Past events
22 May 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
At the interface between academic bioethics and clinical practice
Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin
05 April 2018
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Hot Health | The End of Life Choice Bill: Potential Implications for Healthcare Practitioners
Barnett Lecture Theatre,1st Floor Dunedin Hospital
17 April 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Health Equity and the Role of Rights
Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin.
08 May 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Moral Economy of Market-Driven vs Government-Funded Healthcare
Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin.
01 May 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Pharmacists’ views on the logistics and ethics of supplying tobacco as an endgame initiative
29 May 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The Moral Contours of University Redundancies
Online and in person:Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin.
24 April 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making
Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin
01 September 2017
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Public lectures on animal research
Red Lecture theatre
09 May 2017
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Screening of Human Harvest
Dunedin Dental School, Blue Lecture Theatre, Corner of Frederick Street and Great King Street.
11 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Religious input in the debate on embryo research in New Zealand
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street) Dunedin. Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington Campus.
02 March 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Getting your DNA tested
Bioethics Centre Seminar RoomRoom 206, Level 2Otago Business School
23 July 2018
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Consent to Posthumous Reproduction
31 July 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Well-being and Being
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street) Dunedin. Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington campus.
18 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar |"Caught napping”: New Zealand’s response to the 1967 UK Abortion Act
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Dunedin. Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington campus.
16 October 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Anti-obesity policy and distributive ethics
Bioethics Centre Seminar Room, First Floor, 71 Frederick Street. Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington Campus.
08 May 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Whose justice for whom and how? A hermeneutic exploration of Confucian 義 “Righteousness"
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street), Dunedin. Also video linked Wellington and Christchurch Campus.
04 July 2012
8:30pm to 10:00pm
Do Our Genes Justify Our Behaviour?
Staff Club
21 November – 23 November 2019
Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference
St David Lecture Theatre, University of Otago
15 May 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: From the margins to mainstream: how autologous stem cell treatments are legitimised in Australia.
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street) Dunedin. Also video linked to UOW and UOC campus.
06 December 2021
1:00pm to 1:50pm
Special Bioethics seminar: Conscientious objection in the new abortion law
Online via Zoom
13 May 2014
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Protecting the Public? An Analysis of Complaints and Disciplinary Proceedings against Doctors in Australia and New Zealand
Moot Court, 10th Floor Richardson Buildin
26 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar | Ethical challenges in learning healthcare systems
Bioethics Seminar Room, 71 Frederick Street
05 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar | Eugenic sterilisation in New Zealand: The Mental Defectives Amendment Act of 1928
Bioethics Seminar Room, 71 Frederick Street
03 June 2014
8:50am to 12:00pm
The New Zealand Bill of Rights: Continuing the Conversation
The Old Legislative Council Chamber, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
20 August 2018
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Mike King - Animal Welfare Law in NZ: Are we doing it right?
Bioethics Centre71 Frederick StreetDunedin CentralDunedin
21 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar | Beyond safety: Ethical issues in gene editing
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street. Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington Campus.
07 August 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Hard capacity cases - an English perspective and a plea for help
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street) Dunedin. Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington.
27 March 2023
1:00pm to 1:50pm
What does Borderline Personality Disorder tell us about the ethics of consent?
Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin
16 April 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Transgender women’s participation in sport
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington.
18 February 2021
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Paediatric Seminar - All deaths are not equal: The Ethics of Counting Deaths during COVID-19
Seminar room 2, 3rd floor Children's Pavilion, Dunedin Hospitalor zoom https://otago.zoom.us/j/1469, Dunedin
23 April 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar | Will the duty of candour in healthcare work?
Bioethics Seminar Room, 71 Frederick Street
17 March 2015
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Advocacy to Expand Autonomy at the End of Life in the US: Evolving Law, Medicine and Policy
Moot Court, Level 10, Richardson Building
04 August 2013
12:00pm to 4:00pm
4th Australia-New Zealand Roundtable on Genomics
Queenstown
15 August 2013
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Biculturalism, multiculturalism and interculturalism: theological reflections on justice and cultural diversity
13 August 2018
1:00am to 2:30am
The relevance of complexity theory to Bioethics
Bioethics Seminar Room71 Frederick StreetDunedin CentralDunedin
15 August 2013
6:00pm to 7:00pm
2013 Winter Lecture Series - Saviour Siblings and Criminal Genes: Law and technology in the 21st century
Auckland Centre, Level 4, University of Otago House, 385 Queen Street, Auckland
09 March 2020
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Exploring moral life in the anthropocene - Susan Wardell
Bioethics Centre Seminar RoomRoom 206, Level 2Otago Business School
28 August 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Contemporary challenges in dementia care
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington Campus.
