Events

Upcoming events Spring 2013- check back regularly for updates!

January - February: Lesley Ann Price Art Exhibit

January 22: Bike America, Kendeda Play (Partnership w/ Alliance Theater)
TIme: 7:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis:
Penny's boyfriend exclaims, "Oh God, you're so emotionally distant. I have to have you!" She is damaged. She doesn't know who she is or her place in the world. So she drops everything to go on a cross-country bike trip from Boston to Santa Barbara. Along the way, Penny meets a colorful crew of bikers, from the lesbian couple (they've decided to get a marriage license in every state they hit) to the mysterious Man with the Van (he transports their stuff). As the bikers travel through iconic towns across the country from the far North to the Deep South, Bike America captures the restlessness of a millennial generation that will go to any lengths to find a place that always seems just out of reach.

January 24: Clinical Ethics Seminar- Stefanie Reiff
“Ethical, Emotional, and Educational Implications of Medical Student Participation in Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR)”
Time: 5:00-6:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics, Room 162

January 29: Master of Arts in Bioethics Open House
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics

January 30: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics, Room 162

February 7: Artist Talk - Lesley Ann Price
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics

February 11: “Music Matters: An Ethical Conversation with Paul Simon”
Time: 10:00-11:30am
Location: Cannon Chapel

February 13: Religion & Public Health Ethics Lecture Series - Helene Gayle, President & CEO of Care USA
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102

February 14: Ethics @ the Movies - “My Neighbourhood”
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis:
Emory University’s Center for Ethics, Department of Political Science, Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies and the National Center for Civil & Human Rights invite you to save the date for a special screening of Just Vision’s latest award-winning film My Neighbourhood, directed by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi. The screening will be followed by a discussion about the film and of the increasingly urgent situation in East Jerusalem with guest speakers, including leading expert on Jerusalem, Attorney Daniel Seidemann, and Just Vision's Suhad Babaa. My Neighbourhood chronicles the story of Mohammed El Kurd, a Palestinian teenager whose family is forced to share a section of their East Jerusalem home with Israeli settlers. When Israeli activists arrive in his neighborhood to join residents in protests against the settlements, Mohammed comes of age in the midst of unrelenting tension with his neighbors and unexpected cooperation with Israeli allies in his backyard. My Neighbourhood premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2012, and has since been met with support at venues including the Paley Center for Media, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the Al Jazeera International Film Festival and the European Parliament.

Art Exhibit: February 18 – April 12, 2013
Artist: Ross Oscar Knight
Title: Beauty in the Face of Destruction (images from post-earthquake Haiti)

February 26: Whipping Man (Partnership w/ Alliance Theater)
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis:
April 13, 1865, Richmond, Virginia: the story begins. Wounded Jewish Confederate soldier Caleb DeLeon stumbles home. There to greet him are his family's former slaves Simon and John. And a cobbled together Passover Seder. Caught in a moment as everything changes while the past's hold remains primal, Caleb and the men celebrate Passover together where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns.

February 27: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Ethics Commons Room 162
Facilitated by: Psychology grad student, Katy Renfro, Real-time functional magnetic imaging-brain-machine interface and virtual reality: promising tools for the treatment of pedophilia, Program in Brain Research (2011)

March 21-22: HCECG Conference
Location: Emory University Conference Center

March 21: Keynote Speaker: Sister Carol Keehan
Title: The Politics of Justice: The Nation's Healthcare Obligations and the Role of the Affordable Care Act
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Emory University Conference Center

March 27: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Ethics Commons Room 162
Facilitated by: Neuroscience grad student, Jacob Billings

March 27: Lecture with Dr. Terrence Johnson
Title: On the Limits of Rights and Representation: The Moral Challenge of Blackness
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Terrence L. Johnson, a graduate of Morehouse College, Harvard Divinity School and Brown University, is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion at Haverford College, where he teaches courses in the areas of African American religions, moral philosophy, religious ethics, and political theory.

