CBHD invites healthcare and other professionals, scholars, researchers, educators, and students to submit abstracts of papers that address questions associated with our conference theme—Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years—or that engage more broadly with other foundational and emerging bioethical issues raised at the intersections of medicine, science, technology, and our common humanity. For more information, see the Submission Guidelines below.
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
32nd Annual Summer Conference
June 26–28, 2025
Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL, USA
Proposal Deadline: January 2, 2025
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Requirements
All serious proposals relevant to the study of Christian bioethics are welcome, particularly those in the following subject areas:
- General Bioethics
- Biotechnology
- Clinical Ethics
- Disability
- Emerging Issues in Bioethics
- Empirical Research
- Global Bioethics and/or Public Health
- Medical Humanities
- Nursing Ethics
- Philosophical and/or Theological Engagement
- Public Policy and/or Biolaw
- Research Ethics
- Technology Assessment
- Women's Health
All proposals are evaluated through a blind review process. Identifying information must not be included in the abstract.
Deadline
All abstracts must be submitted online prior to January 2, 2025. Acceptances will be announced by the end of January 2025.
Instructions for Submissions
Instructions for Paper Presentations
Oral presentations of contributed papers will be 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for discussion.
We are 25 years into the Biotech Century. Have the predictions, opportunities, and threats that many in the late 1990s wrote about come to pass? From eliminating disease to the development of new technologies and moving toward the Singularity, how have the predictions made in the 1990s fared?
Which opportunities and threats have been realized? What unforeseen issues have arisen? How does the knowledge we have now inform how we view the predictions that were made then? And, perhaps most importantly, how can human beings flourish over the rest of the Biotech Century?
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity invites you to join us for our 32nd annual conference, Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years, on the campus of Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. We will assess the fruits of the Biotech Century and delve into the pressing issues before us from a Judeo-Christian, Hippocratic point of view.
The conference will host plenary sessions addressing:
In addition, workshops and paper sessions will explore a wide spectrum of issues from traditional and emerging bioethical topics.
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity’s annual conference is the leading forum for engaging in Christian bioethics, providing opportunities for equipping and educating students, professionals, clergy, and lay people, as well as professional development credit, academic engagement, and networking for academic researchers, policymakers, educators, clinicians, thought leaders, and students across a variety of disciplines and professional contexts.
This conference will be available in person, online, or on-demand. There is no wrong way to attend!