On May 28–29th\, UBC will host a two-day conference on Cons ent\, Ethics\, and Sexual Education. It will involve academic talks fro m scholars around the world\, as well as a panel of youth sex educators. It will be an opportunity to connect scholarly philosophical work on consent and sexual ethics with the experience and perspectives of contemporary sex educators.
The event is free and open to the public. To register\, pl ease email the conference coordinator\, Ash Lindsley-Kim.
This event is poss ible due to generous financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanit ies Research Council\, the Society for Applied Philosophy\, the Canadian Jo urnal of Philosophy\, the UBC Philosophy Department\, and UBC’s Hampton Fun d.
Featured speakers include Scott Anderson (UBC)\, Karamvir Chadha ( Durham Law School)\, Audrey Yap (UVic)\, Elinor Mason (UC Santa Barbara)\, Emily Tilton (University of Southern California)\, Hallie Liberto (Universi ty of Maryland)\, and Jonathan Ichikawa (UBC)\, as well as Justin van Weste n and youth sex educators from VCH’s BLUSH program.
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