Presented by Emory Department of African American Studies and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF)
Sponsored by Emory Center for Ethics

March 28: Community Seder
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff Arts Center
1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309

April 3: Nature of Knowledge Seminar Series w/ Frans de Waal Talk - "The Bonobo and the Atheist: Morality, Religion and Prosocial Primates"
Time: 6:30pm
Location: White Hall 208

April 4: Artist Talk with Ross Oscar Knight
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102

April 5: Animal Ethics Conference: Beastly Morality
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics
Synopsis:
Emory Professor Frans B. M. de Waal, Director of the Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, will present some reflections of his most recent work, The Bonobo and the Atheist: in search of humanism among the primates (WW Norton & Co., 2013).

April 8: Ethics @ the Movies - “Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry”
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Plaza Theater, 1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30306
Student - $5 Adults - $10
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

April 24: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Ethics Commons Room 162
Facilitated by: Neuroethics Scholar, Riley Zeller-Townsen

April 25: Public Health, Religion and Ethics Lecture Series-Laurie Zoloth
Time: 5pm
Location: School of Medicine Room 110
Title: Beyond the Gates of The City: Public Health and Social Justice from Biblical Texts to The Affordable Health Care Act

Health care justice, especially in a global context, we are told, must be based in outcomes and efficiency yields, and using the arguments of the modern marketplace have been the basis for health care reform. This has taken us some of the way towards a health care system in America that is more just, yet it is still a matter of contention for some and for nearly everyone, only a beginning. What difficult questions need to be asked and answered before we can really make American health care a fair system? And what is the meaning of local or national justice when we newly understand the world and its health care needs as a global problem?
This talk will raise some of the unsolved puzzles of health care reform and argue that for the hardest questions— sacrifice, duty, death and greed— we need reasons for action that go beyond the language of the marketplace, and use the traditions and languages found in Americans faith communities about obligations to the stranger in need.

April 26: Grammy U - Young Guru Talk: "The Era of the Engineer"
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: GRAMMY U®— a program created to prepare college students interested in pursuing a career in the music industry — announced today the Era Of The Engineer tour with GRAMMY® -nominated engineer/producer Young Guru — an educational program, that will launch April 8, 2013, in Philadelphia and make 13 stops across the United States. This exciting new platform will offer college students the opportunity to explore the importance of the audio engineer's role in today's do-it-yourself recording climate through town hall discussions and in-studio sessions.

About Young Guru: A three-time GRAMMY nominee and member of The Recording Academy® Producers & Engineers Wing® Advisory Council, Young Guru possesses more than a decade of experience in sound engineering, production and A&R for acclaimed labels Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. Throughout his expansive and diverse career, he has collaborated with artists such as Beyoncé, Drake, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, and Snoop Dogg, among others. Recognizing the accessibility people have to make music in today's world, Young Guru created the Era Of The Engineer lecture series to emphasize and teach about the importance of audio engineers and the record-making process.

May 23: A Blessing on the Moon (Atlanta Opera) - Excerpts from the opera and panel discussion
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Schwartz Center for Performing Arts - Schwartz Dance Studio 255

Synopsis: A Blessing on the Moon is a new music-theater work composed by Andy Teirstein, and based on the novel by Teirstein’s collaborator, Joseph Skibell (the novel was published by Algonquin Books, 1997). Joseph Skibell often describes A Blessing on the Moon as “a novel masquerading as a folk tale.” Andy Teirstein describes his musical adaptation as “an opera masquerading as a folk spiel.” The journey of Chaim Skibelski, who has just been shot dead, and his Rabbi, who is now a crow, as they wander through Poland searching for an afterlife, lends itself easily to the genre of music-theater. Words, music and movement can be expressive of the edges of experience explored in the magical realism of this epic narrative, which contains wry humor, poetry, and a sharp sense of each character's perspective, even extending to the Polish family that has moved into the protagonist’s home, and the German soldier who has shot him.

Co-sponsored by The Creative Writing Program and The Goldwasser Fund

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Fall 2012

August - October: Aaron Henderson Art Exhibit

August 25: New Student Orientation
Time: 9am - 3pm
Location: WoodPEC
New and transfer students - Come by the table and say Hi!!!!

