for Written Cancellation for Refund
February 16, 2012 Deadline for Meal Reservations with Payment
February 16, 2012 Deadline for Meal Cancellations
Registration
Early Bird Registration ends November 25, 2011
On-Time Registration ends January 23, 2012
Late Registration Fees apply beginning January 24, 2012
Registration Fee Chart: Based on personal income, membership status and date of registration. (Institutional members register at personal income level.
| Members | Nonmembers |
|---|
| Income Level | Early Bird | On Time | Late | Income Level | Early Bird | On Time | Late | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $25,000 | $100 | $115 | $165 | Under $25,000 | $140 | $155 | $205 | |
| $25,000 - $40,000 | $120 | $135 | $185 | $25,000-$40,000 | $185 | $200 | $250 | |
| Over $41,000 | $205 | $220 | $270 | $41,000-$75,000K | $295 | $310 | $360 | |
| $76,000-$100,000 | $320 | $335 | $385 | |||||
| Over $100,000 | $345 | $360 | $410 | |||||
| Ethics Bowl Student | $85 | $85 | $85 | Ethics Bowl Student | $85 | $85 | $85 |
Registration
Registration for the Annual Meeting for the Association is now being handled online. In addition to furthering a greener initiative, this new system will expedite the registration process and provide an instant confirmation by email.
You may choose to pay online using our secure payment gateway, or send your payment by check or wire. No matter your form of payment, your registration will be saved and you will get an instant confirmation/invoice by email. You will be able to update your registration at a later date with specific meeting and meal selections. Simply keep track of your user name and password to re-enter the registration site and update your record.THE LINK FOR REGISTRATION IS HERE.
Members who need to pay for registration and membership at the same time, please call the APPE office at: 812-855-6450 before registering for the Annual Meeting.
Please Note: The Membership Form, Submission Form for papers, and Audio Visual needs are now separate forms. When you register with the online link, you will only be registering for the meeting. Please, make sure that you have renewed your APPE Membership to register at the membership rate.
Information on Membership and Paper/Presentation Submission can be found on the Call for Papers link. Keep track of the important dates and deadlines to ensure your best rate for the meeting, submission deadlines and refund policies.
Program submissions must be turned in by October 14, 2011.
Presenters
Please, complete the Audio Visual Form and return as soon as possible. The AV deadline is January 13, 2012.
Registration Fees
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 23, 2012. Persons paying after January 23, 2012 will pay the late registration fee. (Early Bird registration rates are available before November 25, 2011 for those already planning to attend the Annual Meeting.)
Keynote Speaker
We are pleased to announce that Mr. Kenneth R. Feinberg, J.D., will give the keynote address at the
2012 Annual Meeting.
Don’t “ask one person to act like Solomon and try to calculate the value of lives. To be judge, jury, accountant, lawyer, rabbi, et cetera is very, very difficult. You’re trying to explain to people basically how life is unfair. It’s not just a question of some people getting compensated and not others. It’s also a question of why some people died but not others.” *
Mr. Feinberg is the managing partner of Feinberg Rozen, LLP and one of our nation’s leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Throughout his distinguished career he has frequently been called upon to administer compensation to victims and their families in some of this country’s most devastating crises situations.
- Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. Administered all aspects of the program, including evaluating applications, determining appropriate compensation and disseminating awards totally nearly $7 billion to more than 5,000 victims and families of victims of 9/11.
- Fund Administrator responsible for the design, implementation and administration of claims to benefit victims' families in the wake of the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shooting.
- Administrator designated by the Obama Administration and British Petroleum (BP) to oversee a $20 billion fund set up by BP to compensate victims of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
As a mediator, Feinberg helped resolve a number of cases involving serious injuries and deaths, including some of the nation's biggest asbestos-damages suits, a $2.5 billion settlement for women suing over the Dalkon Shield defective contraceptive device, and a class action by 250,000 Vietnam veterans and their families against the manufacturers of Agent Orange.
Mr. Feinberg received his B.A. cum laude from the University of Massachusetts in 1967 and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1970, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on mediation, mass torts and other matters and is the author of What is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 (Public Affairs 2005).
When asked by a journalist about the differences between a terrorist attack and a natural disaster, Mr. Feinberg responded “I don’t think
there is a valid distinction between terrorism victims at the Pentagon and hurricane victims in New Orleans. But there’s a big distinction
between the way the American people rallied around the victims of 9/11, a foreign attack unprecedented in scope, and the way the public
failed to act similarly with Katrina or any other disaster.…I’ve learned the reaction to tragedy is almost unlimited, limited only by the vagaries
of human nature. It is unbelievable….The mosaic of human emotion is incredible.” *
* “What I've Learned: Kenneth Feinberg” by Lee Michael Katz, The Washingtonian, Saturday, March 01, 2008.
