Events of Interest
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On Campus
Monday, November 30
Leitner Program Lecture
Time: 12 PM
Location: Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave
Speaker: Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia
Topic: Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?
History of Medicine Colloquium
Time: 4 PM
Location: 333 Cedar Street, Fulton Room, L-215
Speaker: David Cantor, Deputy Director and Senior Research Historian, Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health
Topic: Commercial Film Companies and Medical Movies in the Early Twentieth Century
Public Health Lecture
Time: 7 PM
Location: Winslow Auditorium, 60 College Street
Speaker: Dr. Eric Whitaker, University of Chicago
Topic: Community-University Partnerships to Improve Health: The Urban Health Initiative
Tuesday, December 1
F&ES Lecture
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor
Speaker: James Hoggan, co-founder, DeSmogBlog.com; Chair, David Suzuki Foundation; Trustee, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education; President, James Hoggan & Associates (Public Relations)
Topic: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
Center for Business & the Environment Lecture
Time: 5 PM
Location: Kroon Hall, Burke Aud., 195 Prospect St.
Speaker: Andrew Shapiro, founder and president, GreenOrder
Topic: Leading Green Management and Strategy
Wednesday, December 2
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Morality
Time: 11:35 AM
Location: 1 Prospect St, room 201
Speaker: Stephen Darwall, Yale, Philosophy
African Studies Seminar
Time: 11:45 AM
Location: Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave, room 202
Speaker: Catherine Nichols, Lindsay Fellow
Topic: Remember It's Your Choice: Reflections on Implementing a Family Planning Program in 16 HIV Clinics in Lusaka, Zambia
Program in Geriatrics’ Aging Research Seminar
Time: 12 PM
Location: 295 Congress Ave, room 206
Speaker: Dr. Manish N. Shah, Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine
Topic: When Icebergs Collide: Emergency Care, Public Health and Unmet Needs of Older Adults
Epidemiology & Public Health Lecture
Time: 12 PM
Location: Weinerman Rm., 60 College St.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Rothberg
Topic: Cost-Effectiveness of Changes in Care at U.S. Hospitals 2000-2004
F&ES Talk
Time: 12 PM
Location: Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street
Speaker: Alex Felson
Topic: Ecological urbanism through hybrid designed experiments
MacMillan Center Lecture
Time: 4:30 PM
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall Room 203
Speaker: Vani Kulkarni, Yale University
Topic: Where is the Public in Public Health Development? A Making and Re-making of Democratic Healthcare Governance in India
Center for Business and the Environment Lecture
Time: 5 PM
Location: Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street
Speaker: Janine Yorio, Managing Director, NewSeed Advisors
Topic: Entrepreneurship in Agriculture: Nurturing and Investing in Companies that Make Agriculture More Sustainable
Thursday, December 3
Forest Forum Lunch
Time: 12 PM
Location: Marsh Hall rotunda, 360 Prospect St.
Speaker: Lhakpa Sherpa, Senior Technical Expert, The Mountain Institute
Topic: National Parks and Protected Areas in Federal Nepal
F&ES Talk
Time: 12 PM
Location: Kroon Hall - G01, 195 Prospect Street
Speaker: Evan Beach, Postdoctoral Researcher
Topic: Global approach to risk reduction: Green Chemistry
YACS@CIRA Seminar
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: CIRA, Ste 200, Rm 202, 135 College St
Speaker: Nabila El-Bassel, D.S.W., M.S.W., Columbia University School of Social Work
Title: HIV Among Drug Users in Kazakhstan: Driving Forces and Implications for HIV Prevention & Treatment
International Development Policy Lecture
Time: 4 PM
Location: Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Speaker: Sachin Chaturvedi, Senior Fellow, Research and Information System for the Developing Countries
Topic: IPR, Innovation and Food Security: Agriculture in South Asia
Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar
Time: 4:15 PM
Location: 77 Prospect St, room A002
Speakers: Dr. Florette Cohen, The College of Staten Island, CUNY
Dr. Lee Jussim, Rutgers University
Topic: The New Antisemitism Israel Model: An Empirical Approach to Modern Antisemitism
Schell Center’s Human Rights Workshop
Time: 4:15 PM
Location: 127 Wall St, Faculty Lounge
Speakers: Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale
Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Topic: Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender
Program for Humanities in Medicine Lecture
Time: 5 PM
Location: 333 Cedar St, Beaumont Room
Speaker: Mary Cappello, PhD, Professor of English & Creative Writing, University of Rhode Island
Topic: Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life
F&ES Short Film & Panel Discussion
Time: 5 PM
Location: Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street
Panel Members: Chad Stevens, Multimedia Producer, MediaStorm; Ben Stout, III, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Wheeling Jesuit Unversity; Rob Perks, Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns; Maria Gunnoe, Organizer, Ohio Valley Environmental Center; Roger Cohn, Senior Editor, YaleEnvironment 360.
