Past EventsMonday, November 2, 2009 Graduate School of Arts & Sciences' Master's Open House You are invited to the Graduate School of Arts and Science's Master's Open House.
Monday, November 2, 2009 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM Eisner Lubin Auditorium Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor New York, NY 10012 Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP. For more information visit http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/grad.admissions.openhouse Friday, October 23, 2009 The NYU Bioethics Program invites you to attend a lecture by Anja Karnein Goethe University in Frankfurt Visiting Scholar, NYU Center for Bioethics Should We Genetically Manipulate Future Persons? Friday, October 23, 2009 4:00-6:00 pm 5 Washington Place, Room 202 (NE Corner of Mercer Street) New York, NY 10003 Reception to follow in the 6th floor lounge. Friday, October 9, 2009 The NYU Department of Philosophy and the Center for Bioethics invite to a lecture by Onora O'NeillProfessor of Philosophy, University of CambridgePresident, The British Academy Life Peer, The British House of Lords Making Reason Public: Necessary Conditions for Dialogues and DiscourseFriday, October 9, 2009 4:00-6:00 pm 5 Washington Place, 1st Floor Auditorium (NE Corner of Mercer Street) New York, NY 10003 Reception to follow in the 6th Floor Lounge Tuesday, October 6- Friday, October 9, 2009 Walk 21 NYC Conference New York City will host Walk21, the annual international walking conference, in October 2009. The conference will take place at New York University in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, from Tuesday, October 6 to Friday October 9, 2009 and will be hosted by the New York City Department of Transportation. New York City will host Walk21, the 10th International Conference on
Walking and Liveable Communities, in October 2009. The conference will
take place at New York University from Wednesday, October 7 to Friday,
October 9, and is sponsored by the New York City Department of
Transportation. If you would like to volunteer for this event, please contact Regina Drew at regina dot drew at nyu dot edu. Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Celebrate Climate Week by joining us for a lecture by Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, Executive Director of the Global Footprint Network. The Ecological Footprint: A Decision Tool for Facing Climate Change and Building a Sustainable Future
Global Footprint Network Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:00-7:30 pm Gould Welcome Center, Barash Theater 50 West 4th Street, 1st. Floor New York, NY 10012 RSVP: http://www.nyu.edu/rsvp/event.php?e_id=1771 We all know nature doesn’t do bailouts. Yet this week, on September 25, humanity will have demanded all the ecological services that nature can provide this year – from filtering CO2 to producing raw materials for food. From now until December 31, we are borrowing from the future. Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, will give a lecture on the numbers behind this deficit, and how action at Copenhagen can reverse this global trend. The Ecological Footprint is a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we use compared to how much we have -- and the current ledgers are sobering. Mathis
is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and has worked on
sustainability issues for organizations in Europe, Latin America, North
America, Asia and Australia, and has lectured for community groups,
governments and their agencies, NGOs, and academic audiences at more
than 100 universities around the world. Mathis previously served as the
director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in
Oakland, California, and directed the Centre for Sustainability Studies
/ Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad in Mexico, which he still
advises. He is also an adjunct faculty at SAGE at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Mathis has authored or contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles and reports and various books on sustainability that focus on the question of embracing limits and developing metrics for sustainability, including Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth; Sharing Nature’s Interest; and WWF International’s Living Planet Report. After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he completed his Ph.D. in community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. There, as his doctoral dissertation with Professor William Rees, he created the Ecological Footprint concept. Mathis’ awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne in 2007, a 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics.
