Utah Valley State College Center for the Study of Ethics will ask, "Is Globalization Just?" at the third annual Public Policy Symposium on Jan. 20 in the UVSC Library LC 243.

The day-long symposium, beginning at 8:30 a.m., is the climax of the Ethics Center's year-long focus on the issue of globalization. The aim of the symposium is to create a forum where the merits of globalization can be openly discussed, and examined and an ethical analysis can be made.

"Globalization is a remarkably complex issue unfolding in so many different directions that it is impossible for us to say with certainty what the end result will be," said Dr. David Keller, ethics center director. "It is important to address this issue through frank discussion and discern what our moral obligations ought to be in relation to it."

Speakers include several professors and administrators from UVSC, Brigham Young University, Arizona State University, University of Colorado, University of Utah and Duke University. There will also be three panel discussions throughout the day.

The Public Policy Symposium is supported by a generous grant from the Utah Humanities Council. For more information on the UVSC Public Policy Symposium, call (801) 863-6455.

8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction:
Kathryn McPherson, UVSC Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

Introduction: David R. Keller, Center for the Study of Ethics Director

"Globalization Equity is not Self-Managed"
F. LaMond Tullis, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University

10:00 - 11:15 a.m.
Introduction: Dennis Potter

"Feminism, Motherhood, and the Globalization of Reproduction: What is Justice?"
Mary Romero, Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Panel Discussion I:
"Does Globalization Promote Justice or Exacerbate Injustice?"

Brad Cook, Vice President for Academic Affairs, UVSC
Mary Romero, Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
Lamond Tullis, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University

1:00 - 2:15 p.m. "The Poorest of the Poor: Neo-Liberal Globalization and Women's Poverty"
Alison M. Jaggar, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies,
University of Colorado, Boulder

2:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Panel Discussion II:
"Globalization and Democracy"

Scott Abbott, Director, Integrated Studies, UVSC

Alison M. Jaggar, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder David Knowlton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UVSC Ken Rogerson, Research Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, Duke University, "Media and Globalization: The Global Village vs. the 'Daily Me'"

4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion III:
"Globalization and Human Rights"

Moderator: Michael Minch

Alan Clarke, Professor of Law and Integrated Studies, UVSC
Laurie Anne Whitt, Professor of Philosophy and Integrated Studies, UVSC
Deen Chatterjee, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
David Wilson, Assistant Professor of History, UVSC

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Introduction: Grant Skabelund

"The Role of the Media in a Democracy: Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Bulldogs?"

Kenneth S. Rogerson, Research Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, Duke University