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Posted November 30, 2007
Indiana University’s fifteenth annual Teaching Research Ethics Workshop will convene at the Indiana Memorial Union on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, May 13-16, 2008. Session topics will include an overview of ethical theory, trainee and authorship issues, conflicts of interest, using human subjects in clinical and non-clinical research, and responsible data management. Many sessions will feature techniques for teaching and assessing the responsible conduct of research.
For more information contact Glenda Murray, Program Associate, Poynter Center, Indiana University, 618 East Third Street, Bloomington IN 47405-3602; (812) 855-0262; FAX (812) 855-3315; glmurray@indiana.edu. Information & registration are available at http://poynter.indiana.edu/tre
The University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law announces: The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium Seeing, Making, Healing: Art, the Arts and Creativity in Medicine and the Medical Humanities May 13-14, 2008 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA In conjunction with the Carnegie International Art Exhibition, with a gallery talk by exhibition curator, Douglas Fogle, and exhibition tours.
Registration is $40 ($15 for students) and is due by May 1, 2008.
Contact APPE member Lisa Parker lisap@pitt.edu for additional information or to register. Click the following links to download and print the the Registration Form, or the Consortium Program, which requires Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.
Hotel Information
Rooms are available at the nearby Holiday Inn Select - University Center for the special meeting rate of $114 per night plus tax by calling the hotel at 412-682-6200 mention that you’re attending the PA Medical Humanities Consortium meeting. You must reserve your room by April 22, 2008 to receive this special rate. The hotel is within 5 minutes walking distance from the Carnegie Museum of Art where the Conference is being held.
After a two-year break, Deni Elliott will again offer her highly successful 5-day seminar, Theory and Skills of Ethics Teaching, July 14-18 on the University of Montana-Missoula campus.
The course is intended for teachers of ethics in traditional and non-traditional learning environments and graduate students interested in teaching practical ethics courses. Participants develop teaching materials for their own particular setting or interest area.
Successful participants have included:
Participants may register for the course as a workshop ($635) or may receive three graduate credits as PHIL 521 ($729). Course cost will also include an on-line fee. Pre-class commitment includes participation in BlackBoard discussions and exercises and completion of readings. Please go to http://www.umt.edu/ethics/ for further information or contact Deni directly at Elliott@stpt.usf.edu.
We are pleased to announce the third annual session of the annual summer Environmental Ethics Institute at The University of Montana in beautiful Missoula, MT. Hosted by the Center for Ethics at UM, the 2008 Environmental Ethics Institute offers two opportunities for formal education in environmental ethics via two innovative short courses. Courses held during past institutes drew a wide range of participants, including professors, graduate students, professionals (including environmental journalists) and community members. These courses are designed to offer all participants the opportunity for lively discussion and in-depth contemplation of environmental ethics, regardless of individual backgrounds.
Courses can be taken for 3 or 1 credit(s) respectively, or as workshops (no credit) at a reduced rate. Please visit our website for more information and registration instructions: www.umt.edu/ethics/programs/EEI.html
The 2008 EEI will also include a number of public lectures and discussion forums from renown speakers, all of which will be free of charge and open to both students and community members. As information on those events becomes available it will be posted on our website.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dane Scott, Director of the Center for Ethics, at dane.scott@mso.umt.edu or via telephone at (406)243-6632.
Ethics education and training are no longer cottage industries in higher education, business, government, or the world of NGOs. There is a rapidly growing consensus, as well as empirical evidence, that sound ethical practices and behavior go hand-in-hand with high performance, better products and services, and improved governance. These forward steps are truly exciting. Still, there is much to do and to learn.
Given the limited space available for the symposium in Public Integrity, it is anticipated that a book length manuscript will also be produced to include an expanded number of high quality papers.
Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture are hosting a conference that addresses the religious and spiritual concerns of patients, clinicians, and clergy when they encounter genetic information. Individuals’ religious beliefs and practices can be implicated and challenged as they deal with the consequences of advances in genomics. While many people can reconcile these two bodies of knowledge, others are made uneasy or distressed by this new science in ways that affect their personal and political choices. The purpose of this conference is to convene investigators involved in transdisciplinary projects with local participants from the clinic, the church, and the public to identify:
Vanderbilt School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Vanderbilt School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 11.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.
For more information or to register, please visit our website at www.vanderbilt.edu/religion-genomics or contact Joe Fanning at joe.fanning@vanderbilt.edu or (615) 322-4292.
