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Upcoming Events
Moral Heat:
Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Regulation and
Economics in the 21st Century
April 20, 2010
8:30 - 4:00 McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
With presentations from a number of distinguished and well-known academics, business leaders, regulatory officers, and ethics scholars, this multidisciplinary conference will explore 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. Information about panel sessions and speakers will be posted soon.
Recent Events
Privacy Rights and Wrongs:
Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century
April 21, 2009
McNally Amphitheatre, Lincoln Center Campus
With presentations from a number of well-known academics and experts, this multidisciplinary conference explored a number of issues related to the topic of privacy and privacy rights, especially in light of recent technological developments and current concerns about terror. In addition, this conference addressed the problem of defining and defending "privacy rights" within the context of varying legal, moral, and political discourses as well as the importance of understanding the value of privacy against the backdrop of other values and concerns, such as the doing of justice, the preserving of the common good, and the maintenance and fostering of personal accountability.
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 with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004).
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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?
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 and sustainable healthcare/research industry as well as to inform public understanding and policy on clinical trials registries.
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Dying for a Cure:
American Bioethics and the Global Research Agenda
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
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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x'Minimal Risk' in Behavioral Science Research: A Decisional Framework for Investigators and IRBs
April 29-May 1, 2005
Lincoln Center Campus
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. For more information about this event, please click here.
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2003-2004 Events
When Science Offers Salvation:
Advocacy's Impact on Research Ethics, Policy and Law
March 11, 2004
Lincoln Center Campus
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
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
