TCC Symposium: Corporations

We’ve heard many positive things from those of you that attended TCC’s symposium on The Way We Eat last month. Well, Tacoma Community College will be hosting its second all campus symposium tomorrow.

The second event will begin with a a screening of Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott’s documentary film, CORPORATION (2004) which features M.I.T. philosopher Noam Chomski and documentary filmmaker, Michael Moore. This film traces the evolution of the legal fiction of a “Corporation” from the Civil War through the 1980’s and to the present. The film explores the legal definition of “the corporation” as “person” with social mandates and restraints (as well as the ability to purchase and sell property, sue and be sued, etc.) The film traces the eventual shift of “The Corporation” from a localized entity to a national one and now to their multi-national and global proportions in the 21st century.

Dr. Timothy Stokes, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Blaine Hunt from Developmental English, and Dr. Scott Cochrane from Philosophy will facilitate the lively discussion following the screening of the film.

The aim of the event is to encourage the civic discourse on complex and controversial topics while learning to gather and use information to pose ethical questions and seek answers. The event is open to the public, but space is limited.

The symposium is sponsored by Tacoma Community College’s Center for Ethical Development, the Pleneurethics Society, Student Activities, and the Arts and Humanities Division.

I hope you can join us.

Details
Corporations: What Have We Created
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 – 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Tacoma Community College
Opgaard Student Center Cafeteria, Bldg. 11

Full Disclosure: I’m on the Center for Ethical Development Advisory Council.

Previously on Exit133: TCC Symposium: The Way We Eat