International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Disability

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Martin Niemoeller(1892-1984)

Short Bio

 

My name is Gregor Wolbring. I am a ability governance researcher, a health researcher, a vari-ability//ability/disability studies scholar, a governance of science and technology researcher, a bioethicist and a biochemist.

Key Interests: Ability and ableism ethics and governance; History of thalidomide and thalidomiders; Disability Studies; Social, ethical, legal, economic, environmental, cultural and governance issues of new, emerging and converging sciences and technologies (S&T) such as nanoscale S&T (feed, food, water…), molecular manufacturing, aging, longevity and immortality research, cognitive sciences, neuromorphic engineering, genetics, synthetic biology, bodily enhancement S&T, in vitro meat, artificial intelligence and robotics; Impact of S&T on: marginalized populations especially disabled people; Sports; human security, human right, personhood, sentient rights; concept of disability impairment, ableism and transhumanism; models and determinants of health; global health, tele-health, health- (technology assessment, law, care and policies); medical anthropology; foresight studies, history, bioethics issues, biochemistry, role of different stakeholders and evaluation of existing S&T discourses.

(full CV here). If you have any questions please contact me by e-mail

The Choice is Yours my biweekly column

My blog on new and emerging technologies

A blog to which I also contribute called What Sorts of People

Academic Appointments

1. Adjunct Faculty, Critical Disability Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
2. Tenure track Assistant Professor  appointment with the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Community Health Sciences,  Program of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (CRDS) 2008-
3. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Dept. of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, University of Calgary, Canada 1999-2008 (replaced by the tenure track position)
4. Adjunct Assistant Professor, John Dossetor Health Ethic Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2002-2005
5. Founding Member and Affiliated Scholar, Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, USA 2005-
6. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Community Health,  Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary 2005-2008 (replaced by the tenure track position)
7. Part Time Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, Sept 2007-

 

Affiliation (a selection)

• Member: Review Board of the Journal, Review in Disability Studies
• Member, International Editorial Advisory Board, Journal: Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology
• Member, Advisory Board of the Program in Human Rights and Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis USA 2007-
• Member International Program Committee IASTED International Conference on Nanotechnology and Applications (NANA 2008)
• PACT senior research consultant for the Science & Technology Foresight directorate of the Office of the National Science Advisor, Government of Canada
• Chair of the foresight taskforce of the International Disability Caucus in regards to the UN Convention of the rights of persons with disabilities
• Member of the Canadian Node of the UN Millenium Project
• Contributor to the Emerging Environmental Security Issues Monthly Report a project of the UN Millenium Project for the Army Environmental Policy Institute
• Partner Conley International 2006-
• Senior Fellow Oakland Institute, USA 2006-
• Member Advisory committee World Report on Disabled people and Rehabilitation to be written by the World Health Organisation Disability Unit 2006-
• Co-editor of a special issue on Science and Technology for Development of the journal Development by the Society for International Development (SID)
• Member DALY Committee of Disabled People International (2006 work finished)
• Member CAC/ISO - Canadian Advisory Committees for the International  Organization for Standardization  section TC229 Nanotechnologies Scope is the Standardization in the field of nanotechnologies....
• Member of the stirring committee of the International Network on disability health research launched 12th Sept 2005 in Mumbai, India
• Member, International Nanotechnology and Society Network 2005-
• Project Advisor for a research study titled, "Clinical Versus Experiential Views of Genetic Disability." This research is being funded by the National Institutes of Health through the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues program of the National Human Genome Research Institute (1 R01 HG 2422-01A2). Carol Gill Principal Investigator Associate Professor, Department of Disability & Human Development Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. Program in Disability Studies University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626) . The Co-Investigators are: Adrienne Asch, Ph.D., Wellesley College; Kristi Kirschner, MD, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University; Kelly Ormond, Northwestern University
• Member of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research
• Member of the Editor team of the Nanotechnology for Development portal of the Development Gateway Foundation an independent not-for-profit organization. It was conceived by World Bank President James Wolfensohn and initially developed in the World Bank. 2005
• Special editor for the NBIC and health issue of the World Council of Churches magazine 'Contact' 2005
• Chair: Bioethics taskforce of Disabled People's International 2004-
• Member of the genetic technology advisory committee of the World Council of Churches 2004-
• Member of the Nano-health and Nano-ethics initiative of Canada 2003-
• Member of the Foothills Hospital Ethics Committee Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2003-
• Member of the advisory body of CNICE:CNICE: Canadian Network for Inclusive Cultural Exchange 2003-
• Member of the Executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO2003-
• Member of the sectorial committee on Natural and Social Science of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO 2003-
• Member of the board of ETC- Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration- formely known as RAFI 2002-
• Founding member of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment/ 2002-
• Member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO 2002-
• Member of the Ethics Working group of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO2001-
• Vice President of the Canadian Center on Disability Studies1999-2004 maximum term
• Board of Director of the The Edmonds Institute, USA1999-
• Advisor to the New Media Institute at the Banff Centre of the Art Canada
• Founder and Moderator of the Listserve on Bioethics and disability 1999-
• Member of the board of directors of The Alberta Provincial Health Ethics Network Canada 1999-2005 maximum terms
• Member of the Canadian Delegation for the UNESCO and ICSU organizedWorld Conference on Science in Budapest (July 1999)
• Member, Human Rights committee of theCouncil of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), Canada and Bioethic advisor to the CCD 1996-
• Research Associate of the Developmental Disabilities Center and the Disability and Abuse Center at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
• Peer reviewer for the U. S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services-National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
• Chairperson of the thalidomide victim health research project at the University of Calgary (work beendet result see in articles by me section)
• Scientific advisor (related to the biochemistry of thalidomide) of the Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada 1994-
• Cofounder of Unith the World Federation of Thalidomiders
• Member of the disability policy committee of the Faculty of Medicine, U of Calgary (dismantled)

