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-279400-228600Celebrating Arts & Humanities Speaker Series Presents Dr. Cynthia Coe: “Refugees and Moral Considerability” TIME \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" January 23, 2018ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington University’s College of Arts and Humanities presents “Refugees and Moral Considerability.” This early-evening presentation by Dr. Cynthia Coe, Professor at CWU’s Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, is part of the 2017-2018 Celebrating Arts & Humanities Speaker Series. The event takes place Wednesday, January 31 at 4:00 p.m. in the Student Union Recreation Center at CWU, Room 137 A/B.The talk concerns how refugees and other migrants tend to be treated as statistics or as threats to a community, and how these representations draw a boundary between those who deserve our moral attention and those who do not. Although we speak abstractly about universal human rights, in a more practical sense we separate those we treat as persons from those treated as subpersons, people to whom we seem to have no moral obligations.Dr. Coe received her PhD from the University of Oregon in 2000 and began working at Monmouth College in Illinois. In fall 2003, she began her career at CWU. During her tenure at CWU, she has published numerous articles and two books: The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy (co-authored with Matthew Altman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Intrigues of Time: Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility (Indiana University Press, 2018). Dr. Coe was named University Distinguished Professor of Service in 2015 and received the CWU Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008. She also received the College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Faculty Research and Outstanding Faculty Service awards. Aside from her prestigious teaching, service, and publication record, Dr. Coe served as Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program from 2007 until 2014 and still contributes to the program. Professor Coe specializes in contemporary continental ethics, feminist theory, and the philosophy of race. Coe says that she was drawn to these areas because they are topics in which it is very clear how theoretical ideas help us to understand our personal experience and our wider reality. On January 31, Dr. Coe will explore these questions regarding refugees: which lives matter? When do we feel compelled to respond to others’ needs? When do we pay attention to moral dilemmas that unfold around us, and when do we shelter ourselves from seriously considering and responding to those moral challenges?Join us Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 4:00 p.m. in the Student Union Recreation Center at CWU, Room 137 A/B for Dr. Coe’s presentation and reception. Admission is always free. Please contact the College of Arts and Humanities with any questions, (509) 963-1858 or cahdean@cwu.edu.# # # ................
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