EthicsLab
Events
Each year, the EthicsLab hosts a variety of panels, guest speakers, and engaged workshops. These events are free and open to the public.
2026 Events
The Good Life Campus Discussions
Join us bi-weekly for the Good Life Campus Discussions; student-led discussions on what it means to be good, act rightly, and live well. Each event will feature engaging, community led discussions on a vareity of aspects of living well (love, justice, happiness, creativity, technology and community, work, politics).
Our first meeting of 2026 will take place on Thurs, Jan 29th 2026 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Black Hall (Room 222). We will focus on whether positive experiences are all that is required for living well and begin to plan our discussions for the quarter together.
For more information and details about upcoming events, please follow the CWU EthicsLab Facebook page.
Human Library Ellensburg
Did you know that not all libraries have books? Our local Human Library offers the opportunity for real people (“Books”) to share their experiences and stories as they engage with the community (“Readers”) in conversation. Applications typically open once a year to recruit volunteers to serve as Books in the Library.
In the best sense of the word, The Human Library is a library of people who have experienced prejudice. Instead of paperback books, actual people are on loan for conversations. The Human Library creates a safe space for conversation where topics subject to taboo, marginalization, or stigmatization can be openly addressed without condemnation. The people acting as Books have directly or indirectly been exposed to prejudice, bias, or discrimination based on aspects of their person, heritage, or life experiences. At our local Human Library event, we invite all questions as our Books engage in sharing their personal experiences with the readers.
The Ellensburg Human Library is a joint collaboration between the CWU EthicsLab, City of Ellensburg, Ellensburg Public Library and Hal Holmes Community Center. If you have questions, please contact: David.Schwan@cwu.edu or ethicslab@cwu.edu
For more information and details about upcoming Human Library, please follow the CWU EthicsLab Facebook page.
Past Events
- The Good Life Community Discussions: AI Companions and Therapists: 'Friends' or 'Foes'?
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Living a Good Life
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Freedom and Manipulation
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Daoism and the Environment
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Existentialism and Climate Change
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Is Immortality Bearable?
- Human Library Ellensburg (Fall 2023)
- The Good Life Community Discussions: What Makes it Right?
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Dreaming in World Religions
- Human Library Ellensburg (Spring 2023)
- The Good Life Community Discussions: What Makes a Good Thinker?
- The Good Life Community Discussions: The Language of Liberty
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Retreat: Busy Hands, Quiet Mind
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Ritual: The Magic is in the Symbol
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Gifts, Gratitude, and the Living Well
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Ancient Greeks and the Good Life
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Better Moral Conversations
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Happiness
- Better Moral Conversations
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Arts and the Good Life
- The Good Life Community Discussions: Living a Meaningful Life
- Making Sense of Death
- Critical Feeling, Critical Thinking, and Civil Dialogue
- The Ethics of Intelligent Technology
- Coded Bias Virtual Roundtable
- Ethics and the Pandemic: Global Responses
- The Future of Protest
- Social Media, Propaganda, and Public Opinion
- Racial Justice in the Time of Pandemic
CWU News
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February 23, 2026 by Rune Torgersen
CWU faculty member awarded Fulbright post-doctoral scholarship
February 23, 2026 by David Leder