Joint Bioethics Colloquium

The Joint Colloquium in Bioethics is a topical seminar that meets 4-5 times each semester at the NIH Clinical Center to discuss the work of distinguished visiting speakers. The seminar is co-sponsored by the NIH Department of Bioethics, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and the Philosophy Departments of George Washington University and the University of Maryland. Each meeting includes a two-hour discussion of the visiting scholar's work (circulated ahead of time), followed by an informal dinner on-site. Discussion is friendly but quite lively as a diversity of perspectives is represented. The seminars are attended by a small and select group of faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral candidates.

Spring 2021 – Normative Ethics in Relation to Evolutionary Moral Psychology

• January 26 – Sarah Brosnan, Georgia State University
• February 23 – Walter Sinnott Armstrong, Duke
• March 16 – Joshua May, University of Alabama, Birmingham
• April 13 – Irina Mikhalevich, Rochester Institute of Technology
• May 11 – Shaun Nichols, Cornell University

Fall 2020 – Virtue Ethics

• October 6 – Rebecca Stangl, UVA
• October 27 – Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University
• November 16 – May Sim, College of the Holy Cross
• December 8 – Erin Cline, Georgetown

Spring 2020 – Drug Pricing

• January 14 – Steven Pearson, ICER
• February 25 – Jamie Love, Knowledge Ecology International
• April 15 – Stace Dusetzina, Vanderbilt University
• April 28 – Walter Straus, Merck
• May 12 – Ezekiel Emmanuel, University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2019 – Privacy

• October 8 – Madison Powers, Georgetown University
• October 22 – Elizabeth Edenberg and Kobbi Nissim, Georgetown University
• November 12 – Amy McGuire, Baylor College of Medicine
• November 19 – Mark Rothstein, University of Louisville School of Medicine
• December 10 – Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania

Spring 2019 – Gene Editing

• January 29 – John Tisdale, NIH/NHLBI
• March 12 – Josephine Johnston, Hastings Center
• April 9 – Jeff Kahn, Johns Hopkins University
• April 23 – Ron Green, Dartmouth College (emeritus)

Fall 2018 – Robotics, A.I., and Ethics

• September 26 – Tina Elliasi-Rad, Northwestern University
• October 9 – Illah Norbaksh, Carnegie Mellon University
• October 23 – David Danks, Carnegie Mellon University
• November 13 – Alex London, Carnegie Mellon University
• December 11 – Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh

List of Past Topics

• Animal Research Ethics
• Consciousness
• Feminism
• Topics in Neuroscience: Ethical Explorations
• Moral Responsibility in Relation to Biological Causes
• Global Justice
• Parenting and Procreation
• Complicity
• The Ethics of Incentives
• Discrimination, Stereotyping and Profiling
• Duty to Rescue
• Risk
• Compromise
• Deception
• Moral Luck
• Paternalism
• Forgiveness
• Role Morality
• Emotions
• Empirical Moral Psychology
• Disabilities
• Obligations to Future Generations
• The Moral Status of Embryos, Fetuses and Infants
• Enhancements
• Equality in Healthcare
• Non-ideal Ethical Theory and Practice
• The Ethical Basis of Human Rights
• The Moral and Health Significance of the Natural
• Coercion and Manipulation
• Equality
• Exploitation
• International Justice and Biomedical Research
• Trust
• Health Disparities