Topic: Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining
Pediatric Ethics Lecture
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Cohen Auditorium, Yale Child Study Center, 230 South Frontage Rd.
Speaker: John Wyatt, University of London
Friday, December 4
World Fellows Program’s Hot Coffee, Hot Issues
Time: 8:30 AM
Location: Betts House, 393 Prospect St, Third Floor
Panel: Unmesh Brahme, John Hendra, Tim Jarvis, & Jian Yi
Topic: Trainwreck at Copenhagen: the Climate Conference
Agrarian Studies Colloquium
Time: 11 AM
Location: 77 Prospect St, room B012
Speaker: Michael Docter, The Food Bank Farm
Topic: Food Bank Farm: A Twenty-Year Effort to Reduce Hunger and Localize Food Supply
Zigler Center Lecture
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: 100 Wall St, room 119
Speaker: Cassie Statuto Bevan, Lecturer and Internship Coordinator, Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania and Veteran Professional Staff Member, United States House of Representatives
Topic: Adoption and Safe Families Act: No Second Chances?
Campus Conferences and Off-Campus Events
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12/8 |
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2010 |
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2/18-22 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting |
(San Diego, CA) |
3/15-17 |
(Austria) |
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4/1-3 |
(Greencastle, IN) |
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4/15-16 |
(University Park, PA) |
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4/17 |
Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective |
(Yale) |
4/17-18 |
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4/23 |
(Liverpool, UK) |
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6/21-25 |
(Anaheim, CA) |
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7/4-10 |
18th International Conference on Composites/Nano-Engineering |
(Anchorage, AK) |
July |
Conference of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law |
(Adelaide, Australia) |
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 7pm
Christina Spiesel will speak on "What Lies Beneath: What We all Need to Know About Digital Technology If We Use It for Legal Judgment"
Adjudication is moving on-line and there have already been proposals for on-line courts. I will raise questions that courts must face and, ultimately, need to answer before moving all out toward technologically mediated, legally binding decision making. Certainly, digital technologies can greatly extend our capacity to both communicate and gather in groups across an ever smaller globe. In addition, these new technologies can provide tools for research, data storage and retrieval, and, as well, for analysis -tools that promise to ground us better in facts and to help us decide more wisely. Humans love these powerful tools and become instantly attracted to their use. But implementing them in a judicial system is not without risk because of fundamental issues inherent in the structure of the technologically mediated universe that we are in the midst of creating. For example: Are courts ready to take on all the many issues around privacy and public participation, to protect indi
viduals from unacceptable intrusion and over application of state power and to guarantee their own transparency? Are they prepared to make the case for justice as an important social and public good that must not become yet another consumer product available at different price points? Are they prepared to become designers of the systems they use? The innocence of Adam is just too dangerous for our new Garden of Eden.
BIO: Christina Spiesel is an artist and writer with a background in technology, both as a member of a commercial software development team and as a pedagogue using digital and other technological tools. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and Adjunct Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law and at New York Law School, where she co-teaches Visual Persuasion in the Law. She is co-author of Law on Display, The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment (New York University Press, 2009). Besides this book, her published writing takes on various issues of pictures and the law. She has examined theoretical questions ("Reading Words and Pictures: Some Suggestions from Cognitive Science, Some Thoughts for the Law," in M. Freeman & O.Goodenough (eds.), Law, Mind and Brain (Ashgate, 2009), issues arising from the medium (the forthcoming "The Fate of the Iconic Sign: Punishing Pictures," about Taser video), and problems in popular culture's
representation of the law ("The CSI Effect: Modern Ordeal" also in press). She has presented her work at annual meetings of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, the Law and Society Association, the American Society for Law, Culture, and Humanities, the International Association for Law and Mental Health, and at the 2009 annual conference on ODR (on-line dispute resolution). She serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and Second Nature, An International Journal of Creative Media, on-line. Finally, she is a founding board member of True Vote Connecticut, a group that seeks to advise state government on issues pertaining to the use of digital technology for voting.
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The Hartford Ethics Group is a monthly discussion group on bioethics themes coordinated by James Hughes and Miller Brown of Trinity College. For more information, or to submit a topic, please contact James Hughes at: james.hughes at trincoll.edu
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
February 18-22
San Diego CA
Do you want to hear from some of the world’s leading experts on safe water, global infectious diseases, and earthquakes? What do you think the report card on Obama’s S&T initiatives will be? Learn firsthand by attending a program that speaks to your multidisciplinary and field-related interests. Interact with your peers from around the world, all in one place -- the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego, 18-22 February 2010.
