Events
Upcoming events Spring 2012- check back regularly for updates!
January 25 - Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location:Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: How the neuroscience of decision making informs our conception of autonomy, facilitated by Neuroethics Scholar (grad student in Psychology) Jason Shepard
January 25 - HCECG Workshop
Time: 8:00am-3:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 102
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January 26: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: TBA
January 26: Dramatic Scene Readings from "Fairy Tale Lives of Russian Girls"
Partnership with Alliance Theatre
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis:The eighth winner of our nationally recognized Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition is set amongst the swirling domes of the church in Red Square. Moscow seems like a fairytale to twenty year old Annie, an American in search of her roots. But when the lines between Russian fairytales and Annie’s reality start to blur - and then vanish – things get seriously dicey.
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Written by Meg Miroshnik
Directed by Eric Rosen
February Photo Exhibit: Aaron Henderson
February 8 - Ethics at the Movies - Education Under Fire
Time: 6:00pm
Location:Center for Ethics Room 102
Synopsis: Education Under Fire is produced by Single Arrow Productions and co-sponsored by Amnesty International. The 30-minute documentary profiles the growth, struggle, and inspiring spirit of the Baha´i Institute for Higher Education. Baha´is in Iran have been subjected to systematic persecution, including arrests, torture, and execution simply for refusing to recant their beliefs. They are also prohibited from going to college (and blocked from many professions).
February 21 - Lecture with Angus Dawson, Ph.D.
Lecture Title: "In Defense of Substantive Public Health Ethics"
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies Building (PAIS), Room 290
36 Eagle Row
Synopsis: Work relating to public health ethics has exploded over the last ten years. Does this explosion merely represent adding a new set of public health topics (e.g., quarantine, isolation, contact tracing, banning smoking in public places, banning trans-fat in food, etc.) to the issues that medical ethics and bioethics address? Against this narrow interpretation of public health ethics, Dr. Dawson will argue that public health ethics demands its own approach built upon the recognition of public health activity as a distinctive kind of practice with a distinct set of aims, methods and values. Examples from both communicable and non-communicable disease interventions will illustrate the challenges facing the emerging field of public health ethics.
Co-sponsored by: Emory University Center for Ethics, Rollins School of Public Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
February 21 - Lecture with Korean Contemporary Artist, Song Byeok
Time: 4:30pm
Location: White Hall 112
Sponsored by The Center for Ethics, Emory Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Visual Arts Department, The Institute of Human Rights, and the Emory Korean Undergraduate Student Association
In addition, The Goat Farm has reserved a time for a private artist-led tour
of the exhibit for Emory students Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at 6:00 p.m.
Address:
The Goat Farm Atlanta
1200 Foster St NW,
Atlanta, GA 30318
February 22 - Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: Examining the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Work-place Deviance, facilitated by Neuroethics Program Associate Dr. Gillian Hue
February 23: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: "Mind Over Matter? Placebo and Psychogenic Movement Disorders" presented by Karen Rommelfanger
Synopsis: Psychogenic movement disorders (PMD) mimic known movement disorders, yet cannot be attributed to an underlying neurological substrate. PMD is generally associated with a psychological origin and placebo therapy has recently been advocated for PMD. In this discussion, we will explore the neurobiology of PMD and placebo therapy as well as the ethical issues around current contexts of care for PMD patients
February 29 - "Tangled in the Briar Patch"
Time:7:00pm
Center for Ethics Room 102
Synopsis: The beloved Br’er Rabbit stories have been interpreted and presented in many different ways throughout the years. Join us for “Tangled in the Briarpatch: Tricksters, Underdogs, and Br'er Rabbit” an ethical exploration of the Br’er Rabbit stories accompanied by storytelling by Wren’s Nest Rambler, Akbar Imhotep, and a performance of an excerpt from The Atlanta Opera’s Rabbit Tales, an opera for children.
Engage with a panel of experts as they discuss how different audiences and periods have viewed, understood, and judged these stories. Panelists will include Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Emory professor of English and African American Studies, Lain Shakespeare, member of the Joel Chandler Harris Association Board of Directors, and Madeleine St. Romain, the librettist of Rabbit Tales. Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, Director of the Emory University Center for Ethics, will moderate.
