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Aging Well with HIV: Challenges and Opportunities
Monday, March 25 2013 | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
12th Floor Lounge | Lincoln Center Campus | 113 W. 60th St., New York
Half of those living with HIV in the U.S. will be over 50 by 2015. Addressing teh behavioral health needs of this population is critical to promote successful aging. Many older adults with HIV have the triple diagnoes of HIV, depression, and substance use, exacerbated by stigma, ageism, racism, poverty, and social isolation. Students and professionals are encouraged to attend to meet local leaders in the field and learn more about future directions in theis emerging domain.
Featured speakers include: Richard Havlik (Former Chief of Epidemiology, National Institute on Aging), Sarit Golub (Associate Professor f Psychology, Hunter College), Perry Halkitis (Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies, Steinhardt School, New York University), Claudia Moreno (Lecturer, Columbia University School of Social Work), Celia Fisher (Director, Fordham University Center for Ethics Education), and Stephen Karpiak (Senior Director for Research and Evaluation, ACRIA).
Sponsored by the Be the Evidence Project, AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, and the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education
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2013 Center for Ethics Education Annual Symposium
Jailing for Dollars: The Moral Costs of Privatizing Justice
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | 6 p.m. (registration at 5:30 p.m.)
McNally Amphitheatre | Lincoln Center Campus | 113 W. 60th St., New York
Over the past 30 years, the United States has become the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation's prisons or jails. Harsher laws and longer sentences have led to an explosive increase in prison over-crowding and economic burdens for state governments; with little evidence of increased public safety. Efforts to ease the financial pressures on municipalities have given rise to government contracted for-profit prison companies. Once considered a free-market solution to the prison crises, the privatization of incarceration in the U.S. has raised urgent moral questions about the policies and practices of the criminal justice system and the nature and doing of justice.For more information, visit here.
Careers in Ethics: A Panel of Professionals and Ethics and Society Graduates
Thursday, February 7, 2013
On February 7th, the Ethics and Society program organized an exciting panel of outside professionals and Ethics and Society graduates engaged in or pursuing a variety of ethics-related careers. Visit here for more information.
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Our second Ethics Colloquium Series of the semester featured Dr. Saul Cornell, one of the nation's leading authorities on early American constitutional thought and author of The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendament Protect? (St. Martin's Press, 2000).
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Money, Media, and the Battle for Democracy's Soul
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
Current national debates have focused on the growing political influence of money and mass media in the electoral arena and its implications for public trust, integrity and the democratic values of an informed, active, and unduly influenced citizenry.
With the backdrop of the 2012 elections, this conference featured a distinguished multidisciplinary group of legal scholars, policymakers, political leaders, and journalists (including former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, NBC News journalist Chuck Todd, and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart) to address important topics of public dialogue.
Please click here for the list of speakers and more information about the conference.
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Catholic Idealism vs. Economic Realism
The Vatican's Note on Reforming the International Financial System
Thursday, March 29, 2012
In October 2011, the Vatican released a 41-page document, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority.” In this lecture, Fordham faculty discussed the sweeping reforms proposed.
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Cura Personalis: Faculty Voices Against Hate Speech on Campus
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Members of Fordham's Faculty offered brief perspectives on issues raised by the recent hate speech incidents and in response to Father McShane's call to move the campus toward the fulfillment of the Jesuit maxim cura personalis.
Presentations were followed by a faculty-student discussion and catered reception.
Click here for a video update about the forum.
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VALUING HEALTH:
Benefit Disparities and Global Development Aid in Population Philosophical Ethics
A Faculty Ethics Seminar
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Talk Description: If we can only administer one medical drug that saves a small number of peoples' lives or another that cures the minor ailments of a vast number of people, which ought we to administer?
On the basis of such cases where the individual benefits between different options are qualitatively disparate, Professor Vong challenged widely used measurements of health and disease burden. He argued that while useful, such measurements obscure ethicallyimportant features of the distribution of healthcare and development benefits.
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What Do We Owe Veterans? Moral and Clinical Perspectives
A Faculty Ethics Seminar
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Presented by Nicholas Tampio (Political Science)
Adam Fried (Center for Ethics Education).
Talk Description: America is currently embroiled in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with tens of thousands of injured and traumatized veterans returning home. This seminar offered moral and clinical perspectives on the following questions:
- What are our moral obligations to injured veterans?
- What arethe long-term consequences of war-related traumas andhow should we treat or compensate wounded veterans?
- What are the post-war human and economic costs and how do they influence our thinking about future wars?
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Moral Outrage and Moral Repair:
Reflections on 9/11 and its Afterlife
April 12, 2011
A decade has passed since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, debate over methods of preventing future harms while preserving our moral integrity has raised complex questions that touch upon issues of rights, redress and our common humanity.
