2017-18 Calendar of Events
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Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld: “The Integrity of the Doctor-Patient Relationship after the Holocaust”
Wednesday, September 27, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Center for Ethics 1531 Dickey Drive, room 102
You are cordially invited to a public lecture by Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the executive director of the Center for Medicine After the Holocaust, on Wednesday, September 27, 5:00-6:30PM at the Center for Ethics (1531 Dickey Drive, room 102). Parking is available in the Peavine Visitor’s Lot (27 Eagle Row).
The doctor-patient relationship has been the beating heart of medicine at least since the time of Hippocrates. Nineteenth and twentieth century events have fundamentally altered this foundational bond. The transformation of the medical ethos by Nazi physicians, the best in the world at the time, offers a cautionary tale for patients, doctors, and healthcare policy makers at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Please join us for this important conversation by reserving your free spot here. Light refreshments will be served.
Emory University Science & Society, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory School of Nursing, Emory Integrity Project, Center for the Study of Law and Religion | Emory Law School, Department of Religion | Emory College, Rollins School of Public Health, Center for Ethics, Center for Medicine After the Holocaust
For more information, please contact: Jonathan K. Crane, PhD, Rabbi or Center for Ethics
Dr. Charles Hallisey: "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" Ethics, Reverie, and Buddhist Worship
Friday, September 29, 2017, 4:00 PM
Rita Anne Rollins Building 501, 1531 Dickey Drive, Emory University
Prof.s Antonia Arslan (Università di Padova), author of international best-seller La masseria delle allodole, and Siobhan Nash-Marshall (Mary T. Clark Chair, Manhattanville College), author of the new The Sins of the Fathers: Turkish Negationism and the Armenian Genocide, will shed light on one of the first and most devastating international cases of the post-truth phenomenon: the Armenian Genocide.
Co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program, the Emory College Language Center, the Department of History, the Center for Ethics, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Department of Religion, and the Department of Philosophy.
Tuesday, October 17th 2017, 7:00 PM
White Hall 208
Prof.s Antonia Arslan (Università di Padova), author of international best-seller La masseria delle allodole, and Siobhan Nash-Marshall (Mary T. Clark Chair, Manhattanville College), author of the new The Sins of the Fathers: Turkish Negationism and the Armenian Genocide, will shed light on one of the first and most devastating international cases of the post-truth phenomenon: the Armenian Genocide.
Co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program, the Emory College Language Center, the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Program, the Department of History, the Center for Ethics, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Department of Religion, and the Department of Philosophy
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Callaway Center 319 (MESAS Seminar Room)
Based on fieldwork in rural Mozambique, this talk explores how ‘traditional’ models of change shape a people’s manner of relating to ‘modernity.’ In recent decades, state administrators and Pentecostal missionaries have sought to reform local inhabitants by, respectively, sedentarizing and converting them. Deploying a proclivity toward mobility cultivated by their indigenous religions and rituals, the subjects of this study appear both eager to partake in resettlement schemes and reluctant to remain settled by them.
Dr. Devaka Premawardhana is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Colorado College.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Religion, the Institute of African Studies, and the Department of Anthropology at Emory University.
Spring 2018 events
Dr. Devaka Premawardhana's "Rupture and Return: Lessons on life from the Makhuwa of Mozambique"
Thursday, January 25, 4:00 PM, White Hall 103
Based on nearly two years of fieldwork, Devaka Premawardhana’s first project explores the complexities of Christian identity in a part of the world where indigenous traditions remain vibrant, even in the lives of converts. In this talk, Premawardhana will share lessons learned from the field—not just about his research topic, but about life itself. He will address how he came to appreciate the eclectic and elusive nature of the self—including of himself—from a people who prize mobility over stasis, and for whom religious conversion is experienced as routine, reversible, and repeatable.
Dr. Devaka Premawardhana is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Colorado College.
Film Screening: Old Dog with Award-Winning Tibetan Filmaker Pema Tsedan
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