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Mini Conference
“Empathy in Moral Theory and Political Life”
Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Empathy Mini-conference will provide an overview of current questions and research, presentations by noted scholars in this area from a number of different disciplines, and an opportunity for APPE members to engage in discussions related to work in ethics and values. To attend this Mini-conference, you must register for it, in addition to your registration for the Annual Meeting. If you have already registered for the Annual Meeting, return to the registration link HERE. Once there, log in with your user name and password that you created when you registered for the Annual Meeting and click the appropriate button under the Mini-conference listing. Registration for the Mini-conference is $40 for members and $70 for non-members. Schedule, speakers and topics are listed below.
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Opening Session
Richard B. Miller, Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Director, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Title: Mini-Conference Overview
Presentation Abstract:
Empathy denotes the ability to “place oneself in another’s shoes” cognitively, emotively, and self-reflexively. It enables us to move from a perspective in which we project our own thoughts and feelings onto someone to a psychological state in which our emotions are conditioned by our awareness of another’s feelings and frame of mind. In prototypical instance of empathy, we feel as we take the other to feel, given our perception of his or her circumstances, and we are mindful of how our feelings have been so transformed. Empathy enables us to overcome isolation and imaginatively engage others on their own terms. Moreover, knowing that others can or should be empathic allows us to assume that they can be so disposed toward oneself.
Empathy’s importance for mental health, moral development, adjudication of conflicts, and self-other relationships cuts across a wide range of cultural, intellectual, and political practices. It is a now a reference point for discussions of criminology, civil society, evolution, animal research, history, the arts, moral philosophy, and artificial intelligence.
This mini-conference will explore some of empathy’s dimensions in moral theory and political life.
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Session #1
Fritz Breithaupt, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Indiana University
Title: “The Dark Side of Empathy”
Presentation Abstract:
Is empathy always good? Many studies on empathy emphasize the social advantages of empathy. However, it is not clear that empathy actually always benefits the “empathizee,” but rather can serve more selfish means of the “empathizer.” This paper considers limitations of empathy and examines whether some forms of sadistic behavior and imagination do not stem from an absence of empathy, but rather the morally wrong use or excess of it when abusers want the pain, humiliation, or degradation of others. Whereas these uses of empathy seem to be aberrations, it will be argued that they structurally are in line with the core mechanisms of empathy. These dark sides of empathy will be linked with a three-person scenario of empathy, with one observing a conflict of two others. By taking a side with one of the combatants, the observer is led into empathizing, perhaps to justify her earlier side-taking.
Kevin Houser, Department of Philosophy and Dissertation Fellow for the Virtuous Empathy Project, 2010-11, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Title: “Reasons, Other-ness, and Ethical Empathy”
Presentation Abstract:
Claims about whether empathy is a help or hindrance to ethical living are relative to prior substantive claims about the nature of ethical life. Recent discussions/denials of the ethical contributions of empathy all pre-suppose the same such substantive claim: ethical relations are anchored and/or ensured—not by what separates us, but by what we share/have in common. This thesis about ethics accepted, a natural corollary about empathy follows: empathy is ethically helpful because (i) ethics is based on what we share, and (ii) empathy is a kind of sharing—whether of feelings, imaginative positions, or identities. Thus, since what we don’t share—our separateness—our ‘other-ness’—is what ethical relations overcome, then empathy is ethically helpful because it helps us overcome other-ness.
I’ll use work by Cavell on the isolating power of suffering to reject this ‘sharing’ picture of ethics—i.e. to argue that basic ethical relations do not seek to overcome ‘other-ness’ so much as to honor/acknowledge it. I’ll then show how this shift to an other-centered ethic requires corresponding and substantial changes to the claims presently made about empathy’s nature and ethical function.
10:30-11:30 a.m. Session #2
Michelle Brown, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Title: “Empathy and Law at the Threshold of Life and Death”
Presentation Abstract:
Across legal narratives and court opinions, judicial actors attempt to narrate proper models of intersubjectivity in relation to citizenship. This presentation explores empathy performances that materialize in the abstract and particular limits of law. From capital punishment to right to die and right to life debates, the threshold between life and death is a moving one in the law, open to interpretation in its definitions of who counts as alive or dead and subject to strange exercises in empathy. I focus upon how this boundary making depends, in part, upon a darker side of empathy. The complex legal scaffolding of the U.S. allows court actors to engage in empathy performances that often are more about distancing, aversion, and the taking of sides rather than the kind of transformative and constitutive empathy that is less about judgment and more about being ethically moved.
Audience Q&A with Panelists
Registration is $40 for those registered for the Annual Meeting. Registration for the Mini Conference alone is $70.
Conversation and Networking at the Annual Meeting
We are offering a new feature for lunch at the Annual Meeting – Table Topics. On Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3 we will identify tables for informal conversation around topics of special interest. Topics may be on any area of practical and professional ethics including, for instance, current ethical issues in the news, ideas on how best to teach an area of practical ethics, career options and advancement, or new uses and abuses of technology in the classroom or workplace. Please send us an email to let us know a topic you would like to lead or participate in at a Lunch Table Topic discussion with fellow APPE attendees. Tables will also be available for those who prefer impromptu discussion.
