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Washington University’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, working with faculty, students, and professionals in multiple disciplines — has organized a semester-long series of lectures, debates, workshops, performances, films, and an art exhibition that will focus on the ethical issues of ethnic profiling in the United States.
The first event will be on September 10, 11:30 a.m., at the University City Public Library, where a Community Book Discussion will be conducted by Dean Henry Biggs, with author Julie Otsuka, on her book, When the Emperor was Divine.
An art exhibit at the Kemper Art Museum will be held from September 18, 2009-January 4, 2010. Entitled “A Challenge to Democracy: Ethnic Profiling of Japanese Americans During World War II,” the exhibit draws from original documentary photographs by Ansel Adams and paintings by Chiura Obata to explore the various visual representations of the Japanese American internment.
A special exhibition event will be held on Friday, October 2.
The Washington University student newspaper, Student Life, is reporting that the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values will be closed after the spring, 2010, semester, due to budget constraints, making these events probably their final ones. More details about these and Other events are listed on the university website, http:// humanvalues.wustl.edu.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September–October 2009.
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