Currently Scheduled Lectures, Seminars, and Events

2007-2008

Friday, September 21, 2007, Noon
University of Minnesota Law School (Room TBA)

 Organ Harvesting in China, Human Rights, and Issues of Extraterritorial Legislation

David Matas, Esq.

Background Report (2007) and Appendices

Cosponsored with the Human Rights Center (Law School)

Spring Semester 2008 Film and Lecture Series
From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back
(Webcasts of past lectures and related materials   here )

Cosponsored by: The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Science Museum of Minnesota, Human Rights Center (Law School), College of Liberal Arts, Dept. of German Scandinavaian & Dutch; Dept. of Anthropology; African American Studies Program;  Dept. of History

All events Thursdays, free and open to all
In connection with the exhibition: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (US Holocuast Memorial Museum / Science Museum of Minnesota - Feb. 27-May 4, 2008)

February 6 (4:00 p.m., Cowles Auditorium, Hubert Humphrey Center)
Humanitarians and World Orders Public Lecture Series
Humanitarianism and Civil Society . . . Which Way Forward?
James Orbinski, MD (University of Toronto) Nobel Prize Laureate 1999 (Medicins sans Frontiers)
(Cosponsored by Program in Human Rights and Health)

The Human Right to Water -A Five-Part Human Rights Center Lecture Series
(Cosponsors:  Program in Human Rights & Health / School of Public Health)

All lectures Wednesdays: 12:15-1:15 p.m., Mondale Hall (Law) 65

• 1/23  The Human Right to Water: An Overview (David Weissbrodt, JD, Human Rights Center)
• 2/13 Water and the Human Right to Health (Bill Toscano, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, SPH) -  Note: Room 65
• 2/27 Water Distribution: Public, Private, or Both? (William Easter, PhD, Applied Economics)
• 3/12 Making it Happen: Practical Strategies for Fulfilling the Human Right to Water (Paige Novak, PhD, Civil Engineering)
• 4/2 Water and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Roxanne T. Ornelas, PhD, Humphrey Institute)

H. Tristram Engelhardt MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine / Rice University Dept. of Philosophy

• Th, April 3 (Noon,    Moos-Tower 2-520) - Bioethics and Moral Pluralism
  
  Respondent:   Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, RN (Medical Humanities / Center for Bioethics).

• Th, April 3  (7:30 p.m.,    O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, University of St. Thomas) - Culture Wars and Bioethics: Medical-Moral Theology Critically Reconsidered
  

• Fri, April 4 (Noon) - Student Lunch with Tristram Engelhardt - Jewel of India (1427 Washington Ave South - West Bank) - RSVP phrh@umn.edu, 612-626-6559.
  

• Fri, April 4  (3:30 p.m.,    Carlson 1-132, U of M Philosophy Colloquium) - The Death of God in Glauben und Wissen: Hegel’s Recasting of Religion (Glauben und Wissen = faith and knowledge)

 Cosponsored by the Program in Human Rights and Health, Department of Philosophy, and University of Saint Thomas

2006-2007

Dolan Memorial Symposium  October 11-12, 2006

Monday, February 19, 2007, 2:30 p.m.

Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center

What is the Purpose of the University?

A symposium on Civic Engagement and Moral Education

Richard Bernstein, PhD (Vera List Professor of Philosophy, New School University [New School for Social Research])

Mark Bauerlein, PhD (Professor of English, Emory University, National Endowment for the Arts Director of Research and Analysis)

Nicholas Wolterstorff, PhD (Noah Porter Chair Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University)

Respondents:

Petra Drucker (Senior; English, Philosophy and Political Science)

Liz Beaumont, PhD (Assistant Professor, Political Science)

Vic Bloomfield, PhD (Associate Vice President, Office of Public Engagement)

Sponsors: Office of Public Engagement, Office for Student Engagement and Leadership, MacLaurin Institute, Program in Human Rights and Health,  Institute for Diversity, Ethics and Peace Organizing Committee

Friday, March 23, 2007, 3:00  p.m.

 2-530 Moos Tower

Dr. Gao Yaojie

AIDS and Transparency in China

Cosponsors: China AIDS Orphan Fund, Inc, Program in Human Rights and Health, Chinese American Student Association

April 11-13

Gregor Wolbring, Ph.D. (University of Calgary/Ottawa Faculties of Medicine, Education and Law)

Emergent Technology / Paradigms of Disability, Health and Social Values

* Wed., April 11, 7:30 p.m.: "Nanomedicine to Synthetic Biiology: What does it mean to be healthy?" (Loring Pasta Bar, Red Room,  327 14th Ave SE, Mpls. - Bell Museum Cafe Scientifique series - Admission $5)

* Thurs., April 12, 7:30 p.m., Moos Tower 2-530: "From Nanotechnology to Synthetic Biology, Curative to Enhancement Medicine, Disability Studies to Ability Studies ...? NBCIS* paradigm changes and responses needed.

  (*NBCIS = Nanotechnology, biotechnology, Infotechnology, Cognotechnology, Synbiotechnology)

Fri., April 12, 12:15 p.m., Coffman Memorial Union 222: "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: What it can and cannot do, and threats it faces. (Brown Bag Lunch coorganized by the Disabled Students Cultural Center.)

Hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Program in Human Rights and Health (SPH), Dr. Wolbring’s visit has received generous support from Disabilities Services (Office of Equity and Diversity), Human Rights Center (Law School), Human Rights Program (CLA), Disabled Students Cultural Center, Café Scientifique (Bell Museum), ACCESS PRESS, Disabilities Studies Initiative, and Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature.

