Layla Lavan - In Times of Pandemic Salon 2 - Through the Lens of Neuroethics

Please join us for the second iteration of our digital ethics and morality in times of pandemic salon series.

Sidewalk Citizen Bakery, in collaboration with the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary, has curated a weekly forty-five minute long conversation with philosophers, scholars and scientists addressing applied ethics questions arising from the pandemic.

The Salon will broadcast live every Wednesday at 7:00 PM (MT), starting May 6th. The event is free. You will be able to log on 15 minutes earlier at 6:45 PM. We will send you detailed instructions about how to access the live-stream on Zoom after you've RSVP'd. Each salon will require its own registration. 

Salon # 2 - Stopping and Restarting through the Lens of Neuroethics: Resilience, Fairness, Dignity, and Respect

Dr. Judy Illes in conversation with Christina Frangou

Wed. May 13, 7 p.m.

Judy Illes, CM, PhD / Bio
University of British Columbia (UBC)

Judy Illes is Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at UBC. She is Director of Neuroethics Canada, and faculty in the Centre for Brain Health and at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. She received her PhD in Hearing and Speech Sciences, and in Neuropsychology at Stanford University, and became one of the pioneers of the field of neuroethics formally established in early 2000. Dr. Illes’ research, teaching and outreach initiatives are devoted to ethical, legal, social and policy challenges at the intersection of the brain sciences and biomedical ethics. She has made groundbreaking contributions to neuroethical thinking for neuroscience discovery and clinical translation specifically in the areas of mental health, functional neuroimaging and neurosurgery,  brain development, and neurodegeneration, and more broadly to entrepreneurship and the commercialization of health care.Dr. Illes is Vice Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Vice Chair of the CIHR’s Internal Advisory Board of the Institute on Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction.  Her latest books, a series on Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics, features pain, global mental health, and do-it-yourself brain devices. She writes frequently for the Vancouver Sun and Canada’s The Conversation Canada, and hosts community outreach about challenging ethical problems involving biomedicine and the brain throughout BC and across the country.

Christina Frangou (Moderator) is a writer and journalist in Calgary, Alberta, who specializes in writing about health, medicine and social issues. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Maclean’s, Alberta Views, Reader's Digest and Chatelaine. She writes about topics like refugees, grief, loneliness and public health.