This program, a collaboration between The Atlanta Opera and the Center for Ethics, is presented through the Center’s Ethics & the Arts Initiative and with financial support from the Georgia Humanities Council.
March 1 - Lecture with Susan M. Reverby, Ph.D.
Lecture Title: "Escaping Melodramas: The U.S. STD 1946-48 Experiments in Guatemala and their Aftermath"
Time:5:00pm
Location: Emory School of Medicine - Room 120
Synopsis: Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted human subject experiments in Guatemala that involved the use of diseased sex workers, inoculation of unsuspecting subjects with bacterial inoculum, and failure to treat participants when infection followed. The results of the study were never published and the study was unknown until historian of medicine Susan M. Reverby unexpectedly discovered records of the study among the PI's papers at the University of Pittsburgh. In this lecture, Reverby will discuss how she found the papers, brought them to the attention of the CDC, and witnessed the aftermath--apologies at the federal level and the swift investigation by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, of which the Vice Chair is Emory President James W. Wagner.
Co-sponsored by: The Emory University IRB, the Emory University Center for Ethics, and the Rollins School of Public Health
March 3 - Atlanta Music Project Winter Concert
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Emory University Center for Ethics
Following the performance, there will be a reception and unveiling of a photo exhibit chronicling the first year of the Atlanta Music project, by AMP Photographer, Carlton Mackey.
Presented by the Center's Ethics and Arts Initiative and in collaboration with the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.
March 7 - Lecture with Jason Karlawish, MD
Lecture Title: "Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont"
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Jason Karlawish will read from and discuss his recently published novel "Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont." Based on true events along the 19th century American frontier, Open Wound artfully fictionalizes the complex, lifelong relationship between Dr. Beaumont and his famous patient Alexis St. Martin, a young fur trapper whose shotgun injury never completely healed, leaving a hole into his stomach. Eager to rise up from his humble origins and insecure about his rural medical apprenticeship, Beaumont seized the opportunity to experiment on his patient to establish his legitimacy as an elite physician and secure his prosperity. Beaumont personifies the best and worst aspects of American ambition and power.
The author is a physician and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania
March 13 and 14 - The Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia Annual Conference (HCECG)
Conference Title: "Mixed Messages: Ethical Tensions in Healthcare Conversations"
Keynote Speaker: Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS
Location: Emory Center for Ethics
2012 Conference Agenda
March 22 - Clinical Ethics Seminar with Jonathan Crane
Title: “Don’t Tell Anyone, But…: Secrets and Privacy, Religiously Considered.”
Time: 5:00pm
Locations: Center for Ethics 162
March 22 - World Water Day
Women and Water: Empowering Women to Create a Sustainable Future
A national environmental advocate and ecoliving expert, Laura Turner Seydel is chair of the Captain Planet Foundation, which supports hands-on environmental projects for youth in grades K–12. The foundation’s objective is to encourage innovative activities that empower children around the world to work individually and collectively as environmental stewards. Seydel will discuss the impact of women’s rights on environmental
conservation and global access to safe water.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Co-sponsorship with the Center for Women at Emory
March 28 - May 14 - Artwork Exhibit with Sal Brownfield
Title:Celebration of Healing: Lives Touched by Breast Cancer and Testimony and Shelter
Location: Emory University Center for Ethics
The Emory University Center for Ethics through its Ethics & the Arts Initiative proudly exhibits the artwork of renowned Atlanta-based artist, Sal Brownfield. Brownfield's complete series titled Testimony and Shelter is comprised of forty pieces. The work, Brownfield says, “gives voice to all who are disenfranchised, forgotten and abused.”
Eleven of those pieces currently grace the walls of the Center for Ethics through May 14. Four of these paintings are part of a subset of work entitled Celebration of Healing: Lives Impacted by Breast Cancer.
Sal Brownfield’s work is a testament to the power of healing through art because it portrays human triumph in the face of tragedy.
