Co-Opting AI: Campaigning 02/29 Thursday | 5pm NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Sloane Lab, and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia invite you to a new discussion in the series “Co-Opting AI.” This will be a completely virtual event. This event will discuss the role data-driven systems and AI play in political campaigning and […]

Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW Date: Friday, March 1, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m. (Eastern) Furman Hall 326 and via Zoom Register This event is co-sponsored by the APEC Study Center at Columbia University About the event: Ensuring women’s property rights has long been seen as essential to ensuring their enjoyment of other human rights, from […]

Oneness and Ecology 03/01 Friday | 3pm NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the Center on Modernity in Transition, and the Rock Ethics Institute invite you to a discussion in the series “The New Discourse on Oneness.” This will be a completely virtual event. Please register for the event here. Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-director of the Yale […]

Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence   8 March 2024 4.00 – 6.00 PM EST New York University 708 Broadway (Global Public Health School).   The event is co-hosted by The GovLab, The Center for Urban Science + Progress, The Center for Responsible AI and the NYU Center for Bioethics Speaker: Urs Gasser, Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and […]

The Need for First-Person Anti-Racism Mental Health Wellness Programs in Higher Education Dr. Naomi Zack March 12th, 2024 Kimmel Center for University Life, Room 906  1:45 PM-2:45 PM   One in five Americans has mental health problems, and racial minorities are underserved. Racist beliefs and speech, and discriminatory action, as well as structural racism, injure […]

On Saturday, March 16 from 7 pm-2 am, join us at this year’s Night in the Library: Out of Darkness at the Brooklyn Public Library:an all-night symposium on the philosophy, histories and strategies of moving into a new world together from the Brooklyn Public Library RSVP at https://bklynlib.org/nitl

The Center for Bioethics Presents: Spring 2024 Colloquium Series The Value of Life, the Value of Virtue Dr. Johann Frick Wednesday, April 3rd 2:00 - 3:30 pm Location TBD It is sometimes said that, just as Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, the field of population ethics is the graveyard of moral theories. Ethical views […]

Is Any Embryo an "Unborn Child"? The Ancient Jewish Debate Noam J. Zohar, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Visiting Scholar, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Dr. Zohar specializes in Moral and Political Philosophy, with an emphasis on applied ethics - especially bioethics and morality in war - philosophy of Jewish Halacha […]

Cannabis Use and Violent Deaths: A Data Fusion Approach to Epidemiologic Research APRIL 12 AT 10AM ET This event is hosted by the GPH Department of Epidemiology Join Guohua Li, MD, DrPH, M. Finster Professor of Epidemiology and Anesthesiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, as he discusses the public health significance of epidemiologic research on cannabis use […]

Nancy N. Dubler Medical Ethics Lecture Series presents: "Light and Shadow: The Ethics of Writing Fiction about Medical Ethics" - 5/13, 12pm-1pm ET with Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH HCEC-C Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH HCEC-C (he/him/his) Chief, Division of General Pediatrics Leader, EthicsLab@CHOP Research Affinity Group The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Pediatrics, […]

A person’s ZIP code has been shown to have a greater impact on health and well-being than their genetic code, affecting access to education, transportation, and wealth. How is this possible? The provocative documentary ZIP Code Matters boldly asks the question and gets profound and insightful answers from some of the nation’s leading policymakers, nonprofit […]