Upcoming events:
Online lecture of Prof. Michelle Mullen
Title: Paediatrics Palliative Care & Bioethics: navigating theory and praxis?
Presenter: Dr. Michelle Mullen Associate Professor of Paediatrics University of Ottawa, Canada. Consultant Bioethicist and Head of Service, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
Date: 28 October 2025 at 16:00 CET
The lecture will be held on the MS Teams
The lecture is organised and conducted by Marta Szabat (PhD), adjunct at the Chair of Bioethics and Health Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College
Synopsis:
The ethics of paediatric palliative care raise some of the most difficult and contested considerations. These include crucial and sometimes elusive concepts of quality of life, best interests, ‘treatments’, and who decides. The successes of interventions in congenital conditions, cancer and trauma mean that more children may face the prospect of dying beyond earliest childhood. In the Canadian context, the tensions saturate the spectrum of possibilities and include questions of whether, for example, a baby born with Trisomy 18 should have corrective heart surgery, and, whether medical assistance in dying should be made available to children. The most commonly invoked bioethics tools can appear to offer little to address these challenges.
Using a case-based approach, this lecture will review the ethics “toolkit” for these deliberations, and introduce more recent ethical modalities which can help inform our deliberations.
Objectives:
- To review and critique contemporary western approaches to bioethics in the paediatric palliative care context
- To elaborate the bioethics “toolkit” by considering the role of Intersectionality and Trauma Informed Care in the context
- To apply bioethics analysis using a case-based approach
Participation is free, register here: >>>
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Conferences organized or co-organized by Chair of Bioethics and Health Psychology:
We invite you to participate in the conference “Truth, Trust, and Technology: Social Sciences and AI Countering Misinformation” co-organized by the staff of the Department of Bioethics.
? Date: April 3–4, 2025, in Kraków (in-person format)
? Registration: Open until March 1, 2025, or until spots are filled via the form
Topics:
- The role of artificial intelligence in detecting and combating misinformation
- Psychological and social factors influencing trust in information
Speakers:
- Yara Kyrychenko (University of Cambridge)
- Aleksandra Nabożny (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology)
- Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge)
- Romuald Polczyk (Jagiellonian University)
- Valentin Mang (University of Groningen)
- Dr. Paweł Gwiaździński (Commission of National Education University in Kraków)
- Michał Pluciński (Poznań University of Technology)
- Dr. Klaudia Rosińska (Academy of Social and Media Culture in Toruń)
- Jonas Kunst (University of Oslo)
Who is it for?
We welcome both academics and professionals working in social sciences, artificial intelligence, media studies, and public health.
? Free admission is available for students and PhD candidates upon prior registration.
? Download the conference poster (PDF)
? Project website: #Webimmunization
Organizers:
- Jagiellonian University Medical College
- Poznań University of Technology
- University of Oslo
- Jerzy Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences
? Join Us for the online seminar: Why People Believe Misinformation – and What We Can Do About It
? Date: 17 December
? Time: 4:45 PM CET
? Live Streaming on YouTube – Scan the QR code in the image or follow the link: >>>
We are excited to welcome Dr. Jon Roozenbeek, Lecturer in Psychology and Security from King’s College London, who will discuss the psychology behind misinformation and how we can counteract it.
The seminar (held in ENG) is part of the #Webimmunization project, funded by the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 in collaboration with the National Science Centre (NCN).
We kindly invite you for mini-conference, summarizing the project #webimmunization. The event will be held at April 3, 2024 (Wednesday) 9:00-11:45, Jagiellonian University Medical College building, Kopernika 40 street, room 308
Organizers: Research team of the #Webimmunization project
Detailed information: >>>
Online seminar Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy with Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
Date: February 16, 2023 (Thursday) at 10:00 am CET; Organizers: Research team of the #Webimmunization project
Detailed information: >>>
Midterm seminar with Dr Jon Roozenbeek. Dr Roozenbeek is the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. His research focuses on misinformation, vaccine hesitancy, online extremism and inoculation theory. As part of his research, he co-developed the award-winning fake news games Bad News, Harmony Square and Go Viral. During the seminar, he will speak on how to counter misinformation using psychology.
Date: 6 July 2022, organiser: the #Webimmunization project team.
More information: >>>
Twitter Research Ethics Online Seminar – international online seminar
Date: 29.04.2021, Organizers: Research team of the #Webimmunization project
Detailed information: link.
#Webimmunization
How Can Online Social Networks Create Collective Resilience Against Misinformation? International Online Conference
Date: 01.12.2020
Organizers: The online conference is organized jointly by the research team of the #Webimmunization project and the Kościuszko Institute.
The #Webimmunization research project received funding from the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 through the NCN call IdeaLab. Project registration number: 2019/35/J/HS6/03498
More information: www.webimmunization.cm-uj.krakow.pl
Death and Dying: Medical, Cultural and Environmental Perspectives, Kraków, September 25-26, 2020 – an international conference under the auspices of Vice Rector for Medical College, prof. dr hab. Tomasz Grodzicki, Deans of the Faculty of Health Sciences: dr hab. Piotr Pierzchalski, prof. UJ, prof. dr hab. Tomasz Brzostek (Dean in 2012-2020) and Radio Kraków.
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Ethical Challenges of Research Conducted in Disaster Settings, Krakow 8-9.02.2016, Joint workshop organized by the Disaster Bioethics COST Action IS1201 and The Faculty of Health Science, Jagiellonian University Medical College. Więcej informacji
Problematyka umierania i śmierci w perspektywie medyczno-kulturowej [Problems of death and dying in a medical and cultural perspective], 20-21.XI. 2015, miejsce konferencji: Collegium Nowodworskiego, ul. św. Anny 12, Kraków
Konferencja naukowa zorganizowana pod patronatem Rektora Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego prof. dr hab. med. Wojciecha Nowaka, Krakowskiego Hospicjum dla Dzieci im. ks. Józefa Tischnera, Stowarzyszenia Wspierania Onkologii UNICORN, Radia Kraków we współpracy z Kliniką Leczenia Bólu i Opieki Paliatywnej UJCM oraz z Polskim Towarzystwem Badania Bólu
Etyczne problemy zarządzania w ochronie zdrowia [Healthcare management. Ethical issues] Krakow, 5-6 October 2012. Conference organized with co-operation with Wolters Kluwer Poland.
Etyczne aspekty decyzji medycznych [Healthcare decisionmaking. Ethical issues], Kraków, 8-9 October 2010. Conference organized with cooperation with Wolters Kluwer Poland. Conference website. A book with selected conference articles was published in 2011: J. Hartman, M. Waligóra (eds.), Etyczne aspekty decyzji medycznych, Warsaw 2011.
Bioetyka w zawodzie lekarza [Bioethics for medical professions], Krakow, 3-4 October 2008. Conference organized with cooperation with Wolters Kluwer Poland A book with selected conference articles was published in 2010: J. Hartman, W. Chańska (eds.), Bioetyka w zawodzie lekarza, Warsaw 2010.
2nd World Congress of Philosophy of Medicine Humane Health Care, Krakow, 23-26. August 2000. Conference organized by by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), Central and East European Association of Bioethics with the cooperation of the Department of Philosophy and Bioethics.
Man – Medicine – Philosophy. Tradition and Prospects, Krakow 9-11 May 1996.