Past Speakers
2017-2018
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University
"We Need to Talk (About How We Talk) About the Environment"
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University
"Human Tissue Research, Consent and Justice: What the case of Henrietta Lacks can still teach us today"
2016-2017
Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University
"Pets, Companion Animals, and Domesticated Partners"
Professor of Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Generative Justice: Ethics in the Age of Recursive Risk"
Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
"Minor Consent in HIV Biomedical Prevention Research"
Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of North Texas
"Ethical Food Tastes Better"
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bentley University
"Disability and the Goods of Life"
2015-2016
Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Alaska Anchorage
"Am I Really Responsible for a Sustainable Food Future?"
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University
"Boundary Work: Nanoscience Meetings Philosophy"
Associate Professor of Public Policy Leadership at University of Mississippi
"Culture, Poverty, and Justice: Responsibilities of Individuals and Institutions"
Professor of Philosophy at University of Maryland
"Animal Minds are Real, (Distinctively) Human Minds are Not"
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Econonmics at Purdue University
"Climate Change, Poverty, and Food Security"
2014-2015
Professor of Philosophy and Gender at Gustavus Adolphus College
"Pragmiatist Philosophical Reflections on GMOs"
Program Director at HarvestPlus
"Biofortification: Attenuating the Injustice of Global Malnutrition"
Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University
"Feeling Matters: The Role of Animals in Sustainable Communities"
Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, at Georgetown University
"Structural Bias and the Commercialization of Medicine"
2013-2014
Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and Director of Global Justice Program at Yale University
"Global Health Care Availability and the Health Impact Fund"
George A. Weiss University Professor of Sociology and Law and Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania
"The Biopolitics of Race"
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of California Davis
"The Duty to Take Rescue Precautions: Defending a Health Insurance Mandate"
Professor of Political Science at Purdue University
"When Certainty of Mind Meets Uncertain Results: Prospects for the Affordable Care Act"
2012-2013
Director of Environmental Studies, Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
"Reason in a Dark Time: Ethics and Politics in a Greenhouse World"
Assistant Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, Northwestern University
"Children, Families, and Medicine"
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
"Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing"
Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
"Why this Interest in Races?: Race, Science, and Ethics"
Professor of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University
"Using our Best Friends: A Pragmatist Take on Dogs and Cats in Biomedical Research"
2011-2012
Provost's Professor, History and Philosophy of Science Center and the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University
"Fish Cognition and Consciousness"
University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Animal Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, and University Bioethicistat Colorado State University
"Animal Pain: What it is and Why it Matters"
Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University
and
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University
"Minding Animals: Animal Research and Neurocognition"
Research Scholar, the Director of the Editorial Department, and editor of the Hastings Center Report and Bioethics Forum at the Hasting Center
"'Synthetic Life': A New Industrial Revolution?"
Lisa Heinzerling
Professor of Law, Georgetown University and Outgoing Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, U.S. EPA
"Climate Change at EPA"
Maria Merritt
Assistant Professor, John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
"Global Public Health Research: Questions about Researchers' Responsibilities to Benefit Patients"
Fred Grinnell
Professor of Cell Biology in Integrative Biology and the Ethics in Science and Medicine Program at UT Southwestern
"Informed Consent and Risk: The Intersection between Human Research and Genetics"
Dr. Arthur Caplan
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, University of Pennslyvania Center for Bioethics
"Personalized Medicine vs. Spitomics: The Uncertain Future of Generics Testing"
2010-2011 Speakers
Mary B Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics & Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University
"Justice and Universal Health Care Coverage in the US"
Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, University of Oxford; and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Merton College, Oxford
"Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Trillionth Ton of Carbon"
Faculty Investigator at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the IU School of Liberal Arts, at Indianapolis
"Risk, Disease, and Prevention: The Shifting Line between Health and Disease"
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL)
"Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia"
2009 - 2010
Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
"When Hastened Death is Neither Killing Nor Letting Die"
Mary B Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics & Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University
"Justice and Universal Health Care Coverage in the U.S."
University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University
"The Future of Environmental Ethics"
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Science, and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Climate Change and Sustainability"
2008 - 2009
Paul Thompson
W.K. Kellogg, Chair in Agriculture, Food, and Community Ethics, Michigan State University
"The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem"
Bernard E. Rollin
University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Animal Sciences, University Bioethicist at Colorado State University
and
Mark BernsteinProfessor and Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University
"Animals as Research Subjects"
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Cleveland State University, Co-director, Bioethics Center, Cleveland State University, Co-director, Arts and Sciences Center for Poverty Studies, Director, First College
"Who Owns Truth?: Biomedical Research in a Health Policy Context"
Jason T. Eberl
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, IUPUI Affiliate Faculty, Center for Bioethics, IU
"History of Research with Human Subjects: Ethical Steps Forward and Back"
2007 - 2008
Leigh Raymond
Associate Professor of Political Science Associate Director for the Purdue Climate Change Research Center
"Ethics and Politics of Climate Change"
Eric Meslin
Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts Associate Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine Co-Director of the IUPUI Signature Center Consortium on Health Policy, Law, and Bioethics
"How do Biotechnologies Challenge our Social Boundaries?"
Nigel Cameron
Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology President of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
"Nanotechnologies and Medical Ethics"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - National Center for Environmental Research Head of the Research Grant Program for Nanotechnologies in Office of Research and Development Member of Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies with The Wilson Center
"Nanotechnologies and Environmental Concern"
Bioethicist, National Institute for Environmental Health Services and National Institutes of Health
"Conflicts of Interest in Biomedicine"
2006 - 2007
Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Director, Transgenic Mouse Core Facility, Purdue University, West Lafayette Member Purdue Motility Group Director, The Konieczny Lab, Purdue University
"Cloning and Stem Cells"
Professor and Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University
"Euthanasia"
Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
"Genes, Eugenics, and Evolution of Species"
Associate Director, Agriculture Research Program, Purdue University
"Biotech and Economics"
Richard Howard
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Faculty member, Department of Biological Sciences - Ecology Group, Purdue University
"Environmental Risks and Genetically Modified Organisms"
Associate Vice President for Research - Director of University Research Administration and Compliance, Purdue University Professor, Department of Entomology, Purdue University
"How do Biotechnologies Challenge Boundaries?"
Professor of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University SVM Professor of Nanomedicine, Purdue University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
"Nanotechnologies: Science and Society"