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 24
   Members & Friends of Society
   Winter Solstice Reflections
   

2. December 10
   James Coley, Philosopher and Activist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   The Meaning of Life: An Easy Question
   

3. November 26
   Randy Best, President and Adjunct Leader, North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture
   Stone Soup -- an Ethical Culture Thanksgiving
   

4. November 12
   Kate Lovelady, Poet and Activist; Olin Beall, Philosopher and Ethicist
   Reflections and Experiences from the Mountain
   (The Lay Leadership Summer School, an Ethical Culture Workshop)
   

5. October 22
   Tovah Wax, PhD, LCSW, Program Director, Deaf Service Unit, Dorothea Dix Hospital
   The Disability Ethos: Inclusion or Integration?
   

6. October 8
   Tony Hileman, Executive Director, "American Humanist Association"
   Are You A Humanist?
   

7. September 24
   Dr. Paul Ortiz Visiting Assistant Professor in History, Duke University
   "Center for Documentary Studies"
   Culture, Work, and Ethics
   

8. September 10
   Randy Best, President and Adjunct Leader, North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture
   What I Learned from ‘Mr. Dog’ -- The Philosophy of Margret Wise Brown
   

9. August 27
   Curt Collier, Leader, "Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture"
   Right Energizing -- A Different Vision of Spirituality
   

10. August 13
    Randy Best, President & Adjunct Leader, North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture
    My Recent Wanderings in Ethical Humanism
    

11. July 23
    Adam Searing, Project Director, "North Carolina Health Access Coalition"
    Critical Issues for North Carolina in Health Access
    

12. July 9
    Elizabeth Ouzts, Campaign Director, NC Public Information & Research Group
    Clean Air Now -- Cleaning Up Polluting Power Plants
    

13. June 25
    William H. Bryan, President, "Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Inc."
    My Perspectives on Farm Labor, the FLOC, and Mt. Olive Pickle
    

14. June 11
    Joe Herzenberg, retired historian, Founding Board Member of Equality NC PAC
    Gay Rights: Where Are We Now?
    

15. May 28
    Kate Lovelady, Poet, Social Activist
    The Ethics of Globalism and Civil Disobedience: My Experiences in Washington, DC
    

16. May 14
    Chris Kaman, Adjunct Leader NC Society for Ethical Culture
    Celebrating Ethical Humanism
    

17. April 23
    James Peacock, PhD Professor of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
    Beyond Stones and Bones: An Anthropologist's View of Contemporary Issues
    

18. April 9
    Peter Walz, North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections
    Campaign Finance Reform from the Grassroots
    

19. March 26
    Jone Johnson Lewis, Leader, Northern Virginia Ethical Society
    Back to the Future: Why Do We Need Ethical Culture?
    

20. March 12
    Sandy Smith Institute for Southern Studies
    Uprooting Injustice -- The Story of Farmworkers in America
    

21. February 27
    Randy Best, President, NC Society for Ethical Culture
    The Utopian Visions of Frances Wright: 1795 – 1852
    

22. February 13
    Annual Meeting of Members -- a business meeting for members and friends of NCSEC
    

23. January 23
    Cancelled due to snow & ice storm.
    

24. January 9
    Al McSurely, Lawyer, Civil Rights Adovcate
    The Ethical Choices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.