Attention : Plusieurs de nos événements ou des événements partagés par nos collaborateurs sont proposés uniquement en anglais.
Le CRÉ vous convie à un panel sur le dernier livre de Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI (Oxford University Press, 2024).
8 novembre, 2024 -16h00-17h30
École de santé des populations et de santé mondiale
Université McGill
2001, avenue McGill College
12e étage, salle 1201
Conférenciers:
Jonathan Birch (London School of Economics)
Stevan Harnard (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Jonathan Kimmelman (McGill)
Martin Gibert (Université de Montréal/CRÉ)
Présidence: Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert (University of Oxford)
Résumé du livre (en Anglais) :
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? What about AI?
These are questions about the edge of sentience, and they are subject to enormous, disorienting uncertainty. The stakes are immense, and neglecting the risks can have terrible costs. We need to err on the side of caution, yet it’s often far from clear what ‘erring on the side of caution’ should mean in practice. When are we going too far? When are we not doing enough?
The Edge of Sentience presents a precautionary framework designed to help us reach ethically sound, evidence-based decisions despite our uncertainty.
McGill-UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar
The McGill-UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar Series is co-organized by Dr. Felix Cheung (University of Toronto) and Sofia Panasiuk (University of Toronto), Anthony McCanny (University of Toronto), and Dr. Chris Barrington-Leigh (McGill University). The seminar series is open to all and will be held online via Zoom.
Registration for this series/any talk is required in advanced, but is free.
Schedule Autumn 2024
Date/Time - November 12th (12 pm ET)
Speaker: Claudia Senik
Title: Is it possible to raise national happiness?
Date/Time - December 3rd (12 pm ET)
Speaker: Kelsey O’Connor, Claudia Senik
Title: Panel Discussion: The Easterlin Paradox
McGill Centre for Climate Change and Health Launch
November 20th, 2024 - 16h30-18h00
School of Population and Global Health
2001 McGill College Ave. 11th floor
room 1140
Suicide Prevention as a Public Health Strategy: Historical Perspectives
November 21st, 2024 from 12h00 to 13h00 EST
Hybrid - Room 1140 2001 McGill College, 11th floor or on ZOOM
Speaker:
David Wright is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy at McGill University. A specialist in the social history of medicine, he has published widely on the history of psychiatry, children’s health, and the development of hospitals. His most recent book (with Sasha Mullally), Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, in 2020.
Abstract:
The prevention of suicide has constituted a major public health concern in Canada for over half a century. Following the decriminalization of attempted suicide (1972), and the identification of suicide as a public health priority in the Lalonde Report of 1974, there have been multiple overlapping initiatives employed to address this tragic social phenomenon. Strategies have included crisis centres, volunteer-staffed telephone services, barriers at suicides “hot spots”, public awareness campaigns, and repeated calls for enhanced mental health services. This presentation looks back on the first generation of suicide prevention strategies, analyzing how and why they became a priority in the decade leading up to the Canada Health Act of 1984.
View the seminar poster here. 
November 21 Seminar Poster
Les webinaires Policy Talks ont été enregistrés sur Zoom et mis en ligne sur notre chaîne YouTube.