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April 10 - Thursday
Time: 4 – 5:30 pm
Location: Room B-012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Bioethics Study Group: “Genetically Modified Plants”
Speaker: Richard McNider, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Topic: Return to Water: A Sustainable Solution for American Agriculture in the 21st Century
(For further information, reservations or reading materials, contact carol.pollard@yale.edu)
April 15- Tuesday
Time: 5:30 – 7 pm
Location: Room B-012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Bioethics Study Group: "Alzheimer’s Disease: Metaphysical And Moral Dimensions of An Emerging Global Challenge"
Speaker: Ruth Purtilo, Ph.D., Donnaghue Ethicist-in-Residence, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; David Smith, Ph.D., Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Topic: TBA
(For further information, dinner reservations or reading materials, contact Ashley.simmons@yale.edu )
April 16 – Wednesday
Time: 11:30 am – 1 pm
Location: 87 Trumbull Conference Room, 77 Prospect Street
Bioethics Study Group: “Addiction, Mental Health and HIV/AIDS”
Speaker: R. Douglas Bruce, MD, MA, Yale AIDS Program, Yale University School of Medicine and Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD., Yale School of Public Health
Topic: Ethical and Human Rights Imperative to Ensure Medication
Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence in Prisons and Pre-Trial
Detention.
(For further information, reservations or reading materials, contact Ashley.simmons@yale.edu )
April 23 - Wednesday
Time: 4:15 – 6 pm
Location: Yale Law School, Room 127
Bioethics Study Group: "Technology and Ethics"
Speaker: Michael Sandel, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Topic: The Case Against Perfection
(For further information, reservations or reading materials, contact brooke.crockett@yale.edu )
April 25 - Friday
Genetically Modified Plant Symposium: "Alternative Paths to Agricultural Sustainability"
(sponsored by the Genetically Modified Plant Study Group)
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: 305 Bass Hall, 266 Whitney Avenue
Speakers: Michael Edgerton, Technical Lead for Corn Ethanol and Quality Traits Monsanto Corporation; Nina Fedoroff, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, and Science and Technology Advisor to the United States Secretary of State; Prabu Pingali, Director, Agricultural and Developmental Economics Divn., FAO, and Gates Foundation
(Reception immediately following. For further information or reservations, contact carol.pollard@yale.edu or nancy.kerk@yale.edu)
April 29- Tuesday
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Room B-012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Bioethics Study Group: “Exploitation in international research – is it possible to do research fairly in an unjust world? Reading Group”
Speaker: Angela Ballantyne, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Donaghue Initiative
Topic: TBA
(For further information, dinner reservations or reading materials, contact brooke.crockett@yale.edu)
May 6– Tuesday
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Rescuers of Genocide Victims:Research Perspectives for the Future
Panelists: Ben Kiernan, History, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University; Mette Bastholm, Sociology, Yale University; John Dovidio, Social Psychology, Yale University; Bruce Wexler, Psychiatry, Yale University; Stephanie J. Bird, Neuroethics, Editor-in-Chief of Science and Engineering Ethics
Moderator: Julius Landwirth, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Sponsored by: The Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Genocide Studies Program andInitiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism at Yale University
To attend, please RSVP by April 30th to <brooke.crockett@yale.edu> brooke.crockett@yale.edu
May 6– Tuesday
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Bioethics Study Group: "End of Life Issues "
Speaker: Jerome Medalie, J.D., former federal prosecutor and counsel to doctors, medical and educational institutions; former adjunct professor of "Estate Planning: the human dynamics" at Northeastern University Law School; creator of the Jerome Medalie '45W Endowment.
Topic: The Alzheimer's Victim's Dilemma and Other Serious Gaps in Advanced Directive Laws - Especially Connecticut's
(For further information, dinner reservations or reading materials, contact Ashley.simmons@yale.edu or brooke.crockett@yale.edu )
May 7- Wednesday
Time: 11:30am - 1pm
Location: Room B-012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Bioethics Study Group: "Bioethics Workshop"
Speaker: Angela Ballantyne, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Donaghue Initiative
Topic: Fair Benefits in International Research
(For further information, Lunch reservations or reading materials, contact brooke.crockett@yale.edu )
May 14 - Wednesday
Time: 4:30 – 7 pm
Location: 77 Prospect Street, Room B012
Bioethics Study Group: "Technology and Ethics"
Speaker: Michael and Susan Anderson
Topic: TBA
(For further information, reservations or reading materials, contact brooke.crockett@yale.edu )
May 20- Tuesday
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Room B-012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Bioethics Study Group: “Exploitation in international research – is it possible to do research fairly in an unjust world? Reading Group”
Speaker: Angela Ballantyne, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Donaghue Initiative
Topic: TBA
(For further information, dinner reservations or reading materials, contact brooke.crockett@yale.edu)
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