Teaching and Courses developed 2005-

Courses taught for Dept. of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, University of Calgary

• Bioethics and people with disabilities undergraduate and graduate course
• Emerging technologies (Nano, bio, info, cogno, synbio), concept of health,disease, disability and wellbeing, governance of science, technology and health research and marginalized groups" undergraduate and graduate course
• History of Disability Service Organizations

Course developed and taught for Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

CML 4104D – Studies in Public Law: Emerging Sciences and Technologies: Legal, Ethics, Governance and Policy Discourse  (3 credits)

Lectures and Activities 2009

1. Wolbring (2009) January 14-16 ASU, USA
2. Wolbring (2009) Feb 12 Ethics Round “Ableism and Ability Ethics and Governance: From Enhancement Medicine to Enhancement Rehabilitation” Alberta Health Services,and University of Calgary
3. Wolbring (2009) Feb 21 'Emerging sciences and technologies, transhumanism and rehabilitation identity', National Council of Rehabilitation Educators NCRE Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX
4. Wolbring (2009) March 6-7 History of medicine Conference, Calgary
5. Wolbring (2009) March 20  Emerging Sciences and Technologies and Social Concepts and the Field of Rehabilitation at  Leaders in Rehabilitation: The Rehabilitation of Function, The Function of Rehabilitation conference Edmonton, Canada
6. Wolbring (2009) April 04 Artificial/Genetic Enhancement, MDSC 308, University of Calgary, Fculty of Medicine, , Stan Godlovitch class, BHSc
7. Wolbring (2009) April 11 “Human Beings—Sentient Beings: Species Typical, Sub-typical, and Beyond Typical” at American Philosophical Association  Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia
8. Wolbring (2009) April 14 Helen Gardiner class Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada  
9. Wolbring (2009) April 13 Pat Winters ethics class University of Calgary, Canada
10. Wolbring (2009) May 7-9 AGM of Canadian Commission for UNESCO and meeting of the sectoral committee meeting
11. Wolbring (2009) May 4 Meeting in Edmonton of the What sorts of People group
12. Wolbring (May 11) Inaugural Conference of the School for Public Policy University of Calgary
13. Wolbring (2009) May 24 Science and technology, disabled people and the meaning and space of country at Canadian Disability Studies association National Conference
14. Wolbring (2009) May 29 Alberta Ingenuity workshop os synthetic biology in Calgary
15. Wolbring (2009) Ableism, Transhumanism and the transhumanization of Ableism: The Future has started today?, European Science Foundation-LiU Conference, Linköping, Sweden , 2009 October
    