The next meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics will be held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago hotel in Chicago, Illinois, January 8-11, 2009. Paper proposals dealing with any aspect of Jewish ethics — theoretical or applied, classical or contemporary, textual or philosophical — are especially welcome.
Proposals should include: tentative title, abstract (500-600 words), selected bibliography, and contact information of the presenter (name, institutional affiliation, phone numbers, and e-mail address).
Proposals should be sent by e-mail to:
Jonathan Crane
Email: hellojkc@hotmail.com
The deadline for submission of proposals is April 30th, 2008.
The Society of Jewish Ethics is an academic organization dedicated to the promotion of scholarly work in the field of Jewish ethics, including the relation of Jewish ethics to other traditions of ethics and to social, economic, political, medical and cultural problems. The Society also aims to encourage and improve the teaching of Jewish ethics in colleges, universities and theological schools, to promote an understanding of Jewish ethics within the Jewish community and society as a whole, and to provide a community of discourse and debate for those engaged professionally in Jewish ethics.
All participants in the Annual Meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics must be members of the Society. For membership forms and other information, please consult the website: http://societyofjewishethics.org/.
The Society of Jewish Ethics annual conference runs concurrently with that of the Society of Christian Ethics. Presented papers may be eligible for publication in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.
The symposium, the fourth in a multi-year partnership, is intended to unite business and higher education in the common goal of building a strong ethical foundation from which to serve our many constituencies and communities. The event will bring together international experts for in-depth discussions of current practices and challenges in business ethics and corporate responsibility.
The purpose of the day-long event is to both learn and inform by:
For further information on the Symposium program May 19, 2008 and the follow-on Faculty Development Teaching Workshop May 20-23, please go to: www.bentley.edu/symposium or contact Tony Buono at Bentley (781-891-2529) abuono@bentley.edu
Supported by the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Pittsburgh
This conference provides faculty and administrators with the background and materials needed to establish or improve instruction in the responsible conduct of research and in a broad range of professional skills, including the ability to write research articles, give research seminars, obtain employment, secure funding, and teach and mentor.
This conference is co-directed by Michael Zigmond and Beth Fischer (University of Pittsburgh).
Members of the conference faculty include Jeannette Hoit (Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona), Debra Parrish (Partner, Parrish Law Offices, specializing in research integrity and intellectual property law), David Jensen (professional career counselor and contributor to Science Next Wave), Jeffrey Kahn (Professor and Director, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics), Julio Ramirez (Professor of Psychology, Davidson College), and Craig Wilcox (Professor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh.)
Details on the conference, as well as an application form, are available on our website at www.survival.pitt.edu/events/trainer.asp. Conference participants will receive an extensive set of lecture outlines, ethics cases, student handouts, readings, slides, and a comprehensive bibliography.
Conference fellowships are available to cover all but $395 of the cost of the conference package. Attendance is limited to 50 persons and applications are considered on a rolling basis.
The Survival Skills and Ethics ProgramPosted December 20, 2007
As part of a sustained effort to advance the field of engineering, ethics, and society, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is developing a workshop series on “Engineering Ethics and Engineering Leadership.” The first in the series, titled “Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development,” begins the process of enhancing engineering research and practice and improving engineering education through attention to issues of engineering ethics.
Engineering addresses problems and opportunities of great importance to the world’s poor and underserved populations and nations, and many individual engineers as well as engineering groups are responsive to humanitarian crises and problems of social and environmental justice. This conference will highlight and examine engineering activities and educational programs that are responding to these needs, and the ethical issues that these endeavors encompass. It will build bridges between engineering, ethics, and humanitarian action, social justice and sustainable community development, to enhance research, practice and education in engineering and engineering ethics. It will promote attention to ethical issues and leadership in the engineering professions, and enhance understanding among other professions and the public about engineering in these contexts.
The NAE has appointed a group of advisors to its effort in engineering, ethics, and society. An inter-disciplinary and diverse body, it has responsibility for planning and oversight of the meeting. It will also help to develop the evaluation plans and assess conference results. The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) has agreed to co-sponsor the event and will help to publicize it and suggest speakers and attendees. This is a new level of collaboration between these organizations. About 100 participants, of whom two-thirds will be engineers, will attend the day and a half meeting, scheduled in early October 2008, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, or at a similar venue selected for its proximity to key national and international organizations. Speakers and participants will be diverse, including US and foreign citizens, representatives of groups underrepresented in science and engineering, leaders in private and public sector organizations, and persons in early as well as senior career stages.
