EPAG-Ethics Politics and Global Affairs

10/09/2021

Join us for International Webinar on "Climate Change" on 13 September, at 05:30 pm IST.

20/05/2020

Join webinar on "Citizenship in the time of Pandemic" by Professor Acharya tomorrow at 11:30 am.

Click following link to join the lecture: https://amity.webex.com/amity/onstage/g.php?MTID=eecad74354f657b0111b93f5d4e8dceaf

29/04/2020

"A wake up call" by Krishnamurari Mukherjee.

Click on the link below to read complete article

https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/a-wake-up-call/

29/10/2019

Aparna Mishra explores the ethics and practice of adaptive preferences.

Click on the link below to read the complete article.

https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/gendering-development-ethics-interrogating-the-ethics-and-practice-of-adaptive-preferences/

25/10/2019

Jessica Duggal writes on the ethical debate surrounding the innovations made in the biomedical field with in-vito fertilization.
Click on the link below the read the complete article

https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/bio-ethics-and-in-vito-fertilisation-an-ethical-debate/

23/10/2019

Is relationships with machines, unlike natural friendships, somewhat like virtually aping one’s own self?

Click on the link below to read Tanmita's take on technological innovations replacing the friendships between humans.

http://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/friendship-and-machines-tanmita-kundu/

19/10/2019

Kriti Seth in her work talks about the question of procreative liberty which has been long been argued by early feminists as a right that must be practiced with full autonomy by the women. With the emergence of reproductive technology, several other concerns have penetrated the issue of reproductive freedom. These issues range from the right to use contraceptives, to seek legal abortions and to gain the right to maternal care.

Read the complete article on the link below.

https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/19/the-market-of-commodification-and-exploitation-a-critique-of-procreative-liberty/

16/10/2019

On the occasion of Global Ethics Day 2019, a few members of EPAG have contributed blog articles. Click on the link below to read our first blog.

Poverty. Climate change. Immigration. Financial flows. Development. Issues like these are rarely confined within the boundaries of a single society or a state. They afflict humanity in its collecti…

15/05/2019

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/private-public-and-political-morality/article27118959.ece

When people choose a political life, they must follow an ethic distinct from private morality

09/04/2019

Douglas Allen is Professor of Philosophy at University of Maine, USA. A peace and justice activist scholar, he is author/editor of 15 books, and he has received Fulbright and Smithsonian grants to India. His latest Gandhi-informed book, Gandhi after 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability is published recently by Oxford University Press in 2019.

26/01/2019

Some more pictures from the inaugural event.

15/01/2019

Ashok Acharya is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi and Global Justice Fellow, Yale University. He received his PhD. from the University of Toronto. He is the co-editor of Political Theory: An Introduction (Pearson, 2008) and editor of Citizenship in a Globalizing World (Pearson, 2012) besides publishing articles in areas of multiculturalism, social justice and affirmative action. He has been a Fellow at the Australian Social Science Academy, Canberra and the University of Birmingham, UK and has held the Henry Hart Rice Visiting Professorship at Yale University for the year 2012-13. His current areas of research include comparative and contemporary political theory, ethics and politics, and themes surrounding global justice. He has led the interdisciplinary Nyaya research programme at the University of Delhi in partnership with various global institutions and support from the British Council.