Past Ethics Events

Spring 2011

PPL Lucheon Seminars, Spring 2011
Date: Friday, Friday April 29, 2011
Time: 12:00PM
Location: Gibson Hall (South Lawn) S441
Speaker: Nancy Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania)
Description: PPL Luncheon Seminars, Spring 2011, light lunch served
Co-sponsored with the Political Theory Colloquium
The PPL program wishes to thank the BB&T Foundation for its generous support of this program.

Health Reform Colloquium
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Time: 6:10PM
Location: School of Law. WB102
Speaker: Tim Jost (Washington & Lee School of Law)
Description: Health Reform Colloquium Series

Are there any Value-Free Political Concepts?
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011
Time: 12:00PM
Location: Gibson Hall (South Lawn) S441
Speaker: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Description: PPL Luncheon Seminars, Spring 2011, light lunch served
The PPL program wishes to thank the BB&T Foundation for its generous support of this program.

On Gaus and Social Morality
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Time: 12:00PM
Location: Gibson Hall (South Lawn) S441
Speaker: Paul Weithman (University of Notre Dame)
Description: PPL Luncheon Seminars, Spring 2011, light lunch served
The PPL program wishes to thank the BB&T Foundation for its generous support of this program.

Health Reform Colloquium
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011
Time: 6:10PM
Location: School of Law. WB102
Speaker: Len Nichols (George Mason University)
Description: Health Reform Colloquium Series

Kenneth R. Crispell Lecture
Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Christopher Payne, M.Arch., Christopher Payne Photography, New York NY
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and the Center for Design and Health, School of Architecture

John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Stem Cell Research
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Ann Anderson Kiessling Ph.D., Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation, Boston MA
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the School of Nursing

Moore Lecture
Difficult Conversations, Compassionate Care
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Anthony Back, M.D., Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the Compassionate Care Initiative of the School of Nursing

Brodie Lecture in Medical Education
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Bonnie Miller, M.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville TN
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the Academy for Distinguished Educators, School of Medicine

Compassionate Care Lecture Series
The Neuroscience of Empathy
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Susan Bauer-Wu, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, Nell Hudson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta GA;  Harvard Medical School, Boston MA; and Upaya Institute and Zen Center, Santa Fe NM
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the School of Nursing

Amartya Sen and the escape from isolation: rethinking justice in a global age
Date: Wednesday March 2, 2011
Time: 12:00PM
Location: Gibson Hall (South Lawn) S441
Speaker: Fonna Forman-Barzilai (University of San Diego)
Description: PPL Luncheon Seminars, Spring 2011, light lunch served
The PPL program wishes to thank the BB&T Foundation for its generous support of this program.

Compassionate Care Lecture Series
The Neuroscience of Empathy
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Susan Bauer-Wu, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, Nell Hudson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta GA;  Harvard Medical School, Boston MA; and Upaya Institute and Zen Center, Santa Fe NM
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the School of Nursing

Special Medical Center Hour/John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
End of Life. An Interactive Exploration of Suffering and Compassion
Date: Thursday, 24 February 2011
Time: 7:00-9:30pm
Location: Fenwick Auditorium, McLeod Hall
Speaker: Bryan Doerries, MFA, Outside the Wire Productions LLC, Brooklyn NY
Description: Actors and Respondents.  This innovative project presents readings from ancient Greek plays as a catalyst for town-hall discussion about the challenges faced by persons who work in palliative care, hospice, geriatrics, nursing, and end-of-life caregiving
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life

John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Building Life: The Promise and Challenge of Synthetic Biology
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Jason Papin, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, UVA; Michael Rodemeyer, Ph.D., Science, Technology, and Society, School of Engineering and Applied Science, UVA
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented

John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
The Politics of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Public Opinion, Professional Autonomy, and Partisan Polarization
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011
Time: 6:10PM
Location: School of Law. WB102
Speaker: Eric Patashnik (UVA Politics & Batten School)
Description: Health Reform Colloquium Series

John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Beyond Health Reform: Implications for Academic Medicine
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D., Health Futures Inc., Charlottesville VA, and Public Health Sciences, UVA
Description: Medical Center Hour

History of the Health Sciences
A Century of Cancer Care at UVA, 1901-2011
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Morton C. (M.C.) Wilhelm, M.D., Surgical Oncology, UVA; Michael J. Weber, Ph.D., UVA Cancer Center
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

Beyond Repeal: The Future of Health Care Reform
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011
Time: 6:10PM
Location: School of Law. WB102
Speaker: Jonathan Oberlander, Professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Description: Health Reform Colloquium Series

Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture
Josie's Story: Family-Centered Approaches to Patient Safety
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Sorrel King, The Josie King Foundation, Baltimore MD
Description: Medical Center Hour
Co-presented with the Committee on Patient Safety, UVA Health System

