Geoffrey Sayre-McCord is Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1985. He is also director of UNC's Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program and director of the international Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society. Sayre-McCord has published extensively on metaethics, moral theory, epistemology, and the history of moral philosophy. In this event, Sayre-McCord will discuss debates over the philosophy of David Hume, arguing Hume is neither a skeptic of practical reason nor an instrumentalist, but more nuanced than either interpretation. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/sayremccord

Societies Under Stress: Welfare and Penal Policies amid Rising Insecurity is an interdisciplinary conference that aims at advancing collaborative research on the relationship between social welfare and penal policies across nations. It will bring together scholars from around the globe and from different disciplinary backgrounds -- mainly political science, sociology and criminology or law -- to ask: What are the causal links between crime control and social welfare policies? What are the ideological, political, social and historical foundations of these programs within and across nations? Read more and register at go.osu.edu/societiesunderstress

Zachary Matusheski is the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency Post-Doctoral Historian in Residence in the Department of History at The Ohio State University. His research centers on the ways the Korean War and other Cold War era conflicts in East Asia shaped American military, political, and cultural history. His current book project examines Dwight D. Eisenhower's first term. It focuses on how the President's perceptions of East Asia shaped his foreign policy reforms.This talk will analyze the last months of the armistice negotiations and how Eisenhower's experience during this early part of his presidency shaped his defense policy. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/matusheskiz

Mike Thompson, WOSU Public Media's Chief Content Director for News and Public Affairs and host of WOSU TV's Columbus on the Record, will discuss the results of the 2018 midterm elections and where we go from here. Guests include Mershon affiliate Paul Beck (left), Academy Professor of Political Science, and Whitney Smith, CEO, W.T. Smith Consulting. Enjoy complimentary light hors d'oeuvres and soft drinks in the theater lobby prior to the program. Read more and register

Can we use technology to mitigate the harms of climate change? What are the moral implications of altering large scale systems that we don't completely understand? Does anyone have the political jurisdiction to make decisions about actions that might affect everyone on Earth? Speakers include Steven Brown (CEHV, Ohio State);  Doug MacMartin (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell); Jeffrey M. Bielicki (Energy Sustainability Research Laboratory, Ohio State); Stephen Gardiner (Philosophy, University of Washington); David Morrow (Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, American University); Emma Saunders-Hastings (Political Science, Ohio State); Wil Burns (Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, American University); Holly Buck (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA); Cinnamon Carlarne (Law, Ohio State). Read more and register