The Educating for Sustainability Series is sponsored by the NYU Environmental Studies Program and the Sustainability Task Force. Thursday, September 24, 2009 The NYU Bioethics and Environmental Studies Programs invites you to attend a lecture by Martin BunzlRutgers University US Versus Them: Carbon Output in the Developing World. Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:00-7:00 pm Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, Room 910 (Washington Square South and LaGuardia Place) RSVP REQUIRED: Please contact Amanda Anjum at asa4@nyu.edu or call 212-992-7999. Professor Bunzl is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and directs the Initiative on Climate and Social Policy, a joint Program of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Environmental and Biological Sciences. Professor Bunzl will argue that it may be rational for the Developing World to favor a higher carbon concentration in the atmosphere than the Developed World. Thursday, September 10, 2009 Bioethics Welcome Back PartyThursday, September 10, 2009 7:00-9:00 pm 5 Washington Place, 6th Floor (NE Corner of Mercer Street) RSVP required, contact Amanda Anjum at asa4@nyu.edu. We would like to invite the new and continuing students, faculty, and friends of the Bioethics Program to celebrate the new academic year. Tuesday, May 5, 2009 NYU's Environmental Studies Program, Master's Program in Global Public
Health, and the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human
Development presents: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Educating for Sustainability Lecture Series: Cameron HepburnSenior Research Fellow, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University Beating Long Odds: A New Global Deal on Climate ChangeTuesday, April 21, 2009 6:00-7:30 PM Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center Barasch Theater, First Floor 50 West Fourth Street New York, NY 10012 Climate policy at the international level is moving towards agreeing an emissions pathway, and distributing responsibilities between countries. A feasible framework can be constructed in which each country takes on its own responsibilities and targets, based on a shared understanding of the risks and the need for action and collaboration on climate change. The global deal should contain six key features: (i) a pathway to achieve the world target of 50% reductions by 2050, where rich countries contribute at least 75% reductions; (ii) global emissions trading to reduce costs; (iii) reform of the clean development mechanism to scale-up emission reductions on a sectoral or benchmark level; (iv) scaling up of research and development funding for low-carbon energy; (v) an agreement on deforestation; and (vi) adaptation finance. Dr. Hepburn is an environmental economist specializing in climate policy and long-term decision-making. He holds teaching and research fellowships at Oxford, is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was a contributor to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. The Educating for Sustainability series is sponsored by NYU's Environmental Studies Program and the Sustainability Task Force. Thursday, April 16, 2009 Interested in graduate study in Bioethics?Want to broaden your knowledge of ethics in the medical and environmental field?Come to the open house at the NYU Center for Bioethics!Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:30 pm 285 Mercer Street,9th Floor New York, NY 10003 The Bioethics Program will hold an open house on Thursday, April 16th at 5:30 p.m. for students who have an interest in the Master's Program in Bioethics: Life, Health, and the Environment. This will be a great chance for prospective students to find out about the admissions process and meet with faculty and students. We will also announce two new faculty appointments in medical and environmental ethics, as well as next year's graduate courses. Food and refreshments will be served, so we hope to see you there! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Amanda Anjum at amandaanjum@nyu.edu. Monday, April 13, 2009 The New York University Bioethics and the Environmental Studies Programs invites you to attend a lecture by: Dr. Hernan SandovalPresident, Corporacion Chile Ambiente Damming PatagoniaMonday, April 13, 2009 6:30 PM 19 University Place, Room 102 (Corner of East 8th Street & University Place) New York, NY 10003 In
the waning days of the Pinochet dictatorship, water rights in Chile
were privatized, and now a Spanish utility company is seeking to build
five high dams that would irretrievably damage one of the wildest and
most beautiful places on earth. Building the dams would also mean
building a thousand-mile power-line corridor northward toward the
Chilean capital, Santiago — the longest clear-cut on the planet and a
scar across some of Chile’s most alluring landscape. Most of the
