July 2022 Romanell Center Bioethics Workshop

Join us for the Romanell Center Bioethics Workshop, Saturday, July 9, 2022, Park Hall 141, 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. UB North Campus. The workshop features presentations by Romanell Fellows and a keynote by Jessica Flanigan (Richmond) “Natalism and the Ethics of Having Children”.

SUMMER PROGRAM
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Park Hall 141,  9:30am to 6:15pm

9:30–10:30 Steve Kershnar (Romanell Fellow/SUNY Fredonia) “Proportionality in Self-Defense and Vaccination-Mandates”

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Carter Benson (University at Buffalo Graduate Student). Topic: The Ethics of Vaccine Mandates

11:45-1:45 Lunch

1:45-2:45 David Hershenov (Romanell Fellow/University at Buffalo) ‘Why Hybrid Accounts of Personal Identity Can’t Prevent the Counterintuitive Bioethical Consequences of Neo-Lockean and Animalist Accounts”

2:45-3:00. Break

3:00-4:00 James Cordeiro (Pembroke College, Oxford/SUNY Brockport). "Ectogestation-Based Contracting as a Basis for Compromise in Parental Disputes over Abortion?"

4:00-4:15 Break

4:15-6:15 Keynoter - Jessica Flanigan (Richmond) “Natalism and the Ethics of Having Children”

Contact David Hershenov via email   dh25@buffalo.edu  for advance copies of the workshop papers.