August 28: Ethics & the Arts/Alliance Theater: Pearl Cleage's "What I Learned in Paris"
Time: 7pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics 102
Synopsis:Emory Center for Ethics and the Ethics & the Arts Initiative, with the Alliance Theater, present dramatic readings from award winning playwright Pearl Cleage's WHAT I LEARNED IN PARIS. Meet Pearl Cleage, director Susan Booth and actors from the play.

September 11: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 11:45am - 12:45pm
Location: Center for Ethics Rm 162
Synopsis: American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, Graduate Intern (Emory PhD candidate in Philosophy) Julia Haas facilitates discussion on Neuroethics and the lure of technology, Joseph J. Fins

September 13: Artist Talk with Aaron Henderson
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102

September 14: HCECG Advanced Workshop on Ethics Consultation
Time:9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Emory University Center for Ethics
Synopsis: Many facets of clinical ethics case consultation will be addressed and practice opportunities will be provided with case consultations involving standardized patients.
Through involvement in cases, participants will further their ability to identify ethical issues; describe skills and areas of knowledge important to the consult process; analyze cases using different models for ethics case consultation; describe how the narrative influences the course of consultation; determine practices that lead to shared goals in decision making; utilize ethical concepts in a mock ethics consultation.
This is a full, intensive day with many opportunities to put ethics consultation skills into practice.

September 27: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Rm 162
Synopsis: Presentation by Dr. Toby Schonfeld (Center for Ethics faculty)

Discussion of Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees (Cambridge, 2012)
Every accredited American hospital is required to have a mechanism for handling ethical concerns within the institution. For the most part, hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC). Membership in these committees is comprised of a wide-range of healthcare professionals and lay persons. However, many of these individuals, while well intentioned, have neither the training in ethics nor the tools at their disposal to address properly the ethical considerations brought to them. And yet, both medical professionals and patients turn to these very same individuals for ethical insight into the complexities of medical decision-making. This book focuses squarely on HEC member education by providing definitive, comprehensive learning content for members of HECs. Chapters are written by nationally and internationally-recognized experts in bioethics and are directed specifically at members of HECs. Each chapter includes learning objectives, case presentations, and discussion questions to facilitate committee conversation. In this session, one of the editors of Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees will discuss the text, from its rationale and generation to ways to use the text to enhance the work of ethics committees.

October 6 - 7: Partnership with the Horizon Theatre - Post Show Ethical Discussions
Title: Time Stands Still - Choosing Change: Home Front or World Stage
Location: 1083 Austin Avenue Northeast Atlanta, GA 30307

Saturday, October 6th following the 3 PM performance
Both Sarah and James suffer psychological injuries from their time overseas, affecting their personal relationships and changing the course of their lives. Emory University Professor of Psychology Marshall P. Duke and Clinical Psychology Doctoral Candidate Carrie Holtzman lead an audience and panel discussion about the psychological issues in Time Stands Still and how trauma and change affect each of us.

Sunday, October 7th following the 5 PM performance
In Time Stands Still, Mandy confronts Sarah and James with questions that challenge the ethics and the rationale of their work. Do their photographs and articles really help those in war-torn and famine-ridden nations, or are they self-indulgent? How do they justify taking photos when they could prevent a crime or a death? Whether and when to intervene is a challenge not only to photojournalists and reporters, but to all of us at one time or another. Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., Director of the Emory University Center for Ethics, leads the audience and the actors from Time Stands Still in a discussion about the ethics of intervention and the questions the actors had to confront in order to play these challenging roles. Presented in collaboration with the Emory University Center for Ethics.

October 18-19: Fairness Conference
Location: Emory Conference Center
Free and open to the public
Registration required at http://psychology.emory.edu/
Co-sponsored with Emory University Office of the Provost, the Emory Cognition Project and the Center for Mind, Brain and Culture

October 25: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Rm 162
Synopsis: Led by Kathy Kinlaw, Associate Director, Emory University Center for Ethics

A Discussion of Georgia's House Bill 954
Due to go into effect January 1, 2013

This legislation passed in 2012 to amend Article 5 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Georgia Code relating to abortion.

We will discuss some of the ethical issues related to implementation of this bill for obstetric and neonatal care.

Amended language includes: No abortion is authorized or shall be performed if the probably gestational age of the unborn child has been determined in accordance with Code Section 31-9B-2 to be 20 weeks or more unless the pregnancy is diagnosed as medically futile … or in reasonable medical judgment the abortion is necessary (A) avert the death of the pregnant woman or avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment
of a major bodily function of the woman … or (B) preserve the life of an unborn child.

October 30: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 11:45am - 12:45pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics Rm 162

October 31: Zombies and "Zombethics"!
Walking with the Dead: An Ethics Symposium for the Living on Halloween 2012
Time: 10am - 4:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Why bother being “good” when the end is near?
When is a human being no longer a person?
Does it all come down to the brain?
What is free will?
How should healthcare resources be allocated when pandemics hit?
What does end-of-life care look like for those for whom biological death is not the end?

Join us for a day of discussion on scholarly topics at the intersection of neuroethics, public health ethics, religion and medicine, and bioethics, which will be explored through a frighteningly fascinating context to which we can all relate: zombies.

The conference is free of charge, but there is limited seating!
Register here www.theneuroethicsblog.com/p/zombethics.html

November 8: Master of Arts in Bioethics Open House
Time:5:00pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics

November 9: HCECG Workshop: Critical Faith: What Does Our Religion/Faith Say When Facing Difficult Ethical Health Decisions
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics

November 13: Public Health, Religion and Ethics Lecture Series w/ President Jimmy Carter
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Winship Ballroom/Dobbs University Center

November 13: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 11:45am-12:45pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162

November 14: Making Universal Coverage More Universal: Including Unauthorized Immigrants?
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102

November 15: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Seminar Room 162
Presenter: Deborah K. Cruze, J.D., M.A., Sr. Program Associate, Emory Center for Ethics
Title: "Justice in Healthcare Access and Delivery: The U.S. Supreme Court Rules on the Affordable Care Act"
Synopsis:
1. Describe the need for healthcare reform
2. Explain two ethical theories that support a right to healthcare.
3. Analyze the key components of the Affordable Care Act.
4. Discuss the US. Supreme Court ruling.

November 15: Ethics & the Arts Cafe'
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: The Emory Ethics and the Arts Society and WonderRoot present a series of Works-In-Progress conversations as part of the Ethics & the Arts Cafe.

This will be an opportunity for you provide valuable feedback to the artists as they develop their work, as well as an opportunity to engage with and benefit from the ways they are thinking about their works in progress.

December 7-8: Neuroimaging in the Courtroom Consensus Closed Conference

December 11: Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 11:45am-12:45pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162

December 20: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162
Speaker: Dr. Carl Hug, Jr.
Title: “Medical Malpractice: Law Enforcing Ethics”
Synopsis:
1. Summarize history
2. Define legal terms & malpractice criteria
3. Describe the factors driving patients & families to sue
4. Identify ways to improve patient care & decrease claims & Suits

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Spring 2012

January 25 - Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location:Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: How the neuroscience of decision making informs our conception of autonomy, facilitated by Neuroethics Scholar (grad student in Psychology) Jason Shepard

January 25 - HCECG Workshop
Time: 8:00am-3:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 102
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January 26: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: TBA

January 26: Dramatic Scene Readings from "Fairy Tale Lives of Russian Girls"
Partnership with Alliance Theatre
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis:The eighth winner of our nationally recognized Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition is set amongst the swirling domes of the church in Red Square. Moscow seems like a fairytale to twenty year old Annie, an American in search of her roots. But when the lines between Russian fairytales and Annie’s reality start to blur - and then vanish – things get seriously dicey.
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Written by Meg Miroshnik
Directed by Eric Rosen

February Photo Exhibit: Aaron Henderson

February 8 - Ethics at the Movies - Education Under Fire
Time: 6:00pm
Location:Center for Ethics Room 102
Synopsis: Education Under Fire is produced by Single Arrow Productions and co-sponsored by Amnesty International. The 30-minute documentary profiles the growth, struggle, and inspiring spirit of the Baha´i Institute for Higher Education. Baha´is in Iran have been subjected to systematic persecution, including arrests, torture, and execution simply for refusing to recant their beliefs. They are also prohibited from going to college (and blocked from many professions).

