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Conferencing Toward Virtue
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Speakers - Toward a Common Morality
Leili Anvar, Ph.D.

Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

 
Maxwell R. Bennett, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience, University of Sydney; Scientific Director, Brain and Mind Research Institute

 
William D. Casebeer, Ph. D.

Cognitive scientist and philosopher; USAF, Chief of Eurasian Intelligence Analysis, NATO Headquarters

 
Martha J. Farah, Ph.D.

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

 
Kevin FitzGerald, S.J., Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center

 
Bernard Gert, Ph.D.

Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Dartmouth College

 
James Giordano, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience, Ethics, and Philosophy, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK; Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

 
Farhad Mechkat

Composer and Conductor; Former Musical Director and Principal Conductor, TSO

 
Andrew B. Newberg, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Psychiatry, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Director, University of Pennsylvania Center for Spirituality and the Mind

 
Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D.

Professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

 
Roger Scruton, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Institute for the Psychological Sciences; Visiting Professor, Princeton University

 


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Nour Foundation

Founded in 1985, the Nour Foundation is a public charitable and nongovernmental organization in special consultative status to the United Nations. The Foundation explores universal principles and values underlying various disciplines through an integrative approach that seeks to cultivate greater understanding, tolerance, and unity among human beings.

Blackfriars Hall, Oxford

Blackfriars Hall is a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford which specializes in philosophy and theology, as well as postgraduate programs in the fields of human rights, social policy, refugee studies, NGO studies, international relations, faith-based studies and related topics. Blackfriars Hall is home to the Las Casas Institute on Ethics, Governance and Social Justice.

Georgetown University

Founded in 1789, Georgetown University is the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Today, Georgetown is a major international research university that embodies its founding principles in the diversity of its students, faculty, and staff, its commitment to justice and the common good, its intellectual openness, and its international character.