Christina M. Bellon

Conference Presentations | Invited Presentations

Conference Presentations

Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Meeting (October, 2004; University of Oregon, Eugene, OR). Title: "Caring about Rights: The Moral Limits of Relationships."
Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy (P-SWIP) Annual Meeting (November, 2003; University of Oregon, Eugene, OR). Title: “Justice for Children: Rawls and the Least Advantaged Groups.”
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (March, 2001; Cincinnati, OH). Title: “At Play in the State of Nature: Assessing Social Contract Theory Through Role Play.”
The 19th World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, IVR-99, Pace University and World Trade Institute (June, 1999; New York City). Title: “Rights and Freedom: A Critical Assessment of the Their Necessary Relation.”
1998 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association (May, 1998; Ottawa, Canada). Title: “Children in the Original Position: Children's Moral Status and Rawlsian Justice.”
Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (February, 1998; Dallas). Title: “Problems with Paradigms: Medical Choices and Children's Rights.”
Children in the World Conference at St. Xavier University (March, 1997; Chicago). Title: “Evolving Capacities: The Promise of Moral Rights for Children.”
Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for Professional and Practical Ethics Annual Conference (March, 1997; Washington, D.C.). Title: “Living in Glass Houses: Parental Rights, Children's Rights and the Role of the State.”

Invited Presentations

“Assassination as Moral Problem Solving,” presented at the Annual Nammour Symposium, California State University Sacramento (April, 2005; Sacramento, CA).
“Moral Development and the Status of Children in the Moral Community,” presentation to Phi Sigma Tau Honors Society, California State University, Chico (Mar 4, 2005; Chico, CA).
“Caring About Rights: Identifying the Moral Limits of Relationships,” presented to Honors Symposium, Texas State University, San Marcos (Feb 25, 2005; San Marcos, TX ).
“Avoiding Hemlock: Active Citizenship in a Post-modern, Global Era,” for Summer Institute for Philosophy, Stanford University (6 July, 2004).
“Pornography as Harm,” presented for the Panel on Pornography, Center for Applied and Practical Ethics, California State University Chico (May, 2004; Chico, CA).
“On Being Nasty, Brutish and Short: Adventures in Hobbes State of Nature” presented at the Annual Nammour Symposium, California State University Sacramento (April, 2004; Sacramento, CA).
Commentary on Paul Allen Green’s “Etiquette as a System of Categorical Imperatives,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (March, 2004; Pasadena, CA).
Commentary on Anita Allen’s Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (February, 2004; Cincinnati, OH).
“Dual(Duel) Career Couples,” presented to the American Philosophical Association – Pacific Division, Committee on Careers Special Session (San Francisco, March, 2003).
“Rights and Violence in Modern Society” presented to the Political Theory Forum, sponsored by the CSUS Dept of Government (March, 2003). Also presented to the CSUS Philosophy Club Speaker Series (March, 2003).
Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics; Invited Panel Member, Session VID: Ethics Education K-12, “Ethics Bowl: Applications at the High School Level,” (February, 2003; Charlotte, NC).
Invited Panellist, Central APA Session on Pre-College Philosophy, “Reaching Out to High School Students” (May, 1999; New Orleans). Title: “The Tricky Task of Teaching Ethics to Teens” (with Sara Goering and Robert Figueroa).

Last updated: 12 August, 2006