electricity generated by the project would go not to residential use
but to mining and industry. Dr. Hernan Sandoval is President of the Corporacion Chile Ambiente, and one of the leaders in the fight for a dam-free Patagonia. Dr. Sandoval began his career as a surgeon at the University of Chile, and while in exile during the Pinochet dictatorship worked for the World Health Organization in Africa and Latin America. After returning to Chile he led the effort to reform the national health system, and later served as Ambassador to France. For a pdf flyer, please click here. Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to attend a lecture by: James DwyerCenter for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University "When the Discharge Plan is Deportation: Hospitals, Immigrants, and Social Responsibility"Wednesday, March 4, 2009 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Philosophy Conference Room, 3rd floor 5 Washington Place (NE Corner of Mercer Street) Reception to follow. Wednesday, February 25, 2009 The NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to attend a lecture by: S. Matthew Liao,Deputy Director & James Martin 21st Century School Senior Research Fellow, Program on the Ethics in the New Biosciences, Oxford University "The Duty to Disclose Adverse Clinical Trials"Wednesday, February 25, 2009 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. Snow Dining Room of Swartz Hall at the NYU School of Medicine 550 First Avenue and 30th Street, New York, NY 10016 Friday, February 20, 2009 The NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to attend a lecture by:
Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Methods, The London School of Economics Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics, Harvard University "Can We Trust Our Moral Intuitions in Health Care Allocation? The Results of One Experiment"
5 Washington Place (NE Corner of Mercer Street)
Friday, January 30, 2009 The NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to attend a lecture by: Mary Ann Baily, Ph.D. Research Scholar, The Hastings Center "Buy or Die: Market Mechanisms to Reduce the National Organ Shortage?" Friday, January 30, 2009 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Philosophy Conference Room, 2nd floor 5 Washington Place (NE Corner of Mercer Street) Reception to follow For more information on upcoming events, please visit http://bioethics.as.nyu.edu/page/news Friday, October 10, 2008 The NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to attend a lecture by: Greg BognarAssistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Bioethics, NYU Center for Bioethics "Valuing Lives Impartially." Friday, October 10, 2008 from 4:00-6:00 PM 5 Washington Place (NE Corner of Mercer Street), Room 202 Reception to follow. Cost effectiveness analysis is the standard analytical tool for evaluating the aggregate health benefits of treatments and health programs. According to a common objection, however, its use may lead to unfair discrimination against people with disabilities. I begin by arguing that the discrimination objection is a bundle of related objections with different targets and background assumptions. I focus on a version on which discrimination is the consequence of the use of one of the inputs of cost effectiveness analysis -- namely, quality adjusted measures of health benefit. I show that a standard defense of these measures, which appeals to their impartiality, does not succeed. After discussing impartiality in more general terms, I end with exploring a proposal for determining the conditions under which the use of quality adjusted measures leads to discrimination against people with disabilities that is indeed unfair. Wednesday, October 15, 2008 SAVING LIVES –CHANGING HORIZONS IN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE 5 Washington Place, Room 101 Reception begins at 6:30 PM Lecture 7:30-9:00 PM Join Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy, Oxfam America’s Public Health Specialist, as she discusses innovations in public health, disaster risk reduction, and insights gained over the past several years working in Africa and Asia. Hear a first-hand account about the issues, progress, and the challenges that lie ahead for humanitarian response. How does a drought or a disease outbreak with no name in a remote and dusty region of Africa find its way onto the radar screen of an international aid group a third of the way around the world? DEWS – an innovative humanitarian aid pilot project in southern Ethiopia – is tracking changes in local conditions that could signal the onset of a humanitarian disaster – and get people help before problems spiral out of control. A light supper will be served so please RSVP by October 14 to Maryna Lansky marynalansky@hotmail.com or (212) 962-0098. This event is co-sponsored by the New York Committee for Oxfam America and the NYU Environmental Studies Program.  
