Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Events
EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION events 2023-24
The EDI events listed on this page are presented in collaboration with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre (JDHEC). This series of lunch-time talks on various topics will be added to this page as events are confirmed. To see the listing of upcoming events, and archived events, please visit the JDHEC page.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Ableism and the Tyranny of Autonomy
Thursday, April 25, 2024
12:00 - 13:00 MST
Register for Zoom
Speaker: Heidi Janz, PhD, Associate Adjunct Professor John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta
Description:
At the end of this Health Ethics Seminar, participants will be able to:
- Understand the link between ableism and the biomedical paradigm of disability.
- Recognize potential epistemic connections between the privileging of autonomy as the cardinal ethical principle governing medicine and the prevalence of ableism within the healthcare system.
- Apply a disability ethics lens, with a focus on relational autonomy, to the practices of medicine and bioethics in order to mitigate the harmful effects of an overemphasis on autonomy within a medical system that is plagued by ableism.
PAST EVENTS 2020-2023:
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are Fundamental Research Skills
Speaker: Shannon Ruzycki, MD, MPH, FRCPC
January 18, 2024
Transgender Bioethics and CRISPR Gene Editing
Speaker: Florence Ashley, BCL/JD, LLM (Bioeth), SJD
November 30, 2023
Pandemic Necropolitics: Vulnerability, Resilience, and the Crisis of
Marginalization in the Liberal Democratic State
Speaker: Ubaka Ogbogu, LLB, BL, LLM, SJD
November 02, 2023
Ethics, Autopsy & the Community
Speaker: Khaldoon Aljerian, MD, MHSc, FCAP, FRCPC
October 05, 2023
Advancing Positive Medical Student Academic Learning Environment to Enhance Student Well-Being
Speaker: Jackie Gruber, BA, MSc.
February 17, 2022
Moving toward anti-racism practice in medicine
Speakers: Natasha Johnson, MD and Kassia Johnson, MD
January 20, 2022
THE TIES THAT BIND: Law, Inequality and COVID-19 in the Caring Professions
Speaker: Irehobhude O. Iyioha, PhD
December 9, 2021
How Our Brain Sees Races
Speaker: Kunimasa Suzuki, PhD
November 25, 2021
BE POLITE: Why Bystander Interventions Matter
Speakers: Samina Ali & Debrah Wirtzfeld
October 14, 2021
SCIENTIFIC FRAGILITY AND ITS REMEDIES: Embolding Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society Research and Training
Speaker: Jessica Kolopenuk
September 23, 2021
Trauma-Informed Care in Medical Education and Clinical Practice: Creating Space for Courageous Conversations
Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Systems
Speaker: Wayne Clark(in)Tolerance & Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats & Microaggressions
Speaker: Onyenyechukwu Nnorom
April 15, 2021
Listening to Communities: A Grassroots Approach to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Migrant Communities
Speaker: Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika
February 18, 2021
FIGHTING for a HAND to HOLD: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada
Thoughts and Lessons on Anti-Racist Praxis in Diverse Professions and Organizations
Speaker: Yasmeen Abu-Laban
December 10, 2020
Social Determinants of Health and Racism: Health Disparities of Immigrant Children
Speakers: Dr. Bukola (Oladunni) Salami & Dr. Bonnieca Islam
November 12, 2020
Indigenization, Reconciliation, and Decolonization in Science
Speaker: Kim TallBear
October 8, 2020
2019
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Symposium
2018
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Symposium
2017
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Symposium