Past Events
Fall 2022 Events
Virtual Panel Discussion:
Thursday, September 15, 2022
3:00–4:00pm EDT
IEEE Brain and the International Neuroethics Society are holding a 1-hour panel discussion on the award-winning documentary, ‘The Father of the Cyborgs’ at 3:00pm EDT on September 15, 2022. The discussion will explore the various technological and ethical issues raised in the film and address questions submitted by participants.
Before the virtual panel, you can watch this fascinating film about a troubled pioneer of brain computer interfaces who ended up having a chip implanted in his own brain, and hear an expert panel, including Paul Root Wolpe (who is in the film!) discuss Dr. Kennedy and his work.
“The film presents a portrait of Dr. Phil Kennedy, a brilliant yet divisive figure who made global headlines in the 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a paralyzed man and, more recently, for traveling to South America to have electrodes implanted inside his own brain in order to continue his research.”
Panelists include:
- Paul Root Wolpe, Emory University
- Amy Orsborn, University of Washington
- Nathan Copeland, Brain Computer Interface User and Neurotechnology Consultant
- Moderator: Anna Wexler, University of Pennsylvania
PLEASE NOTE: THE PANEL DISCUSSION WEBINAR WILL NOT INCLUDE A VIEWING OF THE FILM, BUT REGISTRANTS WILL HAVE ACCESS TO VIEW THE FILM ONLINE ON THEIR OWN TWO WEEKS BEFORE AND TWO WEEKS AFTER THE WEBINAR.
Registration
Register to get access to watch the film and to get a link to attend the online panel discussion on September 15, 2022 at 3:00pm EDT. There is no cost to register.
All registered participants will get an email two weeks before the webinar with a link and password to watch the film online for free on Vimeo. The panel discussion will be a live webinar held virtually via Zoom. You will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link when you register.
For more information and registration go to:
https://www.neuroethicssociety.org/webinar-film-father-cyborgs
The Alliance Theatre is partnering with the Emory Center for Ethics to present a series of post-show dialogues after select performances of EVERYBODY.
Hosted by Atlanta-based comics David Perdue, Lace Larrabee, and Katherine Blanford, each dialogue invites a guest philosopher to talk about the meaning of life, our relationship to death, and everything in-between.
Join us at the North Alcove Bar for some seriously funny conversation with theologians and interfaith leaders, ethicists and philosophers, therapists and love gurus.
The drinking is optional. The laughing is not.
Please click here for times and dates of the selected shows.
You can read Carlton Mackey's brilliant response to the play here.
About the play: Everybody is a happy person, a free person, a person who believes nothing but the best lies ahead. Then Death comes calling, and Everybody must go on a journey to find what has had lasting significance in his lifetime. EVERYBODY is written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and co-directed by Susan V. Booth and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden.
Recommended for audiences aged 14 years and up.
Fall 2022 Series: AI Ethics Faculty Interest Group Brown Bag Series
Location: Center for Ethics, 1531 Dickey Drive, Room 162
Noon - 1 pm, Multiple Dates
Wed, Sept. 21, John Banja, PhD - Machine Learning Models and Health Disparities: Ethical Challenges and Recommendations at Their Points of Intersection.
Wed. Oct. 19, HOLD THE DATE, Speaker TBA
Wed. Nov. 16, Dr. Judy Gichoya, Ethical Issues Raised by the Discovery of Collateral Information from Images
Wed. Dec. 7, Dr. Jinho Choi, Topic TBA
Please email ethics@emory.edu with any questions.
Sept. 28, 2022, 7:00 pm
Join us for a screening and discussion of the film The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein. Moderated by Dr. Edward Queen, Emory Center for Ethics. Visit gpb.org/community to reserve your seat.
Panelists
Justin Howell, International Rescue Committee
Adina Langer, Museum of History and Holocaust Education
Sally Levine, Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
Dov Wilker, American Jewish Committee
Moderator
Dr. Edward Queen, Emory Center for Ethics
Location: Georgia Public Broadcasting
260 14th Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
6:15 pm Arrival, 6:30 pm Doors Closed and Program Begins
Register Now for one of our most popular event series honoring the work and memory of Dr. James W. Fowler, the first full-time director of the Emory University Center for Ethics.
