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 International Bioethics Education Program
Instructors: Linda Ehrlich, PhD and Stuart Youngner, M.D.
Barcelona guest lecturers:
Montse Armengou, investigative journalist, particularly of the Franco dictatorship period.
Beatriz Comella, Ph.D. student, University of Tarragona. Ms. Comella is a Spanish Literature teacher, and a researcher on Cinema, Art and Literature, mainly concerning Spanish and Catalan subjects.
Professor Carlos Losilla, professor of Film Theory at Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona, author, and member of the editorial staff of the journal Cahiers du Cinéma-España.
Prof. Esteve Riambau, professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona, author of more than 30 books on the history of the cinema, physician, and filmmaker (La doble vida del faquir [2005] and Máscaras [2009]).
Helena Rotés, art historian, teacher, and author of El libro de Rosalinda (1999) and De la finestra al balcó (2004)
San Sebastian Faculty : Antonio Casado da Rocha, PhD. Research Fellow and Secretary of the Donostia Hospital Ethics Committee and Arantza Etxeberria Agiriano, PhD. Associate Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Biology.
With special guest lecture by Juan Luis Buñuel, a documentary and feature filmmaker and sculptor with a profound knowledge of the work of his late father, filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
This 3-credit, 2-week course will focus on cinematic representations of bioethical issues in films from several regional film industries in Spain. We will interpret the theme of “the art of healing” both pragmatically and metaphorically as we explore films by such directors as Almodóvar, Amenábar, Erice, Berlanga, Jordá, Luis Buñuel, and Guttierez Aragón. We will also view television documentaries about attempts to heal the wounds of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
The lectures and discussions will be led by two Case faculty members, members of the Barcelona Film and documentary community, and faculty of the University of the Basque Country. Film viewings, and guest lectures will take place in the unique cosmopolitan setting of Barcelona at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the smaller city of San Sebastián (Donostia) along the Bay of Biscay. We will have ample opportunities to interact with Spanish undergraduates, bioethicists, film makers, film scholars, film festival producers, and critics in both cities.
Issues presented in the films include organ transplants, the right to die, care of someone in a persistent vegetative state, healing the traumas of children and of a divided nation, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment for the mentally ill.
Students will learn about the meaning of healing in several contexts, and explore specific bioethics dilemmas presented in the films in some detail. In addition, they will get an overview of the social and cultural contexts of the Spanish film industry (with particular attention to the Catalan and Basque film industries). There will be required readings, film viewings, and some lectures. Classroom activities will follow a seminar-style format that emphasizes student participation in discussions.
A one-day trip to the northeastern town of Girona will include a guided tour of the delightful Museu del Cinema: Collecció Tomàs Mallol, where objects from the early days of the cinema (as well as precursors to the cinema) are on permanent display.
This course is open to undergraduate and graduate students, and is relevant for students of Ethics, Film Studies, Spanish, Medicine, History, and Psychology (among other fields).
Course Directors:
Linda Ehrlich, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of the College Scholars Program at CWRU. A noted film scholar, she is the editor of The Cinema of Víctor Erice: An Open Window. Her commentary appears on the Criterion DVD of The Spirit of the Beehive. She has published about Spanish and Asian cinema in a host of film journals, and has frequently been an invited speaker on those subjects in museums and universities in the U.S. and Spain [www.lindaehrlich.com].
Stuart J. Youngner, M.D. is Susan E. Watson Professor and Chair of Bioethics at CWRU. Trained as a psychiatrist, he is a nationally- and internationally-recognized scholar on the topics of death and dying, organ and tissue transplantation, definitions of death, and ethics consultation.
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March 2010 courses
March 2010 courses take place March 8-12, trip March 5-14.
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