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Justice as Fairness: Part 3

John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of his book, Justice as Fairness: A restatement. Each part is in a discussion format facilitated by a UT faculty member with expertise on Rawls's work. No previous knowledge of Rawls's work is expected.

Part 3: The Argument from the Original Position

with Iris Goodwin, UT College of Law

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Other parts:

Part 1: Fundamental Ideas with Joe Cook, UT College of Law

Part 2: Principles of Justice with Otis Stephens, UT College of Law

Part 4: Institutions of a Just Basic Structure
with Matt Deaton, UT Dept. of Philosophy, podcast coming soon

Part 5: The Question of Stability
with David Reidy, UT Dept. of Philosophy, podcast coming soon

Check here for more information on the symposium.

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Justice as Fairness: Part 2

John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of his book, Justice as Fairness: A restatement. Each part is in a discussion format facilitated by a UT faculty member with expertise on Rawls's work. No previous knowledge of Rawls's work is expected.

Part 2: Principles of Justice with Otis Stephens, UT College of Law

Click here to download Part 2, or use the player here:

Other parts:

Part 1: Fundamental Ideas with Joe Cook, UT College of Law

Part 3: The Argument from the Original Position
with Iris Goodwin, UT College of Law

Part 4: Institutions of a Just Basic Structure
with Matt Deaton, UT Dept. of Philosophy, podcast coming soon

Part 5: The Question of Stability
with David Reidy, UT Dept. of Philosophy, podcast coming soon

Check here for more information on the symposium.

Knox County Public Library Podcasts by Knox County Public Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. © 2010 Some Rights Reserved. Music credit: "Random Opus" by Robert A. Wolf (available on Mevio).

Justice as Fairness: A Community Book Discussion

John Rawls warns against a political life dominated by dogmatic fanaticism or apathetic resignation. The University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Knox County Public Library invite you to participate in a study of his book, Justice as Fairness: A restatement. Each part is in a discussion format facilitated by a UT faculty member with expertise on Rawls's work. No previous knowledge of Rawls's work is expected.

Part 1: Fundamental Ideas
with Joe Cook, UT College of Law

Click here to download Part 1, or use the player here:

Part 2: Principles of Justice
with Otis Stephens, UT College of Law

Part 3: The Argument from the Original Position
with Iris Goodwin, UT College of Law

Part 4: Institutions of a Just Basic Structure
Feb. 15, with Matt Deaton, UT Dept. of Philosoph, podcast coming soon

Part 5: The Question of Stability
Feb. 22, with David Reidy, UT Dept. of Philosophy, podcast coming soon

Check here for more information on the symposium.

Knox County Public Library Podcasts by Knox County Public Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. © 2010 Some Rights Reserved. Music credit: "Random Opus" by Robert A. Wolf (available on Mevio).

Brown Bag Green Book

Join us on Tuesday, February 2nd at 12 p.m. in the East Tennessee History Center Auditorium, 601 S. Gay Street for an informative panel discussion of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow. We'll feature a panel of experts including Renee Hoyos from the Tennessee Clean Water Network, Joanne Logan of the Department of Environmental and Soil Sciences at the University of Tennessee, and Tiffany Foster from TVA.

This program is part of a special film, lecture and discussion series presented in partnership with the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Institute for a Secure and Sustainability Environment.

Learn more here.

Brown Bag Green Book

Join us Wednesday, October 28 at 12 p.m. in the East Tennessee History Center Auditorium, 601 S. Gay Street. Pat Hudson, Director of the Lindquist Environmental Appalachian Fellowship (LEAF), and Dawn Coppock, Legislative Director of LEAF, will lead a discussion of Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal by Silas House and Jason Howard.

"This book is directly relevant for all Tennesseans," Hudson says. "We are at a crossroads-we have a choice. In Kentucky and West Virginia, so many mountains have been lost forever, but we can still decide to protect our mountains."

Learn more here.

2 Great Brown Bag Opportunities this Wednesday, April 8, 12 p.m.

Brown Bag Green Book
The series continues at a new location: the Market House Room of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce at #17 Market Square. Elizabeth Eason, Principal Architect at Elizabeth Eason Architecture, will discuss the book Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Reading the book is optional; bring your own lunch or order in advance and pick up lunch from a downtown restaurant.


Stories Torn from the Pages of Time
"The year 1875 provided plenty of grist for Knoxville newspapers," says local historian Robert Booker, "with a mix of good news and bad." This was the year the Gay Street Bridge blew down, a sensational murder trial and subsequent public gripped the community, and Knoxville College was established. Booker will discuss these and other stories he has uncovered while scanning the pages of Knoxville history. Booker is a columnist with the Knoxville News Sentinel, the author of Two Hundred Years of Black Culture in Knoxville, 1791-1991, a former member of the Tennessee Legislature, and a current Knoxville City Councilman. The lecture is at the East Tennessee History Center, and is free and open to the public. Visitors are invited to bring a bag lunch.

Human Rights and Reform in China: The 2009 Wilman Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture

Friends of the Library will present Minky Worden, Knoxville native and long-time observer of contemporary life in China, at the 2009 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. at the East Tennessee History Center. Worden is the Media Director of Human Rights Watch, where she works with journalists to help them cover crises, wars, human rights abuses and political developments in over 70 countries. She'll be speaking on "Human Rights and Reform in China: A Look at Global Consequences," from her recent book China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges. For more information, please contact 215-8775.

Facebook is Hot--Email is Not

Facebook now claims over 175 million users worldwide, and it's gaining a million new users every week. With the ability to link elementary school friends with current colleagues, it brings new meaning to keeping in touch. But what does it all mean? On Monday, March 9 at 6 p.m. at Lawson McGhee Library, join Dr. Trena Paulus, assistant professor of educational pyschology and research at UT, and Melissa Brenneman, reference librarian at Lawson McGhee Library, for a two-hour workshop that explores social networking from a variety of angles including a tour of features and applications, its history and uniqueness. The discussion will also look at issues of privacy, identity, trust and relationships. For more information, please call 215-8767.

Brown Bag, Green Book

Knox County Public Library and the City of Knoxville are bringing a new Lunch and Learn series to downtown Knoxville called "Brown Bag - Green Book" with a focus on the important topic of sustainability. Each program will feature a prominent Knoxvillian talking about a timely "green book" with a particular look at how ideas in the book are relevant to issues of sustainability in East Tennessee.

Mike Edwards, CEO and President of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce will launch the series on Wednesday, March 11 at 12 p.m. in the Café 4 Conference Room as he discusses Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman.

The public is invited to join the conversation each month, but is not required to read the books to attend. Participants may bring their own lunch or order in advance from Cafe 4 or another downtown restaurant.

Help for Teens Coping With School Violence

Take a minute to check out How to Deal--part of Teen Central dedicated to resources to help teens navigate the aftermath of a traumatic or violent experience and to build skills to prevent future violence. You can find information ranging from how to control anger to how to cope with grief. Looking for something in particular? Contact our reference desk for even more resources.

Nobel Prize for Literature 2007 -- Doris Lessing

British writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. She is the author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction; her most famous work is The Golden Notebook. She also wrote extensively about gender and various cultures. At nearly 88, Lessing is the oldest choice ever for the prize, which honors her body of work.