16. Wolbring (2009) Ethical dimensions of enhancement, Gregor Wolbring;Marcus Düwell, Research School for Practical Philosophy, Utrecht, Netherlands; Judit Sandor Central European University Budapest , European Science Foundation LiU Conference Linköping, Sweden , Katrin Grüber , IMEW, GE; Ursula Naue, LSG,
    
    

Lectures and Activities 2008

1. January 9th, Lecture at the Disability Studies Retreat University of Minneapolis, USA Title: Why bother with Disability Studies
2. January 22-24 CIHR Invitational Workshop on NELSI Nanotechnology
3. January 22 invited Lecture in Puerto Rico at the university through Skype had to decline due to other engagement
4. February 26-28 Presentation for Ecuadorian Constitution Commission related to the paper I wrote for them (Had to decline flying there due to Edmonton meeting. Paper available upon request).
5. February 26 Keynote speaker at the retreat of Alberta Health and Wellness at which the life science section was unvailed)
6. February 27-28 Talks and presentations at Alberta Health and Wellness with different people on different aspects of new and emerging technologies
7. March 3 Arizona State University USATalk to James Wetmore class
8. March 3rd March 3 Arizona State University USA to Bioethics group of Jason Roberts
9. March 3 Arizona State University USA InnovationSpace engineering and design students from Prasad Boradkar
10. March 4 March 3 Arizona State University USA talk to the math and cognition seminar series http://math.la.asu.edu/~tom/cognition/cognition.html
11. March 4 Arizona State University USATalk to Sean Hays class
12. March 31st Calgary Pistorius: And Now?The Paralympics, the Olympics and Human Enhancement Technology, University of Calgary
13. April 14th, Washington DC, Bioethics Issues of Synthetic Biology
14. April 19 Calgary about back to work with an impairment/change in body functioning
15. April 23-25 Arizona State University USA
16. April 29th Calgary Genome Canada talk on synthetic biology
17. May 3rd Talk to highschool kids on new and emerging technologies
18. May 3rd Talk with teachers about the consequences for them
19. May 12 Skype talk What Sorts of People
20. May 27-28 Baltimore USA Tech 2025 event invited by National Security Agency, Signals Intelligence Directorate
21. June 3Calgary, Jewish Family Service Calgary on Disability Awareness/Culture
22. June 11 Phone lecture to Ottawa class of Marc Saner Director of Research, Regulatory Governance School of Public Policy and Administration Carleton University
23. June 12 Meeting in Edmonton of the What sorts of People group
24. June 13 Keynote speaker Alberta Health and Wellness Telehealth Unit Clinical Forum 2008 http://www.albertatelehealth.com/content.asp?category_id=87&root_id=87
25. July 9th Calgary Canada Shad Valley talk by my students who make up the Calgary iGEM Ethics team
26. July 14th Calgary Canada Shad Valley talk
27. July 29th Faculty of Medicine HYRS event
28. August 17-21 Gordon Conference SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY POLICY Governing Emerging TechnologiesUSA Title: "The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Governance of Abilities and Able-ism"
29. Sept 8-9 Washington DC, USA NSF workshop on concerging science and technologies and sustainable development
30. Sept 18-19 Bruessels, Belgien European Workingroup on enhancement
31. Sept. 21-26 Darmstadt Germany, Faculty at the Summer school on Ethics (and politics and metaphysics) of Converging Technologies
32. October 17 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame/Pfizer Canada Discovery Day in Health Sciences University of Calgary talk on NBICS and health research
33. October 24 What Sorts of People meeting, Edmonton
34. Oct 27-Arizona State University10:00am – 11:45am – Nano and the Brain Project – Life Sciences E wing, room B52; 12:00 – 1:30pm – CET lunch – Memorial Union, Santa Cruz, #229 ; 2:00pm-3:00pm - Honours science and technology class CSPO conference room ; 3:05pm – 3:55pm – ASB 394 - Technology & Society class – College of Design North, Rm 68
35. Oct 28-Arizona State University 10:30am-11:45am - WSH 470 Women and Popular Culture in Discovery Hall 350; 12:00 – 1:30pm – Lunch with biological Design PhD students; 3:00pm – 4:15pm – CHM 501 - Science Policy for Scientists & Engineers – Interdisciplinary A, Room 111 ; 6:30pm – 8:00pm – Panel discussion with Jason Robert – Memorial Union, Ventana C Dean’s invitation
36. Oct 29-Arizona State University 10am – 11am – Meeting with Human and Social Dimensions of Science & Technology PhD Students – CSPO conference room; 1:30pm -2:45pm - Bioethics Club; 4:30pm-5:30pm- Neural Transhumanism: Technological challenges and ethical implications of neural engineering class;
37. Oct 31-2nd Nov Nanoethics meeting in Denmark (have been accepted with abstract but cancelled due to time problemsbut full paper was accepted)
38. Nov 7-8 MIT, Boston USA IGEM Jamboree: The E3LS issues of synthetic biology: Work done by three of my students Sibat Khwaja, Niklas Bobrovitz, Daniela Navia at iGEM 2008 http://2008.igem.org/Team:Calgary_Ethics
39. Nov 21-23 Arizona State University Workshop on social justice and new and emerging science and technology
40. Nov 24-30 Monpellier France
41. December 3rd United Way, Calgary