The Center for Ethics will host two receptions and artist talks with Brownfield:
April 12
Brownfield will discuss the transforming experience of creating the Celebration of Healing series. The Center will welcome the real-life, courageous individuals in the paintings as they share stories about "the process of living, the energy healing required, and an appreciation for being alive".
More information to come.
April 26
Brownfield will discuss the entire Testimony and Shelter series and more about Night Ride In a Strange Land, a reflection of Brownfield's experience with bi-polar depression.
More information to come.
"A Celebration of Healing was emotionally and physically draining but I never felt it to be an impossible journey nor was I ever discouraged. The trust given to me by these courageous women and men allowed me to be free to do the work. As the project came to an end my studio became home away from home. Each morning, coffee in hand, I walked down the row of paintings lined up side-by-side against the walls. In the calmness of the figures and the chaos of the stained glass backgrounds my studio became a sanctuary."
March 28 - Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics 150
April 4 - Global Health Life Raft Debate
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Claudia Nance Rollins Auditorium/Rollins School of Public Health
1525 Clifton Road
Presented by Emory Center for Ethics and The Public Health Ethics Club
Synopsis: Imagine there has been an apocalyptic disaster. The sole survivors (the audience) have built a life raft to take them to a new land, where they will have the opportunity to
build a new society.
Experts from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds in Global Health will vie for the one remaining space on the life raft, each presenting an argument for why their
particular expertise will be the most valuable to the health of the future society, and refuting the others claims for the only spot left to save humanity. Costumes, props,
humor, and general debauchery are encouraged.
At the end of the debate, the audience will cast votes for whomever they feel has earned their place on the life raft – though it may be that the “Devil’s Advocate” wins the
debate by convincing the audience not to take any of the experts on board.
For more information email phethics@emory.edu
April 5 - Free Speech Cafe'
Time: 7pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Spoken Word. Art. Musical Performances. Express Yourself
April 9 - Neuroscience and Ethics Award
Time: 4:00pm
Location: WSHCAB AUD
Award Presented to Steven Hyman, M.D.,Former Provost of Harvard and Director of NIMH
SPEAKING ON: Addiction as a Window on Volitional Control
Sponsored by: THE NEUROETHICS PROGRAM OF THE CENTER FOR ETHICS, YERKES NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER and THE NEUROSCIENCE INITIATIVE
April 11 - Artist Talk with Sal Brownfield - Celebration of Healing: Lives Impacted by Breast Cancer
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics
Synopsis: The Emory University Center for Ethics through its Ethics & the Arts Initiative proudly exhibits the artwork of renowned Atlanta-based artist, Sal Brownfield. Brownfield's complete series titled Testimony and Shelter is comprised of forty pieces. The work, Brownfield says, “gives voice to all who are disenfranchised, forgotten and abused.”
Eleven of those pieces currently grace the walls of the Center for Ethics through May 14. Four of these paintings are part of a subset of work entitled Celebration of Healing: Lives Impacted by Breast Cancer.
April 12 - Symposium Sickle Cell Disease: Equity and Ethics
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Loction: Psychology Building, Room 290
Synopsis: There will be a keynote address and panel discussion on bioethics in sickle cell disease. The talks will discuss the racialization of the disease, social determinants, public policy, treatment and care. Confirmed participants include Dr. Carlton Haywood, Jr. from the Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Camara P. Jones from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Bruce Mitchell from the School of Medicine.
Co-sponsored by Program for Science and Society, the Race and Difference Initiative, and the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts.
