IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics, 777 UN Plaza, New York City
Bioethics: a humanist Approach
Global Ethical Implications of Biotech Advances

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Friday: April 22
9:00-10:00 am Registration
10:00-10:30 am Welcome and introductory remarks - Levi Fragell, Chair, IHEU Committee for Growth and Development and Ana Lita,Director, IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics
10:30-11:15 am Ethics, Cloning and the World of 2005 - Glenn McGee, Conference Chairman
11:15-12:00 pm Think Tanks, Bioethics, and Public Policy: Who is weighing in and why? - Kathryn Hinsch
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch Break  
1:30-2:15 pm The Stem Cell Wars - Bernard Siegel
2:15-3:00 pm The health and societal hazards of human biotechnologies - Stuart A. Newman
3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break  
3:15-4:00 pm Transhumanism, Biopolitics and the New Rights Paradigm - James Hughes
4:00-4:30 pm A documentary film: Are you a Transhuman?
4:30-5:00 pm The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate and the Commodification of Women: Parallels between the morality of abortion and embryonic stemcell research - Marin Gillis
5:00-5:15 pm Coffee Break  
5:15-6:00 pm Life extension, human rights, and the rational refinement of repugnance - Aubrey de Grey

SOCIAL EVENT AND CENTER LAUNCH
6:30 pm Cash Bar UN Millennium Plaza Hotel
7:30 pm Dinner Party, the Ambassador Grill, UN Millennium Plaza Hotel ($40 per each person)
Our featured speaker at the Dinner Party is Mr Louis Appignani.

Saturday: April 23  
9:00-9:30 am Bioethics and Religion - Is there a role for faith-based absolutes? - Robert Buckman
9:30-10:00 am The Art of Man - Babu Gogineni
10:00-10:30 am The Bioethics of Information: Intellectual Property and Global Science - Austin Dacey
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break  
11:00-11:30 am Still Forgetting Women: Genetic Information, Moral Obligations, and Gender - Inmaculada de Melo-Martà­n
11:30-12:00 pm Markets in Human Organs and the Ethics of Inducements - James Taylor
12:00-12:30 pm Defining Success: Assessing the Feasibility of Pig-to-Human Transplantation - Ololade Olakanmi
12:30-01:00 pm Ethical Aspects of Engineering Prolongevity - Peter Derkx
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch Break  
2:00-2:30 pm Suicide or Euthanasia: The final option? - Manuel A. Paz-y-Miño
2:30-3.00 pm Final Remarks - Robert Buckman and Babu Gogineni