EACME Events Programme

EACME holds an annual conference in September. The conference is held in a different European city each year, hosted by one of our member centres.
EACME also organizes quarterly webinars organized by our member centers.

University of Warsaw – Center for Bioethics & Biolaw

2023 EACME CONFERENCE

WARSAW (POLAND),  14-16 SEPTEMBER 2023

Facing disruption. Challenges to Bioethics, Human Rights and Democracy.

In recent years, the world has experienced profound disruptions: the climate crisis, a pandemic, wars and armed conflicts, mass migrations, disinformation and fake news, as well as subversions of democracy. These phenomena call into question our commitments to such foundations of democratic societies as autonomy and equality, transparency, solidarity, fairness, and the rule of law. They also, and most importantly, cause disruptions in our thinking.

If democratic societies, which are founded on the belief in human dignity and rights, are to survive and thrive, they need the capacity to deal not only with the emergencies and crises of the surrounding world. Democratic societies must also be able to overcome disruptions in thinking. We need to be conceptually and normatively prepared for the challenges of our times and the future, which are posed by the development of new technologies, the climate crisis, global epidemics, war and armed conflicts, and assaults on human rights and democracy. Since bioethics – both as a field of research and as a practice of democratic societies – depends on commitment to human dignity and rights, these challenges also mean disruptions to bioethics.

The 2023 annual EACME Conference in Warsaw, Poland, will be a forum for reflection on these global and intersecting challenges to bioethics, human rights, and democracy. We would like to engage the participants in a debate on the central topics of our time that demand a reasoned, rigorous and open discussion.

THEMES AND SUBTHEMES

1. Pandemics and public health emergencies

a. Ethics in emergencies

b. Research ethics in emergencies

c. Ethics of resource allocations in times of global crises

d. Ethics in disaster preparedness and management

2. Humanitarian challenges

a. Ethics and “battlefield” medicine

b. Global health ethics

c. Ethics of(humanitarian)interventions

d. Engaging and/or involving stakeholders

3. Data driven technologies

a. Ethics of AI and digital health data

b. Ethics of healthcare robotics

c. Neurotechnology and neuroethics

d. GenEthics in clinical care and research

4. The climate crisis and the future of humanity

a. Environmental justice

b. Ethics of sustainable development

c. Intergenerational justice

d. Precautionary principle

2022 EACME CONFERENCE

VARESE (ITALY), 15-17 SEPTEMBER 2022

 “ENHANCING DIALOGUE TOBRIDGE THE GAPS IN BIOETHICS”

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The 2022 Annual Conference of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will be held at the University of Insubria in Varese (Italy).

Fifty years after the publication of the well-known 1971 book Bioethics: Bridge to the Future by Van Rensselaer Potter, and the foundation of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, the main aim of the 38th EACME Annual Conference in Varese (Italy) is to reflect upon the theme of dialogue as a bridge to overriding gaps in bioethics. Such gaps are even more evident after the Covid-19 pandemic. The emergency has underlined the great need for bioethical reflections, yet at the same time it has highlighted how difficult it is for bioethicists to significantly affect the public debate. In other words, bioethics has not been as effective as we would have liked. These aspects prompt us to reflect on the very roots of our field, facing both old and new challenges. We have singled out four main topics:

Topics include the following 4 themes:

DATES AND DEADLINES

Abstract Proposals: May 2nd, 2022.
Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2022.

EACME invites applications of junior scholars for the EACME prize.

Conference website: https//eacme2022.it

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