Speakers:
Peter C. Agre, M.D., AAAS President, and Director, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University for the discovery of aquaporins, the key proteins that transport water across cell membranes. Soon after, he began working to extend his studies of aquaporins to malaria, addressing the question of whether or not aquaporins could be exploited as a means of treating or preventing the disease. He will open the meeting on Thursday, 18 February, with his presidential address.
Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is a driving force behind today's advances in genomics and co-chair of President Obama's council of science and technology advisers. He will measure S&T in the first year of the new U.S. Administration. He will deliver a plenary lecture on Science and Technology in the First Year of the New Administration.
Kellogg Schwab, Ph.D., director, Center for Water and Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, runs a program that integrates researchers from public health, engineering, behavior, policy, and economic disciplines to address the critical triangle of water, food, and energy. He will give a topical lecture on Improving Access To Potable Water Throughout The World.
Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D., chief, Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, studies HIV prevention in international settings including Mexico, Brazil, Canada, and Afghanistan. She also leads three NIH-funded studies of HIV risk behaviors among drug users and sex workers on the Mexico-U.S. border. She will give a topical lecture on Infectious Diseases Have No Passport: Battling HIV, TB, and STDs on the Mexico-U.S. Border.
Thomas H. Jordan, Ph.D., director, Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, understands the machinery that drives plate tectonics. He has made a series of major discoveries about the three-dimensional structure of the Earth's interior using the waves from earthquakes to look deep inside the earth. He will give a topical lecture on Understanding Earthquakes Through Large-Scale Simulations.
What else can you learn? Who else can you meet? Explore the program and register now while deep discounts on registration rates and housing are available.
2nd Global Conference on Ethics in Public Life
Monday 15th March - Wednesday 17th March 2010
Salzburg, Austria
After last year's successful inaugural conference, The Ethics in Public Life project announces its second global conference. This inter-disciplinary project seeks to explore the role, character, nature and place of ethics in public life. Politicians might use moral rhetoric and justifications for their actions, and public agencies and institutions claim to have ethically informed constitutions, policies and practices, but contemporary critiques have raised significant questions about how ethical public life is. Critics point to an absence of deliberative public engagement with ethical debates, the instrumentality and functionality to ethical processes in policies and institutions and a decided gap between moral rhetoric and ethical thinking. Ethical discourse has arguably become the domain of legitimation for self-interested and ideological preferences, mystification rather than clarity in public debate and moral imposition of rather than ethical debate in public policy, opinion formation and institutional practices and services.
Organising Chairs
Paul Reynolds
Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Centre Director, CREED,
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom
E-mail: prr@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher
Network Founder & Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
E-mail: epl2@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Critical Issues programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. This project is run by Inter-Disciplinary.Net in association with the Centre for Research Ethics and Ethical Deliberation (CREED) at Edge Hill University.
For further details about the conference please visit:
DePauw University Undergraduate Ethics Symposium
Lauren Lefebvre ('09) writes that her alma mater (DePauw Univeristy) holds an undergraduate ethics symposium each year in April. This year's program is April 1-3. Undergraduate papers are being accepted for review for this symposium (additional perks: paid travel, hotel and lots of free food included!) For further information: http://prindleinstitute.depauw.edu/programs/ethics_symposium09.asp
Integrating Climate Change and Development Ethics
April 15 & 16, 2010, Penn State
The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University is organizing an international conference to be held at Penn State University on April 15 and 16, 2010 on Integrating Climate Change and Development Ethics.
For information on the conference see:
http://rockethics.psu.edu/climate/events/idcce/
Because climate change can adversely affect the ability of human development prospects and climate change policies should take into account human development needs, there is a need to integrate climate change and human development ethics. There is also a significant opportunity for climate change and human development ethicists to learn from each other about the ethical issues that should be understood if climate change and human development ethics were integrated. This conference will explore the linkages between climate change ethics and human development ethics. Because these issues are deeply interdisciplinary, organizers of the conference also welcome papers on relevant scientific, economic, and legal issues that should be considered in any ethical analysis of linkages between climate change and development concerns.
Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective
A Northeast Regional Conference
Yale University, April 17, 2010
New Haven, Connecticut
TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Paul Sabin, Assistant Professor of History, Yale
9:15-10:45 Panel 1
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Panel 2
12:30 Lunch Remarks by Donald Worster
Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of U.S. History, University of Kansas
2:00-4:00 Panel 3
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 Faculty panel: Karl Jacoby, Professor of History, Brown University;
Emmanuel Kreike, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University;
Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT
5:30 Reception and Happy Hour
The Unite For Sight Global Health & Innovation 2010 Conference
April 17-18, 2010
Yale University
Registration Open
(Register in September for lowest registration rate)
200 Speakers representing all disciplines of global health, social entrepreneurship, international development, and innovation. Keynote speakers include Seth Godin, Jacqueline Novogratz, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs.
