We are an interdisciplinary association of scholars, academic programs, and research centers drawn from the eight campuses of Indiana University.
We support the Religion and Ethics seminars and sponsor events relating to religion, ethics, and values.
Guest Speakers: Members of the Eskenazi Palliative Care Team
Eskenazi Hospital, 720 Eskenazi Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46202, Room TBD
Medical care is often predicated upon a patient’s ability to pay. This session will discuss the medical care options available to HIP 2.0 patients who are near the end-of-life or require extraordinary medical interventions. The ability to provide life-saving treatments and palliative/ hospice care depending on ability to pay is an ethical dilemma physicians and other health care providers face when caring for patients with HIP 2.0.
Hosted by HIP: Health Equity, Responsibility, and Community seminar
This seminar investigates the expansion of Indiana Medicaid in 2015 under the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) 2.0. Proponents of the plan stress the personal responsibility built into this consumer-directed health plan. Critics argue that eligibility requirements frustrate people's access to quality, continuous care. This seminar explores the ethics of HIP 2.0.
Business sustainability is an example of ethics in action. This seminar explores approaches to sustainability that contemporary firms are adopting.
Julie Manning Magid Business Law, Kelley School of Business, IUPUI
Kelly Eskew Business Law & Ethics, Kelley School of Business, IU-Bloomington
Steven Kreft Business Economics & Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, IU-Bloomington
When it comes to religion and politics in contemporary America, most of the attention is devoted to white Christians, particularly evangelicals. Drawing on insights from both the humanities and social sciences, this seminar shifts the lens to illuminate how African Americans experience and engage religion and politics.
Joseph Tucker Edmonds Religious Studies and Africana Studies, School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI
Amanda Friesen Political Science, School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI
Heather Blair Religious Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, Bloomington
Alisa Clapp-Itnyre English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IU East
Megan Musgrave English, School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI
Set to run in 2018
This seminar will explore the overlapping intellectual goals of comparative religious ethics and global or comparatively oriented political theory, much of which is based in religious thinking about politics and justice. These two fields are both combinations of descriptive and normative analysis, frequently drawing on religious as well as philosophical thinking about fundamental issues of human social order.
Aaron Stalnaker; Religious Studies; College of Arts and Sciences; Bloomington; astalnak@indiana.edu
Hussein Banai; International Studies; School of Global International Studies; Bloomington; hbanai@indiana.edu
This seminar investigates how religious ideas have shaped attitudes to the natural environment by focusing on the Mounds of the Midwest. It will examine the meanings and burial practices of the early Native American peoples, highlight the history of these indigenous groups, and explore the multiple meanings of the Mounds today as revealed in contemporary governmental policies and the American public educational system. The goal is to create critical conversation around environmental ethics and the complex intersections of state power and religion.
Charmayne Champion-Shaw; Native American Indigenous Studies; School of Liberal Arts; IUPUI; cchampio@iupui.edu
Kelly Hayes; Religious Studies; School of Liberal Arts; IUPUI; keehayes@iupui.edu
Continuing through 2018