Lectures and Activities 2007

1. January 14 Lecture at University of Calgary block course an social imagery
2. January 15 Ottawa Canadian Commission for UNESCO meeting
3. January 17 Lecture in Puerto Rico at the university through Skype
4. February 17 Talk at the Lets talk Sciences regional meeting
5. February 26 guest lecture at Carla Hamarsnes class Uof Calgary
6. March 15-17 Canadian Commission for UNESCO AGM Ottawa
7. April 11 Cafe Scientifique Coordinator Bell Museum of Natural History Minneapolis Topic: Nanomedicine to Synthetic biology: What does it mean to be healthy?
8. April 12 Lecture at the University of Minneapolis on From Nanotechnology to Synthetic biology Where do we go and what are the implications?
9. April 13 Lecture at the University of Minneapolis on UN Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities
10. April 13 Meeting with Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie discussing new and emerging technologies
11. April 17-19 was invited to be part of a national consensus conference on a new genetic testing technology in Edmonton, Alberta http://policynut.usask.ca/consensus%20conference.htm Had to decline due to engagement in Arizona 
12. April18-21 Arizona state University USA Talk on Ableism and nanocale sciences
13. April 21 invited to speak about Biobanks by Mike Burgess University of British Columbia, had to decline due to Arizona engagement
14. April 27-28 conference in Edmonton Canada Eugenics and Sterilization in Alberta: 35 Years Later Preconference workshop Talk on Ability Studies and nanoscale sciences
15. May 14-17 speaker at Converging technology meeting Vienna. Austria What Convergence is in the Cards for Future Scientists?
16. May 20 Speaker at National Down Syndrome Society annual conference *Emerging Technology and their impact on people with Down Syndrome//* From Stem cells to Nanotechnology to synthetic biology: What is in stock for health sciences and research and disabled people?
17. July 11 Presentation to Shad Valley students
18. July 26 Minneapolis Talk at IATP on "From Nano to synthetic biology" Food, Forestry and Agriculture
19. July 26 Meeting members of the Advisory Board of the Program in Human Rights and Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis of which I am a member
20. July 26-29 Minneapolis UN Millenium Project Planning Comittee meeting
    
