The SIUT’s Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) concluded its two-day international conference titled, “Warp and Woof of Human Morality.”
The conference was held to commemorate the centre’s 20th anniversary. The event featured prominent international and national speakers, who spoke about different dimensions of human morality.
The first day of the conference included the inaugural session by Professor Farhat Moazam, founding chairperson of the centre, followed by a keynote speech delivered online by Dr Caesar Atuire, a distinguished scholar in Bioethics and Global Health from Ghana, and president of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB).
The afternoon sessions focused on discussing the landscape for women in Pakistan through talks by Dr Arfana Mallah (Jamshoro) and Dr Fatima Hassan (Karachi).
The talks on the second day included Dr Paul Lombardo, a historian and bioethicist from the USA, on the Muslim philosopher and physician, Ibn-e-Sina. Dr Syed Noman-ul-Haq of the IBA discussed the story of ayy ibn Yaq n by Muslim philosopher, Ibn-Tufayl. Dr Nauman Faizi from School of Social Sciences and Humanities, LUMS, critiqued the dominant bioethical approaches and spoke about the ways to deal with the ‘wicked problem’ of uncertainty.
The conference concluded with an Urdu literary event discussing the deep connection between Urdu literature and human values. The panel included renowned poets Iftikhar Arif and Zehra Nigah and was moderated by Harris Khalique, well-known writer and poet.