Event Details:

Cubberley Auditorium

May 15, 2015, 12pm PDT

Doors open at 11:30 am at Cubberley Auditorium for ticket holders, and at Annenberg Auditorium for those with an official position on the waiting list.

IMPORTANT: Ticket holders must arrive prior to 12 noon or their seat will be given to someone else. If you are a ticket holder, print out a copy of your Eventbrite ticket and bring it to Cubberley Auditorum between 11:30 and 12 noon with the code on it for scanning at the door. Note that the doors will be closed at noon. If you are on the waiting list, bring either your ID or a copy of the waiting list email message to Annenberg Auditorum. Anyone who does not have a ticket and is not on the waiting list who wants to attend should go to Annenberg Auditorium prior to 12 noon, to join the line for any extra seats that open up to non-ticket holders.

The abstract of the talk:

You might think we each have a moral duty to expose any serious misconduct, dishonesty, or illegal activity we discover in an organization, especially when such conduct directly threatens the public interest. However, increasingly we are seeing whistleblowers punished more harshly than the alleged wrongdoers, who often seem to get off scot-free. Given the possibility of harsh retaliation, how should we understand our moral duty to tell the truth and reveal wrongdoing? Should we think of whistleblowers as selfless martyrs, going beyond the call of duty, as traitors, or as something else? Do we need to change the laws to provide greater protection for whistleblowers? How does the current context of massive information gathering about private citizens affect our answers to these questions?

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