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2010 EVENTS
Bioethics Retreat 2010

Health Care Reform: Justice, Law, Politics, and Economics

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Scheman Building, ISU Campus

9am - 3pm

Click here for more information.

Marriage Equality: A Legal Perspective
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 7:00 pm, Sun Room, Memorial Union

featuring

Camilla Taylor,
Lead Counsel on the Iowa Supreme Court Case that determined that the same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional

Mark Kende,
James Madison Chair in Constitutional Law, Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Drake University Law School

Clark Wolf,
Moderator, Director of Bioethics Program at Iowa State University

2009 EVENTS

Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
Authors of the book, Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak,
were at Iowa State on December 3 and 4 for a number of events.

Torture, Detention, and Rule of Law: A Panel Discussion
September 17, 2009 at 7pm
Great Hall, Memorial Union

moderated by:
Clark Wolf, Bioethics Program Director and Professor of Philosophy

featuring:

Alex Tuckness,
Public Policy and Administration Program Director and Associate Professor of Political Science

Ben Stone,
Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
of Iowa

For more information, see:
http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/19387

Imaging a Shattering Earth
November 1, 2008 - March 1, 2009
Shattering Earth Website

Francisco Ayala
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A Discussion with Francisco Ayala, 12pm, Sun Room
Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion, Ayala lecture, 8pm, Sun Room

For more information, please visit the following link:
Ayala Visit

Faculty Retreat
January 10, 2009
Scheman Center, 9am - 5pm
Details and Photos

2008 EVENTS

Dr. Claude Baillargeon
Sunday, November 8, 2008 at 2:00pm
Brunnier Art Museum

"The Photography of Poisoned Ecologies"

More information about Dr. Baillargeon's visit can be found here:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ceah/baillargeon.htm

Dr. Ben Minteer
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:30pm
South Ballroom, Memorial Union

"An Outlook to Nature: Recovering Liberty Hyde Bailey's Agrarian Environmentalism"

More information about Dr. Minteer's visit can be found here:
http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/17249

Dr. Andrew Light
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 8:00pm
Sun Room, Memorial Union

"Climate Ethics After Bali"

More information about Dr. Light's visit can be found here:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ceah/light.htm

Pesek Colloquium,
Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 7:00pm
in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union

The Bioethics Program was pleased to co-sponsor the John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture 2008's distinguished guest, Dr. Robert Costanza, the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and the Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.

The title of Dr. Costanza's lecture was Ecological Economics: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future. A copy of the text of his speech is here (PDF 78 KB). His presentation can be downloaded in these three parts: Part 1 (PDF 5.8 MB), Part 2 (PDF 16 MB), Part 3 (PDF 7 MB). For additional information on Dr. Costanza's work see here.

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