Thursday, September 18, 2008 The NYU Center for Bioethics and the Philosophy Department at SUNY Stony Brook invite you to a conference on: Cognitive Disability: A Challenge to Moral Philosophy Opening keynote address given by Martha Nussbaum on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 7:15pm Kimmel Center 10th Floor, Rosenthal Pavilion 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 For a complete schedule of conference events, please visit     Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The NYU Center for Bioethics and the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University invite you to: Broad Bioethics: Clinical Ethics, Public Health and Global Health Onora O'NeillProfessor of Philosophy, Cambridge University President, The British Academy
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
7:30 PM Location: Yeshiva University Museum/The Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street (Btwn 5th and 6th Avenue), New York, N.Y. RSVP to 212-960-0189 or at events@yu.edu Abstract: Across thirty years, medical ethics has mainly been concerned with clinical ethics. This focus has marginalised ethical questions about public health: the central requirements of clinical ethics, such as demands for informed consent or for a just distribution of health care, cannot generally be met by public health interventions. This is unavoidable: many public health interventions are public goods which are not and cannot be allocated to individuals, and cannot be adjusted to individual choice or subject to consent requirements. In marginalising questions about public health, work in bioethics has also marginalised ethical questions about global health issues, where public health interventions are often of fundamental importance. An approach to bioethics that takes questions of public and global health seriously would need to be anchored in political philosophy. It would need not only to look beyond questions about informed consent and individual autonomy, but beyond questions about the proper distribution of health care to individuals. In particular it needs to focus on the differences between interventions that are acceptable without the consent of those whom they may affect, and those which are not. I shall suggest that careful consideration of this demand shows that clinical interventions too, although they are provided for individuals and can be subject to consent requirements, rely on many structures and procedures that cannot be matters of individual choice. Clinical ethics therefore presupposes an ethics of public health. Thursday, May 1, 2008 The Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge University Dissecting Informed Consent Applications to Medicine and Public Health Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:00 p.m. Board of Overseers Room (Forchheimer Building Ground Floor) Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jack & Pearl Resnick Campus 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, NY 10461 RSVP by April 24, 2008 to Ms. Merrilly Calabrese at 718-430-3234 Or email: calabres@aecom.yu.edu Reception to follow. Friday, May 2, 2008
Naturalism, Normativity, and Applied Philosophy Friday, May 2, 2008 4:00-6:00 PM 5 Washington Place 1st Floor Auditorium Thursday, March 27, 2008 The
NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to a lecture by To download a PDF of the flyer, click here. Thursday, February 21, 2008
The NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to a talk by S. Matthew Liao, D.Phil.(Oxford) Deputy Director & James Martin Senior Research Fellow Program on the Ethics of New Biosciences, Oxford University Parental Love Pills: Some Ethical Considerations What if we can develop drugs that enable parents to feel and behave more lovingly towards their children? Why would anyone want to take such pills? What implications do these pills have for a duty to love a child? Thursday February 21 5:30-7pm 5 Washington Place, Room 202 Announcement: Professor William Ruddick of the Philosophy Department has been appointed the first Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and Director of the NYU Center for Bioethics. Announcement: Faculty Positions
Center for Bioethics, Arts and Science Start date: September 1, 2008 for both positions (pending administrative and budgetary approval; the start date for the open rank faculty position is negotiable for more senior applicants) Description of institution: A new Center for Bioethics at New York University promotes a broad conception of bioethics encompassing both medical and environmental ethics through conferences, workshops, public lectures, and a Master’s degree program. Based in the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Center draws on faculty affiliates and programs throughout the University, including environmental studies, medicine, law, education, and public service. The Center will begin a Master’s program in “Bioethics: Life, Health, and Environment” in September 2007. A description of the program can be viewed at http://bioethics.as.nyu.edu. Description of position: Applications are invited for both an open rank faculty position and an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position. The open rank faculty position is for a tenured or tenure-track Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or full Professor. The initial appointment for the Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position will be for one year, renewable annually for a maximum of three years. The applicant will be expected to give a graduate course in the new MA in Bioethics Program in Spring 2009. NYU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Requirements: Applicants for the open rank faculty position may be from any academic discipline. The applicant should have studied, taught, and written on relevant moral or general philosophical matters. Applicants for the Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position should have written and preferably taught in areas of medical, environmental, and/or animal ethics and have completed a Ph.D. no more than three years before the application date. Review of applications begins: September 17, 2007 Contact information: For both positions, please submit curriculum vitae, letters of recommendation (or, for more senior applicants applying for the open rank position, a list of recommenders), and two relevant essays to Professor William Ruddick, Director of the Center for Bioethics, 5 Washington Place, Room 305, New York University, New York, NY 10003, Attn: Open Rank or Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow Position. Please send any questions to bioethics@nyu.edu. |
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