Ethics and Equity Dialogue: What is Community? With and For Whom Do We Struggle for Justice?
This year we encourage your engagement - whether you live in Atlanta, Los Angeles, or Seoul. Partnering with Out of Hand Theater, the Ethics and Equity Dialogue leads us to explore the how we understand community as well as potential tensions between different parts of our identities. The event will feature an original, short play by playwright Amina McIntyre, a panel discussion, and facilitated, small-group conversation, over dinner.
This will be a “hybrid” event. We plan to welcome some of our participants in person on the Emory campus for the evening, and others will join us virtually. For those joining remotely, we hope you will consider hosting your own dialogue group, perhaps around dinner.
Note: We will provide facilitator guides supporting meaningfully participation in the discussion of community and justice.
In-Person Event Registration: Fowler22.eventbrite.com
Virtual Event Registration: Fowler22virtual.eventbrite.com
The Ethics and Equity Dialogue is based on the model of Out of Hand's Equitable Dinners. Winner of The New York Times Best Theater of 2020 and the Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities 2021, Out of Hand Theater combines art with information and conversation to advance social justice.
The SIMU-VACTION project is organized under the auspices of France-Atlanta 2022. It is an opportunity for 40 university students from across the world to actively engage, practice, and contribute to the ethical development of AI. Students, coming from different fields, universities, backgrounds, and countries will train for 6-8 weeks through a common course in which they will receive the support of professional partners.
Would you like to experience being a Head of State, Journalist, or Lobbyist? Do you want to see how YOU can impact negotiations? Would you like to draft an international level recommendation on important policy? If so, join us for this exercise replicating a meeting of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence’s (GPAI), be ready to truly invest in your role and stand for the position of your stakeholders !
After attending zoom conferences (Sept 15- Oct 15), preparing the roles they are assigned, the students will meet in-person in Atlanta for two days of training on negotiation and the D-DAY! they have to advance the position of the entity they represent and to successfully create an agreement that illustrates the interest of all parties involved.
The project fuses young minds, the world of academia, the private and non-profit sectors, as well as the community organizations engaged in issues of health disparity. It provides an opportunity for all actors to meet, discuss, and act around a common goal and project.
Summer 2021 Center Events
June 16, 2021 -- Achieving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Neuroscience Research in Under-Served, Under-Resourced and Remote Settings"
Location: Virtual Online
The 2021 BRAIN Initiative® Investigators Meeting will virtually convene BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from the contributing federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and FDA), plus representatives and investigators from participating non-federal organizations, and members of the media, public, and Congress. The purpose of this open meeting is to provide a forum for sharing exciting scientific developments and potential new directions and identifying areas for collaboration and research coordination.
Dr. Karen Rommelfanger, Director of the Neuroethics program here at the CFE will be speaking.
June 15-17, 2021 -- Mitigating bias and creating more inclusive neurotech
Location: Virtual Online
The 2021 BRAIN Initiative® Investigators Meeting will virtually convene BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from the contributing federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and FDA), plus representatives and investigators from participating non-federal organizations, and members of the media, public, and Congress. The purpose of this open meeting is to provide a forum for sharing exciting scientific developments and potential new directions and identifying areas for collaboration and research coordination.
Dr. Karen Rommelfanger, Director of the Neuroethics program here at the CFE will be speaking.
Join Dr. Karen Rommmelfanger on June 10th at 9 pm BST for "Neuroethics Questions for the 21st Century Neuroscientist" a webinar brought to you by the researchers of IRC5. In this talk, Dr. Rommelfanger will answer questions about modern neuroethical issues and issues on the horizon.
This event is free and but only open to the researchers of IRC5. Please use the zoom link and access code on the flyer.
Please direct any questions or access needs to Dr. Karen Rommelfanger at krommelfanger@emory.edu.