February 21 - Lecture with Angus Dawson, Ph.D.
Lecture Title: "In Defense of Substantive Public Health Ethics"
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies Building (PAIS), Room 290
36 Eagle Row

Synopsis: Work relating to public health ethics has exploded over the last ten years. Does this explosion merely represent adding a new set of public health topics (e.g., quarantine, isolation, contact tracing, banning smoking in public places, banning trans-fat in food, etc.) to the issues that medical ethics and bioethics address? Against this narrow interpretation of public health ethics, Dr. Dawson will argue that public health ethics demands its own approach built upon the recognition of public health activity as a distinctive kind of practice with a distinct set of aims, methods and values. Examples from both communicable and non-communicable disease interventions will illustrate the challenges facing the emerging field of public health ethics.

Co-sponsored by: Emory University Center for Ethics, Rollins School of Public Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

February 21 - Lecture with Korean Contemporary Artist, Song Byeok
Time: 4:30pm
Location: White Hall 112
Sponsored by The Center for Ethics, Emory Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Visual Arts Department, The Institute of Human Rights, and the Emory Korean Undergraduate Student Association

In addition, The Goat Farm has reserved a time for a private artist-led tour
of the exhibit for Emory students Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at 6:00 p.m.

Address:
The Goat Farm Atlanta
1200 Foster St NW,
Atlanta, GA 30318

February 22 - Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: Examining the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Work-place Deviance, facilitated by Neuroethics Program Associate Dr. Gillian Hue

February 23: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Room 162
Title: "Mind Over Matter? Placebo and Psychogenic Movement Disorders" presented by Karen Rommelfanger
Synopsis: Psychogenic movement disorders (PMD) mimic known movement disorders, yet cannot be attributed to an underlying neurological substrate. PMD is generally associated with a psychological origin and placebo therapy has recently been advocated for PMD. In this discussion, we will explore the neurobiology of PMD and placebo therapy as well as the ethical issues around current contexts of care for PMD patients

February 29 - "Tangled in the Briar Patch"
Time:7:00pm
Center for Ethics Room 102
Synopsis: The beloved Br’er Rabbit stories have been interpreted and presented in many different ways throughout the years. Join us for “Tangled in the Briarpatch: Tricksters, Underdogs, and Br'er Rabbit” an ethical exploration of the Br’er Rabbit stories accompanied by storytelling by Wren’s Nest Rambler, Akbar Imhotep, and a performance of an excerpt from The Atlanta Opera’s Rabbit Tales, an opera for children.

Engage with a panel of experts as they discuss how different audiences and periods have viewed, understood, and judged these stories. Panelists will include Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Emory professor of English and African American Studies, Lain Shakespeare, member of the Joel Chandler Harris Association Board of Directors, and Madeleine St. Romain, the librettist of Rabbit Tales. Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, Director of the Emory University Center for Ethics, will moderate.

This program, a collaboration between The Atlanta Opera and the Center for Ethics, is presented through the Center’s Ethics & the Arts Initiative and with financial support from the Georgia Humanities Council.

March 1 - Lecture with Susan M. Reverby, Ph.D.
Lecture Title: "Escaping Melodramas: The U.S. STD 1946-48 Experiments in Guatemala and their Aftermath"
Time:5:00pm
Location: Emory School of Medicine - Room 120

Synopsis: Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted human subject experiments in Guatemala that involved the use of diseased sex workers, inoculation of unsuspecting subjects with bacterial inoculum, and failure to treat participants when infection followed. The results of the study were never published and the study was unknown until historian of medicine Susan M. Reverby unexpectedly discovered records of the study among the PI's papers at the University of Pittsburgh. In this lecture, Reverby will discuss how she found the papers, brought them to the attention of the CDC, and witnessed the aftermath--apologies at the federal level and the swift investigation by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, of which the Vice Chair is Emory President James W. Wagner.