Fall 2010

The Soldier's Rationale
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010 
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Watson Manor, 3 University Circle
Speaker: Christopher Eberle (United States Naval Academy) 3:30 pm, Watson Manor
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

What's Wrong With Me? The Hypochondriac, Uncertainty, and Anxiety in Medicine 
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Catherine Belling PhD, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

The Priorities of Love and Justice: Some Reflections on Judaism, Christianity, and the Question of Human Anthropology
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010 
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Watson Manor, 3 University Circle
Speaker: Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University) 
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

Writing about Illness and Doctoring 
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker:  Abigail D. Zuger MD, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York NY, and columnist, The New York Times 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Bice Memorial Lecture, School of Nursing 
Trust and Betrayal: Building Trustworthy Relationships Among the Interdisciplinary Team
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker:  Cynda Hylton Rushton PhD, RN, FAAN, Schools of Nursing and Medicine and Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Beyond Self-Sacrifice: The Recovery of Political Virtue
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010 
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Watson Manor, 3 University Circle
Speaker: Jean Porter  (University of Notre Dame) 
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

History of the Health Sciences 
Suffering in Silence: 100 Years of Sickle Cell Disease in the United States
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Carlton Haywood PhD MA, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life and the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Rescuing Impersonality: The Myth of Mrs. Jellyby
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010 
Time: 1:00PM
Location: The Dome Room of the Rotunda
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron (New York University)
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

Is Empathy in Clinical Practice Possible? 
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Jane MacNaughton MD PhD, Centre for Medical Humanities, School of Medicine and Health, Durham University, Durham UK 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Origins of Human Cooperative Communication 
Dates: October 15, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location Physics Building 
Speaker: Developmental Psychologist Michael Tomasello 
Sponsor: The Page-Barbour and Richard Lectures 
Description The Origins of Human Cooperation

Living Wages and Racial Justice
Date: October 14, 2010
Time:5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library
Speaker: Risa Gulaboff, U.Va. professor of law and of history; Paul Sonn, co-legal director, National Employment Law Project; Dorian Warren, Columbia University, Politics, Public and International Affairs, and Institute for Research in African-American Studies.
Description Class Matters: Race, Labor and Public Policy in Contemporary America 
Sponsored by Carter G. Woodson Institute for African & African American Studies 
Office of African-American Affairs

Origins of Human Altruism 
Dates: October 14, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location Physics Building 
Speaker: Developmental Psychologist Michael Tomasello 
Sponsor: The Page-Barbour and Richard Lectures 
Description The Origins of Human Cooperation

Origins of Human Collaboration and Shared Intentionality 
Dates: October 13, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location Physics Building 
Speaker: Developmental Psychologist Michael Tomasello 
Sponsor: The Page-Barbour and Richard Lectures 
Description The Origins of Human Cooperation

Healing Arts—In the Hospital, In the Hands 
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker:  Christina Mullen, University of Florida, Gainesville FL Sanda Iliescu, School of Architecture, UVA Lauren Catlett, UVA Class of 2010 
Co-presented with the Center for Design and Health, School of Architecture 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Difference and Democracy in the Post-Secular World
Dates: October 11 - 13, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Rotunda Dome Room
Speaker: Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 
Sponsor: Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
Description: A series of three lectures from Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with a reception to follow the opening lecture.

Verklin Conference on Media Policy & Ethics in the New "Attention Economy"
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2010 
Time: All Day
Location: Newcomb Hall, South Meeting Room
Sponsor: Department of Media Studies 
Description: Veterans of the media world with experience across industry, policymaking and academia will discuss looming media policy challenges, both short- and long-term, and suggest ways to improve both the public dialogue and academia's contributions to these challenges. Seating is limited. Tickets available at the Arts Box Office. Please see the website for more information.

Verklin Conference on Media Ethics and Policy Keynote Conversation
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 
Time: 7:30 – 9:30PM
Location: Dome Room of the Rotunda
Speaker: Donald Baer, Michael Delli Carpini, Andrew McLaughlin, Siva Vaidhyanathan 
Sponsor: Department of Media Studies 
Description: Veterans of the media world with experience across industry, policymaking and academia will discuss looming media policy challenges, both short- and long-term, and suggest ways to improve both the public dialogue and academia's contributions to these challenges. Seating is limited. Tickets available at the Arts Box Office.

