Started in 2017, the Annual Bioethics Lecture provides an opportunity each fall for faculty, staff and community to hear prominent scholars and leading voices in bioethics. In addition to the main lecture event, invited speakers also participate in classroom events, informal meetings with graduate students and concurrent conferences with other invited scholars.
Past Lectures
- 2020 "Should You Have to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? Ethics, Law and Mandatory Vaccination"
- Mark C. Navin, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Oakland University
- 2019 "'First Do No Harm:' Colonialism and the Weaponization of Medicine"
- Autumn Cavender-Wilson, Wahpetunwan Dakota mother, midwife and artist
- 2018 "The Human Right to Health and the Virtue of Creative Resolve"
- Nicole Hassoun, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University
- 2017: "Lonesome Whistle: Why Medical Researchers Stay Silent About Dangers to Human Subjects"
- Carl Elliot, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota