Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
All speakers:
9/28/2017:
Eric Chwang
/Rutgers University-Camden
11/2/2017:
Phoebe Friesen
/CUNY Graduate Center
12/14/2017:
Adam Kolber
/Brooklyn Law School
2/8/2018:
Paul Cummins
/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
3/8/2018:
Elizabeth Victor
/William Paterson University
4/19/2018:
Melissa Moschella
/Columbia University
5/24/2018:
Camil Golub
/Rutgers University-Newark
JOIN THE WORKING PAPERS MAILING LIST AND RSVP TO:
nada.gligorov@mssm.edu
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
All speakers:
9/28/2017:
Eric Chwang
/Rutgers University-Camden
11/2/2017:
Phoebe Friesen
/CUNY Graduate Center
12/14/2017:
Adam Kolber
/Brooklyn Law School
2/8/2018:
Paul Cummins
/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
3/8/2018:
Elizabeth Victor
/William Paterson University
4/19/2018:
Melissa Moschella
/Columbia University
5/24/2018:
Camil Golub
/Rutgers University-Newark
JOIN THE WORKING PAPERS MAILING LIST AND RSVP TO:
nada.gligorov@mssm.edu
The three day conference, “Age and Longevity in the 21st Century: Science, Policy, and Ethics”, sponsored by Global Bioethics Initiative, offers a unique opportunity to call attention to the impact of new technologies on the global profile of aging and longevity. By facilitating expert discussion in a unique setting regarding broad-based perspectives on these topics, the conference promotes global thinking, scientific exploration and policy orientation at the individual, social, community and macro-societal level.
Who can present?
Scientists from leading universities, academics, and practitioners with diverse professional backgrounds (biology, biomedical engineering, industry, nursing, medicine, health care administration, ethics, philosophy, theology) who are active in the fields of aging research, regenerative medicine, cryonics and healthy life extension are expected to present at this important conference.
Abstract Proposal Early Deadline: December 15, 2017
Abstract Proposal Regular Deadline: January 15, 2018
Abstract submissions should not exceed 350 words and should include your name, affiliation, a recent photo, and a short biography (150 words). Please send your abstract to alita@globalbioethics.org
Who can attend?
The conference is open to NGO representatives, scientists, the general public, policy-makers, academics, students, activists, and medical professionals from various backgrounds, activists and scientists.
Conference Venue: ONE UN New York Millennium Hotel
ONE UN New York brings the world together with spectacular NYC accommodations and panoramic views. Boasting a 70-million-dollar transformation, the hotel combines a modern aesthetic with form, function, and attention to detail across all 439 guest rooms and suites. Set across from the United Nations Headquarters adjacent to the East River, the hotel’s Midtown East location is simply ideal. Nearby, Manhattan icons such as the Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, the theater district and splendid shopping invite travelers from around the world to explore the city that never sleeps.
Venue Address:
One UN Plaza
New York City, NY 10017
Objectives:
- To bring together leading experts with a broad range of interests related to diverse aspects of aging and research.
- To present outcomes of regenerative medicine, genetic engineering, stem-cell research, and current and potential therapies.
- To critically assess the degree to which such developments impact global health and the status of older persons worldwide.
- To discuss how national governments can create collaborative regulatory and policy environments that will stimulate investment, lower barriers to entry, and encourage dynamic market-based solutions.
For more information about the conference, please contact:
Ana Lita, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Global Bioethics Initiative
Phone: (212) 687-3324
Fax: (212) 661-4188
Email: alita@globalbioethics.org
Website: conferenceaging.org
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
All speakers:
9/28/2017:
Eric Chwang
/Rutgers University-Camden
11/2/2017:
Phoebe Friesen
/CUNY Graduate Center
12/14/2017:
Adam Kolber
/Brooklyn Law School
2/8/2018:
Paul Cummins
/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
3/8/2018:
Elizabeth Victor
/William Paterson University
4/19/2018:
Melissa Moschella
/Columbia University
5/24/2018:
Camil Golub
/Rutgers University-Newark
JOIN THE WORKING PAPERS MAILING LIST AND RSVP TO:
nada.gligorov@mssm.edu
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
All speakers:
9/28/2017:
Eric Chwang
/Rutgers University-Camden
11/2/2017:
Phoebe Friesen
/CUNY Graduate Center
12/14/2017:
Adam Kolber
/Brooklyn Law School
2/8/2018:
Paul Cummins
/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
3/8/2018:
Elizabeth Victor
/William Paterson University
4/19/2018:
Melissa Moschella
/Columbia University
5/24/2018:
Camil Golub
/Rutgers University-Newark
JOIN THE WORKING PAPERS MAILING LIST AND RSVP TO:
nada.gligorov@mssm.edu
DATES:
October 4 and 5, 2018
LOCATION:
Feil Hall, Forchelli Conference Center, 22nd Floor, 205 State Street Brooklyn, New York
Sponsored by The Hastings Center and Brooklyn Law School’s Center for Health, Science and Public Policy; co-sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics
Access the conference flyer here.