We will publish the list of proposed Table Topics in the December issue of Ethically Speaking and provide an online form for attendees to indicate their preference for which table they would prefer to join. The Lunch Table Topics joins our long established and highly successful Lunch with Author option for Friday and Saturday.
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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 1, 2012, 2-5 p.m.. The seminar will be taught by Deni Elliott, Journalism and Media Studies, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
Graduate students who are passionate about teaching ethics should plan to participate in this three-hour highly interactive seminar designed to boost confidence, confront pedagogical issues and provide philosophical comfort.
Have you heard...Kids in the Net Generation have no interest in ethics? If you teach applied ethics, you won't be respected in your field? There are no jobs? Then this seminar is for you!
Deni Elliott, author of Ethics in the First Person and Ethical Challenges will teach the seminar (and provide participants free copies of her books). Deni developed the M.A. in Philosophy, Teaching Ethics Emphasis for the University of Montana, and created graduate-level ethics curriculum, with funding from FIPSE, NSF and ORI. She was a teacher trainer in the Philosophy for Children Program and has served as Ethics Officer for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Deni has taught ethics and teachers of ethics from Kindergarten through mid-career practitioners. Deni holds the Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy at the University of South Florida. Her new book, Media-active Ethics, a guidebook for the digital age, is in process.
Ethics Center Colloquium
The Ethics Center Colloquium will convene on Thursday, March 1, 2012. The Covenor for this year’s Annual Meeting is Stuart Yoak, Executive Director, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.
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. The registration fee is free for those registered for the Annual Meeting. Registration for the Colloquium alone is $40.
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Ethics Bowl
Sixteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowlsm
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 1, 2012, thirty two teams of undergraduates who qualify at ten regional competitions will participate in the Sixteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowlsm Competition. See our Ethics Bowl link for more information about the March 1st competition, for information about the regional competitions in the fall, and for information about registering Ethics Bowlsm competitors to attend the Annual Meeting.
Colleges and universities across the United States and throughout the world who competed in the IEB's Regional Competitions are invited to enter teams of undergraduate students in the Associations’ Sixteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowlsm. Attendance is open to Annual Meeting attendees and the general public.
For competitors who wish to also attend the Association’s Annual Meeting, the Association will pay the Annual Meeting registration fee for the first 70 actively competing Ethics Bowl team members who register for the Annual Meeting, provided that they register for the Annual Meeting before January 13, 2012.
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; or visit our Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) web page.
Workshop on Research Ethics Instruction at Annual Meeting
Responsible Conduct of Research Education Committee (RCREC) presents “RCR Instruction Face-to-Face: A Workshop”
What innovative or effective methods for face-to-face RCR teaching have you used successfully at your institution, such as case study analysis, film or book discussions, role plays, action research projects involving art, or journal clubbing?You must register to attend.
Cost to participants:
$50 for Members
$60 for Nonmembers
RCREC Members: no fee
Please, go to http://tinyurl.com/TeachRCR for more information and new announcements regarding the RCR Seminar.
Media Ethics Division to Meet at the Annual 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 in the Call for Papers. That includes submission of a completed Submission Form with the paper; papers will not be reviewed without a completed form. Authors should indicate if they wish to be reviewed as part of the Media Ethics Division paper competition; papers must be postmarked by October 14, 2011 . 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.
Author Meets the Critics
Author Meets the Critics sessions are scheduled throughout the program on Friday and Saturday.
Lunch with an Author
Annual Meeting participants are invited to have lunch Saturday with authors who have recently published books. Space for this event is available by reservation on a first come, first served basis. The Authors and book descriptions are now available. CLICK HERE
For the Lunch with an Author Form CLICK HERE.
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 Twentieth Annual Meeting being held March 1-4, 2012 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The registration deadline for exhibitors is January 13, 2012 or as soon as all exhibition space is sold. Book Exhibit Room Registration Form
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 $125.00
11-25 titles $150.00
26-50 titles $175.00
For information tables with no items for sale, the charge is $100/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 $125 for a full page (6.5w x 9.5h) or $75 for a half page (6.5w x 4.75h). All copy must be sent camera ready. The advertising deadline is January 13, 2012.
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.
New This Year
Included in registration fee is the opportunity to advertise in an electronic presentation in the Book Exhibit Room. When you register for your exhibit, please e-mail a one page advertisement or flyer as a .jpg file to marywill@indiana.edu. You can use this service to highlight a new book, discounted meeting prices or service offered by your organization.
This electronic presentation will be highly visible to everyone browsing the Book Exhibit and another way to promote your services and materials at the Annual Meeting. Those who choose to advertise in the Annual Meeting program will have their ads included in the presentation for no additional fee.
The Book Exhibit Room set-up will be Wednesday, February 29, 2012 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.
Shipping Instructions
For shipping instructions and box label examples, please click here: Shipping InstructionsIf 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
Abstracts
Coming February 2012
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