I am delighted to report that my correspondence with Andre den Exter, the organizer of the International Conference on Human Rights and Biomedicine in the Netherlands As a result of our consciousness raising about inclusiveness, our own Hilde Lindemann has now been invited as a keynote speaker and has accepted the invitation. For those not in bioethics, Hilde is President elect of ASBH (American Society for Bioethics and Humanities). Hilde and Margaret Walker along in collaboration with United States and Dutch colleagues have recently completed a project with a volume forthcoming from Cambridge - Naturalized Bioethics; some of those Dutch colleagues have been encouraged to join Hilde in presenting at the conference. In addition the conference organizers have asked me to mention that they have invited a female government Minister to speak and have added a session on post-communist issues. If you did not take part in this action, I ask you to think about why you didn’t and how important it is for each of us to take responsibility for drawing attention to and correcting the marginalization and inclusion of feminist voices.
Best,Dona Quixote aka Robin
Robin N. Fiore, PhD
Senior Assistant Vice President for Research Ethics
Department of Philosophy AH-110
Phone 561-297-3869
FAX 561-297-2095
"Justice will
not come... until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who
are." [Thucydides]