17 October 2013
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Interested in the Role of the Coroner?
Visitors' Office, 9th Floor Richardson Building
16 March 2015
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Global Animal Law & New Project
Archway 2
08 April 2019
1:00pm to 1:50pm
The death of a human soul
Level 2, Room 206Otago Business School60 Clyde StreetUniversity of Otago
12 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: High-stakes decision making for young children–An approach to parental refusals of treatment
Bioethics Seminar Room, 71 Frederick Street
23 August 2017
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Professor Jing-Bao Nie's Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Reclaiming a sense of common humanity: A Chinese vision
Room G1071 Frederick StreetDunedin(entrance off car park on Malcolm Street)
21 February 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
The Urgent Need for Psychedelic Ethics - Public Lecture
G30, Hunter Centre, 279 Great King Street, Dunedin North, Dunedin
25 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Challenging the role of conscientious objection in medicine
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Also video-linked to Christchurch and Wellington campus.
21 August 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: How should we constrain physicians’ discretionary space to ensure good medicine?
Bioethics Centre Seminar Room, First Floor, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Also video-linked Wellington and Christchurch Campus.
19 February 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar | Public deliberation on mandatory childhood vaccination policy
Bioethics Seminar Room, 71 Frederick Street
03 April 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Rhythms of Life, Brain Damage, and the Recovery of a Self
Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Floor 1, Dunedin
14 October 2019
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics, Retrospect and Prospect
Bioethics Seminar Room - Room 206Otago Business School, Level 260 Clyde Street
28 May 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar - Profiting from the sale of bodies and body parts: The world of body brokers.
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street).
04 September 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Echoes and replies
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington.
01 October 2014
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Nga Wai Whakaata O Hine-Kauorohia: The Reflecting Waters of Hine Kauorohia
Archway 2 Lecture Theatre
06 August 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Emily Keddell - Predictive risk tools in child welfare
Bioethics Centre71 Frederick StreetDunedin CentralDunedin
11 October 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: How the Philosophy gets in
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Also video-linked Christchurch and Wellington Campus.
04 October 2021
1:00pm to 1:50pm
The Strange History of Head Transplants (and what it tells us about medical ethics)
Bioethics Seminar Room (Room 119), Bioethics Centre, Bioethics Centre, Level 1, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin
19 March 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar | Rural nursing: Engaging with the benefits and challenges of the rural setting for sustainable workforce development
Bioethics Seminar Room, 71 Frederick Street
12 October 2015
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Do all legal rules that rely on the concept of mental incapacity deny people with disabilities ‘equal recognition before the law’?
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Dunedin. Also video linked: To secure the booking for this seminar video link in Christchurch and Wellington, please register your name for attendance: Wellington School of Medicine Room D31 Contact: Videoconferencing University of Otago Wellington videoconf.uow@otago.ac.nz . University of Otago Christchurch Room 7.11 Contact: Dean Pester: dean.pester@otago.ac.nz. Please note: if there is no registration (for northern campuses) by the Thursday prior to the advertised seminar, the booking for that campus venue will be cancelled. Dunedin attendees do not need to register.
19 February 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Public deliberation on mandatory childhood vaccination policy
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). (Also video-linked to ChCh and WGTN campus).
30 July 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Clare Delany: What kinds of cases do paediatric clinicians refer to clinical ethics
Bioethics Centre71 Frederick StreetDunedin CentralDunedin
16 July 2018
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
05 August – 09 August 2013
11:00am to 5:00pm
Student Animal Legal Defence Fund - Animal Law Week
University Campus
22 August 2016
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: To Die for One’s Country – the Japanese Way
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street) . Also video linked: To secure the booking for this seminar video link in Christchurch and Wellington, please register your name for attendance: Wellington School of Medicine Room D31 Contact: Videoconferencing University of Otago Wellington videoconf.uow@otago.ac.nz . University of Otago Christchurch Room 7.11 Contact: Dean Pester: dean.pester@otago.ac.nz .Please note: if there is no registration (for northern campuses) by the Thursday prior to the advertised seminar, the booking for that campus venue will be cancelled. Dunedin attendees do not need to register.
02 October 2017
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Bioethics Seminar: Coping with death
Bioethics Seminar Room, Level one, 71 Frederick Street (entry on Frederick Street). Also video-linked Wellington and Christchurch campus.
10 July 2023
1:00pm to 1:50pm
Bioethics Seminar: Should BMI be used in the clinical setting?
Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin