Category: Announcements
9/16 Workshop: Kimani Paul-Emile on Race, Ex-Offender Status, and Employment Discrimination
On Monday, September 16, the Petrie-Flom Center’s Health Law Policy and Bioethics Workshop will host Kimani Paul-Emile of the Fordham University School of Law. Paul-Emile’s presentation is titled “Beyond Title VII: Rethinking Race, Ex-offender Status And Employment Discrimination In The Information Age.”
All meetings of the Workshop are free and open to the public. You can download Paul-Emile’s paper and view the full schedule of upcoming workshops here.
Upcoming Event: Larry Temkin speaking on “Global Poverty: Why Should We Care?”
Want to know more about the ethics of aid? Want to hear the inspiring talk that’s convinced students across the northeast to take global poverty seriously? Join Harvard High-Impact Philanthropy for our first talk of the semester with ethicist Larry Temkin! RSVP here for
Global Poverty: Why Should We Care?
a talk by Larry Temkin
Thursday, September 12
8 PM
Science Center E
Each year, millions of children die from readily preventable causes. This raises an obvious and poignant question. What, if anything, should our reaction be to the apparent fact that each one of us could easily prevent the deaths of many innocent people who are not responsible for their unfortunate plight?
Larry Temkin is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton and is the author of “Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning” (OUP, 2012) and “Inequality” (OUP, 1993). He has received seven fellowships and eight major teaching awards.
The lecture will take place in Harvard’s Science Center, Hall E (in the basement), and will be followed by a Q&A period.
This lecture is also the kick-off event for our Philanthropy Fellowship, a new program this year. Fellows will attend talks and private dinners/receptions with many speakers on effective altruism, including Princeton ethicist Peter Singer, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and cosmologist Max Tegmark. At the end, we’ll pick a cause that we think is important and raise funds for it ourselves, to be matched by an anonymous donor. To apply, fill out this short application by Sunday, Sep. 15!
A New Film on HIV Criminalization
By Scott Burris
A new documentary from the HIV Justice Network gets the views of researchers on the impact of HIV criminalization. Call it Evidencer-Based film-making. It premiered last night at the US Conference on HIV and can be seen here. made by Edwin Bernard and Nick Feustel, it captures the issues and what we know in 30 minutes of interviews with some excellent researchers.
On a personal note: sometimes, you know, people who are, you know, being filmed at, you know, the end of the day are, you know, not always as eloquent as, you know, they would like.
Introducing the 2013-2014 Petrie-Flom Student Fellows
The Petrie-Flom Center is pleased to welcome our 2013-2014 Student Fellows. During the coming year, each of the fellows will pursue independent research under the supervision of Center faculty and fellows. They will also be regular contributors at the Bill of Health on issues relating to their research.
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