Previous Lectures and Sponsored Events

2007-10

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Speakers from Indiana University are noted by their departments or schools. Lectures which were part of a series have links to further information about the series.

2007

Mike Sullivan, "Medical Information Sharing: Ethical and Privacy Considerations," January 25, 2007, Healthcare Ethics.
Deirdre Mulligan, University of California Berkeley Law School, "In Defense of Public Places," February 1, 2007. Privacy and Technology. Response from Fred Cate, IU Bloomington School of Law.
Edwin C. Marshall, IU School of Optometry, "Health Disparities-A Barometer of Social Justice in Health Care," February 15, 2007, Healthcare Ethics.
Rebecca Dresser, Washington University St. Louis, "Terry Schiavo and Contemporary Myths about Dying," March 1, 2007, Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture.
Jennifer Girod, "Moral Duties & Economic Dilemmas in the Search for Effective Drugs," Healthcare Ethics.
Mike Martin, Chapman University, "From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue & Vice in a Therapeutic Culture," April 19, 2007, IU Center on Philanthropy.
Margaret Gaffney, IU School of Medicine, "Ethics and Teaching Caring Attitudes," April 26, 2007, Healthcare Ethics.
Purnima Bose, English and Cultural Studies Program; Maria Bucur, History and Russian and East European Institute; Patrick Dove, Spanish and Portuguse; Joseph Hoffmann, IU Bloomington School of Law; John Lucaites, Communication and Culture; Lynn Struve, History and East Asian Languages and Culture, presenting their research from the PC Fellows study, "Memory: Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics," September 28, 2007.
Richard DeGeorge, University of Kansas, "Privacy, Public Spaces and Non-Governmental Surveillance," October 11, 2007, Privacy and Technology. Peter Finn, Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences, responded.
Thomas Kuhn and Steve Deckard, Bloomington Hospital, "Health Care Case Management: A New Twist," October 25, 2007, Healthcare Ethics.
Alain Badiou, Ecole Normal Superieure, "Politics, Universalism and the Legacy of the 1960s: For a Revival of the Communist Hypothesis," Nov. 8, 2007, coordinated by Germanic Studies and co-sponsored by the Poynter Center.
Sandra Shapshay, Philosophy, "Procreative Liberty & Commodification in Human Cloning Debate," November 15, 2007, Healthcare Ethics.
John Vanderzee, Bloomington Hospital, "Spirituality and Medicine: The Religion/Science Debate Revisited," December 6, 2007, Healthcare Ethics.

2008

Ginny Gremillion, retired ethicist, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, "If Only the Doctor Had Said. . . .," January 17, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Law School, discussion of chapter 4 of Cultivating Humanity, February 11, 2008, Patten Lecturer.
Helen Gremillion, Gender Studies, "Talk Therapy as Cultural Practice: A 'Narrative' Approach to Culture, Power, and Change," February 28, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.
Allida Black, George Washington University and editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, "Women's Rights as Human Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt, Then and Now," March 5, 2008, Women's History Month Lunch. The PC was a co-sponsor.
Larry Cripe, IU School of Medicine, "In the Shadow of Hope: Truth-telling in Oncology," March 20, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.
David Little, Harvard University, "Human Rights, Public Reason, and the International Protection of Religion or Belief: A Way Forward," March 21-22, 2008, Religious Studies Graduate Student symposium. Poynter Center was a co-sponsor.
John Arras, University of Virginia, "Human Rights and Bioethics: Curb Your Enthusiasm," April 3, 2008, Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture.
Paul Helft, Clarian Health Partners, "How Can a Clinical Ethics Center Engage Practical Problems for Healthcare Professionals and Patients?" April 17, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.
Jennifer Girod, TaftStettinius & Hollister, Indianapolis, "The Ethics of Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials," September 25, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.
Rob Katz, IU Indianapolis School of Law, "Paging Dr. Shylock!: Jewish Hospitals and the Prudent Re-Investment of Jewish Philanthropy," September 26, 2008. Sponsored by Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Poynter Center.
Mark Crispin Miller, New York University, "Rigged: Election Fraud and Media Coverage, 2000-2008," October 2, 2008. The Poynter Center was a co-sponsor.
Lisa Sideris, Religious Studies, "Fact and Fiction, Fear and Wonder: The Legacy of Rachel Carson," October 10, 2008, PC Roundtable.
Jeffrey Wolin, Photography, School of Fine Arts, "Inconvenient Stories: Veterans of the Vietnam War/Veterans of the American War," October 17, 2008, PC Roundtable.
Richard Gunderman, IU School of Medicine, "Freedom and Generosity," October 23, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.
James O'Donnell, Georgetown University, Seminar on Augustine: A New Biography, October 27-31, 2008, Patten Lecturer, with Poynter Center as co-sponsor.
Ron Osgood, Telecommunications, "My Vietnam Your Iraq," November 14, 2008, PC Roundtable.
Greg Sachs, IU School of Medicine, "Pediatrics and Geriatrics: Ethics Across the Life Course," November 20, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.
Alexia Torke, IU School of Medicine, "Towards a New Ethical Model for Surrogate Decision- Making," December 11, 2008, Healthcare Ethics.

