Extremism: Confronting
Hate Without Fear
Extremism and Bioethics: Exploring the Moral
Dimensions of Abortion, Vaccination and Public Health
Film screening of Personhood
and discussion with guest speakers exploring the growing criminalization and policing
of pregnant people in America
Saturday, November 5th at 2:30 PM
Members &
Students (w/ID) $15 | Public $22 | Young Film Fan Members $10
Speakers:
- Jacob
M. Appel, MD, JD, MPH, author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and
social critic, Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and Associate
Director of the Academy for Medicine and the Humanities at the Icahn
School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System
- Jo
Ardinger, director of the documentary film 'Personhood'
PERSONHOOD
Personhood tells a
different reproductive rights story - one that ripples far beyond the right to
choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America. Like a moment
from the chilling "Handmaid's Tale," Tammy Loertscher's fetus was
given an attorney, while the courts denied Tammy her constitutional rights. In
this timely documentary, we see her sent to jail, and then forced to challenge
a Wisconsin law that eroded her privacy, her right to due process, and her body
sovereignty. Through her story, Personhood
reframes the abortion debate to encompass the growing system of laws that
criminalize and police pregnant women. At the intersection of the erosion of
women's rights, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration, Tammy's experience
reveals the dangerous consequences of these little-known laws for American
women and families. (US, 2019, 80min.,
English | Dir. Jo Ardinger)
Jo Ardinger is an award-winning director, editor
and story consultant working on both documentary and narrative films. Her
feature documentary debut, PERSONHOOD – Policing Pregnant Women in America
premiered at DOC NYC in 2019 and won the American Bar Association’s 2020 Silver
Gavel Award for Documentaries. She is currently editing the feature documentary
Clearwater, about the special
relationship of Pacific Northwest tribal people to the Salish Sea. Ardinger is
also an instructor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she
teaches digital storytelling in the realm of science.
Jacob M. Appel is currently Associate Professor
of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai in New York City, where he is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry,
Medical Director of the Mental Health Clinic at the East Harlem Health Outreach
Program and Assistant Director of the Academy for Medicine and the
Humanities. Jacob is also the author of five literary novels, ten short
story collections, an essay collection, a cozy mystery, a thriller, a volume of
poems and a compendium of dilemmas in medical ethics. Jacob holds a B.A.
and an M.A. from Brown, an M.S. in bioethics from Albany Medical College, an
M.A. and an M.Phil. from Columbia, an M.D. from Columbia University's College
of Physicians and Surgeons, an M.F.A. from N.Y.U. and a J.D. from Harvard Law
School. He also publishes in the field of bioethics and contributes
regularly to such publications as the Journal of Clinical Ethics, Hastings
Center Report and Bulletin of the History of Medicine. His essays on the
nexus of law and medicine have appeared in The
New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, and many regional
newspapers.