The Joint Colloquium in Bioethics is a topical seminar that meets 4-5 times each semester at the NIH Clinical Center to discuss the work of distinguished visiting speakers. The seminar is co-sponsored by the NIH Department of Bioethics, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and the Philosophy Departments of George Washington University and the University of Maryland. Each meeting includes a two-hour discussion of the visiting scholar's work (circulated ahead of time), followed by an informal dinner on-site. Discussion is friendly but quite lively as a diversity of perspectives is represented. The seminars are attended by a small and select group of faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral candidates.
Spring 2021 – Normative Ethics in Relation to Evolutionary Moral Psychology
- January 26 – Sarah Brosnan, Georgia State University
- February 23 – Walter Sinnott Armstrong, Duke
- March 16 – Joshua May, University of Alabama, Birmingham
- April 13 – Irina Mikhalevich, Rochester Institute of Technology
- May 11 – Shaun Nichols, Cornell University
Fall 2020 – Virtue Ethics
- October 6 – Rebecca Stangl, UVA
- October 27 – Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University
- November 16 – May Sim, College of the Holy Cross
- December 8 – Erin Cline, Georgetown
Spring 2020 – Drug Pricing
- January 14 – Steven Pearson, ICER
- February 25 – Jamie Love, Knowledge Ecology International
- April 15 – Stacie Dusetzina, Vanderbilt University
- April 28 – Walter Straus, Merck
- May 12 – Ezekiel Emanuel, University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2019 – Privacy
- October 8 – Madison Powers, Georgetown University
- October 22 – Elizabeth Edenberg and Kobbi Nissim, Georgetown University
- November 12 – Amy McGuire, Baylor College of Medicine
- November 19 – Mark Rothstein, University of Louisville School of Medicine
- December 10 – Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2019 – Gene Editing
- January 29 – John Tisdale, NIH/NHLBI
- March 12 – Josephine Johnston, Hastings Center
- April 9 – Jeff Kahn, Johns Hopkins University
- April 23 – Ron Green, Dartmouth College (emeritus)
Fall 2018 – Robotics, A.I., and Ethics
- September 26 – Tina Elliasi-Rad, Northwestern University
- October 9 – Illah Norbaksh, Carnegie Mellon University
- October 23 – David Danks, Carnegie Mellon University
- November 13 – Alex London, Carnegie Mellon University
- December 11 – Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh
List of Past Topics
- Animal Research Ethics
- Consciousness
- Feminism
- Topics in Neuroscience: Ethical Explorations
- Moral Responsibility in Relation to Biological Causes
- Global Justice
- Parenting and Procreation
- Complicity
- The Ethics of Incentives
- Discrimination, Stereotyping, and Profiling
- Duty to Rescue
- Risk
- Compromise
- Deception
- Moral Luck
- Paternalism
- Forgiveness
- Role Morality
- Emotions
- Empirical Moral Psychology
- Disabilities
- Obligations to Future Generations
- The Moral Status of Embryos, Fetuses, and Infants
- Enhancements
- Equality in Healthcare
- Non-ideal Ethical Theory and Practice
- The Ethical Basis of Human Rights
- The Moral and Health Significance of the Natural
- Coercion and Manipulation
- Equality
- Exploitation
- International Justice and Biomedical Research
- Trust
- Health Disparities