6th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop

When Registering please add your First and Last Name
Join us for the 6th Annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, taking place May 8–9, 2026 at Deutsches Haus at NYU. This two-day workshop brings together scholars from across philosophy and bioethics for conversations on disability, animal welfare, pregnancy, digital consent, research ethics, war crimes and memory, population ethics, and transformation. The workshop will feature talks by Ian Dunkle, Bob Fischer, Sean Aas and Dana Howard, Asher Shang, Lukas Joosten, Nir Eyal, Josey Aron, and keynote speaker Laurie Paul (Yale University). A reception on Friday evening is open to all attendees.
This year’s workshop is organized by Daniel Fogal, Matthew Liao, Austen McDougal, Claudia Passos-Ferreira, and Alexander Quanbeck of the NYU Center for Bioethics.

NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop
May 8-9 2026
Location: Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews
Day One: Friday, May 8th
12:30-1:00pm Coffee (provided)
12:50pm Welcome — S. Matthew Liao (NYU)
1:00-2:15pm Ian Dunkle (UT Chattanooga), ‘Pregnancy, Agency, and Health’
Chair: Isabel Herburger (Rutgers)
2:30-3:45pm Bob Fischer (Texas State), ‘Asymmetries in Animal Welfare: Explaining Higher Standards in the Laboratory’
Chair: Jasmine Gunkel (Western)
4:00-5:15pm Sean Aas (Georgetown) and Dana Howard (Ohio State), ‘Defining Disability and the Social Process of Disablement’
Chair: Malte Hendrickx (Michigan)
5:30-7:00pm Workshop reception (everyone invited) Saturday
Day Two: Saturday, May 9th
8:45-9:15am Coffee, light breakfast (provided)
9:15-10:30am Asher Shang (Pittsburgh), ‘Asymmetries in Nonarchimedean Population Axiologies’
Chair: Jessica Fischer (KCL)
10:45-12:00pm Lukas Joosten (Oxford), ‘Networks Effects as Coercive: A Responsibility-Based Account of Digital Consent’ (Graduate Student Prize Winner)
Chair: Gary Ostertag (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/CUNY GC)
12:00-1:30pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:45pm Nir Eyal (Rutgers), ‘Disclaiming Research Ethics’
Chair: Marcos Picchio (Oakland)
3:00-4:15pm Josey Aron (Alabama), ‘A Punishment of Recollection: War Crimes and Memory Modulation’
Chair: Sam Segal (Chicago)
4:30-5:45pm Laurie Paul (Yale), ‘The Paradox of Transformation’
Chair: S. Matthew Liao (NYU)
When Registering please add your First and Last Name
Open to the Public