The Deadly Dinner Party: Doctor as Detective 
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker:  Jonathan Edlow MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA 
Co-presented with the Department of Emergency Medicine 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Compromise after Conflict
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Watson Manor, 3 University Circle (4th house on the right from Rugby Rd.)
Speaker: John Brewer, Sixth-Century Professor, University of Aberdeen
Co-Sponsored by the Center for International Studies, Sociology Department

History of the Health Sciences 
CSI Edinburgh: Forensic Science in the Era of Burke and Hare's Anatomy Murders
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Lisa Rosner PhD, Department of History, Stockton College, Pomona NJ 
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in Humanities in Medicine 
Medicine in Translation: Bridging the Cultural Gap Between Doctor and Patient
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: Danielle Ofri MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief, Bellvue Literary Review, New York NY
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation

Forum: The Global Battle Over Reproductive Rights
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010
Time: 5:30PM
Location: The Miller Center (2201 Old Ivy Rd.)
Speaker: Michelle Goldberg, journalist and author based in Brooklyn, New York. 
Sponsor: The Miller Center

Love, Law, and Justice: The Strange 'Divorce' Case of Watts v. Watts
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Watson Manor, 3 University Circle (4th house on the right from Rugby Rd.)
Speaker: M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame School of Law

Of Stem Cells, Jail Cells, Holding Cells: The Politics of Stem Cell Research
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Time: 4:00PM
Location: Clark Hall 107
Speaker: R. Alta Charo JD, University of Wisconsin School of Law and the Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC
Sponsored by: the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life

Suarez on Relations
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Nau A101 (The South Lawn)
Speaker: Jorge Secada, University of Virginia
Sponsored by: The Department of Philosophy Fall Colloquium Series

Hollingsworth Lecture in Ethics: Playing It (Un)Safe: Drug Safety in a World of Imperfect Knowledge
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
Speaker: R. Alta Charo JD, University of Wisconsin School of Law and the Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life

Spring 2010

Sexual Agency in Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street
Date: Thursday, April 8
Time: Film at 3PM, Lecture at 5PM, Reception to follow
Location: Auditorium of the Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections Library
Speaker: Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College at the University of Chicago
Sponsor: The Page-Barbour and James W. Richard Lectures

‘A Deliberate, Intentional Fool’ in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai
Date:  Wednesday, April 7
Time: Film at 3PM, Lecture at 5PM, Reception to follow
Location: Auditorium of the Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections Library
Speaker: Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College at the University of Chicago
Sponsor: The Page-Barbour and James W. Richard Lectures

Trapped by Oneself in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past
Date: Tuesday, April 6th         
Time: Film at 3PM, Lecture at 5PM, Reception to follow
Location: Auditorium of the Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections Library
Speaker: Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College at the University of Chicago
Sponsor: The Page-Barbour and James W. Richard Lectures

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Time: 2PM
Location: South Meeting Room, Newcomb Hall
Speaker: Rebecca Solnit, Activist, Historian, Writer, Inaugural Trindle Fellow
Sponsor: Brown College

Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and Medical Manipulation of Height
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Time: 12:30-1:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center
Speaker: Susan Cohen, science journalist, Berkeley CA
Christine Cosgrove, science journalist, Berkeley CA
Description: History of the Health Sciences: The Kenneth R. Crispell Memorial Lecture: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

The Egalitarianism of Human Rights
Date:  March 26
Time:  4PM, Reception to Follow
Location:  Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Speaker:  Allen Buchanan, Duke University
Description: The Global Well-Being and Justice Lecture Series
Sponsor: Page Barbour and Richard Lecture Series, Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, Philosophy Department, and the Bioethics Program

Breaking Evolution's Chains: The Prospect of Genetically Modifying Humans
Date:  March 25
Time:  4PM, Reception to Follow
Location:  Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Speaker:  Allen Buchanan, Duke University
Description: The Global Well-Being and Justice Lecture Series
Sponsor: Page Barbour and Richard Lecture Series, Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, Philosophy Department, and the Bioethics Program

Here If You Need Me—Presence as Care
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 
Time: 12:30-1:30PM 
Location: Jordan Conference Center
Speaker: The Rev. Kate Braestrup, Chaplain, Maine Warden Service, Augusta ME 
Description: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation
Co-presented with the Department of Chaplaincy Services and Pastoral Education

Remorse, Apology and Mercy
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: The Gibson Room (114 Cocke Hall)
Speaker: Professor Jeffrie Murphy, Regents' Professor of Law, Philosophy & Religious Studies, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Description: Reception to Follow in Room 108
Sponsor:  The Philosophy Department’s Spring Colloquium Series

T he Case of Dostoevsky's General--Reflections on Forgiving the Unforgiveable
Date: March 18
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Watson Manor, 3 University Circle (4th house on the right from Rugby Rd.)
Speaker: Professor Jeffrie Murphy, Regents' Professor of Law, Philosophy, & Religious Studies, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Description: This lecture is one in a series on Love and Justice. Reception to follow.
Sponsor: Center for Advanced Studies in Culture

A Reading by Fady Joudah
Date: Thursday, 18 March 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon
Location: Jefferson Hall (East Range)
Speaker: Fady Joudah MD, author, The Earth in the Attic, 2007 winner,Yale Series of Younger Poets
Description:  Special program: Medical Center Hour Medicine & Society in Conversation
Co-presented with the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English, UVA and the Virginia Festival of the Book

