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"Ethics and Current Events: Understanding the Paris Attacks" is the subject of a panel discussion scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, in the Johnson Auditorium in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration building at Coastal Carolina University. Shuttle buses will be available to take participants from the YY parking lot (across from the Cove Apartments on S.C. 544) to the Wall building and back. View the campus parking lot map at coastal.edu/media/administration/publicsafety/pdf/ccu_map.pdf.

Five CCU professors will lead the discussion about the Nov. 13 attacks that killed at least 129 and wounded at least another 352 people at venues across Paris.

In this panel discussion, CCU faculty members will explain factors contributing to the attacks, reflect on what France's response means for the future and explain ethical issues in military engagement in an age of terrorism. The group will examine ISIS and discuss why Paris was targeted, as well as what this event means for the United States.

Discussion topics include: French colonialism and the treatment of Muslims in France; ISIS and its relationship to the Islamic world; different denominations of Islam in the Middle East, Asia and the West; the future of ISIS, its capabilities, recent growth and recruitment strategies; the relationship between the terrorist attacks on Paris, Ankara, Turkey, and Beirut, Lebanon; and ethical questions regarding military and terrorist tactics, civilian and military targets, mercenaries, and drone warfare.

Panelists include:

* Emily Crookston, lecturer of philosophy (ethics of war and terrorism)

* Joseph Fitsanakis, assistant professor of politics (intelligence and national security studies)

* Chris Gunn, assistant professor of history (modern Middle East)

* Jeffrey Halverson, assistant professor of religious studies (Islamic studies)

- Julinna C. Oxley, acting chair, Department of Philosophy, will moderate

* Philip Whalen, professor of history (modern France)

For more information, contact Oxley at 843-349-6548 or joxley@coastal.edu.