Co-sponsored by: The Emory University IRB, the Emory University Center for Ethics, and the Rollins School of Public Health

March 3 - Atlanta Music Project Winter Concert
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Emory University Center for Ethics
Following the performance, there will be a reception and unveiling of a photo exhibit chronicling the first year of the Atlanta Music project, by AMP Photographer, Carlton Mackey.

Presented by the Center's Ethics and Arts Initiative and in collaboration with the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

March 7 - Lecture with Jason Karlawish, MD
Lecture Title: "Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont"
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102

Synopsis: Jason Karlawish will read from and discuss his recently published novel "Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont." Based on true events along the 19th century American frontier, Open Wound artfully fictionalizes the complex, lifelong relationship between Dr. Beaumont and his famous patient Alexis St. Martin, a young fur trapper whose shotgun injury never completely healed, leaving a hole into his stomach. Eager to rise up from his humble origins and insecure about his rural medical apprenticeship, Beaumont seized the opportunity to experiment on his patient to establish his legitimacy as an elite physician and secure his prosperity. Beaumont personifies the best and worst aspects of American ambition and power.

The author is a physician and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania

March 13 and 14 - The Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia Annual Conference (HCECG)
Conference Title: "Mixed Messages: Ethical Tensions in Healthcare Conversations"
Keynote Speaker: Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS
Location: Emory Center for Ethics
2012 Conference Agenda

March 22 - Clinical Ethics Seminar with Jonathan Crane
Title: “Don’t Tell Anyone, But…: Secrets and Privacy, Religiously Considered.”
Time: 5:00pm
Locations: Center for Ethics 162

March 22 - World Water Day
Women and Water: Empowering Women to Create a Sustainable Future
A national environmental advocate and ecoliving expert, Laura Turner Seydel is chair of the Captain Planet Foundation, which supports hands-on environmental projects for youth in grades K–12. The foundation’s objective is to encourage innovative activities that empower children around the world to work individually and collectively as environmental stewards. Seydel will discuss the impact of women’s rights on environmental
conservation and global access to safe water.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Co-sponsorship with the Center for Women at Emory

March 28 - May 14 - Artwork Exhibit with Sal Brownfield
Title:Celebration of Healing: Lives Touched by Breast Cancer and Testimony and Shelter
Location: Emory University Center for Ethics

The Emory University Center for Ethics through its Ethics & the Arts Initiative proudly exhibits the artwork of renowned Atlanta-based artist, Sal Brownfield. Brownfield's complete series titled Testimony and Shelter is comprised of forty pieces. The work, Brownfield says, “gives voice to all who are disenfranchised, forgotten and abused.”

Eleven of those pieces currently grace the walls of the Center for Ethics through May 14. Four of these paintings are part of a subset of work entitled Celebration of Healing: Lives Impacted by Breast Cancer.

Sal Brownfield’s work is a testament to the power of healing through art because it portrays human triumph in the face of tragedy.

The Center for Ethics will host two receptions and artist talks with Brownfield:

April 12
Brownfield will discuss the transforming experience of creating the Celebration of Healing series. The Center will welcome the real-life, courageous individuals in the paintings as they share stories about "the process of living, the energy healing required, and an appreciation for being alive".
More information to come.

April 26
Brownfield will discuss the entire Testimony and Shelter series and more about Night Ride In a Strange Land, a reflection of Brownfield's experience with bi-polar depression.
More information to come.

"A Celebration of Healing was emotionally and physically draining but I never felt it to be an impossible journey nor was I ever discouraged. The trust given to me by these courageous women and men allowed me to be free to do the work. As the project came to an end my studio became home away from home. Each morning, coffee in hand, I walked down the row of paintings lined up side-by-side against the walls. In the calmness of the figures and the chaos of the stained glass backgrounds my studio became a sanctuary."

March 28 - Neuroethics Journal Club
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Center for Ethics 150

April 4 - Global Health Life Raft Debate
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Claudia Nance Rollins Auditorium/Rollins School of Public Health
1525 Clifton Road
Presented by Emory Center for Ethics and The Public Health Ethics Club
Synopsis: Imagine there has been an apocalyptic disaster. The sole survivors (the audience) have built a life raft to take them to a new land, where they will have the opportunity to
build a new society.