April 12, 16

Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events

(Hosted by The Aurora Center for Advocacy & Education. Cosponsored by U of M Athletics, Office for University women, Program in Human Rights and Health, Housing and Residential Life)

Thursday, April 12, Patrick Lincoln (Men Can Stop Rape, Washington, DC)

* Workshop (10 a.m.- 4 p.m., Coffman Union 324):

 "Strength Training: Engaging Men in Leadership to End Men's Violence Against Women"

Free (with lunch provided), but reservations required. Contact lipsk002@umn.edu, 612-626-9122

* Lecture (7-8:30 p.m., Smith 100):

 "Visible Allies: Finding Our Role in the Prevention of Men's Violence Against Women"

Monday, April 16

 7 p.m. - Film at the Oak Street Cinema, 309 Oak Street, Mpls.

Speak: The Story of a Young Girl's Struggle with Sexual Assault

Cosponsored by the Aurora Center, Oak Street Cinema, Rape and Sexual Abuse Center/NIP

Suggested donation $10

Monday, April 16, 7 p.m., Coffman Memorial Union Theater - free

Journey to Safety

A research-based artistic stage production by Pangea World Theater on the medical and legal challenges of battered refugee and immigrant women.

Performance will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by a Minnesota Advocates  for Human Rights with medical, legal, community law enforcement practitioners and advocates with community orgnaization resources and representatives present.

Hosted by June LaValleur, MD (Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health) and the Program in Human Rights and Health (School of Public Health).

Financial co-sponsorships: Medical School, School of Nursing, Joint Community Police Partnership, June LaValleur, MD, Law School, Program in Human Rights and Health, Deborah E. Powell Center for Women’s Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education, Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, Women of Nations

In-kind contributions: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Minnesota Women’s Press, Minnesota International Center, Minnesota Women’s Consortium, Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women, Sojourner Project, Inc., WATCH, Minnesota International Health Volunteers, Project P.E.A.C.E., Home Free, Soroptomist International, Center for Victims of Torture, Minnesota International Health Volunteers, American Refugee Committee, Casa De Esperanza, Women in Medicine, Domestic Abuse Project

 Tuesday, April 24, 12:15 – 1:15 PM,  Moos Tower 1-450

Cover the Uninsured Week Lunch Lecture

 Why  “the Tables are Starting to Turn” Toward Health Care as a Human Right

Joel Albers, PharmD, PhD

Cosponsored by Universal Health Care Action Network of Minnesota, U of MN Center for Health Interdisciplinary Programs (CHIP), Program in Human Rights and Health

Friday, April 27, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.,

Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center

School of Public Health Roundtable Series on International Health Issues and Global Health

Human Rights, the Burden of Disease, and International Tobacco Control

Keynoters

• Carolyn Dresler, MD,  Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Branch Chief, Division of Health, DHHS, Arkansas. Former head of the Unit for Tobacco and Cancer Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.

• Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM,  IGERT International Development and  Globalization Fellow at Columbia University, Department of Sociomedical Sciences

Speakers and Panelists

• Kirk C. Allison, PhD, MS, Director, Program in Human Rights and Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

• D. Douglas Blanke, JD, Director, Tobacco Law Center, William Mitchell College of Law

• John R. Finnegan, Jr., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

• Patricia Lambert, JD, Legal Advisor, International Legal Consortium, Bloomberg Global Tobacco Initiative, Washington, DC; former advisor, Ministry of Health, South Africa

• Harry Lando, PhD, Professor, Distinguished International Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Human Rights

Sponsored by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (Dean's Office, Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach, Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health, Program in Human Rights and Health); Center for Health Interprofessional Programs (CHIP - Students' International Health Committee); Minnesota Public Health Association; Tobacco Law Center, William Mitchell College of Law. Funded in part by a generous contribution from the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 4 p.m.

Transplant Conference, 11-157 Phillips Wangensteen

 Organ Transplantation in China

David Matas, Esq.

Background Report (2007) and Appendices

Cosponsored by the Department of Surgery and Program in Human Rights and Health

2005-2006

October 5, 12:15 p.m., 2-620 Moos Tower

Monster or Maverick?
Walter Freeman, Lobotomy, and the Rights of Psychosurgery Patients

Jack El-Hai
author of The Lobotomist,
(recipient June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism)

Sponsored by:
Program in Human Rights and Medicine
Program in the History of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry

(Pizza provided at 12:05  p.m.)

Wednesday, December  14, 12:15 p.m.

"Medical and Moral Reflections on Disaster Care in Louisiana"

Jim Hart, MD
School of Public Health

Jim Hart is the Associate Director of Public Health Medicine in the School of Public Health
and was a team member of the University's  Emergency Medical Reserve Corps mission to Louisiana.

Moos Tower 2-530

(Pizza provided at 12:05 p.m.)

Thursday, July 6, 7:00 p.m., Weisman Art Museum

Bodies and Boundaries: Cultural and Religious Perspectives

• "Bodies, Boundaries, Culture and Religion: Connecting Terms and Times." Kirk C Allison, PhD (Program in Human Rights and Medicine, University of Minnesota)

• "One Person's Trash, Another Person's Treasure: von Hagen's Anatomy Road Show." Linda Schulte-Sasse, PhD (German Studies, Macalester College)

• "Plasti-Nation: How America Was Won." Lucia Tanassi, PhD (Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University)

• "Are We Our Bodies?" Terry Nichols, PhD (Department of Theology, University of Saint Thomas)

• "Sacred vs. Secular Notions of the Body from an American Indian Perspective." Margaret Moss, PhD, JD, DSN, RN (School of Nursing, University of Minnesota)

• Moderator: Mary Faith Marshall, PhD (Center for Medical Humanities; Center for Bioethics)

Co-Organized with the Center for Medical Humanities

Series: The Body on Display: Controversies and Conversations

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