April 18 - GMC TV World Premiere of Heaven's Rain
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Room 252 Center for Ethics/Candler School of Theology
Synopsis: The movie is told through the eyes of Brooks Douglass, who suffered an unthinkable attack when two strangers entered his home and claimed the life of his mother and father who were Baptist missionaries. It was in 1979 when Brooks and his sister Leslie were teenagers that a drug-crazed drifter Glen Ake and his partner Steven Hatch invaded the Douglass’ rural Oklahoma home. Brooks opened the door to what he believed to be a man in need. The men pulled out guns, bound the family, repeatedly assaulted Leslie and shot all four family members. Richard and Marilyn died at the scene. Brooks and Leslie, left for dead, recovered from their severe wounds, but their ordeal had just begun.
http://www.watchgmctv.com/
April 26 - Clinical Ethics Seminar
Title: Getting to Yes in Health Care: Using Conflict Management Skills to Resolve Ethics Cases and Promote Quality of Care
Presenter: Charity Scott, JD, MSCM - Director for the Center for Law Health & Society, Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law at Georgia State University
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Ethics, Seminar Room 162
Synopsis: Many conflicts in health care between providers and patients or their families can raise difficult ethical questions, as well as take a considerable emotional and psychological toll on all concerned. Effective resolution of these dilemmas often depend on competency in the kinds of interpersonal communication skills and conflict management skills which are taught to mediators, negotiators, and facilitators. Moreover, The Joint Commission has identified conflict management throughout the health care organization as a critical component of ensuring the quality and safety of patient care. As part of its overall goal that health care organizations promote cultures of quality and safety, the Commission’s recent accreditation standards require conflict management processes for leadership groups and medical staff matters, as well as require leaders to address disruptive behaviors that intimidate others and affect morale or staff turnover. This seminar will provide an overview of significant developments in conflict engagement in health care.
May 25 - Neuroethics Student Symposium
Title: "The Truth About Lies, The Neuroscience, Law, and Ethics of Technologies for Lie Detection"
Time: 1:00pm-5:00pm
Location:School of Medicine Auditorium
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August 20 - Freshman Orientation
Time: 8:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Woodruff Physical Education Center
Synopsis: Center for Ethics staff meets and greets with the incoming Class of 2015 at Emory’s Student Orientation Resource Fair at the Woodruff Physical Education Center.
August 22-23 – Bioethics Basics Workshop
Time: All day
Location: Center for Ethics
Synopsis: The Center for Ethics invite the Master of Bioethics students to the our Bioethics Basic Workshop.
August 23 - Graduate School Orientation
Time: Noon – 2:30pm
Location: Cox Ballroom
August 25 - Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time:5pm
Location: Center for Ethics Conference Room 150
Titile: Squelching Temptations of Health Insurance Fraud
August 30 - Rosemary Tong Lecture (Speaker Series)
Time: 5pm
Location: James B. William Medical Education Bldg, Room 110; Emory School of Medicine
Synopsis: Internationally recognized for her contributions to feminist thought and bioethics, Dr. Tong is widely published and has served on numerous boards and committees, providing expert advice and oversight regarding issues such as health care reform, genetic and reproductive technology, biomedical research, and ethics and public policy. Previously Thatcher Professor in Medical Humanities at Davidson College, Dr. Tong came to UNC Charlotte in the fall of 1999.
September 1-25 Photo Exhibit: Windows and Mirrors
Location: Center for Ethics
Synopsis: Windows and Mirrors is a travelling mural exhibit that makes a powerful statement on a nearly invisible reality. The forty-five unique panels created by international artists and US students help us imagine the experience of Afghan civilians - from death and destruction to hopes for peace. Drawings by Afghan students in Kabul – collected in June 2010 – provide an up close look at life in a war zone.
At over 900 square feet, this mural is not a single painting, but an oversized statement on the human cost of war. It is not the voice of one person, but that of an engaged artistic community. Their collective voice comes through with power and volume, speaking to us on both intellectual and emotional levels.
The "windows" they have created to help us feel the impact on the Afghan people, become "mirrors" reflecting our own identity as citizens of a nation at war — and call us to act.
September 7 - 9/11 10th Anniversary Event
Time: Noon
Location: Asbury Circle
Synopsis: The Center for Ethics along with the Wonderful Wednesday Moderators invite you to attend the 9/11 10th Anniversary commemorative/memorial celebration.
September 7 - Memory and Memorialization: What Should Sept 11 Mean?
