Upcoming Residency
Hoseob Yoon, an artist specializing in incorporating environmental themes into his work in education and design, will serve as the Center’s next Distinguished Visiting Practitioner. The dates of his residency, which will take place in spring 2010, are to be announced.
The residency will include class visits, art demonstrations, exhibits, and one-on-one visits with students and members of the community, in which Yoon will share his message about the risk of climate change and the threats it poses to agriculture, water supplies, health, and biodiversity.
For Professor Yoon's C.V., click here.
View Professor Yoon’s environmentally-focused designs.
View Professor Yoon’s “Green Canvas,” where he features the work of his students.
Distinguished Visiting Practitioner
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| Dr. Brian Williams speaks with students during his Distinguished Visiting Practitioner residency at Brandeis. |
The Distinguished Visiting Practitioner program brings respected practitioners in any field to campus for several days to examine the ethical challenges and dilemmas of that field. Distinguished Practitioners are in residence at Brandeis from three to five days, to offer public events, visit classes, and engage students interested in pursuing a career in their field.
Dr. Brian Williams, epidemiologist for the World Health Organization in Geneva, served as the Distinguished Visiting Practitioner from February 9-13, 2009. A schedule of events is available here and a news story on his keynote address can be found here. He addressed the issue of "human rights" versus "public health" approaches to the management of disease, especially in relation to HIV and TB. Williams has written extensively on a variety of diseases, including AIDS, tuberculosis and trypanosomiasis. He has been particularly concerned with the roles played by government policy and by NGOs in determining the success of public health efforts.
Past Distinguished Practitioners sponsored by the Center have been Dr. Mohamed Bakarr, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya; and Dr. William Haglund, United Nations Senior Forensic Advisor for the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and Senior Consultant to Physicians for Human Rights.
This program is in keeping with one of the guiding principles of the Ethics Center: to build bridges between scholarship and practice. Enhancing dialogue between the worlds of the academy and the professions is a central aim of the Center.