21. August 15 AHFMR lecture at UofC to high school kids and teachers Title: "From Nanotechnology to Synthetic Biology: Cool Science, Cool Products and Potentially Not So Cool Side Effects"
22. September 5-12 Korea had to canel due to illness
23. Sept 21-23 Conference speaker Edmonton, Alberta Canada Understanding Human Variation
24. Sept 24 Talk in Calgary Alberta, Canada New and emerging Science and technologies (from Nano to synthetic biology): Impact on Ableism, Transhumanism, Health and Disabled People/Persons
25. Sep 24 Phone Chat with students of Arizona State University, USA on Nanotechnology Products for Disabled People
26. Oct 3-5 El Salvador (had to cancel due to illness
27. October 12 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame/Pfizer Canada Discovery Day in Health Sciences University of Calgary talk on NBICS and health research
28. October 16 Speaker at Retreat of the Pharmaceuticals and Life Science Section of Alberta Health and Wellness
29. October 25-28 "The Revealed I" A conference on privacy and identity www.idtrail.org Faculty of Law, Ottawa, Canada on the panel invisibleI Marginalized persons long for one kind of privacy (freedom from unwanted surveillance) while suffering under another kind (a conspiracy of neglect).  This panel will investigate both aspects and include representatives of and advocates for some of Canada’s most vulnerable populations. My talk title very likely "Who decides who has a right to what cultural identity?"
30. November 15-17 Conference Uof Calgary
31. Nov 20 Lecture at "Leading Policy course at the Canada School of Public Service, Ottawa,Canada
32. Nov 25 L'Oreal Women in Science Gala Ottawa
33. Nov 26 Sectoral meeting Canadian Commission for UNESCO
34. Dec 3-6 presentations in Johannisburg, South Africa

Lectures and Activities 2006

1. 16-18 January Ottawa meetings
2. 23 January guest lecture at University of Calgary
3. 10-23 February Porto Alegre, Brazil,, 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches
4. 23-25 February Sao Paulo some talks to disability groups
5. 6 March Lecture at bioethics week Foothills Hospital Calgary Canada
6. 13 March Oxford, UK, NGO talk
7. 14-17 March University of Oxford, UK Conference speaker http://www.martininstitute.ox.ac.uk/JMI/Forum2006/Tomorrows+People.htm
8. 18 March, Oxford UK Meeting of the Nanotechnology and Society network
9. 19-22 March, London, UK some meetings
10. April 3/4th, Ottawa, Canada 2006 CCOHTA Invitational Symposium Title Enhancement Medicine, Emerging technologies (Nano, Bio, Info, Cogno) and the Concept of Health: A New Challenge for HTA, Health Research, and Health Policy http://www.ccohta.ca/symposium/CCOHTA_Symposium_Program.html
11. April 28th Lecture at University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine Title: Enhancement Medicine: The final frontier
12. May 10-13 Canadian Commission for UNESCO meetings
13. May 21-23 Arizona State University,Science, Policy & Social Inequity Workshop http://www.cspo.org/home/events/inequityworkshoppapers.htm
14. May 24th some Nano presentations at Arizona State University
15. May 31, Resource person for the WorldBank online discussion on Natural Disaster and disabled people day 3 science and technology application
16. June 17-21 Meetings in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17. June 30th Webtalk with UK conference
18. July 7th Webtalk with University of Darmstadt Germany
19. July 14th Shad Valley talk Calgary Canada
20. July 26 presentation at the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland
21. July 27-29 Advisory team World report on Disability and Rehabilitation meeting, WHO,Geneva, Switzerland Talk see article section on this webpage
22. August 9-10th Chicago USA Nanotech meeting Talk on "Nanoregulation, for whom, by whom, for what"
23. Sept 7 Talk Uof Calgary Canada Prof. Edna Einsiedel class on Nano risk perception
24. Sept 20 Brave New World: The enhancement of humans and implications on society at What Next Forum Uppsalla
    
