• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Christa Henrichs (Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities)
• Timing: Flexible

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Transformative experience and adolescent capacity to refuse life-prolonging treatment
  Dr Isra Black (York Law School)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Long Game Health Promotion and Political Legitimacy in Public Health Law
  Professor John Coggon (University of Bristol Law School)

Wednesday 14 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Health promotion in the post-truth age: The role of autonomy and moral responsibility amid epidemiological transition
  George Gillet (Medical student - winner of the Andrew Markus and Richard Doll essay prizes)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Concealment and Discovery: The Role of Information Security in Biomedical Data Re-Use
  Niccolò Tempini (University of Exeter)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Responsibility in Healthcare: Empowerment Without Blame?
  Rebecca Brown

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The Concept of Vulnerability: Eliminating a Problem?
  Dr Anthony Wrigley (Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Residual Cognitive Capacities and the Capacity for Suffering in Patients with Cognitive Motor Dissociation
  Dr Mackenzie Graham (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - To report or not to report? That's not the only question!
  Danya Vears (Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven)

Monday 25 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Saving Shared Decision Making From Itself
  Zackary Berger (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)

Wednesday 27 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Justice and vulnerability in big data
  Angela Ballantyne (Senior Lecturer Bioethics, New Zealand)

Wednesday 15 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Health as wellbeing and health as asset: Why the distinction matters
  Professor Thomas Schramme (University of Liverpool)

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Suffering prioritisation, or prioritising suffering? A critique of arguments for and against NHS funded fertility services
  Dr Jonathan Ives (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Artificial Intelligence: Some Likely Developments and Foreseeable Challenges
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Addressing vulnerability in and through research: Highlights from the REACH study
  Dr Maureen Kelley (Associate Professor in Bioethics, The Ethox Centre), Dr Vicki Marsh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: The Role of Autonomy in Medical Consent
  Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Yale University)

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar
  Caterina Milo (Durham Law School)

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Building research capacity through North-South Partnerships: some ethical reflections and a social justice agenda
  Dr Maru Mormina (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: What do we owe to novel synthetic beings and how can we be sure?
  Alex McKeown (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Social Construction, False Consciousness and the Preference for a Genetically Related Child
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Giulia Cavaliere (Lancaster University)

Wednesday 25 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Big Data and the Threat to Moral Responsibility in Healthcare
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Daniel Tigard (RWTH Aachen University)

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Resuscitation decisions and discussions: can we get it right in a climate of fear?
  This seminar will be held by video conference through Bluejeans. Please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the link to the meeting.
  Dr Zoë Fritz (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 3 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Bioethical Relevance of the African dual concept of Moral Status
  This seminar will be held by Bluejeans videoconferencing, please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the meeting link.
  Dr Caesar Atuire (University of Ghana)

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Should consent for data processing be privileged in health research?
  This seminar will be held by Bluejeans videoconferencing, please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the meeting link.
  Dr Edward Dove (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 24 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Ethical Dispossession: Mindfulness-Based Therapies and the History of Virtue
  This WEH/Ethox seminar will be held by video conference through Bluejeans. Please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the link to the meeting.
  Dr Francis McKay (Ethox Centre)

Wednesday 1 July 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: An ethical approach for implementing COVID-19 immunity certificates
  This WEH/Ethox seminar will be held by video conference through Bluejeans. Please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the link to the meeting.
  Dr Voo Teck Chuan (National University of Singapore)

Wednesday 8 July 2020 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Translational ethics: working with clinicians to improve ethical decision-making
  This seminar will be held by Bluejeans videoconferencing, please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the meeting link.
  Dr Anne-Marie Slowther (Warwick Medical School)

Wednesday 15 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Consent and confidentiality in family medicine: reflections on the “ABC” case
  This seminar will be held by Bluejeans videoconferencing, please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk to register. A link to the meeting will then be sent to you on the day of the seminar.
  Anneke Lucassen (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 16 September 2020 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Medical ethics: common or uncommon morality?
  Rosamund Rhodes (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Wednesday 23 September 2020 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Trustworthy governance and commercial users of health data: what is a reasonable expectation of privacy?
  Mark Taylor (Melbourne Law School)

Wednesday 7 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Human challenge studies in endemic settings: ethical issues
  Euzebiusz Jamrozik (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Self-Defeating Codes of Medical Ethics and How to Fix Them: Failures in COVID-19 Response and Beyond
  Alex John London (Carnegie Mellon University)

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - CANCELLED WEH/Ethox Seminar: Access to Artificial Reproductive Technologies: The Case of France and Belgium
  This talk has been cancelled; it will be rescheduled for later in the academic year
  Professor Jennifer Merchant (University of Paris)

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - "INDOORS" - new photography exhibition launch
  Adam Isfendiyar

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Four decades of consent in Norwegian biobanking
  John-Arne Skolbekken (Norwegian university of science and technology), Berge Solberg (Norwegian University of science and technology)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Discussing the ethical considerations around public, policy and research partner engagement in the formation of global pathogen molecular surveillance systems
  George Busby (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics
  Mehrunisha Suleman (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Confidentiality and transplant tourism: keeping one’s hands clean during organ laundering
  Greg Moorlock (University of Warwick)

Wednesday 16 December 2020 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Is there is a meaningful distinction to be made between bioethics, public health ethics and global health ethics?
  Sridhar Venkatapuram (King's College London)

Wednesday 13 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Ethical issues in the COVID-19 pandemic: Are lessons ever learned?
  Professor Ross Upshur (University of Toronto)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Distrust as a Defensive Stance
  Professor Jason D'Cruz (State University of New York)

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - The ethics of challenge trials for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
  Professor Nir Eyal (Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics)

Wednesday 21 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Why justice is not enough: Solidarity as guiding value for data governance
  Professor Barbara Prainsack (University of Vienna)

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Opt-Out Organ Donation And The Exclusion Of Organs And Tissues
  Professor Stephen Wilkinson (Lancaster University), Laura O'Donovan (Lancaster University), Dr Nicola Williams (Lancaster University)

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Advance Directives and the Happy Demented Patient
  Stephen Latham (Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics)

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Health of People, Health of the Planet: A Diversity of Perspectives
  Various Speakers

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Climate Change & Mental Health: Exploring Responses Across Cultures
  Various Speakers