Time: 4pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
September 10 - College Night at the High
Time: 7pm – Midnight
Location: High Museum of Art
September 12 - Requiem for the Innocent – Memorial to 9/11 with Sal Brownfield
Time: 6pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
September 13 – Islamophobia: The Impact on American life
Time: 6pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
September 14 - Ethics at the Movies
Last Train Home
Time: 6pm
Location: Center for Ethics, Commons 102
Synopsis: Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year in the world’s largest human migration. Last Train Home takes viewers on a heart-stopping journey with the Zhangs, a couple who left infant children behind for factory jobs 16 years ago, hoping their wages would lift their children to a better life. They return to a family growing distant and a daughter longing to leave school for unskilled work. As the Zhangs navigate their new world, Last Train Home paints a rich, human portrait of China’s rush to economic development. An EyeSteelFilm production in association with ITVS International. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media. An Official Selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Winner of Best Feature-Length Documentary Award, 2009 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
September 19 - HCECG Advanced Ethics Workshop
POSTPONED to a later date
September 21 - Holly Tucker Lecture (Speaker Series)
Lecture Title: Blood in the Scientific Revolution: Science, Society and the First Transfusions
Time: 5pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Discussion of the history of the earliest blood experiments in 17th century France and the controversies they sparked.
Collaboration with Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University and the Emory Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies
September 22 - Clinical Ethics Seminar
Title: "Does Hope Make Us Vulnerable?: Implications of a Christian Understanding of Patienthood"
Presenter: Cory Labrecque, PhD
Time: 5pm
Location: Center for Ethics Conference Room 150
September 25 - Alliance Theater "Broke" panel discussion with Paul Root Wolpe
Time: After 2:30pm matinee
Location: Alliance Theater/Hertz Theater
October - Photo Exhibit: The Mind’s Eye: A photo exhibit of Tibetan monks painting sand mandalas
Synopsis: The Mind's Eye is an exhibit of Myron McGhee's photographs of Tibetan monks painting sand mandalas at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
While the monks focus their attention on the artistic elements of creating the sand mandala, they also devote their minds to meditation for the healing of the earth. Observing their sacred practice, our eyes are drawn to the exquisite beauty of their art, and our minds are inspired by their religious devotion.
This collection of photographs will be on exhibit at various venues on Emory's campus throughout the 2011-2012 academic year. The exhibit is curated by Juana Clem McGhee and made possible through generous support from the university and other organizations in the Atlanta area.
To view exhibits online, go to: http://www.myron.smugmug.com/sand-mandalas
The exhibit is made possible with generous support from:
Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts
Center for Ethics
Program in Science and Society
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Department of Religion
Institute of Liberal Arts
Office of Religious Life
Emory Alumni Association
Emory-Tibet Partnership
Drepung Loseling Monastery
Mystical Arts of Tibet
Showcase Photo and Video
Toco Hill Picture Framing
October 4 - Eva Mozes Kor (Speaker Series)
Lecture Title: "Forgiving the Unforgiveable: Mengele and the Holocaust"
Time: 7pm
Location: Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church
Synopsis:Eva Mozes Kor will present her notion of the architecture of forgiveness in a recent film, Forgiving Dr. Mengele, which documents her struggle with the pain of victimization and her controversial decision to forgive. She will discuss themes from this film, which is available on DVD, at her visit to Emory.
Co-sponsors: Office of Research Compliance, Jewish Studies Program, Department of Religion, Office of Religious Life, The Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Initiative, and Candler School of Theology
October 5 - Eva Mozes Kor
Time: 12pm
Location: Harland Cinema
Co-sponsors: Office of Research Compliance, Jewish Studies Program, Department of Religion, Office of Religious Life, The Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Initiative, and Candler School of Theology
October 12 - Ethics at the Movies
Title: "Disabled but Able to Rock"
Time: 6pm
Location: Center for Ethics, Room 102
Partnership with Real Abilities Film Festival
Synopsis:Disabled But Able To Rock follows the life of Betsy Goodrich, a high-functioning autistic woman and her singing superhero alter ego, Danger Woman. As Danger Woman, Betsy fights the Tri-phobes: Race-ophobia; Homophobia; and Disable-phobia, with her high-octave voice and her eccentric group of friends from the underground subculture of Atlanta. Danger Woman has made a cultural impact in her hometown by assisting in the founding of the comic convention DragonCon, recording 6 full albums, and performing at various cultural events. Her exploits even inspired the rock band, The Aqua Bats, to write a song based on her titled “Danger Woman.”
