Annual LecturesAnnual Lectures
Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine
Sponsored by:
Department of Psychiatry
Next Event:
Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D. Ph.D.
Beyond Band-Aids: The Ethics of Health Care Reform
October 29, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Ford Auditorium
University Hospital, 2nd Floor
Event Summary:
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He is an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. Emanuel’s most recent book, Healthcare Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America has just been released by PublicAffairs Publishers. He has published widely on health care reform, and on ethical issues surrounding research, end of life, and managed care.
Dr. Emanuel has received numerous awards, including election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. He has served on President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the International Advisory Board on Bioethics of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization.
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Wallenberg Lecture
Sponsored by:
UM Wallenberg Endowment
Next Event:
October 29, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
Event Summary:
The 2008 Wallenberg lecture will be delivered on October 29 by the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa.
In 1984, Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, “not only as a gesture of support to him and to the South African Council of Churches of which he is leader, but also to all individuals and groups in South Africa who, with their concern for human dignity, fraternity, and democracy, incite the admiration of the world.”
In 1986 he became Archbishop of Cape Town, the first black person to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa. Regarded by many as the moral conscience of South Africa, he was a leader in the struggle against apartheid. In 1995, after the fall of apartheid, Archbishop Tutu headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. His focus on forgiveness and cooperation, rather than revenge for past injustice, established the TRC as a worldwide example for meeting the challenges of transitional justice.
In 1996 he retired as Archbishop of Cape Town and was named Archbishop Emeritus. He has continued to be active in the Global AIDS Alliance, where he serves as Honorary Chair.
Archbishop Tutu’s Nobel Peace Prize speech
More Information:
http://www.wallenberg.umich.edu/
Tanner Lecture on Human Values
Sponsored by:
Department of Philosophy
Next Event:
American Values in Health Care: A Case of Cognitive Dissonance
Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton
Friday, January 9, 2009 from 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Rackham Amphitheatre
Event Summary:
Michigan is one of nine institutions world-side that hosts an annual Tanner Lecture on Human Values. Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Economics, and Public Affairs, Princeton University will give the 2008–09 Tanner Lecture. Professor Reinhardt is a leader in the field of health care economics. Further information about Dr. Reinhardt.
Symposium on the lecture:
Saturday, January 10, 2009, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Rackham Amphitheatre
Video stream of symposium
A symposium on the lecture will be held the following morning. The Symposiasts are Sherry Glied of the School of Public Health at Columbia, Norm Daniels of Harvard’s School of Public Health, and Mark Peterson of the Political Science Department at UCLA.
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Tanner Lectures at Michigan
Tanner Lectures at other universities
John Dewey Lecture
Sponsored by:
Ginsberg Center for Community Service Learning
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The 2009 John Dewey Lecture was given by Dr. Gary Delgado.
Event Summary:
The John Dewey Lecture commemorates the distinguished American philosopher and educator, who formulated some of his most important ideas at Michigan, and influenced American education by his writings about the role of experience in learning, of schools and community in society, and of higher education in solving problems.
The 2007-08 Dewey Lecture was given by Dr. Harry Boyte, co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota. The Center has focuses on developing practice-based theory about how to engage citizens in public life. Boyte was national coordinator for the New Citizenship, a bipartisan effort to bridge the citizen-government gap. He presented New Citizenship findings to President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and other administration leaders at a 1995 Camp David seminar on the future of democracy. More recently, Boyte was a senior advisor to the National Commission for Civic Renewal, headed by former Senator Sam Nunn and former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett.
More Information:
http://ginsberg.umich.edu/faculty/lectures.html
Peter M. Wege Lecture on Sustainability
Sponsored by:
Center for Sustainable Systems
School of Natural Resources and Environment
Last Event:
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, “Earth Day Reflections”
More Information:
http://css.snre.umich.edu/makeframe.php?content=4_3_Events
Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom
Sponsored by:
The Academic Freedom Lecture Fund
The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture
Sponsored by:
Institute for the Humanities
Event Summary:
Marc and Constance Jacobson’s early gift established the endowed lectureship that has brought distinguished scholars, artists, writers, and even champions for human freedom to the Institute for the Humanities and the University.