Sep
20
Thu
What is a Space for Ethics? – Robert Harvey @ La Maison Française
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm

A roundtable based on Sharing Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2017)

ROBERT HARVEY
Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University; author of Witnessness: Beckett, Levi, Dante and the Foundations of Ethics; Les Écrits de Marguerite Duras; De l’exception à la règle; Sharing Common Ground

with

EDWARD S. CASEY (Philosophy, Stony Brook University)

JEANNE ETELAIN (French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU)

Sep
25
Tue
Cencelled – Epistemology and Ethics Workshop @ Plaza View Room, 12th Floor
Sep 25 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm

AY 2018 – 19 Workshop Schedule

September 25th – Avery Archer (GWU)

October 16th – Daniel Singer (Penn)

November 13th – Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany)

February 26th – Vita Emery (Fordham)

March 26th – Kathryn Tabb (Columbia)

April 23rd – Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)

The Epistemology and Ethics group is composed of faculty and graduate students at Fordham and other nearby universities. Papers are read in advance, so the majority of the time is devoted to questions and discussion.

Location: Plaza View Room, 12th Floor, Lowenstein Bldg., 113 West 60th Street. If interested in attending, email dheney[at]fordham[dot]edu.

Oct
4
Thu
The Gift and Weight of Genomic Knowledge: In Search of the Good Biocitizen @ Feil Hall, Forchelli Conference Center, 22nd Floor
Oct 4 – Oct 5 all-day
This knowledge is irrevocable.” So reads an opening line in the terms-of-service agreement for 23andMe, a leading direct-to-consumer genetic testing company. This remarkable phrase attests to an increasing recognition of the role genomic knowledge plays in shaping human life. On the one hand, genomic knowledge is a gift, creating novel insights into the genetic drivers of disease and into the geographical paths of our ancestors. On the other, it is a weight, creating new obligations, new forms of social classification, and new forms of surveillance. Thus, we are faced with a fundamental question: how can we live well in the face of knowledge that can change the criteria, conditions, and lived experience of life? Or, as we formulate that question for this conference, what is a good biocitizen?
This conference aims to take a step back and ask: In what ways can genomic knowledge promote human flourishing, and in what ways might it thwart it?  What are the conditions that shape the biocitizen today, and how ought one act in light of these? Heeding not only the lessons of this history, but also our contemporary socio-political context, we wish to gain clarity on how genomics has shaped and is shaping lived experience. How, against the background of such knowledge, might we leverage genomic knowledge toward a life lived well in health for all?

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

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

REGISTER HERE


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. 

Oct
11
Thu
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology @ Icahn School @Mount Sinai, Annenberg 12-16
Oct 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

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

Oct
13
Sat
The Economics and Ethics of Immigration @ D'Agostino Hall, Lipton Hall Theater
Oct 13 all-day
Join NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study for a one-day conference bringing together philosophers and economists to explore the challenges and promises of immigration.

Philosophers

Sahar Akhtar, University of Virginia
Joseph Carens, University of Toronto
Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Heath Wellman, Washington University, St. Louis

Economists

Leah Boustan, Princeton University
Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development
Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University

Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth
Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis
Chad Sparber, Colgate University

Organizers
K. Anthony Appiah, NYU Philosophy and Law
Jess Behabib, NYU Economics
Giovanni Peri, UC Davis Economics; Director, UC Davis Migration Research Cluster

Daniel Viehoff, NYU Philosophy

Schedule
10:00 a.m. — Coffee & Refreshments, Lipton Hall Atrium
10:15-10:30 a.m. — Opening Remarks
10:30-12:00 p.m. — Economics Panel 1, “Immigrants to the US: Economic Opportunities, Costs, and Contributions to Growth.”
Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development
Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University
Chad Sparber, Colgate University
12:00-1:00 p.m. — Lunch Break
1:00-3:00 p.m.Philosophy Panel, “The Ethics of Exclusion: On What Basis (if Any) May We Keep Others Out?”
Sahar Akhtar, University of Virginia
Joseph Carens, University of Toronto
Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Heath Wellman, Washington University, St. Louis
3:00-3:15 p.m. — Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 p.m. — Economics Panel 2, “What Have We Learned from Economic Research and Historical Experience on Gains, Challenges, and Ways to Manage Immigration?”
Leah Boustan, Princeton University
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth
Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis
4:45-5:00 p.m. — Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 p.m. — Plenary Session
Reception to follow.
Oct
16
Tue
Epistemology and Ethics Workshop @ Plaza View Room, 12th Floor
Oct 16 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm

AY 2018 – 19 Workshop Schedule

September 25th – Avery Archer (GWU)

October 16th – Daniel Singer (Penn)

November 13th – Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany)

February 26th – Vita Emery (Fordham)

March 26th – Kathryn Tabb (Columbia)

April 23rd – Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)

The Epistemology and Ethics group is composed of faculty and graduate students at Fordham and other nearby universities. Papers are read in advance, so the majority of the time is devoted to questions and discussion.

Location: Plaza View Room, 12th Floor, Lowenstein Bldg., 113 West 60th Street. If interested in attending, email dheney[at]fordham[dot]edu.

Oct
29
Mon
Evaluating Chronic Pain in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience @ Faculty House, Columbia U
Oct 29 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm

Speakers:
Amanda Pustilnik, Professor of Law, University of Maryland
Tor Wager, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder

Moderators:
Federica Coppola, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University
Lan Li, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University

We will provide additional information as soon as possible.

Free and open to the public, but RSVP is required via Eventbrite. This event is part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.

Nov
8
Thu
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology @ Icahn School @Mount Sinai, Annenberg 12-16
Nov 8 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

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

Nov
13
Tue
Epistemology and Ethics Workshop @ Plaza View Room, 12th Floor
Nov 13 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm

AY 2018 – 19 Workshop Schedule

September 25th – Avery Archer (GWU)

October 16th – Daniel Singer (Penn)

November 13th – Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany)

February 26th – Vita Emery (Fordham)

March 26th – Kathryn Tabb (Columbia)

April 23rd – Carol Hay (UMass Lowell)

The Epistemology and Ethics group is composed of faculty and graduate students at Fordham and other nearby universities. Papers are read in advance, so the majority of the time is devoted to questions and discussion.

Location: Plaza View Room, 12th Floor, Lowenstein Bldg., 113 West 60th Street. If interested in attending, email dheney[at]fordham[dot]edu.

Dec
4
Tue
How (Not) to Think About Identity, Kwame Anthony Appiah @ Brooklyn Public Library
Dec 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

info soon