This is the Website for the UK Annual Postgraduate Bioethics Conference.
The conference is now in its fourth year. Details about this and previous conferences can be found below.
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About the 2009 Conference
Posted on April 6th, 2009 No commentsThe conference is scheduled for Tuesday the 23rd and Wednesday the 24th of June 2009 and will be held in Seminar Room One of the Institute of Governance at Queen’s University Belfast. Info on the location is here.
Conference Theme: Engaging Bioethics/ Bioethical Engagements.
Bioethics has always represented an engagement between the academy’s ‘two cultures’ as well as an attempt to bring the ethical issues raised by bioscience and healthcare to the attention of a wider audience, including that of the general public. Continuing the theme of self-reflection that has been a mark of previous conferences in this series the conference aims to represent the current diversity of bioethical scholarship at the postgraduate level and raise questions regarding the engagement of bioethical research and its various publics.
The conference will be postgraduate led. We hope to have at least four panels each containing three postgraduate papers.
Guest Speakers:
We are very please that Dr Margret Shildrick (QUB) and Prof Andy Miah (UWS) have agreed to give plenary talks.
Dr Shildrick is a world leading academic who writes on ‘The Body’ from a broadly post-structuralist/ feminist perspectives. Her publications include: Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics (1997), Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self (2001), Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges (with Roxanne Mykitiuk, 2005) and Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality (2009). Dr Shilddrick will present a discussion of the film Naked on the Inside and the ways in which it can approached for the purposes of public engagement and pedagogic activity.
Prof. Miah was recently appointed to a chair in the Dept of Media, Cultrure and Journalism at UWS. His publications include Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping, & Sport, (2004), The Medicalization of Cyberspace. (with Emma Rich, 2008) and Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (2008). Prof. Miah will be presenting a talk on ‘Bioart as Bioethics’, a major area of his research.
UK and Ireland Postgraduate Bioethics Network.
The conference will be the venue for a discussion of the creation of a UK and Ireland postgraduate Bioethics network. Many postgraduate bioethicists are members of large interdisciplinary centres in various HEI’s although many are not. Whatever the location and intellectual surroundings of postgraduate bioethicists we feel that the time has come to take advantage of the Web2.0 and create a viable postgraduate network. The only established aim of the network is currently the annual conference. All other aims, objectives and activities of the conference are open for suggestion and discussion by UK and Ireland postgraduate researchers. We would appreciate your thoughts in advance of the conference (whether or not you are able to attend) in order that a agenda can be drawn up. Please email us at postgrad.bioethics.conf.2009@gmail.com.
We are very fortunate in that the session devoted to discussion of the postgraduate bioethics network will be facilitated by Louise O’Meara from the Interaction Institute for Social Change. Louise is a professional facilitator who has delivered training on leadership, teambuilding and network building to a variety of business and political settings. We are very grateful to her for donating her time.
A very provisional proposed running order of the conference can be found here.
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