25. September 22, Stockholm Talk to the Swedish Health Technology Assessment Council
26. September 23-24 more meetings in Uppsalla Sweden
27. October 12th Canadian Medical Hall of Fame/Pfizer Canada Discovery Day in Health Sciences University of Calgary talk on NBICS and health research
28. October 12th Canadian Medical Hall of Fame/Pfizer Canada Discovery Day in Health Sciences University of Calgary part of the Bioethics of stem cell workshop
29. Oct. 24 Lecture to CORE Students University of Calgay Guestlecture in Prof. Hovey class
30. October 30-31, Invited by the Office of the Chief Scientist and the Science Forum Organizing Committee to speak at the Annual Health Canada Science Forum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
31. Nov 14. University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law Torys Speakers Series. Title: Emerging science and technology law and ethics Podcast and slides
32. Nov. 14 University of Ottawa Social justive group talk Title: Emerging science and technology and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
33. Nov 16 Ottawa Canadian Commission for UNESCO meeting
34. Nov 24 Lecture on NBICS and the UN-Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: Two fields impacting on Educators, Education and Students for the Ministry of Education of the Korean Government
35. Nov. 25 South Korea talk/workshop at Graduate School Seoul, Forum for the Study of Life, Conversation on Bioethics
36. Nov. 25 South Korea conversation on bioethics with members of association of Christan Young Medical Doctors and Nurses.
37. Nov 26 South Korea Heart to Heart TV show
38. Nov. 28 South Korea talk/workshop at Daegu University, South Korea
39. Nov. 29 South Korea workshop on Bioethics at the Korean National Assembly set up by Prof. Kim Yong-Bock and hosted by National Asembly Woman Yoo Seung Hee

Lectures and Activities 2005

1. January 10th Teaching a class at the University of Calgary Canada
2. January 17-18th. Ottawa Canada, Boardmeeting CCU UNESCO
3. January 26-January 30th Geneva Switzerland Global Forum for Health Research Meeting
4. February 1. Global Health Conference in Calgary, Canada
5. February 7th CCU meeting Ottawa Canada Bioethics consultation
6. March 10-12th Toronto Canada AGM CCU UNESCO
7. May 2-6 Alberta Rehabilitation Conference Kananaskis
8. June 1th Geneva, Switzerland Preparatory meeting for Bangkok (see below)
9. June 2nd meeting within WHO
10. June 3-5th Geneva, Switzerland ETC board meeting
11. June 6th Geneva, Switzerland NBIC talk to the WCC (World Council of Churches)
12. June 7th Geneva, Switzerland NBIC talk to SouthCentre
13. June 8th Geneva, Switzerland NBIC talk to UN agencies
14. June 21th Boad meeting CCU Ottawa, Canada
15. July 4th Lecture to Shad Valley students
16. July 11th Melbourne Australia workshop on "How is sustainable human and non human development impacted by the governance of emerging technologies such as Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive Sciences; by the concept of health, disease, disability and well being and by biological diversity?" using realtime Webcam PC MSN Messenger videocapabilities
17. July 13 Melbourne Australia workshop on the UN Decade of Education for sustainable development using realtime Webcam PC MSN Messenger videocapabilities
18. Sept. 5th Talk to a class at university of Calgary about risk managment and NBIC
19. Sept 12th DALY meeting in Mumbai, India using realtime Webcam PC MSN Messenger videocapabilities
20. Sept17-23 Bossey Seminar, Switzerland.
21. Sept 26th Ottawa Canada Canadian Commission for UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network in Canada (ASPnet) meeting
22. Oct. 5th Wednesday morning at 10:40- 11:30 freshman-level introduction to bioethics course, Arizona state university
23. Oct. 5th Wednesday afternoon Foundations of bioethics" course , a graduate intro to the topic, Arizona state university
24. October 5th Arizona state university. Bioethics in the Media
25. October 6th. Arizona state university Lecture :"Enhancement Medicine"
26. 12th Canadian Conference on International Health is November 5-10 Ottawa giving a BIAS free workshop together with Mary Anne Burke GFHR and Margit Eichler OISE
27. 12th Canadian Conference on International Health is November 5-10 Ottawa giving a paper on TRANSHUMANISM, DISABLED PEOPLE AND GLOBAL HEALTH
28. Nov. 17-18th Diversity Conference Calgary Alberta Canada
29. November 19 & 20, 2005:"Picture This....Film Festival" jury
30. Conference on supported employment 23rd Nov Saskatoon Canada
31. 23rd Nov Saskatoon Canada Lecture at the University
32. 1st December natural and social science sectorial meeting of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