Experts from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds in Global Health will vie for the one remaining space on the life raft, each presenting an argument for why their
particular expertise will be the most valuable to the health of the future society, and refuting the others claims for the only spot left to save humanity. Costumes, props,
humor, and general debauchery are encouraged.

At the end of the debate, the audience will cast votes for whomever they feel has earned their place on the life raft – though it may be that the “Devil’s Advocate” wins the
debate by convincing the audience not to take any of the experts on board.

For more information email phethics@emory.edu

April 5 - Free Speech Cafe'
Time: 7pm
Location: Center for Ethics Commons 102
Synopsis: Spoken Word. Art. Musical Performances. Express Yourself

April 9 - Neuroscience and Ethics Award
Time: 4:00pm
Location: WSHCAB AUD
Award Presented to Steven Hyman, M.D.,Former Provost of Harvard and Director of NIMH
SPEAKING ON: Addiction as a Window on Volitional Control

Sponsored by: THE NEUROETHICS PROGRAM OF THE CENTER FOR ETHICS, YERKES NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER and THE NEUROSCIENCE INITIATIVE

April 11 - Artist Talk with Sal Brownfield - Celebration of Healing: Lives Impacted by Breast Cancer
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Emory Center for Ethics
Synopsis: The Emory University Center for Ethics through its Ethics & the Arts Initiative proudly exhibits the artwork of renowned Atlanta-based artist, Sal Brownfield. Brownfield's complete series titled Testimony and Shelter is comprised of forty pieces. The work, Brownfield says, “gives voice to all who are disenfranchised, forgotten and abused.”

April 12 - Symposium Sickle Cell Disease: Equity and Ethics
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Loction: Psychology Building, Room 290
Synopsis: There will be a keynote address and panel discussion on bioethics in sickle cell disease. The talks will discuss the racialization of the disease, social determinants, public policy, treatment and care. Confirmed participants include Dr. Carlton Haywood, Jr. from the Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Camara P. Jones from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Bruce Mitchell from the School of Medicine.

Co-sponsored by Program for Science and Society, the Race and Difference Initiative, and the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts.

April 18 - GMC TV World Premiere of Heaven's Rain
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Room 252 Center for Ethics/Candler School of Theology
Synopsis: The movie is told through the eyes of Brooks Douglass, who suffered an unthinkable attack when two strangers entered his home and claimed the life of his mother and father who were Baptist missionaries. It was in 1979 when Brooks and his sister Leslie were teenagers that a drug-crazed drifter Glen Ake and his partner Steven Hatch invaded the Douglass’ rural Oklahoma home. Brooks opened the door to what he believed to be a man in need. The men pulled out guns, bound the family, repeatedly assaulted Leslie and shot all four family members. Richard and Marilyn died at the scene. Brooks and Leslie, left for dead, recovered from their severe wounds, but their ordeal had just begun.
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April 26 - Clinical Ethics Seminar
Title: Getting to Yes in Health Care: Using Conflict Management Skills to Resolve Ethics Cases and Promote Quality of Care
Presenter: Charity Scott, JD, MSCM - Director for the Center for Law Health & Society, Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law at Georgia State University
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Ethics, Seminar Room 162
Synopsis: Many conflicts in health care between providers and patients or their families can raise difficult ethical questions, as well as take a considerable emotional and psychological toll on all concerned. Effective resolution of these dilemmas often depend on competency in the kinds of interpersonal communication skills and conflict management skills which are taught to mediators, negotiators, and facilitators. Moreover, The Joint Commission has identified conflict management throughout the health care organization as a critical component of ensuring the quality and safety of patient care. As part of its overall goal that health care organizations promote cultures of quality and safety, the Commission’s recent accreditation standards require conflict management processes for leadership groups and medical staff matters, as well as require leaders to address disruptive behaviors that intimidate others and affect morale or staff turnover. This seminar will provide an overview of significant developments in conflict engagement in health care.

May 25 - Neuroethics Student Symposium
Title: "The Truth About Lies, The Neuroscience, Law, and Ethics of Technologies for Lie Detection"
Time: 1:00pm-5:00pm
Location:School of Medicine Auditorium

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