Talks & Events

Presentations

“The conundrum of translational ethics – engineering gaps between theories and practices.” Invited plenary presentation at 1st International Conference Ethics of Engineering Life, Rome, 26-27 September 2022.
“UNESCO, global bioethics and the environment.” Online presentation at conference Religious perspectives on bioethics: Protecting the environment, the biosphere and biodiversity. The 8th UNESCO Workshop on Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion, Bangkok, Thailand.
“Global education in bioethics.” Plenary presentation at 13th Global Summit of National Ethics Committees, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 16 September 2022.
“Re-envisioning bioethics and health care in a global ecological context.” International Association of Catholic Bioethics, 10th Colloquium ‘Ecology, Health and Bioethics’, Rome, 27 June 2022.
“Training in ethics education: a global perspective.” 10th International Conference for Education in Ethics, Padua, Italy, 24 June 2022.
“Global bioethics.” Presentation of the Italian translation of Global bioethics: an introduction. Fondazione Lanza, Padua, Italy, 22 June 2022.
“Human Genome Editing: A critical appraisal in a global context.” International Bioethics Group, The ethics of human genome editing. Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, 10-12 June 2022.
“Equity, justice, and responsibility in the perspective of global health.” Presentation in online conference ‘Mission of the Church in the era of global public health,’ Frankfurt, Germany, April 1, 2022.
“Ecology and bioethics.” Presentation in webinar of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists, February 26, 2022.
“Perspectives of conversion: Bioethics.” Presentation at General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, ‘Public health in global perspective: Pandemic, bioethics, future.’ Rome, September 28, 2021.
“De Covid-19 pandemie en biodiversiteit.” Lezing Rotaryclub Rijk van Nijmegen, September 2, 2021.
“Global bioethics: perspectives and challenges in the post-pandemic era.” Online Inaugural lecture Bioethics Faculty, Anahuac University Mexico, September 1, 2021.
“Covid-19 and global bioethics.” ESPMH Webinar ‘Global bioethics after the Covid-19 pandemic,’ August 27, 2021.
“Human dignity, women’s rights and procreation.” Online presentation. Averroès Chair International Meeting ‘Procreation, women’s rights, bioethics and religions. Comparative approach, May 25 2021.
“Twenty years European Master of Bioethics.” Webinar 20 Year anniversary of KU Leuven’s Master of Bioethics, 5 March 2021.
“Van medische ethiek naar mondiale bioethiek.” Probus, emeriti colloquium medical faculty, Radboud University Nijmegen, 17 September 2020.
“Human dignity and globalization.” 7th International Conference on Ethics Education, Porto, Portugal, 24 July 2019.
“Human dignity and new technologies.” German Ethics Council Anniversary Event: Human dignity in Our Hands – Challenges from New Technologies. Berlin, Germany, 27 June 2018.
“The fundamental role of education – in global bioethics.” XXIV General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life: Equal beginnings. But then? A global responsibility. Vatican City, 25 June 2018.
“Between the myth of performance and the waste culture.” Invited plenary presentation. Pontifical Academy for Life, XXIII General Assembly 2017. Vatican City, 6 October 2017.
“Quality in ethics education.” Seventh Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education, Colombia University Global Centers-Europe. Reid Hall, Paris, France, 4 July 2017.
“Ethics and healthcare – towards global bioethics.” Lehman Medical Ethics Lecture, Allegheny College, Meadville, USA, 28 February 2017.
“Ethics and healthcare – towards global bioethics.” Kenneth Hines Endowment Lecture. Carlow University, Pittsburgh, USA, 9 February 2017.
“Bioethics and public health – Towards global bioethics.”
Keynote plenary lecture. Third National Bioethics Conference. The Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Warsaw, Poland, 10 December, 2016.
“Overview of the bioethical issues on stem cells.” Keynote lecture. Third International Congress on responsible stem cells research “From cells to cell products: Development of new therapeutic tools.” University of Padua, Padova, Italy, 18 November 2016.
“Ethics education and global bioethics.” Invited lecture, Fondazione Lanza, Padova, Italy, 17 November 2016.
“Palliative sedation: European perspectives.” Invited lecture, Conference ‘What is the place of sedation in the care at the end of life.’ University of Chicago Divinity School: Chicago, USA, 14 October 2016.

Events

Italian translation of the book Global Bioethics – An Introduction

Book Global Bioethics translated

The Fondazione Lanza in Padua, Italy, organized a public presentation on June 22, 2022 of the Italian translation of the book Global Bioethics – An Introduction. This version is now used in several Italian universities to introduce students in the field of global health and bioethics.

Italian translation of the book Global Bioethics – An Introduction.

Global Bioethics – An Introduction has also been translated in Japanese.

Japanese translation of the book Global Bioethics – An Introduction.

Pontifical Academy for Life

In July 2017 Henk ten Have has been appointed as a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

The Pontifical Academy for Life was founded in 1994 by Pope John Paul II. The Academy so to speak is an advisory body to the Pope regarding issues in bioethics. The Academy has a General Assembly every year in combination with a public conference. The Academy has also established a working group on Global Bioethics.

In September 2022, the Academy organized, together with NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering, University of Basel, ETH Zürich, and Bambino Jesu Children’s Hospital the 1st International Conference ‘Ethics of Engineering life’ (ICEEL). The aim is to bring life scientists and scientists in ethics and humanities together to explore and analyse relevant ethical issues of contemporary life sciences.

Visit the site of the Pontifical Academy of Life

Videos

June 2018: ‘Academy for Life: Equal beginnings. But then? A global responsibility’
Vatican City

November 2017: ‘Global ethics, vulnerability and ethics education’
IAEE conference in Mangalore, India

October 2016: ‘Palliative sedation: European Perspectives’
University of Chicago

April 2014: ‘Vulnerability – Challenges to bioethics in a global context’
Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha

September 2008: ’Why do we need bioethics?’
City Club Friday Forum Series, The City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, U.S.A.

Current Projects

Bizarre Bioethics

This new book will examine the issue of agenda-setting in bioethics. What processes and perspectives determine what kind of cases and problems are on the agenda of bioethical debate?

The soul in healthcare and bioethics

This new book, in cooperation with Renzo Pegoraro, explores the connections between health, ethics and soul. It examines the general complaints that the soul has been lost in healthcare as well as in bioethics.

Bioethics and women’s rights in Islamic contexts in the era of reproductive technologies

Work has started on this book in cooperation with Nouzha Guessous. This book will focus on the connection between bioethics and women’s rights. It will explore this connection in a religious comparative approach in regard to the example of artificial reproductive technologies (ARTs) because of their impact on women in particular. The availability and application of ARTs produces a tension with traditional and religious views on sexuality, reproduction, parenthood, and family ties. These tensions have been studied in Western cultures but less so in the Islamic context. This book will focus particularly on the question how new practices of ARTs are influencing the rights of Islamic women in countries where Islam is the dominant religion as well as in secular countries where it is one religion among others. The book will include 20 chapters from authors from different countries and regions. It will be associated with a conference in May 2021 at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research in Marseille, France (initially scheduled in May 2020 but postponed due to Covid-19).