ISME 2013 Program

Sunday 13 October

19:00-21:00                     

Opening Reception

• Location: Fireside Terrace at The Morris Inn

Monday 14 October

8:00                    

ISME Registration & Refreshments

• Location: McKenna Hall Atrium

8:45                

Welcome and overview of program (Don Howard & Richard Schoonhoven)

• Location: McKenna Hall Auditorium

9:00                

Keynote Address: Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame "Military Ethics: A Discipline in Crisis"

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

• (This talk will be delivered by Reilly Center Director Don Howard)

10:15                  

Break

10:30-12:00      

Concurrent Sessions

Session 1: Challenges to Character

• Chair: Monica Solomon

• Martin Cook on the Dangers of Integrity and Character

• (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)

• Deanna Messervey on Realistic Ethics Training (This talk has been moved to Session 2)

• Harry Jones on Why More Habituation (and even better arguments) Will Not Change the Way Soldiers Behave

• (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

Session 2: History and Evolution of American Military Virtue

• Chair: TBA

• Craig Bruce Smith on Revolution, Morality, and the Continental Army

• Lorien Foote on Virtue and Honor in the American Civil War

• Deanna Messervey on Realistic Ethics Training 

• Tom Gibbons on Moral/Ethical/Honor Implications from a Modern View

• (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

Session 3: Epistemic Considerations in Jus in Bello

• Chair: TBA

• Peter J. Joyce IV on Bridging the Jus in Bello Epistemic Gap

• Ryan Jenkins on An in Bello Rule - Consequentialist Code or Morality

• Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall

12:00                   

Lunch - on your own

13:30-15:00        

Concurrent Sessions

Session 4: Defining Virtue

• Chair: Harry Jones

• Brent Kyle on Courage, Cowardice, and Maher’s Misstep

• Cornelia Vikan on Respect as a Military Virtue in Afghanistan

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

Session 5: Issues in Collective Responsibility

• Chair: George Lucas

• Pauline Kaurin on Collective Liability and Non-Combatant Immunity

• Jovana Davidovic on Proportionality, Jus in Bello, and Collective Responsibility

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

Session 6: Integrity and Fragmentation

• Chair: Cliff Arnold

• Patrick Mileham on Good Soldiers and Good Men (To read, click here.)

• Paul Berghaus and Nathan Cartagena on the Problem of Fragmentation within the Army

• Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall

15:00                    

Break

15:30-17:00        

Concurrent Sessions

Session 7: New Challenges

• Chair: Randy Dipert

• Shannon Ford on Cybersecurity

• Adam Henschke on Military Cyber-capacity and Emergence

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

Session 8: Virtues and New Technology

• Chair: Mike Zenk

• Emmanuel Goffi on Re-Thinking Courage in Light of Military Technology Improvement

• Bernhard Koch on the Debate About Autonomous Weapons Systems

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

Session 9: Different Approaches to Virtue

• Chair: Beatriz Carrillo

• Mark Jensen on Epictetus vs. Aristotle

• Matthew Beard on A New Approach to Military Honour

• Joseph McInerney on The Role of Virtue in Contemporary Military Ethics

• (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)

• Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall

17:00-18:00          

Break

18:00-19:00        

• Annual ISME Banquet

• Location: The Morris Inn

19:30-20:30

Keynote Address: Herb Lin, Chief Scientist, CSTB, National Research Council of the National Academies

• "Understanding Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues Related to Emerging Technologies of Military Significance"

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

Abstract:  Ethical, legal, and societal considerations inevitably accompany scientific and technological research and development, but most of the thinking to date about how such considerations should be handled has been limited to R&D in a civilian context.  How and to what extent, if any, do similar considerations apply in a military context, and especially when rapidly changing and/or readily available technologies are at issue?  This talk may be relevant to policy makers, funders of military and other national security R&D, and the scientists and technologists engaged in such R&D.

Tuesday 15 October

9:00                      

Plenary Session: Steven H. Walker, Deputy Director, DARPA

• "Driving Technological Surprise and Some of the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications that Can Result" 

• (Talk cancelled due to government shutdown)

• Talk replaced by presentaton and discussion of Euro ISME

10:15                    

Break

10:30-12:00        

Concurrent Sessions

Session 10: Professional Virtues

• Chair: Manuela Fernandez

• Danny Cazier on Professional Expertise

• Ian Fishback on Virtue and the Military Profession

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

• (Entire panel cancelled due to government shutdown)

Session 11: Psychological and Social Issues

• Chair: Jay Malone

• Nolen Gertz on Rethinking Suffering: PTSD, Moral Injury, and Military Ethics

• Christine van Burken and Bart van Bezooijen on Psychological and Social Aspects of Moral Decision Making in Networked Military Operations

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

Session 12: The Application and Limits of Virtue Ethics

• Chair: Maura Ryan

• P.H. de Vries on After Military Virtue

• Jordy Rochelau on Just War Principles Over Virtue in Jus ad Bellum Decision-Making

• Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall

12:00                   

Lunch - on your own

13:30-15:00        

Concurrent Sessions

Session 13: Unusual Challenges

• Chair: Yvonne Pichette

• Ibanga Ikpe on Military Ethics and the Dilemma of Irregular Combatants

• George Lucas on Privacy, Cyber Security, and Self-Defense in the Aftermath of Edward Snowden

• Location: 112-114 McKenna Hall

Session 14: Rethinking Realism

• Chair: Pauline Kaurin

• Kevin Schieman on Political Realism and the Military Professional

• Randy Dipert on Sherman and Rescuing Moderate Military Realism

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

15:00                    

Break

15:30-16:00        

ISME Business Meeting

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

16:00-17:30        

Concurrent Sessions

Session 15: Requisite Virtues

• Chair: Melinda Gormley

• Cheryl Abbate on Uprooting the Rape Culture of the Armed Forces

• Crystal Allen on the Virtues of Due Care

• Location: McKenna Auditorium

Session 16: The Moral Experience of Soldiers

• Chair: Kevin Schieman

• Phillip Nelson on A Political Phenomenology of Warfare Ethics

• Michael Robillard on the Moral Exploitation of Soldiers

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

18:00                     

Dinner - on your own

Wednesday 16 October                     

Teaching Seminars for ROTC Cadets, Midshipmen, and Staff

8:00-9:15

Session 17: George Lucas on Inspiring Students to Pursue Intellectual Virtue

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

9:30-10:45

Session 18: Bill Rhodes on Introduction to Military Ethics 

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall

11:00-12:15

Session 19: Pauline Kaurin on Introduction to Just War

• Location: 100-104 McKenna Hall