[ont.events] Conference on Professionals and Social Responsibility: Mar 16-18

rdickins@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Rob Dickinson) (03/16/88)

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 Professionals and Social Responsibility: Conflict or Congruence?
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             A conference at the University of Waterloo,
                 Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's College.

                          16-18 March 1988


Keynote address, Wed evening: Jack Stevenson, U of Toronto, Philosophy
                              author of Engineering Ethics: Practice 
                              and Principles (1987)



Thurs morning: "Ethical codes for the Professions"
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  Speakers: Mark Frankel (AAAS, USA), Stephen Unger (Columbia U., USA),
            Leonard Brooks (U of Toronto, Canada)

  Panel: "Ethical codes in practice"

          Chair:     Conrad Brunk (U. Waterloo, Canada)
          Panelists: Abbayann Lynch (Westminster Institute, London, Canada),
                     Arthur Schafer (U. Manitoba, Canada), 
                     Will Waluchow (McMaster U., Canada)


Thurs afternoon "Global Peace and Human Rights"
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   Speakers: Rose Sheinin ( U. Toronto), 
             Israel Halperin (Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars), 
             Anatol Rapaport (U. Toronto)
 
   Panel:    "Global Peace as a Professional Concern"

        Chair:     Tom Perry (CPPNW, Univ. of British Columbia)
        Panelists: Gilles D. Hurteau (Univ. of Ottawa)
                   Joanna Santa Barbara (McMaster Univ., Canada)
                   Setsuko Thurlow (Toronto Board of Education)


Friday "Activist Groups"
  Guest Speaker: Beth Savin ( U. Toronto) 
                 "Beyond Professional Ethics: Issues and Concerns"
  Speakers: Margaret Keating (Director of Nursing, Tor. Gen. Hospital)
            Diana Dick (Registered Nurses Assoc. of Ont.)
            Gary Chapman (Executive Director, CPSR, USA)
            Karen Messing (Universite' du Que'bec a` Montre'al)
            Michael Rachlis (Medical Reform Group of Ont.),
            Steve Shrybman (Can. Env. Law Assoc.), 
            Jeffrey Tyndall (Assoc. of Prof. Eng. of Ont.))
            Kelly Gotlieb (Univ. of Toronto , Comp. Sci.)
            Robin Cohen (Univ. of Waterloo , Comp. Sci.)

Conclusion / wrap-up:
            Willem Vanderburg (Univ. of Toronto, CTSD)


Registration:          $120 includes all sessions, Thurs banquet 
Special student price: $25 (banquet excluded)

for more information phone: 
   Centre for Society, Technology and Values (519) 885-1211, ext. 6215, 
   or St. Pauls College conference office:   (519) 885-1460