You can download a printable version of the poster for our ‘Integrity Lost’ conference here. Spread the word — we’re looking forward to seeing you there.
For details, see the conference page, here.
Integrity and trust
Thanks to Joe Hardwick for sending this unsavoury extract from Charles Grant, Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain (1792, printed 1813). Integrity is glossed as ‘conscientious in the whole of his conduct’. Continue reading
First integrity project working group
Thanks to everyone who came to the first meeting of the integrity project working group in Newcastle yesterday. You can see what we got up to here (details coming soon). The next meeting will be on Friday March 28th. Led by Charlotte Alston we’ll be discussing Tolstoy and Tolstoyans. Watch this space for details of readings, and contact us if you’d like to come along.
Integrity and being liked
This cartoon strip from yesterday’s metro (Nemi by Lise) captures perfectly the theme of our Saints and Madmen conference!
Integrity in the News: “This is the way democracies work”
Contributed by K. Armstrong
Here’s an illuminating exchange on Democracy Now! between Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle-blower behind the 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers, and Stewart Baker, former National Security Agency lawyer. The full debate is well worth watching.
[At 36m 12s of the debate]
DANIEL ELLSBERG: […] Looking at that experience very specifically, Snowden knew that it would be foolish and hopeless for him to try to call attention to this within the channels. Continue reading
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Integrity in the News: Integrity and plagiarism
An article here, in the TES, calling on universities and tutors to “focus less on the detection and punishment of plagiarism and more on … integrity” if they want to be effective in deterring plagiarism among students. This raises the crucial question of how to “remind [students] of the importance of honesty and integrity” when they are part of an educational system which consistently stresses the importance of grades and results.
Integrity readings and meeting schedule now available
The first meeting of the Integrity Project reading group will be on Friday 28th February in Newcastle. We’ll continue to meet on the last Friday of the month.
The reading schedule for the first 5 meetings in now available.
If you’d like to join the group, suggest readings, convene a session, or set up your own parallel group, all the details are here.
Activism and Integrity: Audio recordings now available
Audio recordings are now available for the Activism and Integrity workshop. Continue reading
Tolstoy and the philosophy of non-resistance
This talk was presented at the Activism and Integrity workshop, December 2013 Continue reading
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Integrity and other ‘springs of action’ the lives of nineteenth-century reformers
This talk was given at the Activism and Integrity workshop, December 2013 Continue reading
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