The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Research Colloquium was held Wednesday, May 22, 2019 in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The CBSSM Research Colloquium featured the Bishop Lecture in Bioethics as the keynote address. Ruha Benjamin, PhD presented the Bishop Lecture with a talk entitled: “Black Afterlives Matter: Reimagining Bioethics for an Ailing Body Politic."
Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she serves on the executive committees of the Center for Digital Humanities and Center for Global Health and Health Policy, and is an Associate Faculty member in the Center for Information Technology Policy, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Program in History of Science, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and Department of Sociology.
Ruha’s work investigates the social dimensions of science and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power.
She is the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press 2013); Race After Technology (Polity 2019); and editor of Captivating Technology: Reimagining Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press 2019) among numerous other publications.
Ruha is also the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, and Institute for Advanced Study among others, and in 2017 she received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.
For more info, please visit ruhabenjamin.com
This year's Colloquium and Bishop Lecture was co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) and the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program.
The CBSSM Research Colloquium (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) brings together presenters highlighting research related to bioethics, health communication, and medical decision making.
2019 Colloquium Schedule:
- 8:30 Check in, refreshments
- 9:05 Welcome
- 9:10 Presentation 1: Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis, MA
- 9:35 Presentation 2: Chithra Perumalswami, MD, MSc
- 10:00 Andrew R. Barnosky Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Ethics & Clinical Ethics Fellowship Certificate
- 10:10 Presentation 3: Chris Krenz, MA
- 10:35 Presentation 4: Victoria Scicluna, MD, MPH
- 11:00 Break
- 11:15 Bishop Lecture: Ruha Benjamin, PhD
- 12:45 Lunch in Great Lakes Central, Palmer Commons