<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join three upcoming post-election dialogues at the Ethics Institute</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-7e79642d-7fff-f0ad-09b7-50c694161fa7"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at noon: senior scholar </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stuart Brody - A Slippery Slope: The decline of American public discourse and its moral conscience</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (see complete announcement, below).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, November 11, 2020, at noon: </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institute founding director Tom Moran and past Institute Fellow and political science chair Dan Lake deconstruct the November 3 election.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, November 18, 2020, at noon: </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Controlling Our Own Thoughts: Condillac's 1775 antidote to Orwell's 1984</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(5,5,5);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Emeritus professor of education Bob Ackland asks us to consider ways people might be encouraged to become more consciously aware of their processes of thought and their use of words to generate understanding.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Slippery Slope</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The decline of American public discourse and its moral conscience</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A post-election colloquy with Ethics Institute senior scholar Stuart Brody, Esq.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, November 4, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SUNY Plattsburgh Institute for Ethics in Public Life</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Noon – 1 p.m. on Zoom only (link to follow)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stu Brody, author the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Law of Small Things: Creating a Habit of Integrity in a Culture of Mistrust</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, leads us in conversation about the erosion of integrity in public life, lamenting the concomitant phenomena of growing uncivil speech and the increasing contempt for virtue and truth among political and civic leaders, corporate managers, and private citizens.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stu has served as adviser to prominent political figures, including presidential candidates. In his career as a lawyer, Stu has represented many high-profile clients and appeared before the United States Supreme Court. Stu also has held numerous public offices and taught in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. He is founder of IntegrityIntensive, a consulting firm concentrating on decision-making, leadership and personal development. Stu is completing work on a forthcoming novel, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">American Hero: Love and Trust in a Time of Politics and War</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Colloquies at the Ethics Institute are open to all members of the SUNY Plattsburgh community. The Ethics Institute Fellowship program is generously supported by gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information, contact Dr. Jonathan Slater, director of the Institute for Ethics in Public Life, <a href="mailto:slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu">slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu</a>.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></div></div>