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UofT Centre for Ethics
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Interdisciplinary institute at #UofT advancing research, teaching, & public discourse on ethics
📣Join us on Tuesday for Miron Clay-Gilmore’s talk “The Technologization of Counterinsurgency: Presentation of the first data visualization published by the Clay-Gilmore Institute”

📆 Tuesday, February 10th
🕓 1:00-2:30PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

In person or online:
youtube.com/live/s2okrHE...
February 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
📣 Another New Event Alert!

Join us next Friday for Benjamin Davis’s talk “Pens Not Property: Edward Said and Sylvia Wynter on Forms of Life”

📆 Friday, February 27th
🕓 4:00-6:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Join in person in Larkin 200 or online here: www.youtube.com/live/ci8UsCr...
February 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
What happens to public discourse when norms start to erode?

Jennifer Saul discusses in “When Norm-Violations Come Out of the Shadows”

📆 Thursday, February 26th
🕔 3:30-5:30PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Join in person in Larkin 200 or online here: youtube.com/live/CQqOVwH...
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
🤖 The Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series continues!

Join us next Wednesday for Elise Burton’s talk “Quantifying Race: Histories of Statistical Modeling in Human Population Genetics"

📆 Wednesday, February 25th
🕔 3:00-5:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
How do moral appeals actually motivate change?🤔

This Ethics@Noon-ish talk explores Fredrick Douglass’s abolitionist politics of shame and the motivational problem of recognition.

🗓️ Wednesday, February 4
🕕 12:30-2:30 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
🍕 Pizza and refreshments provided!
February 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
📣 New Event Alert!

Join us next Wednesday in Larkin 200 for Tobias Rosefeldt’s talk “Given as Free: A Grecian Account of Fichte’s Summons”

📆 Wednesday, February 11th
🕔 5:00-7:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
January 31, 2026 at 7:36 PM
📣 Join us in person or online tomorrow for Chris Howard's talk on "Decentralizing the Digital Public Sphere", see you there!!

🗓 Thursday, January 29th
🕐 4:00–6:00 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
☕ Refreshments provided!
January 28, 2026 at 8:06 PM
🤖 New Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar alert!

Next Wednesday Gideon Christian presents “Algorithmic Racism: De-coding Racial Bias in AI Facial Recognition Technology"

📆 Wednesday, February 11th
🕓 3:00-5:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Or watch online here: youtube.com/live/nSoJI3_...
January 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🤖 Join us for another instalment in the Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series!

Next Wednesday L.K. Bertram presents the talk "Unplugging Hitler's Radio: Historical Solutions to Bias Acceleration in the AI Age"

📆 Wednesday, January 28th
🕓 3:00-5:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Can AI Companions provide true friendship?

Yiran Hua, Michael Inzlicht and Paul Bloom discuss this and more at “AI Companion Event” next Friday, January 23rd

📆 Friday, January 23rd
🕔 5:00-7:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Please register here to attend: www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-compani...
January 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
📣 The Algorithm Bias in Canada (ABC) Seminar series continues!

Join us for next Wednesday for Steven Coyne’s talk "Probability Talk and the Wrongs of Discrimination"

📆 Wednesday, January 14th
🕒 3:00-5:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

Join us online here: youtube.com/live/p3UzLad...
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Join us for this week's Ethics@Noon-ish!
Jiewuh Song unpacks why climate change functions as a structural threat to human rights and what it means for future advocacy.
🗓️ Wednesday, December 3
🕐 12:30-2:30 PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
🍕 Pizza & refreshments provided!
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today's talk has been moved online. You are welcome still join us in-person at the Centre to view the virtual talk!

Zoom link: utoronto.zoom.us/j/84811882496
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
📣 Join us next Thursday, December 4 for Nathan Hauthaler’s
talk "Reactive Luck"

📆 Thursday, December 4
🕞 3:30-5:30PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

You can also join us online here: www.youtube.com/live/17S7rT0...
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
📣 Join us for Dr. Sarah Shoker's talk on “Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare” Can’t wait to see you!

🗓 Wednesday, November 26
🕐 3:00–5:00 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
☕ Refreshments provided!

For more information, visit our website (link in bio)!
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
What is it ‘to value’ something?

Join us next Friday, November 21 for Christine Tappolet’s talk "Valuings as Sentiments"

📆 Friday, November 21st
🕛 12:00-2:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
🥪 Lunch will be provided!

Join us online here: www.youtube.com/live/usgDlOB...
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
📣 Join us this week for Ishtiaque Ahmed's talk on “Ethics in Translation: AI Across Borders” for our ABC Series. Can’t wait to see you in person and online!

@torontosri.bsky.social

🗓 Wednesday, November 12
🕐 3:00–5:00 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
☕ Refreshments provided!
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Join us this Thursday as Meena Krishnamurthy discusses her new book: Emotions of Nonviolence: Revisiting Martin Luther King, Jr’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

📆 Thursday, November 6th
🕓4:00-6:00PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

↗️ Click here for more information: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
What does it really mean to be equal in friendship? 💭

Ethics@Noon-ish is back! Join us for Yiran Hua's talk "Equal as Friends".

🗓 Wednesday, November 5
🕐 12:30–2:30 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200
🍕 Pizza & refreshments provided!

For more information, visit our website!
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Come join us for the talk "Unwitting Yet Praiseworthy Rightdoing: On Posigence, Negligence’s Positive Counterpart" presented by Daniel Telech

📆 Monday, October 27th
🕓4:00-6:00 PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

📺 Join us online here: youtube.com/live/5ao0yE-...
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🎥 Join us this Friday for screening of the film IHAMBA, followed by a Q&A with Co-Director David Borish

📆 Friday, October 24th
🕓4:00-5:30PM
📍Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

↗️ Click here for more information: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
October 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
‼️Join us for Ethics@Noon-ish!
This week, we’re excited to welcome Garrath Williams for a talk on “The Transnational Corporation as Neo-Colonial Boomerang.” See you there!

🗓 Wednesday, October 22
🕐 12:30–2:30 PM
📍 Centre for Ethics, Larkin 200

For more information, visit our website.
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
⏰ 3 PM TOMORROW! Professor Catherine Stinson will give a talk on "Chatbots as Psychotherapist Proxies: Possibilities and Limitations?" for our Algorithm Bias in Canada Series. Join us in person at the Centre for Ethics or Join online (QR code) if you can't make it in person. See you then!
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Come join us next week on Monday, September 29, 2025
4:00-6:00 PM for a talk by Kyle Stroh: The Holism of Intersectionality Theory and the Problem of Fragmentation.
We look forward to seeing you there!

More info: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
September 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Our first Ethics@Noon talk of the year is almost here! Join us September 24, 12-2PM for a talk by Alisabeth Ayars: Moral Worth and the Problem of Psychological Contingency.
We hope to see you there!

More info: sites.google.com/view/uoftc4e...
September 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM