Expanding Empathy Speaker Series 2020

The Expanding Empathy 2020 series returns as version 2.0 -- now on Zoom.

What is the role of empathy in how we respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we think about moral dilemmas and altruism in this context? Four prominent experts on empathy and morality will get together next Wednesday April 29 (1-2:30pm) to do a panel discussion on empathy during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include the three speakers who had been set to participate in the in-person series for 2020: (Paul Conway, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Florida State; David DeSteno, Professor of Psychology at Northeastern; Abigail Marsh, Associate Professor of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown) as well as one of the 2019 speakers (Michael Poulin, Associate Professor of Psychology at University at Buffalo).

It's free to attend, but please register at the Zoom webinar link (https://bit.ly/EE2020Covid).

PLUS -- in the lead-up to the panel on Wednesday, we will have two Zoom webinars in which the individual speakers will give talks they had originally planned to give in person. On Monday April 27 from 1-2:30pm, Paul Conway will talk about moral dilemmas (https://bit.ly/EE2020Conway; talk title: “Marrying Deontology and Utilitarianism with Virtue Ethics”, speaker bio and talk abstract here: https://rockethics.psu.edu/events/expanding-empathy-speaker-series-paul-conway) and on Tuesday April 28 from 1-2:30pm, David DeSteno will take about social emotions and self-control (https://bit.ly/EE2020DeSteno); talk title “Hacking Virtue: How Moral Emotions Build Self-Control from the Bottom Up”, speaker bio and talk abstract here: https://rockethics.psu.edu/events/expanding-empathy-speaker-series-david-desteno). Both are also free to join, with registration required.