From Sheldon to Sherlock: Autism in Popular Culture
Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, 8-9 a.m.
Hutton Honors College Great Room
SIGN-UP REQUIRED: See details below
Join us for an opportunity to sit down over coffee and a croissant to discuss these and other questions and their ethical dimensions, all the while keeping in mind: What values are at stake? Who is affected? Who should have a say? How should competing interests be negotiated? What would you do?
Our facilitator for this discussion will be Bernice Pescosolido, IU Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. She has focused her research and teaching on social issues in health, illness, and healing.
Cases or short readings will be distributed in advance to provide a focus or context for the discussion.
SIGN-UP INFO: If you are interested in attending this event, please check your schedule to make sure you are available for the entire event and email Becca Creath (bcreath@indiana.edu), indicating you wish to sign up for the “Ethics-Autism” breakfast and include your name, email address, year in school, and field(s) of study. Space is limited so we will let you know by email if a space was available when you replied. This program is a collaboration with the HHC Autism Mentoring Program.
The Ethics for Breakfast discussion series for undergraduate students is co-sponsored by the Hutton Honors College and the Wells Scholars Program. Topics are drawn from local events, national and international news, research by IU scholars, and ethics debate competitions. Cases or short readings for each discussion will be distributed in advance, and at each session a facilitator will provide a short summary of the key issues to get the discussion started.