Co-sponsored with the Center for Excellence in Teaching

This teaching workshop will focus on strategies for incorporating discussions of ethical into any course, teachin ethics across the cultural divide, and using the new Levan Online Ethics Resources Center.

Co-sponsored with Keck School of Medicine

Dr. Brody has written numerous articles on medical ethics, family medicine, and philosophy of medicine. His current research interests include the importance of an interdisciplinary humanities base for bioethics, ethical issues in primary care, community engagement in bioethics, and professional integrity in both medical practice and clinical research. Dr. Brody’s latest book is The Future of Bioethics (Oxford University Press, January 2009).

Co-sponsored with Keck School of Medicine

Ira Byock is a leading palliative care physician and longtime public advocate for improving care through the end of life. He is past president of the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and cofounder of the Life’s End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project, a community-based research and quality improvement organization focused on end-of-life experience and care. He heads the national Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and a faculty member of Dartmouth School of Medicine.

This day-long conference, co-sponsored with the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict and CIS, will bring together academics and activists with interests across Asia (Burma, Tibet, Vietnam, Nepal, China, et al.) to discuss progress and commonalities in their civil rights movements. Presentors will contribute chapters toward a coedited volume.

Panels: Dilemmas of Charismatic Leadership, From Dissenting Voices to Strategic Movements, Paradox of Repression, Consolidating Democracy, The Force of Religion, Struggles for Self-Determination, External/Local Actors, Role of New Media

Cosponsored with the USC Institute for Global Health and the USC Center for International Studies.

This day-long workshop will consist of lectures, discussions and student-friendly working groups. The history of government involvement in family planning presents us with an important ethical question: what should be the role of government in the reproductive lives of women? What are the ethical principles that should guide this role? And if not through the state, how should we make decisions regarding family planning issues (education, distribution, health care, etc.)?

Panels: The Role of Global Norms, State Policies, and International Organizations in Reproductive Health, The Gendered Consequences of Violence and War on Women's Health, Economic Empowerment, Development, and Women's Health, Medical and Social Advances in Women's Health: Who Benefits?

Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A former Dean of Yale Law School, Professor Kronman teaches in the areas of contracts, bankruptcy, jurisprudence, social theory, and professional responsibility.