Spring 2021 Center Events
Join us April 22nd from 4 - 5:30 pm EST for "Viral Justice: Racism, Vulnerability, and Refuting Black Pathology" a talk by author and speaker Dr. Ruha Benjamin. In this talk, Dr. Benjamin examines the twin crises of COVID-19 and police violence, mapping the many vectors through which racism gets under the skin, into the blood stream, attacking our bodies and body politic. She offers a theory of change, viral justice – as a practical and principled approach to transmuting a hostile racial climate into one that is more habitable, hopeful, and just.
Dr. Benjamin is a world-renowned scholar and professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. She writes, teaches, and speaks widely on the relationship between innovation and inequity; knowledge and power; and race and citizenship. She is the author of People's Science: Bodies & Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press, 2013) and Race After Technology (Polity Press, 2019) and the editor of the award-winning Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press, 2019). Her next book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want will explore policing and incarceration; healthcare and scientific research; and work and education.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please go to http://tinyurl.com/pvjgl7eq to register or use the QR code on the flyer.
Please direct any questions or access needs to Dr. Jennifer Sarrett at jsarret@emory.edu.
This event is hosted by Emory's Center for the Study of Human Health and co-sponsored by The Hightower Fund as well as the following Emory departments and entities: Laney Graduate School; The Provost's Office; School of Medicine; Office of Equity and Inclusion; Center for the Study of Human Health; Campus Life; African American Studies; Sociology; School of Nursing; Center for Ethics; ILA; Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture; James Weldon Johnson Institute; WGSS; Anthropology
March 17-18, 2021
Healthcare Ethics Consortium 2021 Annual Conference
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.
Bigger Than A Home Run: The Life and Legacy of Henry "Hank" Aaron"
In recognition of Black History Month and in the memory of a great moral exemplar, the Emory University Center for Ethics presents “Bigger than a Home Run: The Life and Legacy of Henry “Hank” Aaron.” Join us for a conversation with some of Atlanta’s community leaders about the professional, personal, and community legacy of the man who Dusty Baker called, “ . . the truest, most honest person that I ever knew.”
Link for registration:
Fall 2020 Center Events
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.
Winter 2020 Center Events
February 12
"Bullets and Nooses: Artist Conversation"
Time: Noon–1:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics and the Arts Gallery, Ethics Center, 1531 Dickey Drive
Join us and artist Derrick Phillips Sr. for a conversation about his exhibit. Bullets and Nooses addresses the parallels between gun violence/police shootings and lynching. The two acts of brutality are essentially the same, just taking place in different periods within American history. During this event, Phillips will speak about this exhibit, the parallels he draws, and the nature of his work. Audience questions and engagement is welcome.
January 23
Clinical Ethics Seminar—"The Community Resiliency Model: A Way to Nurture Self- and Other-Compassion"
Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, 1531 Dickey Drive, Room 162
Speaker: Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is an innovative, mental-wellness intervention originally developed as a psychological first-aid tool in disaster situations. CRM has evolved into a simple set of self-care skills that can be readily practiced by anyone. CRM targets autonomic nervous system regulation through an awareness of sensation in the body. We will describe the biology of our reactions to stress and trauma, and practice skills to track sensations connected to well-being or resilience. CRM’s free app “ichill” can be downloaded on a smartphone.
Dr. Grabbe is a family nurse practitioner, psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner, and faculty at Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. She provides CRM trainings to a variety of audiences—providers of health care/social services, incarcerated women and youth, public safety officers, and first responders.
Spring 2020 Center Events
April 15
"When Resources Are Limited, What Would an Ethicist Do?"
Exclusive Webinar
Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, director of the Ethics Center and president of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, and Kathy Kinlaw, associate director of the Ethics Center and chief clinical ethicist at Emory, will discuss the unique ethical challenges of triage, ventilator allocation, DNR orders, and other difficult decisions related to treatment of COVID-19, and how hospitals locally and across the nation are handling these challenges.
In an exclusive interview, Wolpe and Kinlaw will share information that is important to all of us as we negotiate the difficult decisions of this ongoing pandemic.
Moderated by John Banja, medical ethicist, Ethics Center for and professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.
