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Title: Disobeying legal butUnethical Orders in the Military

Abstract: Should a militaryofficer disobey a legal but unethical order? Ethics here refers to professional “ethos” of the military.  Like doctors and lawyers, the military officeris a professional with a set of ethics that legitimize and binds itspower.  The officer’s training does notprovide a clear answer to this article’s initial question.  In fact, officers are pulled in oppositedirections by two rival imperatives.  Thefirst imperative comes from the law and requires an officer to obey all legal orders,regardless of its ethical content. The second imperative, based on an officer’sprofessional obligation as sworn in the Oath to the Constitution, requiresdefiance of the unethical order. At stake is the fate of liberal democracy withboth imperatives claiming that they and they alone can protective the republicfrom military overreach. The nightmare scenario that dramatizes the conflictingimperatives is if the President issues a legal order that undermines democracy.In living memory, perhaps the closest the United States came to realizing thishypothetical was in the summer of 2020 President Donald Trump threatened toinvoke the Insurrection Act to command active-duty military soldiers to clearout Black Lives Matters protestors from the capitol. In response, Mark Milley,the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highest-ranking military officerin the nation, released a memo that plausibly could be interpreted as directingsoldiers to resist or defy the President because obedience would violate theofficer’s constitutional oath.  Based onoriginal research, this article lays out the contradiction on the issue ofdisobeying orders in the legal and ethical training of military officers,especially at West Point.  Next, I arguethat Milley’s memo bears the influence of West Point’s ethical training.  

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Title: “When Life Happens – Critical moments in the making ofbelonging” 

Abstract: In this talk, I examine ways in which unfamiliar orunanticipated moments become critical and intertwine in the making of belonging.By critical moments I refer to events which rupture the ordinary in personallives (e.g. birth, death and illness) or collective lives (e.g. 9/11, war,covid-19 and political conflict). Such moments often reveal underlying socialdynamics and change people’s identifications and belonging with long-termconsequences. Drawing on different multi-sited ethnographic studies on criticalmoments on one hand, in urban neighborhoods in Helsinki and NYC, and on theother, in Finnish health care and community settings, the talk discusses howunanticipated moments of life may be consequential for belonging, revealing itsunexpected frailty and emergence. In theorizing critical moments and their rolein the making of belonging, I draw on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of moments andGeorg Simmel’s late life philosophy. Critical moments offer a window tosociologically understand how our lives and social webs of belonging unfold notonly from our actions, relations and structures, but also from organic,material and/or affective ‘life’ that eventually transcends all forms. Times ofrupture reveal how fragile life is and call for what we call ‘belonging work’(Kuurne & Vieno 2022) that can be seen as relational work concerned withshaping situational interactions, webs of relationships, social boundaries, andmaterials and rhythms as dimensions of belonging. How do human actors andcommunities relationally face critical moments and actively mold their webs ofbelonging?

Bio: Kaisa Kuurne, Ph.D. in sociology (University of Helsinki,2010), works as Lecturer in Sociology at the Universities of Turku andHelsinki, Finland. She has been a Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge,New York University (2011-15) organizing a Working Group entitled ‘BelongingToday’, and visited several universities in UK, Spain, Switzerland and Germany.Her research has concerned relationality, social bonds and belonging indifferent settings, e.g. family and personal relationships, urban neighborhoods,health care and social theory. At the moment, she leads two projects, firstly aresearch project entitled ‘Battles over Birth – Finnish Birth Culture inTransition (Kone Foundation, 2020-25), involving five researchers, andsecondly, a higher education work package that as a part of a large EuropeanAcademies4Ukraine – Initiative (Erasmus, 2023-26) supports Ukrainian studentsduring wartime. Her work has appeared in journals like Sociology, EuropeanSocieties and City & Community.

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Title: Be Bear Aware! The Cuddly Nationalism of Formosan Black Bear.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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Website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/pcs/

PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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Contact Chaeyoon Lim (chaeyoon.lim@wisc.edu) or Anna Milewski (aomilewski@wisc.edu) with questions.

Website: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/pcs/

PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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PCS meets on Tuesdays at 12:30–2:00 PM in Room 8108, Sewell Social Sciences Building.

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