Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics News Archive
Faculty of Arts
Fair treatment for an overlooked group of refugees
February 8, 2024 —
Nabil Iqbal is a Master of Human Rights student and a 2023-24 recipient of a Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics (CPAE) Graduate Fellowship. He is keenly interested in finding ways to help improve the rights of an often overlooked refugee group – those who are forced to move across borders because of the threats to their homeland from climate change.
Faculty of Arts
CBC Manitoba: Familial DNA searches come with risks, rewards in solving MMIWG cold cases
February 5, 2024 —
Familial DNA searches come with risks, rewards in solving MMIWG cold cases
Research and International
Exploring the ethics and future of generative AI
January 15, 2024 —
Experts in generative AI technology will share their insights at the UM Knowledge Exchange presentation Next Steps with Generative AI.
Faculty of Arts
Maclean’s: The sexbots are coming
October 16, 2023 —
In the next year or two, we’ll have sophisticated, purpose-built bots designed for relationships, sex and intimacy
Strange new tech world? We have courses for that.
July 17, 2023 —
Five courses teaching students how to think about and apply technology in new ways so that we can make sure the cows are happy and the machines don’t toy with our emotions.
Faculty of Arts
High School Ethics Bowl brings together Manitoba’s future thinkers
March 1, 2023 —
On February 24, 2023, 18 high schools from across Manitoba gathered in the Tier Building at the University of Manitoba to compete in the 9th annual Manitoba Regional High School Ethics Bowl competition, hosted by the UM Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics in cooperation with the Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties (MARL) and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
Faculty of Arts
Determining if non-sentient beings, like the Great Barrier Reef or the Mona Lisa, have rights
February 6, 2023 —
Dimitar Tomovski is an MA student and 2022 recipient of a Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics graduate fellowship. The fellowship has allowed him to pursue his research on the rights of non-sentient beings with more financial freedom. The fellowships are open to UM faculty, instructors and graduate students from all fields and all faculties.
Faculty of Arts
Harper’s: Ghosting the Machine
April 25, 2022 —
Humans, robots, and the new sexual frontier
Op-ed: Online counselling tool raises questions
April 3, 2020 —
It's a great idea, in principle: the Manitoba government has announced a program to provide online therapy to people during the COVID-19 pandemic. But...
Op-ed: Social resilience is key to emerging from this pandemic stronger and better
March 26, 2020 —
'If our governments can create and sustain public morale over an indefinitely long period of time then it’s possible we will emerge from the pandemic as a stronger, fairer and more cohesive society'