Social innovation sessions by the CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, Mulago Foundation, Good Capital, mothers2mothers, Share Our Strength, Root Cause, and many others.
2,200 participants from all 50 states and from more than 55 countries who are immersed in global health and international development, public health, eye care, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.
Presented annually by Unite For Sight, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization free of commercial interests and committed to promoting high quality care for all. GH/Innovate 2010 is the 7th annual conference.
Collaborate on designs and strategies to identify global problems, engage in social entrepreneurship, and create real solutions.
Network with leading innovators, organizations, universities, and other change-makers.
Keynote Speakers
- Seth Godin
MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com - Jacqueline Novogratz
MBA, Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund - Jeffrey Sachs
PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon - Sonia Ehrlich Sachs
MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project
Animal(s) Matter(s): the Future of Critical Animal Studies
April 23rd 2010, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool
Sponsored by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, the Society for Applied Philosophy, the Mind Association and the Department of Philosophy at Liverpool.
Speakers:
Alistair Currie (PETA) Gauging, Changing and Mobilising Public Opinion: Challenges for AR Advocates.
Prof Celia Deane-Drummond (Chester & CAFOD) Taking leave of the animal: transhumanity as transanimality.
Jasmijn de Boo (Animals Count) Animal protection on hold in conservative UK
Prof Robert Garner (Leicester) In Defence of Sentiency: A Critique of One Version of Animal Rights
Dr Simon James (Durham) Animal Minds and the Demand for Evidence
Dr Dan Lyons (Uncaged Campaigns) Advancing animal protection: Strategic action in an adverse structural context
Dr Karen Morgan (Cardiff) Ethical veganism and animal rights: learning from feminist research and activism
Dr Anat Pike (UEL) Creaturely Ethics: Beyond the Discourse of Rights
Dr Richard Twine (Lancaster) Putting the ‘critical’ in Critical Animal Studies. What does it mean?
Dr Richard White (Sheffield Hallam) Building Alliances between academic and activist communities.
Cost (including lunch & refreshments): £40 (waged); £30 (students & unwaged), payable to University of Liverpool.
For more information, please contact Stephen R.L.Clark, srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
Dept of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, 7 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WY.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/info/staff/A639849
http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~srlclark/srlc.htm
Save the Date! Nanotech 2010!
June 21-25, 2010 • Anaheim, CA
Anaheim Convention Center
Nanotech 2009 was the world’s largest and most anticipated annual nanotechnology conference and expo. Now in our 12th year, we expect over 4,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors.
18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITES/NANO-ENGINEERING
July 4-10, 2010, Anchorage, AK
Interested authors should submit tentative paper title immediately. The two-page detailed abstract, should be written, by following the abstract format in web page.
Please apply for travel funds and passport visa early, since this can take time.
All ICCE-18 Anchorage short papers will be reviewed and selected detailed short papers will be published in the World Journal of Engineering. Participants of ICCE-18 are encouraged to expand the short paper to become a full-length paper and then submit it to any journals of his/her choice, or submit for review in the World Journal of Engineering. Thus, most participants will have two journal publications (one short paper, one long paper) as a benefit of coming to ICCE-18 Anchorage.
If you are sure you cannot attend ICCE-18, please do not submit a paper title to me.
David Hui
Conference of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law [AABHL] July 2010
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the inaugural annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law [AABHL] in July 2010. The AABHL will replace the Australasian Bioethics Association and Australasian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics which have traditionally held joint meetings.
The Conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, commencing Thursday evening and concluding Sunday with lunch. The venue will confirmed shortly. An optional day tour of McLaren Vale, one of Australia's best known and most historic wine regions will be available Friday prior to the commencement of sessions.
Choice... do we have any?
Who chooses what is ethical? Who should choose? What shapes choice?
Researchers, practitioners, politicians, lawyers and commercial interests have an impact on matters that the community might consider to be their choice. How do we ensure the public is informed about and engaged with the work of bioethics? The 2010 AABHL Conference will explore questions of choice across many settings from:
- The theoretical to the practical
- Research to application
- Law to policy and practice
The Conference will bring together representatives from around Australia, the Pacific and Asia for a series of plenary lectures and contributed papers that will ensure a vibrant and exciting program.
Add your name to the mailing list for up to date information or visit http://www.plevin.com.au/aabhl2010/index.htm for more information.
