Center for Ethics Upcoming Events
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Art and Social Justice Virtual Panel
2021 Art and Social Justice Fellows Virtual Panel. Join us as the 2021 ASJ fellows and faculty address the role art plays in shifting perspectives and transforming education. This event is part of the Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation Series. Event is free and open to all.
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James W. Fowler Annual Ethics Event
Join The Emory Center for Ethics for the second annual James W. Fowler Ethics Event as we explore the best way forward in our individual and collective pursuit of social justice and civil discourse. Event is free, but requires registration (opening soon).
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Jim Alexander's Street Signs Exhibit
A new exhibit featuring the work of celebrated Civil Rights photographer Jim Alexander is now on display at the Center (Mon-Thurs, 9 am - 4 pm). Alexander's work will provide the Emory and Atlanta communities an opportunity to engage directly with the ASJ Fellowship Program as one of its newly selected artists. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
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Emory University is closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit Emory's COVID-19 page for the latest updates.
Center for Ethics faculty are hard at work, weighing in on ethics guidance, providing comments on moral and ethical issues, and speaking to leaders around the country. Visit our COVID-19 ethics resources page for more info.
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The new Emory Arts and Social Justice Fellows program, co-created by Ethics & the Arts director Carlton Mackey, allows Emory faculty and students to collaborate with Atlanta artists to explore racial injustice and other inequities.
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In March, the Healthcare Ethics Consortium (HEC) held its 26th annual conference Virtually. The HEC is a network of healthcare systems hosted at the Emory University Center for Ethics. Learn more about our next event.
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Center Events
March 17 and 18, 2021
Healthcare Ethics Consortium 2021 Annual Conference
Healthcare Ethics: Responding to Many Faces of Suffering
Location: Virtual Online
In this challenging year, we want to make it possible for all interested in joining us for this timely discussion – we are offering a significantly reduced registration fee this year (see rates above). If fees are still a concern for you, please fill out a scholarship request here: https://form.jotform.com/210128488614153
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Our topic for 2021 is Healthcare Ethics: Responding to the Many Faces of Suffering, addressing suffering for patients, families and healthcare professionals.
We welcome a wonderful group of speakers (see the link to the full schedule below).
The opening panel, which will help us frame what Ethics offers in the midst of suffering, includes voices from disability, palliative care, ethics and theological ethics perspectives: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD; Cory Labrecque, PhD; Tammie Quest, MD; and Nneka Sederstrom, PhD. Our keynote speaker for day 2 is Travis Rieder, PhD, Director of the MA in Bioethics program at John Hopkins and author of In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids. Other sessions will explore in-depth patient narratives such as a complex story regarding distress and suffering regarding potentially medically non-beneficial for the patient.
The conference will address both enduring issues in clinical ethics as well as the ways in which COVID-19 has challenged the caring landscape.
CNEs and Social Worker CEUs will be available.
We are also asking speakers to allow us to record the sessions, so that conference registrants who are unable to attend the full days will be able to watch sessions for a period of time after the conference.
November 9 and 10, 2020
Ethical Management of AI: A French-American Dialogue Virtual Symposium
8:45 am - 12:00 pm EST (Atlanta)
14h45 – 18h00 CET (France)
Location: Virtual Online
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are now capable of collecting and analyzing enormously large datasets in ways that are challenging fundamental values embraced within Europe and the United States. Holding much promise in terms of increased productivity, efficiency, and quality time, AI programs and algorithms could function as an assistant, a peer, a manager, or even as a friend. Indeed, they might be so revolutionary that no one, regardless of whether they are consumers, citizens, patients, operators, or stakeholders, will remain unaffected.
The power of AI is such that it may jeopardize what it means to be human, whether people retain freedom of choice, and AI might reshape the relationship between humans and technology in society. The ethical issues emerging from AI are complex and quickly evolving. What follows is that identifying and implementing appropriate solutions can be difficult.
The approaches taken by France, the European Union and the United States to address these ethical issues are currently being defined and the governments are, in 2020, still considering options to maximize the potential of AI and big data while mitigating potential ethical harms.
This event is organized by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Consulate General of France in Atlanta, the Emory University Center for Ethics, the Georgia Tech Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center , the University of Nantes “Droit et Changement Social”(Law and Social Change) Research Center and DataSanté Research Program, SKEMA Business School, and French Tech Raleigh – Research Triangle, with the support of the Atlanta Office of the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in the United States and the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States.
October 29
Time: 7:30 PM EST
Location: Live Online
The 12th Annual Rothschild Lecture, hosted by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, will feature a conversation between Eric K. Ward, Executive Director of the Western States Center and nationally-recognized expert on the relationship between authoritarian movements, hate violence, and preserving inclusive democracy, and TIJS Judith London Evans Director Eric Goldstein, author of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity.
October 26
"An Interview with Dr. Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression"
Time:4 - 5 PM EST
Location: Live Online
"Voting is neither an obstacle course nor a privilage. It's a right."
Join us Monday, October 26 from 4 - 5 pm for a free digital engagement with Dr. Carol Anderson discussing voter suppression. Dr. Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.
Moderated by Dr. Carol Henderson, Chief Diversity Officer, Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: How to be an Antiracist
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
4 to 5:00 pm
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Dr. Ibram Kendi is a National Book Award Winner, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. As a key voice in the conversation about race in America, Dr. Kendi asks each of us to address the systemic racial inequities and injustice in America by learning how to be an antiracist. At this special live webcast, Dr. Kendi will discuss what is required from us – self-awareness, self-criticism, self-examination – to lead to policy change and make the vision of a just society a shared reality.
We are privileged to have as our moderator DR. CAROL ANDERSON, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, a New York Times Bestseller.
The Emory University Center for Ethics recognizes the power of this moment in time and the call to action. This program is the inaugural event honoring Dr. James W. Fowler, the first full-time director of the Center for Ethics, who lived a life of scholarship, faith, service, and moral courage. The James Fowler Ethics Fund was created to honor Jim’s vision and engage others in continuing the work of the Center for Ethics to ignite moral imagination and courage through vital scholarship, engagement, and programs that lead to change. We invite your support for programs like this through the James Fowler Ethics Fund.
In the true spirit of Dr. Fowler’s vision of a just and moral society, we are delighted that our sister institutions join us in advancing equity, justice, and inclusion and work with us to build and sustain diverse learning communities:
Agnes Scott College – The Gay Johnson McDougall Center for Global Diversity and Inclusion
Georgia State University - Office of the Provost
Georgia Tech – Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Kennesaw State University – Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Mercer University – Office of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives