Emerging Scholars Series
Call for Submissions - Inaugural Issue
The Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust (MIMEH) is proud to announce the Call for Submissions for its Emerging Scholars Series. The goal of the series is to provide an interdisciplinary venue for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and recent graduates to reach an intellectual and socially engaged audience. The purpose of the series is to use education to effect positive social change. The series is part of MIMEH’s “Generation of Change” initiative, which aims to empower the next generation of leaders to speak out on issues related to the ramifications of medicine, ethics, human dignity and the Holocaust for current issues in society.
While the series will consider submissions on a broad range of topics, the initial primary area of focus is on the relationship, or lack thereof, between those dictating health care and public policy on the national and global level and scholars from various fields: medical, philosophical, literary, historical, biological, anthropological, etc. The aim is to engage emerging scholars from the arts and humanities, as well as health and natural sciences, into the larger conversation regarding medical, social, or health pandemics and atrocities, so as to incorporate the complex frameworks of thought and experiences necessary to comment on contemporary ethical perplexities highlighted by COVID-19.
COVID-19 has underscored the theoretical ethical grounding we as a society anchor ourselves in and the extent to which circumstances may cause us to transgress or ignore these moral principles. Thus, the series seeks to examine the points of unity and potential rifts within ethical theory and practice from several vantage points, including but not limited to:
Submissions are not required to remain within the boundaries of these vantage points. Related themes will also be considered, but are encouraged to include reflection on a medical, social, or health pandemic or atrocity throughout history and the ramifications for current issues in society.
Abstracts for articles should be 400-500 words in length, include a working title and 5-10 keywords. Abstracts are due by August 15, 2020. Final, complete articles of 3,000 - 4,000 words will be due by December 15, 2020. Citations and references must conform to APA style. Please e-mail submissions and/or inquiries to Dr. Stacy Gallin at sgallin@mimeh.org and Sidney Kabinoff at skabinoff132@gmail.com
The Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust (MIMEH) is proud to announce the Call for Submissions for its Emerging Scholars Series. The goal of the series is to provide an interdisciplinary venue for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and recent graduates to reach an intellectual and socially engaged audience. The purpose of the series is to use education to effect positive social change. The series is part of MIMEH’s “Generation of Change” initiative, which aims to empower the next generation of leaders to speak out on issues related to the ramifications of medicine, ethics, human dignity and the Holocaust for current issues in society.
While the series will consider submissions on a broad range of topics, the initial primary area of focus is on the relationship, or lack thereof, between those dictating health care and public policy on the national and global level and scholars from various fields: medical, philosophical, literary, historical, biological, anthropological, etc. The aim is to engage emerging scholars from the arts and humanities, as well as health and natural sciences, into the larger conversation regarding medical, social, or health pandemics and atrocities, so as to incorporate the complex frameworks of thought and experiences necessary to comment on contemporary ethical perplexities highlighted by COVID-19.
COVID-19 has underscored the theoretical ethical grounding we as a society anchor ourselves in and the extent to which circumstances may cause us to transgress or ignore these moral principles. Thus, the series seeks to examine the points of unity and potential rifts within ethical theory and practice from several vantage points, including but not limited to:
- A history of social changes instigated by pandemics, atrocities, and disasters.
- Ethical considerations highlighted by the government’s interactions or shortcomings toward the individual: what is the role of a government in applying ethical frameworks?
- How has scholarly insight been utilized by your respective discipline in order to implement positive social change? If it has not been utilized, how should it be in order to implement positive social change?
- What is the society’s role in properly caring for the suffering individual?
- What is the role of suffering in ethics? Is it necessary for positive social change?
Submissions are not required to remain within the boundaries of these vantage points. Related themes will also be considered, but are encouraged to include reflection on a medical, social, or health pandemic or atrocity throughout history and the ramifications for current issues in society.
Abstracts for articles should be 400-500 words in length, include a working title and 5-10 keywords. Abstracts are due by August 15, 2020. Final, complete articles of 3,000 - 4,000 words will be due by December 15, 2020. Citations and references must conform to APA style. Please e-mail submissions and/or inquiries to Dr. Stacy Gallin at sgallin@mimeh.org and Sidney Kabinoff at skabinoff132@gmail.com