Hiram College


            Hiram College Center for Literature and Medicine and The Health Care Professions
                                                                in partnership with
                Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care

                                                    and with the co-sponsorship of
                Case Westen Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Bioethics

                                                                        invite you to

                                                            A National Symposium:

                                                         Global Health Care Justice

                                                                June 22-25, 2006

                                                at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, 44234


Download the Application Form

Please include your meal requests with your application.
 
Commuters will be asked to pay the following, since all participants will eat together at this symposium:
 
            Breakfast (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) @ $7.00 each _____
 
            Lunch (Friday, Saturday) @ $12 each  _____
 
            Dinner (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) @ $20 each _____
 
Total meal package for commuters:  $105.00

Fee for the symposium is $195 by 6/1/06. $245 thereafter.  Fee for room and board is $240 for the entire symposium or $80 per day by 6/1/06, $290 thereafter.  If you wish to pay by credit card, call 330-569-5117 and ask for Beverly Sorrick. If paying by check, mail to The Center for Literature and Medicine, PO Box 67, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio 44234.


Symposium coordinators:
Carol Donley, Ph.D. and Martin Kohn, Ph.D. Hiram College; Isaac Mwase, Ph.D. Tuskegee    University; Eric Juengst, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University

Faculty-to-date:
Lorraine Bonner, M.D., Oakland, CA; Gilbert Doho; Ph.D., Insoo Hyun, Ph.D.,
Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D., and Chris Simon, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University;
David Hilfiker, M.D., Washington, DC; Richard Selzer, M.D., New Haven, CT; Stephen Sodeke, Ph.D., Tuskegee University; Masalakulangwa Mabula, M.A., Hubert Kairuki Memorial Univ., Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; and special guest: Richard Selzer

Drama, music and dance:
Performance of Richard Selzer's story "Luis" by Verb Ballets: Cleveland's National
Repertory Dance Company.  Reader's Theater of AIDS play, "Little Spice."  Jeanne Bryner, nurse-poet. Others to be announced.
Questions to be addressed:
  • What does a commitment to human moral equality require from the international biomedical research community, public health care planners, and the providers of health care?
  • What are the political, economic, historical and cultural challenges facing attempts to address health disparities/inequalities around the world and in the United States?
  • What resources does the world's cultural heritage of drama, music, and literature offer to those striving to address problems of global and national health care justice?
  • In what ways do efforts to address health care disparities/inequalities and health justice in the U.S. and the rest of the world inform one another?

A graduate course connected with the symposium will run June 19-21, 2006 at Hiram, followed by participation in the symposium.  Graduate students may get room and board on campus for the whole week if they wish.  For information on the graduate course email Carol Donley at donleycc@hiram.edu.

Participants in the symposium will be housed in an air-conditioned dorm on Hiram's campus. (Space is limited, however, so early registration is recommended.)  Fee for the symposium is $195 by 6/1/06. $245 thereafter.  Fee for room and board is $240 for the entire symposium or $80 per day by 6/1/06, $290 thereafter.  If you wish to pay by credit card, call 330-569-5117 and ask for Beverly Sorrick. If paying by check, mail to The Center for Literature and Medicine, PO Box 67, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio 44234.

Seminar co-directors: Carol Donley and Martin Kohn with Eric Juengst and Isaac Mwase

Schedule for the Symposium

Participants needing housing will stay in Bowler Hall, Mahan House or the Hiram Inn.  Symposium Sessions will take place in the Pritchard Room (in the Library). 

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner buffets will be offered in the Alumni Heritage room. (Teachout Price)


Thursday, June 22, 2006

Registration and check in to housing 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 (main desk at the Kennedy Center)
Participants can buy lunch in the Kennedy Center Food Court.

Afternoon events in the Pritchard Room
1:00-1:15pm        Welcome
1:15-2:30pm        Plenary---Masalakulangwa Mabula
2:30-2:45pm        Break 
2:45-4:00pm        Plenary---David Hilfiker
4:00-4:15pm        Break
4:15-5:15pm        Papers
5:15-6:00pm        Free Time
6:00-6:30pm        reception (in Alumni Heritage Room---Teachout Price)
6:30-7:30pm       dinner
8:00                     "Planet Soup"  Ballroom      

Friday, June 23, 2006

7:30-8:30am        Breakfast
9:00-10:15am      Plenary---Stephen Sodeke
10:15-10:30am    Break
10:30-Noon         Panel---Chris Simon and Cynthia Griggins
Noon-1:00pm      Lunch
1:30-2:45pm        Plenary --- Insoo Hyun
2:45-3:00pm        Break
3:00-4:00pm        Papers
6:00pm                Dinner      
7:30pm                "Pseudoland" (in Hayden Auditorium)

Saturday, June 24, 2006

7:30-8:30am        Breakfast
9:00-10:15 am    Plenary---Maghboeba Mosavel and Chris Simon
10:15-10:30am    Break
10:30-Noon        AIDS performance ("Little Spice" directed by Gilbert Doho)
Noon-1:30pm        Lunch
 1:30-2:45pm        Plenary---Lorraine Bonner
2:45-3:00pm        Break
3:00-4:30pm        Papers---Jeanne Bryner and John Stone
5:30pm                Dinner
8:00pm                Perfomance of Selzer's "Luis"

Sunday, June 25, 2006

7:30-8:30            Breakfast
9:00-10:30am        Panel --- Kayhan Parsi, Teresa Kilbane, Artemis Gaye
10:15-11:30        Panel --- wrap up with Isaac Mwase, Eric Juengst, Jeanne Bryner
  • Participants must be checked out of their rooms by 10:00 am.






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