October 18 - Private Conversation with Tovah Feldshuh ("Golda's Balcony")
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Emory Winship Ballroom
Synopsis: The play follows the life of Golda Meir – from Russian immigrant to American schoolteacher to the epicenter of international politics as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Gibson's drama pits Meir against Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger with the threatened launch of nuclear weapons against her enemies, unless the U.S. comes to her country’s aid. In turn deeply funny and frighteningly prescient, Golda’s Balcony poses the altogether too contemporary question of What if the Middle East exploded?
Partnership with Atlanta's Alliance Theater at the Woodruff
October 19: Neuroethics Journal Club
Led by John Banja: The neuropsychology of prototype theory: can moral conservatism survive?
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
October 21-23 – Internet for Artists Professional Development Workshop
Time: 9am-4pm
Location: Center for Ethics
Synopsis: WonderRoot and Alternate ROOTS have partnered with the Ethics and the Arts Initiative at the Emory University Center for Ethics to offer a professional development training opportunity for artists of diverse disciplines. Internet for Artists, a weekend long workshop by Creative Capital, will teach artists how to use the power of the web to promote their work.
October 27 - Clinical Ethics Seminar
Title: "The Move Towards Risk Assessment Medicine"
Presenter: Paul Root Wolpe, PhD
Time: 5pm
Location: Center for Ethics Conference Room 150
October 27 – Conversation with Artist: Timothy Archibald, Echolilia
Time: 6pm
Location: Center for Ethics, Room 102
Synopsis: Timothy Archibald, celebrated San Francisco based commercial photographer, struggled to connect with his five-year old firstborn, Eli—the tension in their home was palpable—until Timothy started looking at his son through his camera. Together, the two orchestrated a portrait series that depicts dreamy, intimate images not only of Eli but of childhood itself, riddled as it is with mystery and fantasy. In doing so, Archibald documents the burgeoning of a newly charted relationship with his son. Through their creative collaboration, empowerment came to both Timothy and Eli. Timothy found a way to dial-in to Eli’s different channel, thereby breaching the previously challenging obstacle posed by his son’s autistic proclivities. And Eli found a powerful mirror both of his robust, imaginative childhood and his renewed bond with his dad.
In this program, Dr. Rosemary Garland-Thomson will lead a discussion with Timothy about ECHOLILI paying special attention to the representation of disability, the collaborative role of father and son, the power of looking, and the role this project has played not only in Eli’s life and development but also in the Archibald family as a whole.
November 9 - Ethics at the Movies
Title: HBO Documentary Film Sergio:One Man's Fight to Save the World
Time: 6pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power’s biography Chasing the Flame, SERGIO revolves around the story of Sergio Vieira de Mello - the world’s “go-to guy,” a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy who’d probably seen more misery, more human suffering than any man of his generation.
Ethics and Arts Initiative partnership with Emory's Institute of Human Rights
November 16: Neuroethics Journal Club
Led by Paul Root Wolpe
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
November 16 - State of Race with Spike Lee
Time: 8pm
Location: Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church
Partnership with Emory's College Council and the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services
November 17 - Clinical Ethics Seminar
Title: A Drop of Water On the Moon: A Story About the Normalization of Deviance and a $15 Million Malpractice Settlement
Presenter: John Banja, PhD
Time: 5pm
Location: Center for Ethics Conference Room 162
November 29 - Lecture with Adam Zachary Newton
Title - An Extreme Attention to the Real: The September 11th Memorial, Pascal’s postmortem, and the Ethics of Reading
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Seminar Room 162
Synopsis: What are the ethics of reading--as claims and responsibilities? What is "the ethics of reading"--as a program or critical practice? Taking its cues from a passage of non-fiction by philosopher Anthony Appiah, a passage from literary fiction by novelist W. G. Sebald, the newly opened September 11th memorial, and a little-known discovery about the death of Blaise Pascal, Dr. Newton will tie ethics to the event of reading, where "rubbing the text," in Emmanuel Levinas's unusual phrase, represents what that philosopher also calls "an extreme attention to the Real."
