CONFERENCES: The Seventh Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Ethics: The Guiding Light, will be held at the Hotel New Yorker, 481 Eighth Avenue, New York, September 21-23, 2000. The focus this year will be on ethical challenges in financial services, media, and health care. Contact: Prof. Mary Maury, Ethics Coordinator, College of Business Administration, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11439. Fax: 718-990-1868. Phone: 718-990-7356. Email: maurym@stjohns.edu.

The Ethics Center at Utah Valley State College, along with several other ethics centers, is hosting a conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19-22, 2000. Registration: http://www.rit.edu/ethics or Wade Robison, 716-475-6643.

The Tenth Colloquium on Business and Economic Ethics, Innovation, Manufacturing, and Services: How to Improve Ethical Quality?, will be held in Barcelona, Spain, November 9-10, 2000, under the auspices of the International Graduate School of Management and the Enterprise and Humanism Institute, University of Navarra. The Sixth International Meeting for Teaching Business Ethics will take place immediately after the Colloquium, November 10-11, 2000 Contact: Prof. Domenec Mele, IESE Barcelona, Av. Pearson, 21, 08034 (Barcelona (Spain). Fax: 34-93-25343-43. Email: mele@iese.edu

Albion College will host a National Conference on Moral Norms and Public Discourse: Morality and Its Other(s), November 9-11, 2000 in Albion, Michigan. Among the topics to be considered are: Is "othering" an inevitable consequence of moral discourse? When and how do moral norms become exclusionary? What are the social, economic, historical, and political antecedents and consequences of these exclusions? How have theologians, philosophers, and others historically envisioned moral and ethical norms to be inclusive and express care for difference and particularity? Among the leading participants will be: Eva Feder, SUNY Stony Brook; Kathy Rudy, Duke University; and Henry Shue, Cornell University. Contact: Dr. Kathy Purnell, Political Science, Albion College, Albion, M1 49224. Email: kpurnell@albion.edu.

The Office of Research Integrity will convene a conference, Research on Research Integrity, in Washington, D.C., November 18-20, 2000 to discuss emerging challenges for the responsible conduct of research. Contact: Nicholas Steneck, Ph.D., Office of Research Integrity, 5515 Security Lane, Suite 700, Rockville, MD 20852. Email: nsteneck@osophs.dhhs.gov.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Santa Clara University is celebrating its sesquicentennial with a conference entitled At Our Best: Moral Lives in a Moral Community, February 22-24, 2001. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the conference invites submissions in all areas of business ethics, including virtue and character in business ethics; moral imagination; stakeholder theory; international business ethics; ethics and finance; ethical issues in high technology businesses; moral development; and ethics and leadership. The conference will also showcase a panel of junior scholars speculating on the future directions of the field. Send three copies of your paper for blind reviewing, with a seventy-five word abstract to: Dennis J. Moberg, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053. Deadline: August 15, 2000. For more information, phone 408554-4713 or email ethics@scu.edu.

The IEEE Technology and Society Magazine will conclude its twentieth year of publication with a special issue devoted to taking stock of developments in engineering ethics over the past two decades and to considering emerging ethical issues at the beginning of the new century. Submissions (5000 words or less) are invited on such topics as: engineering ethics and globalization; the role of professional ethics in research ethics; technology, ethics, and health care; relevance of ethics in engineering practice; ethical issues in product liability; innovations in engineering ethics education; impact of information technology; engineering ethics, technology, and gender; role of professional societies in ethics; risk assessment, management, and communication; history of engineering ethics in the late twentieth century; engineering ethics and engineering design. All contributions will be peer reviewed. Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2000. Electronic submissions are preferred. Contact: Joseph R. Herkert, Guest Editor, Division of Multidisciplinary Studies, Box 7107, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7107. Email: j.herkert@ieee.org.

The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics will be held at the Omni Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1-4, 2001. Contact: Brian Schrag, Executive Secretary, APPE, 618 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-3602. Fax: 812-855-6450. Phone: 812-855-6450. Email: appe@indiana.edu.

Teaching Business Ethics is soliciting articles for a new section on "Innovative Teaching Techniques". The section contains essay-style short articles that describe novel or non-traditional teaching approaches that enhance teaching effectiveness, anything from use of film to use of non-business concepts to explain business ethics. This section of Teaching Business Ethics will not publish cases. The journal may be found at http://www.wkap.ni/ kaphtml.htm/IFA1382-6891. Contact: Robert A. Glacolone, Ph.D., Belk College of Business Administration, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223- 5473123. Email: ragiacal@uncc.edu.

PUBLICATIONS: Brian Martin, The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to Be an Effective Resister (Charlbury, UK: Jon Carpenter, 1999), ISBN 1- the "definitive manual for people who speak out in the public interest", provides help in assessing options, preparing for action, using official channels, building support, and surviving the experience. The author is the retiring president of Whistleblowers Australia. To order in Europe, contact Jon Carpenter, 2 The Spendlove Centre, Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3 PQ, UK, phone 01608-811969; to order in North America, contact: Paul and Company, P.P. Box 422, Concord, MA 01742, phone 978-369-3049 or fax 978-369-2385.

The Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University, announces Studies in Applied Ethics, a special series of the Value Inquiry Book Series published by Rodopi, Amsterdam. Drawing on the ethical resources of Western as well as Eastern traditions of thought, this series tries to bring moral theory and vision to bear on the pressing issues of contemporary life. Publications will include books within the full range of subject areas in applied ethics. Particular emphasis will be placed on com parative studies and on multicultural approaches to ethics problems. The opening volume is: The Moral Status of Persons: Perspectives on Bioethics, ed. Gerhold K. Becker, with contributions by Derrick K.S. Au, Ruth Chadwick, Jonathan K.L. Chan, Ruiping Fan, FrederichWilhelm Graf, Chad Hansen, Edwin Hui, Dennis P. McCann, Shi Ohara, Michael Quante, Rensong Qiu, Johannes Sun, and Elizabeth Telfer. Contact Gerhold K. Becker, Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, SAR China. Phone 8522339- Fax 852-2339-5151. Email: gkbecker@hkbu.edu.hk.

MISCELLANEOUS: The Ethics Officer Association and the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College are sponsoring a weeklong training program, Managing Ethics in Organizations, November 5-10, 2000, in Waltham, MA, to provide practical advice and theoretical tools for creating and managing an effective ethics, compliance, or business conduct program. Contact: Mary Chiasson, Bentley College, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452-4705. Phone 781- 891-2981.

The Philosophy Department, Marquette University, will begin offering an M.A. Specialization in Social and Applied Philosophy, starting Fall, 2000. Participants in the program will have the opportunity to reflect in a sustained and informed way on ethics and other areas of social philosophy as these apply to their professional lives. Course requirements are rooted in the history of philosophy and in ethical theory, but participants may take up to four courses in a cognate area such as business, law, psychology, bioethics, dispute resolution, criminology, urban public service, nursing, or political science and will have an internship in an outside agency they choose to develop the ability to apply philosophical thinking to problems that arise on a daily basis in a specific job, vocation, or institution. The program hopes to mix traditional students from bachelors programs with students engaged in a career. Contact: Dr. Nancy Snow at: phone 414-288-3670, fax 414-288-3010, or Nancy.Snow@marquette.edu.

FELLOWSHIPS: The National Humanities Center offers forty residential fellowships for advanced study during the academic year, 2001- Applicants must hold doctorate or have equivalent scholarly credentials, and a record of publication. Both senior and younger scholars are eligible, but the latter should be engaged in research beyond the subject of their doctoral dissertation. Fellowships are normally for the full academic year (September through May). Fellowships are open to scholars from any nation and to humanistically inclined individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life, as well as from all fields of the humanities. Contact: Fellowship Program, National Humanities Center, P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, NC 277092256. Email: nhc@ga.unc.edu.

The Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, invites Applications for 2001-2002 residential Faculty Fellowships in Ethics from teachers and scholars who wish to develop their ability to address questions of moral choice in such areas as business, education, government, law, medicine, public policy, and social science. Applicants should hold a doctorate or professional degree. Preference will be given to those who are in the early stage of their career, normally no more than ten years from the terminal degree in their field. The Faculty Fellowships are open to all, regardless of citizenship. Deadline: December 1, 2000. All information, including application form, are at: http://www.ethics.harvard.edu. Contact: Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Fax: 617-496-6104. Phone: 617- Email: ethics@harvard.edu.

The University Center for Human Values, Princeton, invites applications for the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships to be awarded for the academic year 2001- to outstanding scholars and teachers interested in devoting a year in residence at Princeton writing about ethics and human values. A central activity for the Fellows is participation with University Center faculty members in a Fellows Seminar to discuss work in progress. Fellows normally receive stipends of up to one-half their academic year salaries for the fellowship period, September 1 to June 1. Deadline for submission: December 4, 2000. Contact: Prof. George Kateb, Acting Director, University Center for Human Values, Louis Marx hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 085441006. Phone 609-258-4798. Email: values@princeton.edu.

The Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine (of the University of Nijmegen) is hosting the fourth international Advanced European bioethics course 'Ethics and Genetics.' This course will be held November 16- 2000 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. For information and application forms contact NorbertSteinkamp MA, 232 Dept. of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medici ne,Catholic University of Nijmegen, P.O.Box 9101, 6500 HB Nihjmegen, The Netherlands; tel: (31) (0)24-361 53 20; fax: (31)(0)24354 0254; e- mail: 111212nsteinkamp@efg.kun.nl

The Friends Research Institute, Inc. is sponsoring its third National Ethics Conference November 3-5, 2000 in Baltimore Maryland. The topic is The Business of Human Experiments: Ethical, Legal, an Regulatory Issues. For further information, call (800) 228- or fax at (410) 962-8585.

The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics is sponsoring a one-week workshop on Organizational Ethics: Theories, Cases, and Practical Solutions October 16-20, 2000. The workshop will be held at the Park Ridge Center, Caldwell Library, 211 East Ontario Street, Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60611. For further information, contact Bernice Chantos at (877) 944-4401, ext. 255, or fax at (312) 266-6086.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions. Perspectives on the Professions is one of the means the Center has of achieving that purpose.

EDITOR: Michael Davis
MANAGING EDITORS: Ethel Lewis, Srinivas Reddy Banda
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