The NAE will disseminate conference information and results broadly to interested academic, professional and public audiences in numerous fields and from diverse populations. There are numerous electronic publicity and dissemination channels in the Academies, as well as several journals and the National Academies Press. Other dissemination channels will include sessions at the meetings of relevant professional societies, including the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and articles for their journals, and special sections or issues in refereed journals. Outreach and dissemination in organizations that reach underrepresented groups and engineering faculty and science teachers at the secondary school level will be given special emphasis, and the NAE will maintain an electronic portal for workshop publicity, documents, and discussion throughout the planning, meeting, and follow-up phases of the project.
For further information, contact Dr. Brian Schrag, Executive Secretary, APPE or Dr. Rachelle Hollander, NAE RHollander@nas.edu
Posted January 03, 2008
Facilitated by the Centre for Applied and Professional Ethics on behalf of InterCape and the Professional Associations Research Network (PARN) in affiliation with the Open University Ethics Centre. Delegates who wish to attend the conference from a developing country may be able to get funding through the British Council.
Each morning and afternoon will begin with a keynote presentation, followed by further sessions: presentations, debates, discussions, and displays of materials. Each will have space for dialogue and debate on the challenges for higher education institutions and professional bodies in promoting the well being of people, communities and organisations. Discussion will be encouraged across the boundaries of profession, academic discipline and religious or spiritual allegiance.
People involved with professional bodies will speak about the development, implementation and impact of ethical codes and ethical education initiatives.
There will be parallel sessions to suit the interests of professionals, community groups and academics with abundant opportunities for all to mix.
There will be a gala buffet to encourage everyone to network on Tuesday 1st July and a conference dinner on Wednesday 2nd July.
The Centre for Applied and Professional Ethics (CAPE) and the Professional Associations Research Network (PARN) will convene the conference in association with the Open University Ethics Centre.
CAPE is a charitable company whose aim is to enhance the quality of higher education through the study, research and promotion of ethics and through the promotion of harmony between people of different faiths and beliefs. It works in support of InterCAPE, an international network of academics and practitioners with the same aims.
Both are affiliated to the Open University’s Ethics Centre. Both recognise the global imperative within the Open University’s mission: to be open to people, places, ideas and methods, and to promote educational opportunity and social justice through the provision of high-quality university education to all. Professor Brenda Gourley, the Vice Chancellor of the Open University is Patron of both.
PARN is a centre of knowledge and expertise on issues relating to professionalism and the professionalisation of professional associations. PARN is a fast growing UK based member led non-profit organisation providing a research enriched network for professional associations and regulatory bodies. We have 140 member organisations in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia and offer specialist knowledge based services and events on subjects such as ethics, standards, CPD, governance and member relations.
Posted September 25, 2007
PLEASE NOTE NEW DATES:
April 17-19, 2008
Washington University ~ St. Louis, MO
The Office of Research Integrity and Washington University are pleased to issue a joint call for abstracts for presentations for the first biennial Conference on Responsible Conduct of Research Education, Instruction and Training, April 17-19, in St. Louis, MO.
Background. The Office of Research Integrity has devoted considerable time and resources to programs aimed at strengthening and assessing responsible conduct of research (RCR) education, instruction and training (EIT). It supports the development of RCR instructional resources and has published the ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research (hard copy and web versions). ORI has also undertaken RCR-related efforts with the Council of Graduate Schools, the Society of Research Administrators (SRA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and, most recently, the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB). ORI also has sponsored four biennial Research on Research Integrity conferences, which have included papers on RCR EIT.
Conference Objectives. Despite widespread support for RCR EIT by ORI and others, little is known about how it is delivered or its effectiveness. The primary objectives of this first and what is hoped will be a series of biennial conferences is to convene a broadly representative gathering of teachers, researchers, research administrators, and scholars for the purpose of:
Conference overview.
Abstract submission:
Form more information or to obtain the submission document in word visit the ORI website: http://ori.hhs.gov/conferences/08RCR.shtml.
Or contact: Nicholas Steneck, (nsteneck@umich.edu), at University of Michigan and Office of Research Integrity, is accepting abstract submissions (his contact information is also listed on the ORI website next to the call document).
