Harriet Washington, Editor
and Medical Ethicist
“Medical Apartheid”

Wednesday, September 26
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Harriet A. Washington, a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law, is a medical ethicist and writer who spent 2002-2005 as a research fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. She has also been a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University, a Fellow of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and a recipient of the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health. As an award-winning medical writer and editor, her work focuses upon the intersection of medical ethics, biotechnology, law and history of medicine. She has been a contributor, news editor, science editor and medical columnist for a number of newspapers and national magazines. She is the founding editor of The Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health and has been published in academic publications as well, among them Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, the Harvard Public Health Review and the Harvard AIDS Review. Her many laurels include three first-place awards for medical investigative reporting, the 2007 BCALA nonfiction book award and the Congressional Black Caucus Beacon of Light Award. 

Washington has presented her work in public health, medical ethics and the history of medicine at dozens of universities at home and abroad, including Harvard Medical School, the University of Chicago Medical School, Stanford Law School, Albert Einstein Medical School and schools of medicine in Geneva, Vienna, Berlin and Lübeck. She is a scheduled Plenary Speaker at the American Society of Bioethics 2007 Annual Meeting and she is also the immediate past board president of the Ferre Institute, which is devoted to reproductive and genetics issues.  

Her books on medicine include the award-winning 2007 best seller Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation with African Americans from the Colonial Era to the Present, as well as lauded books on hepatitis C, Parkinson’s disease and African American health issues.

She is a member of the boards of DePaul University’s Health Law Institute, the Journal of the National Medical Association and American Legacy magazine. Washington has taught at venues such as New School University, SUNY, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Writers & Books and has worked as a tutor in Latin at the University of Rochester and as a teaching assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health. Washington has also worked as a social worker, as the manager of a poison center and as a classical-music announcer for public radio. 

Lyceum Series
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Calendar

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Fall 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - Patrice Gaines, Award Winning Journalist
"The Power of One: Making Change, Making Connections"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Winston Crisp, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
“WE THE PEOPLE . . .
The United States Constitution: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - Dr. Arlie Petters , Mathematician
"Science, Entrepreneurship, and Financial Success"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - Al Young, California State Poet Laureate and Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Leon Bates, Pianist
Recital
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.

SPRING 2009

THE FINE ARTS EXAMINE THE MEDICAL ARTS
An Exhibit of Commissioned Paintings about the Training for and the Practice of Medicine and Surgery
Sponsored by The Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois
(Johnson C. Smith students can earn two Lyceum credits by attending the events connected with the Medical Arts Exhibit)
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

EXHIBITION
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
January 15 through January 30, 2009
Edward E. Crutchfield Center for Integrated Studies
HOURS
Monday through Friday, Noon-5:00 p.m.
(Free Parking in Gymnasium Lot, Next to Crutchfield Center)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - David McKay, Curator; James Fullwood, Johnson C. Smith University Alumnus
"The Fine Arts Examine the Medical Arts"
Lecture

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
William Shakespeare’s
“The Comedy of Errors”
Performed by
The American Shakespeare Center Touring Company
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - Bryan Ferguson, Film Director and Johnson C. Smith Alumnus
"The Death of Murphy"
Charlotte Film Premier and Q&A with Director
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Poet
Fourteenth Annual World of Words Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Indigo Moor, Poet
Fourteenth World of Words Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 27, 2009 - Black Ink Monks Performance Poetry
Fourteenth World of Words Poetry Festival
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell AuditoriumM
7:30 p.m.

Thursday - Friday, April 2 - 3, 2009 - The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
JCSU Ira B. Aldridge Drama Guild Performance
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.