Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities Events Seminar Series Upcoming Seminars - All Are Welcome Departmental Events Reproductive Ethics Conference January 22-23, 2026 - 8am-5pm The Tenth Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference will be held Jan. 22and 23, 2026, in Galveston. Abstracts for individual presentations, panels, and posters are accepted through September 15, 2025. All Previous Events A Bounded Justice Approach: Recognizing and Measuring the Limits of Equity March 9, 2023 - 12pm-1pm This talk will critique the inherent limitations of social justice projects that ignore structural forms of social exclusion and will discuss opportunities for obtaining deeper equity via research methodology and praxis. Treatment Over Objection: Can It Be Justified? March 6, 2023 - 12pm-1pm Institutional Ethics Program - Clinical Ethics Case Conference HIV/AIDS Cure and Curation in the Visual AIDS Archive Project February 9, 2023 - 12pm-1pm In her new book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press), Marika Cifor delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive. At the Limits of Cure January 26, 2023 - 12pm-1pm Bharat Venkat, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics/History/Anthropology , University of California-Los Angeles Consent and Withdrawal in Psychedelic Research December 8, 2022 - 12pm-1pm Emma Tumilty, PhD, Assistant Professor & Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities, Member, Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities, School of Public and Population Health The Case of Baby M: Ethical Issues in the Setting of Suspected Non-Accidental Trauma November 14, 2022 - 12pm-1pm Institutional Ethics Program - Clinical Ethics Case Conference
Reproductive Ethics Conference January 22-23, 2026 - 8am-5pm The Tenth Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference will be held Jan. 22and 23, 2026, in Galveston. Abstracts for individual presentations, panels, and posters are accepted through September 15, 2025.
A Bounded Justice Approach: Recognizing and Measuring the Limits of Equity March 9, 2023 - 12pm-1pm This talk will critique the inherent limitations of social justice projects that ignore structural forms of social exclusion and will discuss opportunities for obtaining deeper equity via research methodology and praxis.
Treatment Over Objection: Can It Be Justified? March 6, 2023 - 12pm-1pm Institutional Ethics Program - Clinical Ethics Case Conference
HIV/AIDS Cure and Curation in the Visual AIDS Archive Project February 9, 2023 - 12pm-1pm In her new book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press), Marika Cifor delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive.
At the Limits of Cure January 26, 2023 - 12pm-1pm Bharat Venkat, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics/History/Anthropology , University of California-Los Angeles
Consent and Withdrawal in Psychedelic Research December 8, 2022 - 12pm-1pm Emma Tumilty, PhD, Assistant Professor & Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities, Member, Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities, School of Public and Population Health
The Case of Baby M: Ethical Issues in the Setting of Suspected Non-Accidental Trauma November 14, 2022 - 12pm-1pm Institutional Ethics Program - Clinical Ethics Case Conference