February 12
"Bullets and Nooses: Artist Conversation"
Time: Noon–1:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics and the Arts Gallery, Ethics Center, 1531 Dickey Drive
Join us and artist Derrick Phillips Sr. for a conversation about his exhibit. Bullets and Nooses addresses the parallels between gun violence/police shootings and lynching. The two acts of brutality are essentially the same, just taking place in different periods within American history. During this event, Phillips will speak about this exhibit, the parallels he draws, and the nature of his work. Audience questions and engagement is welcome.
January 23
Clinical Ethics Seminar
"The Community Resiliency Model: A Way to Nurture Self- and Other-Compassion"
Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, 1531 Dickey Drive, Room 162
Speaker: Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is an innovative, mental-wellness intervention originally developed as a psychological first-aid tool in disaster situations. CRM has evolved into a simple set of self-care skills that can be readily practiced by anyone. CRM targets autonomic nervous system regulation through an awareness of sensation in the body. We will describe the biology of our reactions to stress and trauma, and practice skills to track sensations connected to well-being or resilience. CRM’s free app “ichill” can be downloaded on a smartphone.
Dr. Grabbe is a family nurse practitioner, psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner, and faculty at Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. She provides CRM trainings to a variety of audiences—providers of health care/social services, incarcerated women and youth, public safety officers, and first responders.
Spring 2019 Events
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 102
Enjoy a short performance and panel discussion surrounding the Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of Jake Heggie’s groundbreaking opera, Dead Man Walking. The conversation will feature Sister Helen Prejean, author of the novel on which the opera is based. Moderated by Dr. Edward Queen of the Ethics Center, panelists include Sara Totonchi, executive dDirector of the Southern Center for Human Rights, and Micah Fortson, managing director of the Atlanta Opera. The evening also includes a book signing with Sister Helen Prejean.
Time: 6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Location: Emory University White Hall, Room 208
The Ethics Center, in conjunction with Slow Food Atlanta, invites you to a free screening of Wasted! The Story of Food Waste. A pre-film food tasting will showcase plates from Miller Union and Wrecking Bar, and a discussion with an illustrious panel will follow the screening. Narrated by executive producer Anthony Bourdain, Wasted! exposes the criminality of food waste and how it directly contributes to climate change.
A Reel Ruminations event of the Emory Food Studies and Ethics Program.
Time: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center
Join us for a free pre-show discussion of the ethical issues raised in Goodnight, Tyler, which begins its run at the Alliance Theater February 16. Contributing speakers include Ethics Center faculty and the cast and crew of the play. The event is free, but registration is required.
About the play:
Depending on whom you ask, “Tyler Evans was a beloved best friend, grandson, mentor, and fiancée,” or “Tyler Evans was a young Black man killed by a police officer.” Desperate to control the contradicting narratives of his untimely passing, Tyler haunts his best friend as his other friends and relatives quibble over his legacy, seeking an elusive common ground. A contemporary and unexpectedly humorous drama. Winner of the 2019 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.
Written by B. J. Tindal
Time: 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center
The Emory Integrity Project is partnering with Fearless Dialogues to bring together members of Georgia communities who share a collective interest in embracing our common humanity. Come to engage in hard heartfelt conversations that see gifts in others and hear value in stories that will change the way people see themselves and the world around them.
We will be waiting for you. It will be "just us."
Free for all who wish to attend.
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Alliance Theatre
Come see Ever After at the Alliance Theatre and stay for an Ethics on the Stage discussion afterward with members of the Ethics Center.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Alliance Theatre
Come see Goodnight, Tyler at the Alliance Theatre and stay for an Ethics on the Stage discussion afterward with members of the Ethics Center.
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Emory University Hospital Auditorium
Join the Ethics Center and the Healthcare Ethics Consortium for a free, public lecture by Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, on "Shared Decision Making." New federal and state policy changes are propelling a seismic shift from traditional informed consent to shared decision making (SDM) with decision aids. Given that SDM aims at understanding instead of disclosure, it better protects patient autonomy and reduces unwanted medical treatment.
