Conference Schedule
8:30 am – 3:45 pm
APPE RISEsm Pre-Conference Symposium
9 am – 1 pm
Ethics Center Directors Summit
9 am – Noon
Designing Your Ethics Course: From Planning to Assessment
Whether you are planning curriculum for your first-time teaching ethics or looking for new ideas after decades of teaching, this workshop is for you. Cara Biasucci and Deni Elliott, Project Co-Directors for the National Ethics Project (NEP), will help you get clear on your goals for ethics education and help you accomplish them. Participants will leave the workshop with student learning objectives, activities to help students accomplish objectives, and assessment techniques that enable instructors to know what their students achieved. Regardless of discipline or venue, this 3-hour workshop is appropriate for those who teach ethics currently or who intend to teach. Limited to 25 participants.
Noon – 8 pm
Resource Room
Browse publications, talk with publishers, network with colleagues, and purchase discounted books.
2 – 3 pm
Concurrent Session 1
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Concurrent Session 2
4:30 – 6 pm
Opening Plenary: Ethics and Technology in National Security
6 – 8 pm
Opening Reception
Network with colleagues and our panelists. Free for all conference attendees.
8 am – 7 pm
Resource Room
Browse publications, talk with publishers, network with colleagues, and purchase discounted books.
8:30 – 9:30 am
Breakfast: Honoring First Time & International Attendees
Free and open to all conference attendees. Join us as we provide a special welcome to our first time attendees and attendees from across the globe. Light breakfast items will be served.
9:30 – 10:30 am
Concurrent Session 3
10:45 – 11:45 am
Concurrent session 4
11:45 – 1 pm
Lunch Break
Lunch on your own.
11:45 – 1 pm
Business Ethics Affinity Group Meet-up
Meet on the 4th floor by the registration desk to walk to lunch together.
11:45 – 1 pm
Grad Student Meet-up
Meet on the 4th floor by the registration desk to walk to lunch together.
1 – 2:30 pm
Concurrrent Session 5
2:45 – 4 pm
Ethics Roundtable
4:15 – 5:30 pm
Keynote: Catastrophe Ethics
Travis N. Rieder, PhD, is a bioethicist and moral philosopher at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, where he splits his time between teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level, research, and communicating with the public.
6 pm
Media & Journalism Ethics Meet-up
Meet in the lobby to walk to dinner together.
8 am – 3 pm
Resource Room
Browse publications, talk with publishers, network with colleagues, and purchase discounted books. (Fire sale starts at noon!)
8:30 – 9:30 am
Breakfast: Authors Reception & Poster Session
Join us for light breakfast items and visit with authors and poster presenters. Free and open to all conference attendees.
9:30 – 10:30 am
Concurrent session 6
10:45 – 11:45 am
Concurrent session 7
11:45 – 1 pm
Lunch Break
Lunch on your own.
12 – 1 pm
Ethics Bowl Lunch
(Registration is required.)
1 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent session 8
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Session 9
3:45 – 5 pm
Conference / Ethics Bowl Attendee Mix & Mingle
This serves as the closing for the conference and the opening for the APPE IEB®. Grab a snack to go or stay and network with colleagues and Ethics Bowl students.
4 – 10 pm
APPE IEB® National Competition
9 am – 6 pm
APPE IEB® National Competition
Times, TBD