Our platform speakers are selected based on their knowledge and expertise on a given subject, not necessarily on the degree to which they agree with the basic values and principles of Ethical Culture. We may invite speakers with dramatically opposing views in order to challenge the existing "politically correct" views.

Presentations are on Sundays at 1:30PM at Extraordinary Ventures in Chapel Hill, NC. Childcare is provided.

1. December 27
   Holiday Celebration -- A Mummer's Play
   St. George and the Dragon
   

2. December 13
   Randy Best, Vice-President, NC Society for Ethical Culture
   A Values Clarification Exercise in Morality
   

3. November 22
   Members and Friends of the North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture
   A Time for Thanksgiving
   

4. November 8
   Don Johnson, Leader Emeritus, New York Society for Ethical Culture
   Toward an Ethic of Compromise?
   

5. October 25
   NCSEC Membership Meeting
   

6. October 11
   Vivian Plonsey, President, Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
   Toward World Peace, Freedom, and Social Justice
   

7. September 27
   Dr. Rynn Berry, Author and Professor, the New School for Social Research
   Ethical Visions and the World's Religions
   

8. September 13
   Chris H. Kaman, President, NC Society for Ethical Culture
   Raising Ethical Children
   

9. August 23
   Dr. E. M. Adams, UNC Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
   An Economy Fit for Human Beings
   

10. August 9
    Randy Best, Vice President, NC Society for Ethical Culture
    Winning: A Group Exercise
    

11. July 26
    Laurie Lynch, ND, Director of the Living Well Health Center
    Ethics and Alternative Medicine
    

12. July 12
    Catherine Lutz, Anthropology Professor, UNC
    What's Wrong with Human Nature Arguments for War
    

13. June 28
    Rania Masri from the Global Movement to End the War Against Iraq
    Iraq Sanctions: The Dying Children
    (See Iraq Action Coalition for more information.)
    

14. June 14
    Michael Peterson, Herald-Sun Columnist
    The Ethics of Outspoken Journalism -- My Experience
    

15. May 24
    James Coley, Visiting Lecturer at the UNC Philosophy Department
    Moral Dilemmas: A Secular Ethical System to Grapple With Difficult, Real-World Moral Conflict
    

16. May 10
    Bill Peck
    Ethical Considerations and Indigenous Guatemalan People
    

17. April 26
    Panel Discussion --
    Enid Handler, moderator, Health & Human Services Consultant,
    Martin Eakes, The Coalition for a Public Trust,
    Rep. Joe Hackney, Orange County Legislator,
    Tom Jacks, Deputy Commissioner, NC Insurance Department,
    A Representative from Blue Cross/Blue Shield
    The Blue Cross-Blue Shield Conversion: What It Will Mean to the Citizens of NC
    

18. April 12
    Olin Beall Member of NC Society for Ethical Culture
    An Ethic for the 21st Century: A Stand Against Absolutist Certainty and Relativistic Nihilism
    

19. March 22
    Arthur Dobrin Leader, Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island
    Why I Am Not a Unitarian
    

20. March 8
    Alex Roland, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Duke University
    The Blessings of Nuclear Weapons
    

21. February 22
    Michael Steinberg, Investigative Journalist
    Nuclear Power: Is It Really Safe?
    

22. February 8
    William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
    Feminism and Civil Rights: A Comparative Approach to Social Change Movements in America
    

23. January 25
    Ralph Balzac, President, NC Society for Ethical Culture
    Annual Meeting for Members and Friends of NC Society for Ethical Culture
    

24. January 11
    Ron Scher, President, NC Division of United Nations Association
    The United Nations: Past Imperfect, Present Tense, Future Conditional