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2010 Events

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Events highlighted in orange are organised by the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Follow the links for further information, including how to attend where conferences are open for booking.

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March

Wellcome Collection - Anders Sandberg
Date: Thursday, 25 March, 7.00 - 8.30 pm
Speakers: Neil Burgess (cognitive neuroscientist, University College London); Emily Holmes (research clinical psychologist, University of Oxford) Anders Sandberg (neuroscientist and philosopher, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)
Title: "Rewiring the Mind: The Ethics of Erasing Traumatic Memory"
Venue: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Abstract: Scientists may soon be able to erase painful memories, offering a cure for phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. But what might this mean for our identity and humanity - how far do our memories make us who we are?
Further details:
This event is free, but at present is fully booked. Spaces may become available on the day of the event. You can register for the waiting list 90 minutes before the start of the event in Wellcome Collection. British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted event. Website.

April

James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 28 April, 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Speaker 1: TBA (affiliation)
Title: "TBA"
Speaker 2: TBA (affiliation)
Title: "TBA"
Venue: James Martin 21st Century School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD
Further details:
See FHI or BEP websites for abstracts, full programme, etc

May

James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 5 May, 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Speaker 1: Charles Webel (University of New York in Prague)
Title: "A War of the World, or the End of War? Can a Nonviolent Strategy of Conflict Resolution be Effective in Ending the Global War on Terrorism?"
Speaker 2: TBA (affiliation)
Title: "TBA"
Venue: James Martin 21st Century School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD
Further details:
See FHI or BEP websites for abstracts, full programme, etc

First Annual Wellcome Public Lecture
Date: Wednesday,12 May, 7.00 - 8.15 pm
Speaker: Professor Steven Hyman (Provost, Harvard University)
Title: "Meditations on Self-Control: Lessons from the Neurobiology of Addiction."
Venue: Oxford University Musuem of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford
Further details:
Organised by the Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics. No booking required. For further details contact nicholas.iles@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 12 May, 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Speaker 1: Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (Information Ethics Group, University of Oxford)
Title: "Informational Conflicts: a New Ethical Challenge"
Speaker 2: Frej Klem Thomsen (Roskilde University; Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
Title: ""We Will Find the Black Man Who Did T
his": Police Profiling and Epistemic Discrimination"
Venue: James Martin 21st Century School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD
Further details:
See FHI or BEP websites for abstracts, full programme, etc

James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 26 May, 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Speaker 1: Dr Barbro Froding (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
Title: "Title TBA."
Speaker 2: Dr Martin Peterson (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Title: "title TBA"
Venue: James Martin 21st Century School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD
Further details:
See FHI or BEP websites for abstracts, full programme, etc

June

James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 2 June, 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Speaker 1: Dr Michelle Cowley (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford)
Title: "Title TBA"
Speaker 2: Dr Jean-Francois Bonnefon (Universite de Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail)
Title: "Reasoning about unjust rewards and punishments: Individual differences and behavioural experiments"
Venue: James Martin 21st Century School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD
Further details:
See FHI or BEP websites for abstracts, full programme, etc

James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 9 June, 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Speaker 1: Simon Rippon (Oxford-Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford; Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health)
Title: "title TBA"
Speaker 2: Elfed Huw Price (Independent Scholar)
Title: "Embodied consciousness: past, present, future"
Venue: James Martin 21st Century School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD
Further details:
See FHI or BEP websites for abstracts, full programme, etc

James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Speaker 1: Dr Jose Luis Perez Trivino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Title: "Title TBA"
Speaker 2: Dr Mark Sheehan (Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences; Ethox Centre, University of Oxford)
Title: "title TBA"
Venue: James Martin 21st Century School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD
Further details:
See FHI or BEP websites for abstracts, full programme, etc

 

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