Location: Emory Conference Center
The field of bioethics and health care ethics has both ancient taproots and modern offshoots that provide a complex architecture of support. In this two-day conversation, we will note how the discipline of health care ethics has evolved around several central themes as a foundation for exploring what we might anticipate as the field of health care ethics develops.
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Alliance Theatre
Come see Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous at the Alliance Theatre and stay for an Ethics on the Stage discussion afterward with members of the Ethics Center.
Ethics Integrity Project Conference: "Reimagining Culture and Integrity in Higher Education"
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Alliance Theatre
Come see Approval Junkie at the Alliance Theatre and stay for an Ethics on the Stage discussion afterward with members of the Ethics Center.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Time: 6:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m.
Location: CARE USA Headquarters, 151 Ellis Street
Time: 8:30 a.m. –5:00 p.m.
Need a quiet place to study for finals or finish your papers? The Ethics Center is open to all Emory students this week, so stop by, grab some snacks, and start cramming.
Summer 2019 Events
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Alliance Theatre
Come see Ride the Cyclone at the Alliance Theatre and stay for an Ethics on the Stage discussion afterward with members of the Ethics Center.
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: The Commerce Club, downtown Atlanta
This talk, by Professor John Banja, PhD, focuses on the impact of AI on jobs and human interactions. As AI becomes more and more powerful we will explore the ethical questions that arise and provide a forum for discussion. Join us for what will surely be a lively discussion.
Time: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Join us for this month's Clinical Ethics Seminar with featured speaker Anne-Elisabeth Courrier, PhD, who will discuss the privacy issues related to health care in today's digital world.
Fall 2019 Events
Time: 1:15 p.m.
Location: Decatur City Hall
"Moral Machines: How Is Artificial Intelligence Pushing Our Ethical Boundaries?"
Join Ethics Center Director Paul Root Wolpe, PhD, Emory Professor John Banja, PhD, and Georgia Tech Assistant Professor in Digital Media Nassim Parvin, PhD for a lively panel discussion during this year's Decatur Book Festival.
As AI surpasses human intelligence and capabilities, how do we assure that we continue to control AI, rather than the other way around? We will discuss these and other challenges that AI poses to society.
Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, 1531 Dickey Drive
We have a new art exhibit filling our gallery walls, The Lexicon of Human Dignity. This collection tells the stories of thought leaders around Atlanta working to educate, engage, and activate us so we recognize the challenges of our neighbors and teach us how we might support them. Eleven thought leaders across many topics and disciplines contributed their experience to the artworks. By illuminating the vocabulary of human dignity, we explore the topics of “Seniors Helping Seniors,” “Food Justice,” “Homelessness,” “Mental Health Matters,” “Bridging LBGTQ and Mainstream Communities,” “Welcome Refugees,” “Access to Justice,” “Respect and Safety for All Faiths,” “Empowering the Most Vulnerable,” “The Four Quarters of Life,” and “Food Literacy.”
Join us on September 17 to view the art and listen to thought leaders Linda Ellis and Valerie Morvan discuss their work and their pieces in the collection.
Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
This month, our Clinical Ethics Seminar series dives into the topic of compassion. Compassion is essential in health care but are we overusing the concept? Guest speaker Tim Cunningham will share stories of working in challenging settings and lead a discussion on the ways that we experience and practice compassion.
Time: 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Emory University
John Banja, PhD, and Edward Queen, PhD, will both be participating in the upcoming Ethical Artificial Intelligence Symposium on Emory's campus. Come listen to thoughtful, intimate discussions featuring a number of thought leaders in the field.
Time: 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: The Commerce Club
Gerard Vong, director of the Master of the Arts in Bioethics program, is speaking at The Commerce Club. His talk will offer an introduction to the ethics of scarce resource allocation using real-life health cases such as donor organs and drug shortages. Though the cases will be health care–focused, the presentation will conclude with a discussion of how similar considerations apply more generally.
Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, 1531 Dickey Drive, Room 162
Speakers:
- Neal Dickert, MD, PhD, associate professor, Emory School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, ECCRI
- April Dworetz, MD, MPH, MA, neonatologist, bioethicist, associate professor of pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine
- Kevin Wack, JD, MA, MTS, clinical ethicist, Emory Healthcare
- Paul Root Wolpe, PhD, director, Ethics Center
Join us to learn about emerging topics and highlights from this year's conference.
2018 Events
Time: 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Hill Auditorium
In partnership with the High Museum of Art, we will host a Creativity Conversation to discuss in detail the role of public art and its relationship to civil and human rights, particularly representation, accessibility, and gentrification and housing.
Off the Wall is a city-wide initiative led by WonderRoot and the Atlanta Super Bowl Host Committee from June 2018 through February 2019. With murals, media, and community conversations, Off the Wall will share Atlanta’s social justice journey and elevate key stories in our city’s pursuit of civil rights, human rights, and a more equitable future for all Atlantans.
Time: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Why is the concept of vulnerability important in bioethics?
This presentation challenges the pragmatic approach on vulnerability to address a relational and universal conception of it.
We will discuss some of the implications derived from this reflection within clinical ethics, such as rethinking autonomy, professionalism, and "asymmetrical responsibility" in health care.
Location: Ethics Center table in the Emory University tent
Center faculty Jonathan Crane and Arri Eisen, along with Advisory Board member Eve Hoffman, will join other authors for presentations and book signings during the festival.
The Center for Ethics will have a table under the Emory tent at the corner of Clairemont and West Ponce, in front of the Old Dekalb County Courthouse. We will have books for sale and, for the first time, we will display and sell signed fine-art prints and posters of Frankenstein’s Creation, a new vision of Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old masterpiece by Advisory Board member and Schwartz Center Artist-in-Residence Ross Rossin.
Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Greene Family Education Center
Join visitors of all ages at the High Museum of Art for Art Talks Back, a lively in-gallery discussion that focuses on current issues and topics chosen by the museum's Teen Team.
Ethics & the Arts Program Director Carlton Mackey assists the teen hosts in guiding and enriching the conversation.
Art Talks Back takes place on the second Friday of each month during Teen FriHIGHday and meets in the Greene Family Education Center.
Time: 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 102
Don't miss our opening event of the semester! Dr. Michael Jiang, CEO of Nerv and and Emory Neuroscience graduate program alumnus, will discuss accessible cognitive enhancers. Jiang will tell the story of why and how he developed a cognitive enhancer for 'healthy' individuals. He will also talk about current and future ethical tensions in the development of commercially available enhancers.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: EthicsCenter, Room 102
The Ethics & the Arts program and Alliance Theatre invite you to join the cast for a scene presentation and discussion of Nick's Flamingo Grill. Inspired by the true story of the first integrated nightclub in Atlanta, Nick’s Flamingo Grill is a story of hope and brotherly love.
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 150
Are you an Emory student interested in receiving a certificate in ethics? Earn an experiential-learning Certificate in Ethics with a concentration in bioethics, medicine, and humanities while travelling through Italy this summer. The program visits 44 cities, towns, and cultural sites.
Time: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Topic: "No Home, No Help: The Effect of Stigma against Homelessness in the Inpatient Setting"
Speaker: Cristina Vellozzi-Averhoff, BAS
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Atlanta Botanical Gardens
Join Ethics Center Director Paul Root Wolpe for an ethics talkback before the presentation of Alliance Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Attendees should purchase tickets for the October 7th performance.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: EthicsCenter
The Ethics & the Arts program is hosting an opening reception for its newest exhibit on display now. The reception will feature a presentation and discussion by artist Jamaal Barber.
Tell ‘Em We Don’t Die features works created by Jamaal Barber and was curated by Ethics & the Arts Director Carlton Mackey. It explores Black identity through the lens of resistance and resilience. The title of the show as well as the topics it explores, ranging from the erasure of Black humanity via racial profiling to the proclamation of Black beauty, speak to the constant tension Black people and other communities experience while forging identity simultaneously out of struggle and self-love.
This exhibit is compiled primarily of work from the following collections: Bright Black, a series of woodcut prints that illustrate and celebrate various themes of the black experience in America; and Identity Series, woodcut portraits showing the struggle of keeping Black identity in America.
This exhibit is part of the Ethics & the Arts exhibit series at the Ethics Center. It will be on display until December 14, 2018.
Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Greene Family Education Center
Join visitors of all ages at the High Museum of Art for Art Talks Back, a lively in-gallery discussion that focuses on current issues and topics chosen by the museum's Teen Team.
Ethics & the Arts Program Director Carlton Mackey assists the teen hosts in guiding and enriching the conversation.
Art Talks Back takes place on the second Friday of each month during Teen FriHIGHday and meets in the Greene Family Education Center.
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 102
Join us for our next installment of Neurotechnologies and Emerging Ethical Dilemmas with Dr. Ashok Goel, Georgia Tech professor of computer and cognitive science, for a talk titled "AI Agents among Us: Changing Anthropology of Virtual Classrooms." In this event, Goel will discuss reasons to use AI to build intelligent assistants, where the field is headed, and highlight some of the ethical challenges of this work.
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 150
Are you an Emory student interested in receiving a certificate in ethics? Earn an experiential-learning Certificate in Ethics with a concentration in bioethics, medicine, and humanities while travelling through Italy this summer. The program visits 44 cities, towns, and cultural sites.
Time: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 252
Power Lines is a short documentary about the expansion of Plant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant located in Waynesboro, Georgia. With a timeline already five years behind schedule and a current price tag of more than $13 billion over original estimates, the addition of two nuclear reactors has proven to be a black hole for both citizens of Waynesboro and the state as a whole.
This film educates Georgians about a widely unknown issue so that—as they pay their power bills each month or turn on their lights each day—they understand which lines of power dictate important aspects of their day-to-day lives. Anchored in the idea that knowledge is power, we believe that understanding this important issue is the first step to effecting sustainable change.
Time: 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Location: Glenn Memorial Auditorium
Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy, will be joined by Anthony Ray Hinton, a former client recently exonerated, to have a conversation about justice, mercy, and the American justice system.
Tickets are free to Emory students, faculty, staff, and their guests. Community members may purchase tickets for $20. Emory IDs will be checked for all of those with an Emory ticket.
Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Greene Family Education Center
Join visitors of all ages at the High Museum of Art for Art Talks Back, a lively in-gallery discussion that focuses on current issues and topics chosen by the museum's Teen Team.
Ethics & the Arts Program Director Carlton Mackey assists the teen hosts in guiding and enriching the conversation.
Art Talks Back takes place on the second Friday of each month during Teen FriHIGHday and meets in the Greene Family Education Center.
Time: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 150
Are you an Emory student interested in receiving a certificate in ethics? Earn an experiential-learning Certificate in Ethics with a concentration in bioethics, medicine, and humanities while travelling through Italy this summer. The program visits 44 cities, towns, and cultural sites.
Time: 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Alliance Theatre
Join Ethics Center Faculty Fellow Jennifer Sarrett for an ethics talkback before the presentation of Alliance Theatre's Knead. Attendees should purchase tickets for the December 2nd performance.
Time: 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162
Join Dr. Munmun Choudhury, from Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing to discuss predicting mental illness of you and yours via social media. In this event, Choudhury will discuss how social media can be used to predict mental illness. We will discuss ethical tensions in balancing therapeutic opportunities and unwanted surveillance.
Time: 5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Location: Online
Join the director and program coordinator of the MA in Bioethics program online to learn about the program and how a degree in bioethics can enhance your career.
Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Greene Family Education Center
Join visitors of all ages at the High Museum of Art for Art Talks Back, a lively in-gallery discussion that focuses on current issues and topics chosen by the museum's Teen Team.
Ethics & the Arts Program Director Carlton Mackey assists the teen hosts in guiding and enriching the conversation.
Art Talks Back takes place on the second Friday of each month during Teen FriHIGHday and meets in the Greene Family Education Center.
Time: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: Ethics Center, Room 162