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.
2024 Events
Human Library Ellensburg
Did you know that not all libraries have books? Each Fall, the EthicsLab hosts a Human Library event at the Hal Holmes Community Center (201 Ruby St, Ellensburg, WA 98926).
The Human Library is a nonprofit organization that hosts conversations designed to challenge stigma and stereotypes. These events create “a safe space for dialogue where topics are discussed openly” and “where difficult questions are expected, appreciated and answered.” Human Library events have been organized in 85 countries worldwide since 2000.
Stop by to borrow an open Book for a conversation about topics like mental health, disability, ethnicity, gender, ideology, occupation, and race. The concept is simple: you show up at the check-in counter, where you receive guidance from librarians on the topics that we have available for lending. Once you have chosen your Book, sit down and have an open conversation where your questions on the topic are welcome.
The Ellensburg Human Library is a joint collaboration between the CWU EthicsLab, CWU Libraries, and the City of Ellensburg. 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.
The Good Life Community Discussions
Join us each month for the Good Life Community Discussions; local, community-based discussions on what it means to be human and live well. Each event will feature an engaging guest introduction and feature topics like love, happiness, creativity and art, technology and communiy, work, and family.
Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Hal Holmes Community Center. This session will focus three views of the good life.
For more information and details about upcoming events, please follow the CWU EthicsLab Facebook page.
Past Events
- 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
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