Conference Co-chairs:
Nicholas Steneck, University of Michigan; Office of Research Integrity (nsteneck@umich.edu)
Catherine Striley, Washington University (strileyc@epi.wustl.edu)
ORI plans to alternate the biennial RCR Conference with the biennial RRI (Research on Research Integrity) Conferences.
For more information, see: http://ori.hhs.gov/conferences/
PURPOSE
During the 2007-2008 academic year, DePauw University inaugurates The Prindle Institute of Ethics, which fosters interdisciplinary reflection on moral issues, including questions of justice and public policy, character, duty, and responsibility. The Undergraduate Ethics Symposium is designed to encourage undergraduate scholarship and artistic work. This symposium is an outstanding opportunity for student scholars and artists to discuss their ethics-related work with leading scholar/artists in their fields and to participate in a significant discussion of ethical concerns. It is anticipated that the Institute will publish a Symposium volume, which, in addition to the presentations by the visiting scholars, will include student papers selected from works by the participants.
INVITATION
The Institute invites students to submit papers on topics that include, but are not limited to, issues about human rights, environmental ethics, media ethics, ethics of international relations, science research ethics, personal ethics, and ethics and religion. Students may write an argumentative essay or an analysis focused on an ethical question or subject; or they may wish to explore ethical themes that are addressed in plays, poetry, film, or fiction. In addition, students may wish to explore these themes through fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry or dramatic writings. The Institute welcomes works centered on ethics from all disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences, but also the natural sciences and arts.
SELECTION PROCESS AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Consisting of DePauw University faculty members, the selection committee for the Undergraduate Ethics Symposium will identify up to twenty papers, whose authors will then be invited to the Institute for the three-day symposium, April 3-5, 2008. During the Symposium, these students will meet in seminars led by one of the distinguished visiting scholars or artists, who will not only present their work at the Symposium but also read the students' works and facilitate discussion about them. The students' travel (based upon $0.38 per mile for those traveling by car and up to $500 for airfare), lodging, and meals while on campus will be covered by the Institute.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- John K. Roth, Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics, DePauw University, author of Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau
VISITING SCHOLARS AND ARTIST
SUBMISSIONS
Submit works by February 1, 2008 to Martha Rainbolt, rainbolt@depauw.edu. (N.B. Place your name and affiliation on a separate page, so that the works may be read anonymously.) Please note that all works must be submitted electronically, so that they may be transmitted easily to the faculty readers and other students. Student essayists (both scholarly and creative non-fiction) and student fiction writers should submit work which does not exceed 3,500 words. Student poets should submit 5-10 poems; student playwrights should submit a ten-minute play; screenwriters should submit a ten-page screenplay. Students whose works are accepted for the Symposium will be notified by March 1, 2008. For further information, please contact Martha Rainbolt, Coordinator; Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, 2961 W 225 S Co. Rd., DePauw University; Greencastle, IN 46135. You may also visit the Prindle Institute website for a conference schedule and other information: http://prindleinstitute.depauw.edu
The Center for Applied and Professional Ethics and the Philosophy Department at the University of Tennessee, with the support of Alcoa Inc. and the Tennessee Valley Authority, are pleased to announce a major, interdisciplinary conference on Energy & Responsibility in Knoxville, April 10-12, 2008. A link to the conference web page, where you can find our call for papers and panels, is provided below.
Keynote Speakers Include :
R. K. Pachauri , Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Henry Shue , Merton College, Oxford University
Dale Jamieson , New York University
Richard Morgenstern , Resources for the Future
Dale Bryk , Natural Resources Defense Council and Yale University
Conference Web Page : http://isse.utk.edu/energy_and_responsibility/index.html
Sponsored by:
*The Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa *The Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, USA *The Society for Applied Philosophy, UK
Web address: http://www.gsu.edu/ethics
Keynote speakers:
Hugh LaFollette, Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, USA; Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA; Bonnie Steinbock, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany, USA
This conference will address a range of ethical issues that arise from concerns about the life any future child might reasonably be expected to enjoy, about what makes someone a parent, and about what rights and duties a parent has.
Possible topic areas include the right to procreate, the duty to (or not to) procreate, the role of the state in facilitating procreation, duties of prospective procreators to future children and relevant third parties, how disability bears on procreative decisions, the foundation and scope of parental rights and duties, the relevance of the distinction between 'causal' and 'custodial' parenthood, and how justice bears on procreative decision-making.
For further details about this conference and guidelines on submitting proposals see:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwphl/ethics/events/Capetownflyer2008-9.pdf
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