SPEAKERS:
| Catherine Bliss (University of California, San Francisco) | Alondra Nelson (Columbia University) |
| Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton University) | Carolyn Neuhaus (The Hastings Center) |
| Eva Kittay (SUNY Stony Brook) | Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz) |
| Melinda Hall (Stetson University) | Sandra Soo-Jin Lee (Stanford University) |
| Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) | Joe Stramondo (San Diego State University) |
| Leslie Larkin (Northern Michigan University) | Jessica Kolopenuk (University of Alberta) |
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Thursday, October 4, 8:15 am – 5:00 pm
REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: 8:15-9:00
- 9:00-9:10 Erik Parens, Welcome on Behalf of The Hastings Center
- 9:10-9:20 Karen Porter Welcome on Behalf of Brooklyn Law School
- 9:20-9:30 Joel Michael Reynolds Welcome and Introductory Remarks
- 9:30-10:20 Colin Koopman “Coding the Self: The Biopolitics & Infopolitics of Genetic Sciences”
SHORT BREAK: 10:20-10:40
- 10:40-11:40 Lesley Larkin “On Contemporary Literature and the ‘Good Bionarrative Citizen”
LUNCH: 11:40-1:00
- 1:00-1:50 Sandra Soo-Jin Lee “How Is Social Networking and Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Shaping The Choices and Conundrums of the Biocitizen?”
- 1:50-2:40 Melinda Hall “On The Language of Risk and the Marginalization of Bodies”
BREAK: 2:40-3:10
- 3:10-4:00 Catherine Clune-Taylor “What Does The History of Medicine Teach about the Advent of Genomics as “Truth” Concerning Categories of Embodiment such as Sex and Sexuality?”
- 4:00-5:00 Joseph Stramondo “How Does Genomics Shape Categories of Disability and How Might the Virtuous Biocitizen Respond?”
Friday, October 5, 2018, 8:15 am – 5:00 pm
REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: 8:15-9:00
- 9:00-9:50 Jessica Kolopenuk “How Does Colonialism and Racism Inform Genomic Knowledge and How Might Such Legacies Be Undermined?”
- 9:50-10:40 Catherine Bliss “Given Genomics’ Potential for Reinscription of Erroneous Notions of Race, How Should One Think about Race Ethically in the Genomic Age?”
SHORT BREAK: 10:40-11:00
- 11:00-11:50 Eva Kittay “How Much of a Gift or Weight Is Genomics from the Perspective of Care?”
LUNCH 11:50-1:00
- 1:00-1:50 Carolyn Neuhaus “On the Rhetoric that Exaggerates the Weight and Elides the Gift”
- 1:50-2:40 Alondra Nelson “The Politics of Genomics in the USA: the OSTP and the PMI”
SHORT BREAK: 2:40-3:00
- 3:00-4:00 Jenny Reardon “How Should We Understand the Relationship between Genomics, Justice, and Democracy?”
- 4:00-5:00 Roundtable Discussion
This conference will have live on-screen captioning and will be livestreamed. Send inquiries about the conference and any accessibility-related requests to reynoldsj@thehastingscenter.org. Requests for a reasonable accommodation based on a disability to attend this event should also be made to Louise Cohen, the BLS Reasonable Accommodations Coordinator, at louise.cohen@brooklaw.edu or (718) 780-0377.
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
Upcoming Speakers:
11 Oct: Jordan Mackenzie, NYU
8 Nov: Susana Nuccetelli, St. Cloud State
13 Dec: Michael Brownstein, John Jay
14 Mar: Kyle Ferguson, CUNY
18 Apr: Jeff Sebo, NYU
23 May: Johann Frick, Princeton
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
Upcoming Speakers:
11 Oct: Jordan Mackenzie, NYU
8 Nov: Susana Nuccetelli, St. Cloud State
13 Dec: Michael Brownstein, John Jay
14 Mar: Kyle Ferguson, CUNY
18 Apr: Jeff Sebo, NYU
23 May: Johann Frick, Princeton
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
Upcoming Speakers:
11 Oct: Jordan Mackenzie, NYU
8 Nov: Susana Nuccetelli, St. Cloud State
13 Dec: Michael Brownstein, John Jay
14 Mar: Kyle Ferguson, CUNY
18 Apr: Jeff Sebo, NYU
23 May: Johann Frick, Princeton
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted to a discussion of the paper. The speakers will make their papers available in advance of their presentation to those who sign up for the Working Papers mailing list.
Upcoming Speakers:
11 Oct: Jordan Mackenzie, NYU
8 Nov: Susana Nuccetelli, St. Cloud State
13 Dec: Michael Brownstein, John Jay
14 Mar: Kyle Ferguson, CUNY
18 Apr: Jeff Sebo, NYU
23 May: Johann Frick, Princeton