Conference Description:
This conference addressed major issues at the intersection of gender and social justice, and the role religious traditions play in understanding and advancing positions on these issues in the public arena, particularly in the United States in an election year. We live in an era of change and public contention over a host of issues relating to marriage, family and men’s and women’s participation in communities, workplaces and politics. Because they involve understandings of justice and well-being for individuals and groups, gender-related social and political debates inevitably implicate moral and religious questions. Offering a spectrum of informed religious and interdisciplinary perspectives, the conference aimed to provide a forum for considering social justice and equality for men and women, as well as illuminating ways that gender-related beliefs and practices, which are often religiously influenced, affect economic and social policy and female representation in government. Special attention was given to how these questions may influence the 2008 presidential campaign and its outcomes.
Keynote Address: Donna Brazile, Chair of the Democratic National Committee Voting Rights Institute, former campaign manager for Gore 2000 and author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004).
2007 Events
April 17, 2007, McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
The debate over stem cell research is one of the complex moral issues confronting us today: not just as scientists and politicians, but also as patients and caregivers. As human beings living at the forefront of change, it is essential that we equip ourselves with the knowledge and the courage necessary to confront this most difficult of issues. This conference brought together experts in science, medicine, law, theology and philosophy to address such bioethics-related questions as: What is embryonic stem cell research? What is the state of the science? What is the state of the moral question from a faith perspective? What are the ethical implications for human dignity and rights? What should be the role of the state in restricting or regulating embryonic stem cell research?
An invited panel of 30 health care industry leaders and government officials will discuss issues related to the healthcare/research industry. Learn more about the summit
March 9, 2005, Duane Library, Rose Hill Campus
Dying for a Cure: American Bioethics and the Global Research Agenda
George Annas , JD, MPH, Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor in the Boston University School of Medicine and School of Law. He is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians.
Discussant: Jeffrey Blustein, Professor, Montefiore Medical Center
April 13, 2005, 12th Floor Lounge (Lowenstein), Lincoln Center Campus
Health Care Reform in an Unhealthy State
Maev-Ann Wren award winning and internationally prominent economist, journalist for the Irish Times and author of Unhealthy State: Anatomy of a Sick Society , was published in June 2003 and has been quoted in Dail debate on health care reform.
Discussant: Dale Tussing, Professor of Economics, Syracuse University
April 29- May 1, 2005 Lincoln Center Campus
'Minimal Risk' in Behavioral Science Research: A Decisional Framework for Investigators and IRBs
This conference brought together key stakeholders to discuss issues related to the responsible evaluation of risk in behavioral science research. Sponsored by the American Psychological Association Science Directorate and Fordham University's Center for Ethics Education.
2003-2004 Events
March 11, 2004 Lincoln Center Campus
When Science Offers Salvation: Advocacy's Impact on Research Ethics, Policy and Law
Rebecca Dresser, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law & Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University School of Law
February 11, 2004 Rose Hill Campus
Research Involving Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Margaret Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale University Divinity School
April 14, 2004 Rose Hill Campus
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research
Thomas Murray, President of The Hastings Center
September 9, 2004, McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