Featuring a distinguished multidisciplinary group of policy makers, theologians, legal scholars, moral philosophers and social scientists, this conference sought to advance public dialogue and moral understandings as the country continues to grapple with these tensions. Click here for more information
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Moral Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Repair:
Film Viewing and Discussion
April 6, 2011
This documentary and discussion focused on moral reconciliation, forgiveness, and repair related to acts of evil and wrong]doing, such as 9/11 and other acts of terrorism, the atrocities of the Holocaust, and genocide in Rwanada. The film (“The Power of Forgiveness”) includes stories and interviews with people from many faith traditions, including Buddhist (Thich Nhat Hanh), Islamic (Azim Khamisa), Jewish (Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel), Christian (Rev. James Forbes), on topics on forgiveness and reconciliation. The documentary was followed by a student discussion led by Professor Barbara Hilkert Andolsen (Theology).
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Faculty Ethics Seminar Series: 2010-11
February 16, 2011: Luncheon & Faculty Ethics Seminar. Jada Strabbing (philosophy) will present on "Moral Responsibility for Actions and Attitudes: Connections to Psychological Disorders and Criminal Justice." Barry Rosenfeld (psychology) provided a response, followed by general faculty discussion. (O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library)
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November 18, 2010: Panel presentation and general discussion: "When the Sparrow Falls: Jewish, Christian, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Evil and Suffering.” Speakers include Fr. Thomas Regan, S.J., Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard and Dr. Lisa Cataldo. (reception to follow; O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library)
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September 22, 2010: Lunch and interdisciplinary roundtable discussion of the award-winning novel, The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell, focusing on the seminar themes of evil and suffering. (University Commons, Duane Library)
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2010-11 Events
With presentations from a number of distinguished and well-known academics, business leaders, regulatoryofficers, and ethics scholars, this multidisciplinary conference explored the intersections and tensions between the ethics of environmental sustainability, the workings of markets, and the roles of government and civil society in protecting and advancing an ecologically-responsible common good in the 21st century. Click here to view the conference website.9-10 Events
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Privacy Rights and Wrongs:
Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century
April 21, 2009
McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
Click here to access the conference web page.
2008-09 Events
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Pulpit Politics: Gender, Religion and Social Justice in 2008
This conference addressed major issues at the intersection of gender and social justice, and the role religious traditionsplay 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. The keynote address was delivered by Donna Brazile, Chair of the Democratic National Committee Voting Rights Institute, former campaign manager for Gore 2000 and author of Cooking withGrease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004).2007-08 Events
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 restrictingor regulating embryonic stem cell research?
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Reflections on the End of Life: Schiavo Plus One
April 27, 2006
McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
Sponsored by the Center for Ethics Education and
the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture
2005-06 Events
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Bio-Pharmaceuticals for the 21st Century:
Responsibility, Sustainability, and Public Trust
January 10, 2005
Lincoln Center Campus
On January 10-11, 2005, the Center hosted “Bio-Pharmaceuticals for the 21st Century: Responsibility, Sustainability, and Public Trust,” a summit involving numerous stakeholders, including industry, government, consumers, public advocates, academic investigators, healthcare scholars, hospitals and other health service institutions and the public. The goals were to generate recommendations for a socially responsible andsustainable healthcare/research industry as well as to inform public understanding and policy on clinical trials registries.
March 9, 2005
Duane Library, Rose Hill Campus
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, Ph.D., Professor, Montefiore Medical Center
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Health Care Reform in an Unhealthy State
April 13, 2005
12th Floor Lounge (Lowenstein), Lincoln Center Campus
Lecture by Maev-Ann Wren, award-winning and internationally prominent economist, journalist for the Irish Times and author of Unhealthy State: Anatomy of a Sick Society (published in June 2003). Wren has been quoted in Dail debate on health care reform.
Discussant: Dale Tussing, Professor of Economics, Syracuse University
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'Minimal Risk' in Behavioral Science Research: A Decisional Framework for Investigators and IRBs
April 29-May1, 2005
Lincoln Center Campus
This conference brought together key stakeholders to discuss issues related to the responsible evaluation ofrisk in behavioral science research. Sponsored by the American Psychological Association Science Directorate and Fordham University's Center for Ethics Education. For more information about this event, please click here.2003-2004 Events
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When Science Offers Salvation:
Advocacy's Impact on Research Ethics, Policy and Law
March 11, 2004
Lincoln Center Campus
Lecture by Rebecca Dresser, J.D., Ph.D., Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law & Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University School of Law
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Research Involving Human Embryonic Stem Cells
February 11, 2004
Rose Hill Campus
A lecture by Margaret Farley, Ph.D., Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale University Divinity School
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Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research
April 14, 2004
Rose Hill Campus
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The Just War Tradition and Natural Law
September 9, 2004
McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
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Moral Goods and Moral Obligations
September 29, 2004
Rose Hill Campus
Lecture by John Drummond, Ph.D., Departmentof Philosophy, Fordham University
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Wisdom, Learning, and Justice in Health Care Research
November 12, 2003
Flom Auditorium, Walsh Family Library, Rose Hill Campus
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