Ethics Days and Dialogues

The Richard Richards Institute for Ethics sponsors and co-sponsors on-campus guest speaker events and online dialogs focused on national and international topics. Below are upcoming and past events with links to the recorded sessions:

Upcoming Events

March 27, 2025: Annual Richard Richards Institute Banquet that included awarding scholarship winners, hearing from award recipients and the keynote speaker and Leadership Award recipient.

Past Events

October 16, 2024: Global Ethics Day - A variety of activities and social media events. Visit online to see how you can make a difference.

March 25, 2024: Richard Richards Institute Ethics Days Panel. The topic was The Ethics of NIL. The panelists were: Tim Crompton, Craig Oberg, Janyee Nadolski, and Will Pridemore

Annual Richard Richards Institute Banquet that included awarding scholarship winners, hearing from award recipients and the keynote speaker and Leadership Award recipient Bob Hunter.

April 5, 2023: Annual Richard Richards Institute Banquet that included awarding scholarship winners, hearing from award recipients and the keynote speaker Jeff Stephens, Retired Superintendent of the Weber School District.

The Ethics Slam associated with this event held on April 6, see Ethics Slams tab.

May 13, 2022: Interparliamentary Efforts to Hone Weapons of Economic Warfare Toward Putin. Discussants include Utah Congressman Chris Stewart, Slovak Republic Parliamentarian Peter Kremsky, Czech Republic Senator Lukas Wagenknecht, with Weber State University professor and RRI board member Dr. Janicke Stramer-Smith as moderator.

March 30, 2022: Annual Richard Richards Institute Banquet that included awarding scholarship winners, hearing from award recipients and the keynote speaker Darren Parry.

The Ethics Days panel discussed issues relating to ethics and teaching. The Ethics Slam, associated with the event, was held on March 31, 2022 with the topic "The Ethics of Education"

January 7, 2022: Dialogue with Senator Lucas Wagenknecht and Dr. Janicke Stramer-Smith, assistant professor of political science, on the state of left politics and climate politics in a transatlantic perspective.

July 14, 2021: Dialogue on Pandemic Management with Governor Martin Kuba, South Bohemia Region and Texas National Guard State Surgeon, Colonel Peter Coldwell.

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