The Crosley Lecture
The Crosley Lecture in Ethics has been given since 1984. The purpose of the lecture series is to bring distinguished scholars to the University of New England to address ethical issues in contemporary life. The lecture is an annual endowed lecture created to honor the Rev. Marion Crosley and his wife, Mehitable Adelia Swift Crosley.
The Lectures
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Anita L. Allen, J.D., Ph.D.
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania
"Is Privacy Worth Saving?"
4:30 PM, Pharmacy Building, Room 024, Portland Campus
Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for her scholarship about legal philosophy, womens rights, and race relations.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Martha J. Farah, Ph.D.
Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of Penn’s Center for Neuroscience and Society
"Neuroscience in Everyday Life: The Ethical Challenges"
4:30 PM, Pharmacy Building, Room 28, Portland Campus
Neuroscience is increasingly being applied in everyday life, from the courtroom to the classroom to the battlefield and to the marketplace. Brain imaging technologies, as well as methods of changing brains, present new ethical challenges and require us to re-think our understanding of ourselves.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Erik Parens, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scholar, The Hastings Center
"The Ethics of Treating Children with Psychotropic Drugs"
4:30 PM, Ludcke Auditorium, Portland Campus
In his work at The Hastings Center, Dr. Parens investigates how we use new technologies to shape our selves and how emerging science shapes our self-understanding.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ph.D.
O’Neill Family Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy, at the University of Notre Dame
"Pollution Threats to Children: Why Are We Responsible and What to Do About It"
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Ludcke Auditorium, Portland Campus
In 2004 Shrader-Frechette became only the third American to win the World Technology Award in Ethics. She won for her work in public-health and environmental ethics. In 2007, Catholic Digest named her one of 12 “Heroes for the US and the World” because of her pro-bono environmental justice work with minority and poor communities.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Walter Glannon, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory at the University of Calgary
"Neuroethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intervening in the Brain"
4:30 PM, Ludcke Auditorium, Portland Campus
Walter Glannon is Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory at the University of Calgary, where he is associate professor of philosophy and associate professor of community health sciences. Previously, he was assistant professor in the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia and clinical ethicist at the Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia. Before that, he was assistant professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University and clinical ethicist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
Friday, March 30, 2007
William R. LaFleur, Ph.D.
Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
"Bodies Owned, Disowned and Desired: Japan's Debates about Bioethics"
4:30 PM, Ludcke Auditorium, Portland Campus
Author of The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan (1986) and Liquid Life (1992), a widely-cited book on the differing perspectives of Japan and the U.S. on abortion, Dr. LaFleur is an E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota
"American Medicine Meets the American Dream"
4:30 PM, Ludcke Auditorium, Portland Campus
Carl Elliott has written widely on ethical issues, including his most recent book Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (2203) and for high-profile publications such as Atlantic Monthly. In 2004, he was co-editor of Prozac as a Way of Life. He is professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He also teaches in the school’s medical school and philosophy department.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H.
Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health
"Genetics, Bioethics and Human Rights: Privacy, Property and the Post Human"
4:30 PM, Ludcke Auditorium, Portland Campus
Professor Annas is author of American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law. A philosopher, scholar and author, Professor Annas has written 13 books and a play, and since 1991, written a regular feature on legal issues in medicine for the New England Journal of Medicine. He is ranked as the nation's most cited law professor in the field of health law.
The Rev. Marion Crosley and
Mehitable Adelia Swift Crosley
The UNE Crosley Lecture is an annual endowed lecture created to honor the Rev. Marion Crosley and his wife, Mehitable Adelia Swift Crosley. The Rev. Crosley was a Universalist minister who lived in Portland from 1885 to 1889 and served on the board of the Westbrook Seminary, which later became Westbrook College, which merged with the University of New England in 1996.
Over the past 20 years, the Crosley Lecture Series has stimulated students, faculty and other members of the Maine community to think about topics in ethics such as a world-wide ethical system, corporate conscience, genetic engineering, patients' rights and physician-assisted suicide.