2009

Nicole C. Quon, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, "Do Changes in NIH Grant Priorities Match the Women's Health Agenda? The Role of Advocacy and Public Health Needs," January 22, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.
Sandra Shapshay, Philosophy, Bioethics at the Movies, February 12, 2009, PC Roundtable.
Kimberly Quaid, IU School of Medicine, "Should We Test Children for Late-Onset Genetic Disease?" February 19, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.
Keith Erekson, University of Texas El Paso, "Lincoln and Indiana," February 19-20, 2009. The Poynter Center was a co-sponsor for this community event.
Lisa Sideris, Religious Studies, "Rachel Carson and the Rise of Environmentalism," March 11, 2009. The Poynter Center was a co-sponsor of the community Women's History Month Lunch.
David Craig, Religious Studies, IUPUI, "Making Religious Values Count: Health Care Mission as Participatory Discourse," March 26, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.
Colin Allen, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science and the Cognitive Science Program, "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong," April 2, 2009, PC Roundtable.
Robert Crouch, Poynter Center, "Hope in the Healthcare Context," April 9, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.
Margaret Mohrmann, University of Virginia, "Bioethics for Babies: Are There Guides for the Perplexed?" April 16, 2009, Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture.
John Lucaites, Communication & Culture, "No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy," April 30, 2009, PC Roundtable.
Lida Anestidou, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, The National Academies, "Animal Pain and Biomedical Research: Ethics and Practice," June 10, 2009, Neuroethics workshop.
Josh Perry, Kelley School of Business, "The Case of Mrs. K: A Saturday Morning Clinical Ethics Consultation," September 17, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.
Rae Greiner, English, "Thinking of Me, Thinking of You," September 18, 2009, Empathy.
Jeremy Horder, University of Oxford and Law Commissioner for England and Wales, "English Law" September 24, 2009, Institute for Advanced Studies.
Scott Russell Sanders, English, "A Conservationis Manifesto," September 24, 2009, PC Roundtable.
Fritz Breithaupt, Germanic Studies, "Cultures of Empathy," October 2, 2009, Empathy.
Rob Kunzman, School of Education, "Write These Laws On Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling," October 8, 2009, PC Roundtable.
Robert Crouch, Poynter Center, "Medical Interventions on Children for Nonmedical Reasons: How Far May Parents Go?," October 22, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.
Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney,, University of Pennsylvania, "Empathy and Primates," November 4, 2009, Empathy.
Eleanor Kinney, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, "Professional Profiteering in Failed Health Care Service Markets," November 19, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.
Stephanie Bird, Consultant, "Emerging Issues in Neuroethics: Individual Responsibility and Empathy," December 9, 2009, Neuroethics workshop.
Katherine Drabiak-Syed, Indiana University Center on Bioethics, Indianapolis, "Problems with Directo-to-Consumer Genetic Tests," December 10, 2009, Healthcare Ethics.

2010

Jason T. Eberl, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Philosophy, "Foundation for a Natural Right of Health Care," January 21, 2010, Healthcare Ethics.
Rob Stone, Bloomington Hospital physician, "Health Care Reform: Where Do We Go from Here?," February 18, 2010, Healthcare Ethics.
Megan Good Losh and Michael McCallister, Indiana University Office of Research Ethics, Education & Policy, "Research Ethics, Education & Policy: A Mile High View," March 25, 2010, Healthcare Ethics.
Jean Decety, University of Chicago, "Evolutionary and Neurobiological Mechanisms of Empathy: What Makes Humans Special?," April 5, 2010, Empathy Seminar.
Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College, "Neurons, Mechanism, and Freedom of the Will," April 9, 2010, Neuroethics workshop.
Mark Mercurio, Yale University, "Decision-Making in the Pediatric Critical Care Setting" April 20, 2010, Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture.
David Boeyink, School of Journalism, "Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice," April 21, 2010, PC Roundtable.
James Blair, National Institutes of Health, "Moral and Amoral Neurobiology: The Roles of the Amygdala, Striatum and Orbital Frontal Cortex," April 28, 2010, Neuroethics workshop.
Lucia Wocial, Program Leader for the Fairbanks Program in Nursing Ethics, Clarian Hospital, Indianapolis, "Moral Distress: A Growing Problem for Clinicians," April 29, 2010, Healthcare Ethics.
Eric Meslin,, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Indiana University, "Toward a New Research Ethic in the Era of Genome Science: A Proposal to Update Science's Social Contract with Society," September 16, 2010, Healthcare Ethics.
Khalil Muhammad, IU Department of History and Associate Editor of the Journal of American History, "The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America," October 5, 2010, PC Roundtable.
Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington, "Securing Emerging Technologies: Medical Devices, Robots, Cars, and More," October 20, 2010, Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology.
Susan Hickman, IU School of Nursing, "Strategies for Communicating Treatment Preferences Near the End of Life," October 21, 2010, Healthcare Ethics.
Kent Kiehl, University of New Mexico, "Unmasking the Criminal Psychopath," October 27, 2010, Virtuous Empathy.
Paul Helft, IU School of Medicine and Director, Charles Warren Fairbanks Center, Clarian Hospital, Indianapolis, "Toward an Interdisciplinary Ethics of Advanced Cancer Care," November 18, 2010, Healthcare Ethics.