Friday, 25 September 2015
5.30pm Registration
6.00-6.45pm Introduction: Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi
Dr Judith Beniston (German Department, UCL), Dr Annja Neumann (German, University of Cambridge), Nicole Robertson (German Department, UCL)
7.00-9.00pm Theatre production of Professor Bernhardi by [Foreign Affairs]
Saturday, 26 September 2015
9.00-9.30am Registration
9.30-10.45am Welcome and Introduction
Panel 1: Socio-Cultural Responses to the Ethical Challenges of Biomedicine
Dr Julia Boll (Department of Literature, University of Konstanz): The Object’s Voice: Literature’s Attempt to Create Subjectivity
Susan Watts (Head of Public Engagement and Communications, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre): What can “Living Well” teach us about “Dying Well”?
10.45-11.15am Coffee Break
11.15.-12.30pm Panel 2: Bodily Practices and Embodied Knowledge
Dr Samir Guglani (Consultant Oncologist and Director of Medicine Unboxed): Human Voices
Prof Tom Corby (Professor of Visual and Interdisciplinary Art, University of Westminster): Blood and Bones
Respondent: Dr Fiona MacCormick
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-2.45pm Panel 3: Faith, Conscience and the Role of Doctors
Prof Jonathan Montgomery (Faculty of Laws, UCL): Conscientious Objection, Professional Ethics and the Public Sphere
Dr Mary Neal (School of Law, University of Strathclyde): The Importance of Protection for Conscience in the Healthcare Environment
Respondents: Dr James Wilson (Department of Philosophy, UCL), Dr Piers Benn (Heythrop College, University of London)
2.45-3.15pm Tea Break
3.15-4.45pm Panel 4: Institutions
Dr Fiona MacCormick (Doctor in Palliative Medicine & Postgraduate Student, Newcastle University): Ethics and End-of-Life Care: An Ethnography of End-of-Life Care on Hospital Wards
Baroness Ilora Finlay (Professor of Palliative Medicine and member of the House of Lords): The Role of Legislation in End-of-Life Care
Respondent: Susan Watts
Closing Discussion