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Beyond the Apnea Test

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Beyond the Apnea Test

This working group will come together to discuss considerations of consent during exams to determine death.

This event is for invited participants only and is not open to the public.

At this event, Erin Talati Paquette (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Associate Chair of the Ethics Advisory Board, Associate Director for Ethics Advocacy and Co-Chair of the Health Equity Task Force at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago) will explore the fact that obtaining consent for the full evaluation to determine death respects diverse viewpoints on brain death and supports the moral status and right to autonomous choice of the individual. Paquette will discuss the potential misuse of ancillary testing if consent for the apnea test is not obtained, and the importance of not conflating the requirement for consent with the obligation of adequate disclosure. There are ethical and legal justifications for obtaining consent for the entire DNC evaluation.

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Fossil Capitalism in the Global South Reading Group: Jennifer Wenzel

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Fossil Capitalism in the Global South Reading Group: Jennifer Wenzel

Participants at this reading group discussed a selection of readings in preparation for a lecture by Jennifer Wenzel.

At the third meeting of this reading group, organized as part of the Fossil Capitalism in the Global South research project, participants will discuss a selection of readings ahead of a guest lecture by Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University). The readings include a draft of a chapter of Wenzel's new project side by side with the prologue to Julie Livingston's Self-Devouring Growth.

This event is invite only and is not open to the public. Faculty and students who wish to attend should contact collegium@uchicago.edu.

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Self-Sustaining/Self-Devouring Growth

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Self-Sustaining/Self-Devouring Growth

At this lecture Jennifer Wenzel will look at the relationship between slowness and speed in the history of fossil-fueled mobility.

Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University) will open this talk by positing Julie Livingston’s slim parable Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa as a salutary counterpoint to Andreas Malm’s Fossil Capital, a sprawling, even novelistic account of the emergence of fossil capitalism within nineteenth century Britain. This contrapuntal approach – thinking between Global North and Global South – underwrites Wenzel’s consideration of fossil-fueled mobility as a highly uneven terrain of social imagination and political contestation. What is the relationship between slowness and speed? How can growth be self-sustaining and self-devouring at the same time? And what is the role of incremental change in an exponential world?

This lecture is presented as part of the Fossil Capitalism in the Global South research project at the Neubauer Collegium.

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The Quest for Modern Language Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

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The Quest for Modern Language Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

This conference will consider the role of language ideologies in the formation of Middle East nationalism.

Language ideologies were an important component of modern nationalism, and they figured prominently in the cultural and political discourses of modernity and modernization in and around what came to be known as “the Middle East” in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This conference will bring together scholars across humanistic and social scientific disciplines (such as history, literary theory, linguistics, and anthropology) to explore the articulation, circulation, and mobilization of ideas about language death and revival, language reform, and language modernization in the contexts of empire, emerging nationalisms, and a modernizing world.

This conference is presented as part of the Quest for Modern Language Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, 1820–1948 research project at the Neubauer Collegium.

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