Lectures and Activities 2004

1. January 12th. Toronto, Canada, TV Show Discovery Channel aired on August 08 in the TV show Medical Hotseat on the topic Thalidomide by Discovery Health Canada. This show deals not with the past but with the availability of thalidomide in the USA since 1998
2. January 15-16 Ottawa Canada Canadian Commission for UNESCO Board meeting
3. February 10-13th. Calgary Canada Disability Film Festival
4. February 21th. Toronto Canada Pain and Suffering workshop
5. March 2-4 University of Phoenix Arizona USA Guest lecturers Gregor Wolbring and Dan Sarewitz
   Science and Governance, Living with the Genie PAF547 Science, Technology and Public Affairs
6. March 2-4 University of Phoenix Arizona USA Lecture: "Confined to Your Legs: Self-Identity and the Nano-Bio-Info- Cogno-Technology Revolution"
7. March 2-4 University of Phoenix Arizona USA Guest lecture at JoAnn Williams’ IGERT Science and Society class
8. March 2-4 University of Phoenix Arizona USA Guest lecture at Joan McGregor’s PHI/BIO 394 Bioethics class
9. March 2-4 University of Phoenix Arizona USA Lunch Discussion with Bioethics Club
10. March 12-13 Winnipeg CCDS meeting
11. April 17-18 Ottaw Canada ETC meeting
12. April 21-29 Geneva Switzerland World Council of Churches Genetic Seminar NBIC and marginalized groups
13. May 6-8th. Halifax Canada AGM of Canadian Commission for UNESCO
14. May 14 Red Deer Canada AGM Provincial Health Ethics Network
15. June 2-3 Baltimore USA Tech 20/20 event invited by National Security Agency, Signals Intelligence Directorate
16. June 4-6 San Francisco USA paneltalk confned to your legs self identity and the NBIC revoluton
17. June 4-6 San Francisco USA workshop Nanotechnology 101
18. June 4-6 San Francisco USA workshop on human enhancement
19. June 4-6 San Francisco USA workshop on disabled people and reproductive rights/genetics
20. June 15 Edmonton Canada Nanoethics meeting
21. June 22 Calgary Canada Bioethics and disability meeting
22. July 15 Muehlhausen Germany lecture on genetics and disability to a high school class
23. July 23rd Calgary Canada Talk to Shad Valley students at university
24. July 29 Edmonton University of Alberta talk and workshop
25. August 08 in the TV show Medical Hotseat on the topic Thalidomide by Discovery Health Canada. This show deals not with the past but with the availability of thalidomide in the USA since 1998 (aired on this day)
26. September 8-10 Winnipeg Canada DPI World Summit 2004:Diversity Within
27. September 15-16 Boardmeeting canadian commission for UNESCO
28. Sept 18 Calgary Chaps meeting
29. Oct. 8th. Calgary Canada Talk at the Community Health dept of the University of Calgary Title: "Disabled people science and technology and health research"
30. Oct. 20. Calgary, Alberta Canada Introduction to Bioethics workshop for Developmental Disabilities Resource Centre of Calgary
31. Oct. 29/30th Rice University, Houston Texas USa Talk at Nano-days 2004
32. Friday November 12th, 2004 Diversity and Health: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice
33. November 16-20 Mexico City Forum 8 of the global health research forum + World Summit on Health Research; Health research to achieve the Millennium Development Goals Two papers. One titled:"Disabled people, science and technology and health research" and onother one "Research resource flow, new technologies and the 10/90 gap in health research
34. 6-8th December Ottawa Canada Talk at CCIC Title: Disabled people , emerging technology and the south and CCU meeting
    