In Paradise Hospital
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 12:30-1:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center
Speakers: Fady Joudah MD, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Administration Medical Center, Houston TX
Debra Nystrom MFA, Department of English, UVA
Description: The Moore Lecture: Medical Center Hour: Medicine & Society in Conversation
Co-presented with the Virginia Festival of the Book

Mindfulness in Medicine and Psychology: Its Transformative and Healing Potential in Living and in Dying
Date: Monday, 15 March 2010
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: McLeod Hall (School of Nursing)
Speaker: Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD, professor emeritus and founder, Stress Reduction Clinic and Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester MA
Description: Special Medical Center Hour …
Co-presented with the John and Tussi Kluge Compassionate Care Lecture Series

Mistakes in Medicine
Date: March 10, 2010
Time: 12:30-1:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center
Speaker:  Albert Wu, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD
Description:  The Jessie Stuart Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine: Medical Center Hour: Medicine & Society in Conversation
Co-presented with Patient Safety and Risk Management, UVA Health System

Genomic Biobanks: Ethical and Legal Issues
Date: March 5
Time: 8:30-10:30AM
Speaker: Hank Greely, Stanford Law School
Description: Colloquium in School Medicine
Cosponsored by: the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public LIfe, the Department of Public Health Sciences, the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, the Research Ethics Advisory Group, CTSA Advisory Committee; and several other groups.

Iconography of Contagion
Date: March 3, 2010
Time: 12:30-1:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center
Speaker: Michael Sappol PhD, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD
Description: History of the Health Sciences; Medicine & Society in Conversation
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and in conjunction with the "Iconography of Contagion" exhibit in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

The Coming Revolution in Prenatal Genetic Testing
Date: March 3
Time: 4:00-5:30PM     
Location: School of Law, WB101
Speaker: Hank Greely, the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Director of the Program in Neuroethics at Stanford University
Description: The Sadie Lewis Webb Lecture in Law & Biomedicine. Within the next five years, safe, early, comfortable, broad and fully insured fetal genetic testing will likely be both available and used by far more women than current methods. This testing will likely reveal not only disease traits and broad disease risks but some non-disease traits, such as sex, height, eye or hair color, male pattern baldness etc. How should our society react?
Sponsor: the Health Law Association

Drowning in the Bathtub: The American Anti-Tax Movement and its Effect on State Cigarette Taxes
Date: February 26, 2010
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Miller Center of Public Affairs
Speaker: Nicole Kazee
Description: Former Miller Center Fellow NICOLE KAZEE has a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of American politics and policymaking. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. She has also received fellowships from PEO International, Demos and the Brookings Institution. Her dissertation,"Wal-Mart Welfare: Business, Fiscal Regime, and the Politics of State Health Policymaking" highlighted the importance of institutional rules, fiscal norms, and the political role of employers.
Sponsor: Miller Center of Public Affair

Diplomacy against Terror: America's Allies and Enemies in Pakistan
Date: February 25, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Harrison Institute Auditorium
Speakers: Lisa Curtis, Hassan Abbas, Jeffrey Legro, John Echeverri-Gent
Description: The 2010 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy
This special panel will feature HASSAN ABBAS, Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor at Columbia University and former Pakistani government official, and LISA CURTIS, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.  Moderated by GAGE Faculty Associate JEFFREY LEGRO, with comments from Professor JOHN ECHEVERRI-GENT, this symposium will examine the nature of the terrorist threat based in Pakistan and assess U.S. counter-terrorism policy in the region.
This symposium is part of a two day event examining various aspects of politics in Pakistan and US-Pakistan relations, organized by John Echeverri-Gent of the Politics Department and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. 
Sponsor: Miller Center of Public Affairs

Bringing the Patient Back into the Doctor's Education
Date: February 24, 2010
Time: 12:30-1:30PM
Location: Jordan Conference Center
Speaker: David Hirsh MD, Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, Boston MA
Description: The Brodie Lecture in Medical Education; Medical Center Hour; Medicine & Society in Conversation
Co-presented with the Academy of Distinguished Educators and in conjunction with the Academy's annual Medical Education Research Poster Session

Current Debates in Higher Education
Date: February 22, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Miller Center of Public Affairs
Speaker: David Breneman
Description: Do we have enough college graduates to remain a world class economic power? Is the college business model broken?  DAVID W. BRENEMAN, a University Professor and the Newton & Rita Meyers Professor in the Economics of Education, served as Dean of the Curry School of Education from 1995 to 2007, and as Director of the Public Policy Program at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He analyses questions that will be the subject of two Miller Center National Discussion and Debate Series events during the spring of 2010.
Sponsor: Miller Center of Public Affairs

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