November 29 - Bonus Movie Night
Title: The Whale
Time: 7pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis:The Whale tells the true story of a young, wild killer whale - an orca – nicknamed Luna, who lost contact with his family on the coast of British Columbia and turned up alone in a narrow stretch of sea between mountains, a place called Nootka Sound.
For more details visit: http://www.thewhalemovie.com/story.php
November 30 - Ethics Arts Café
Time: 7pm
Location: Center for Ethics, Room 102
Synopsis: The Center for Ethics host the collected work of various on campus artist in a night filled with spoken word, musical performance, and . . .
December 14: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
December 15 - Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5pm
Location: Center for Ethics Conference Room 162
Title: New Uses of Public Health Surveillance Data to Improve HIV Care and Reduce Transmission: The Ethical Challenges of Innovation
Presenters: Leonard Ortmann, PhD Public Health Ethicist, Office of Scientific Integrity Office of the Associate Director of Science, Office of the Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Patricia Sweeney, MPH HIV Incidence and Case Surveillance Branch Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Spring 2011 Events
January 16 – NO H8 Atlanta Campaign
Time: 3pm – 7pm
Location: W Atlanta - Midtown
Synopsis: The NOH8 Campaign is a photographic silent protest created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley in direct response to the passage of Proposition 8. Photos feature subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with "NOH8" painted on one cheek in protest.
January 18 – Annual Neuroscience and Ethics Award Lecture, with Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
Collaboration with Emory Graduate Neuroscience Program
Lecture Title: Determinism, Consciousness and Free Will
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Harland Cinema
January 25 – State of Race with Soledad O’ Brien
Partnership with Emory College Council and the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church
January 27 – Clinical Ethics Seminar - CANCELLED
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Conference Room 150
January 31 – Ethics @ the Movies
Film Title: Lesson Plan
Partnership with Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Collaboration with Emory Department of Film and Media Studies and Emory Hillel
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Lesson Plan is a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teacher of the 1967 Third Wave experiment. This exercise in fascism took place in Palo Alto, California. Within one week, 30 students grew to 200 as the Third Wave took on a life of its own, and the students unwittingly
re-enacted the roots of the Third Reich.
February 2 – Dramatic Readings from “Carapace”
Winner 2010 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition
Partnership with the Alliance Theater
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Ethics Center Commons 102
Synopsis: Jeff is a man on a mission to do right by his daughter on her 23rd birthday. First – figure out where she lives. Second – find an open pet store. Third – navigate his Oldsmobile past the wrecked 35W Bridge. Fourth – stop for a drink. Just one.
February 9 – Lecture by Paul Rabinow, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology at University of California at Berkeley
The Figure of Dual-Use
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
February 11 – HCECG Ethics Committee Workshop
Time: 8:45am
Location: Ethics Center Commons 102
Synopsis: This one-day workshop will provide foundational information and interactive explanation about the roles and responsibilities of Ethics Committees and committee members. Content information is interspersed with models and small group discussions that allow for integration of knowledge with skills. Ample opportunity is provided for active attendee participation.
February 16 – Dramatic Readings from “Porgy and Bess”
Partnership with Atlanta Opera
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
February 22 - The Dhamma Brothers
Time: 6:00pm
Location: 205 White Hall
Co-sponsorship with Emory's Department of Religion. Graduate Division of Religion, Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Initiative, Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies and the Department of Film and Media Studies
Synopsis: Emory University is proud to sponsor a showing of this nationally acclaimed documentary by Jennie Philips about teaching Vipassana meditation in the Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison outside of Birmingham, Alabama. The film will be followed by a Q&A session with Warden Gary Hetzel of Donaldson Prison & Dr. Ron Cavanaugh, Director of Treatment for Alabama DOC, both of whom have been integrally involved in organizing these ten-day retreats for not only inmates but also prison staff. Members of the Southeast Vipassana Association will also be present.