Lectures and Activities 2003

1. February 12-14 Workshop on Nanomedicine in Montreal organized by SSERC http://www.regenerativemedicine.ca/nanomed/index-e.htm 
2. March 1-3 Ottawa Canada invited to attend the AGM of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO in my function as a member of the ethics working group of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO
3. March 20-23 Chicago USA Lecture on Social justice/Human Genome and converging technologies
4. March 25-26 Ottawa Canada Imperatives of Biotechnology in Health Innovation. The workshop objective is to "identify the implications of current and future biotech developments for institutional structures." Participants will be asked to think of the various stages of the "value chain" from basic research through development, commercialization, and dissemination and use. Part of this workshop will focus on identifying next steps, process issues, etc.
5. April 10-12, Tough Choices: Resource Allocation Ethics Conference, organized by the Provincial Health Ethics Network www.phen.ab.ca Banff, Alberta Canada
6. April 13th Patient meets policy maker . Resource allocation in Health Care Meeting of the Charles Frosst Foundation for Health Care Banff Alberta Canada
7. May 1-5rd Mexico details to follow
8. May 9-11 meeting in New York
9. May 12 meeting in Ottawa
10. May 14th Member of the Jury for the National Science Fair this year in Calgary http://209.50.70.198/cwsf-currentfair.html
11. May 23, 2003 PHEN Annual Conference 2003 will be held in Red Deer, Alberta, on Palliative care
12. May 27th Meeting in Ottawa with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Consultation on the International Instrument on Human Data
13. May 28th lecture at the Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary
14. June 2nd lecture at the Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary
15. June 6th "Protecting Children and Decisionally-Impaired Adults in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Is Bioethics Enough? Summer Ethics Institute National Catholic School of Social Service The Catholic University of America Washington, DC My abstract
16. August 7 to 10, 2003 Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) Carbon versus Silicon: Thinking Small/ Thinking Fast
    Register now – registrations accepted only as long as space permits This atom-breaking summit will bring together nanotechnology researchers, members of the National Institute for Nanotechnology, applications designers, ICT researchers, social scientists and humanists, science fiction writers, new media artists, fashion designers, choreographers, architects, and designers.
17. August 25th. meeting Foothills hospital ethics committee Calgary Canada
18. Sept. 8-9 Boardmeeting Canadian Commission for UNESCO Ottawa
19. Oct 2-5 Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) Skinning Our Tools: Designing for Context and Culture
    Technology and cultural designers and technology companies will contribute to the dialogue of this summit, which will be developed with the School of Creative Media, Hong Kong University and University of California, San Diego, CALIT2, and the Aboriginal New Media workshop group.
20. Oct 12-16 WITHIN AND BEYOND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN NATURE - Working Conference on the Challenges of the New Human Genetic Technologies conference in Germany, Berlin
21. Oct 17-19 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada CCDS meeting
22. Oct 21 Toronto Canada 1 hour TV show Test of Faith debating human enhancement
23. Nov. 15,16 Calgary Canada Juror Calgary Film Festival
24. 4th December Berlin Int. student symposium
25. 5-7 th of December Berlin Germany "Ethik und Behinderung - ein Perspektivenwechsel"
    Öffentlicher Kongress 5. - 7. Dezember 2003 in Berlin