Dec
1
12:00 PM12:00

Power of Diversity Lecture, Dismantling Colonial Categories at CWRU

  • CWRU. Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom B (map)
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What colonial complexities and categories persist at Case that reinforce or permit institutional, structural, and systemic racism? In his talk Sarma challenges the Case community to confront time-honored taxonomies that often remain hidden behind gestural subversions, cultural posturing, and performative diversity agendas. Is decolonizing Case possible? Desirable? Or dangerous? Or is it impossible, in this case?

https://community.case.edu/OIDEO/rsvp_boot?id=1383452

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Nov
12
12:00 PM12:00

Cleveland Clinic Bioethics Grand Rounds: “On Hindu Bioethics: Respecting Diverse Beliefs in the Context of Western Medicine’s Standards of Care”

  • Cleveland Clinic, Bunts Auditorium (map)
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Dr. Sarma fleshes out the bioethical complexities that emerge from a malpractice case for which he was retained as an expert consultant, concerning an innocent infant, a child of Hindu parents, who was circumcised without the required parental consent. He argues that, given Hindu beliefs about the status and integrity of the body, the malpractice is contextually egregious, violates Hindu bioethics, and ought to incur consequential, rather than nominal, damages. In his presentation of the case, attendees will learn the fundamentals of Hindu bioethics as well as its application to a relevant case. 

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