**DATE CHANGE** February 24 – Ethics @ the Movies
For Neda with Saeed Kamali Dehghan,
Film’s co- producer and Foreign Press Media Journalist of the Year
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Ethics Center Commons 102
Synopsis: "For Neda" is the story of Neda Agha-Soltan whose tragic death on June 20, 2009 came to symbolize for many the struggle in Iran. Her dying was caught on cell phones by fellow demonstrators. Footage of her tragic death spread virally on YouTube and brought public attention to the crisis in Iran after all official journalists were forced to leave the country
February 28 - Ethics and Arts Initiative: Artist Talk with Cindy Brown
"Religious Diversity In Mississippi: More Than Southern Baptists"
A photo exhibit by Cindy Brown
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics
Synopsis: These photos, taken by Candler graduate and international award-winning photojournalist Cindy Brown, show a part of Mississippi most people never encounter or even consider. They document a portion of the rich religious diversity in Mississippi including: Buddhists in Biloxi; Hindus in Jackson; Muslims in Sumrall, Hispanic Catholics in Hattiesburg, Pagans in Ovette, German Baptists in Hot Coffee, Episcopalians at Camp Bratton-Green and a Jewish community in Hattiesburg with a rabbi who hosts people from around the world who wish to convert to Judaism.
March 1 - “Catholicism and Evolution: Problem or Opportunity”
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Co-sponsorship with Candler School of Theology and The Program for Science and Society at Emory
March 10 and 11 – Health Care Consortium of Georgia Annual Conference
Conference Title: "Help or Hindrance? The Role of Emotions in Bioethical Decision Making"
Time: 8:30am
Location: Ethics Center Commons 102
March 16 – Ethics @ the Movies
Art of the Steal
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.
March 17 - Modern Day Slavery Museum Exhibit
Time: 8:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Traffic circle at Dickey Dr. and Asbury Circle
Synopsis: The Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum consists of a cargo truck outfitted as a replica of the trucks involved in a recent slavery operation (U.S. v. Navarrete, 2008), accompanied by displays on the history and evolution of slavery in Florida. The museum's central focus is on the phenomenon of modern-day slavery – its roots, the reasons it persists, and its solutions. The exhibits were developed in consultation with workers who have escaped from forced labor operations as well as leading academic authorities on slavery and labor history in Florida.
March 17 – Lecture with Ilina Singh
Lecture Title: Silence, Stigma and Stimulants: ADHD in America
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Harland Cinema
March 30 - Second Annual Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild Memorial Seminar
Synopsis: The Rothschild seminar was established two years ago to memorialize Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild, who as rabbi of The Temple in Atlanta, advocated civil rights, helped organize the local honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. when he received the Nobel Peace Price, and led his own congregation through the trauma of a terrorists' bomb planted in the Peachtree Road synagogue by white supremacists in 1958. Each year we bring a speaker to address issues connected with the career and concerns of Rabbi Rothschild, such as Black-Jewish relations, civil rights, Judaism and social justice, and themes related to modern Jewish life and identity more broadly.
April 12 – Lecture with Noam Zohar, Ph.D
Professor of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University
"Philosophical Reflections on Israel's New Transplantation Law"
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Rm 162
April 12- Free Speech Art Café
Spoken Word. Art. Musical Performances. Express Yourself
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
April 26 - 2011 Department of Biology Rhodes Lectureship with Paul Ehrlich
Lecture Title: Checkerspots and Canoes: Why Research Shouldn’t Be ‘Siloed'
Time: 4:00pm
Location: School of Medicine 120
Co-sponsorship with: Office of Community and Diversity (Office of the Provost) – Office of Sustainability Initiatives – Program in
Molecules to Mankind – Program in Science and Society – Center for Science Education – Learning Programs, Office for
Undergraduate Education – Departments of Environmental Health (Rollins School of Public Health),
Environmental Studies, Psychology, and Biology (Emory College)
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