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FINAL PROGRAM: The Ethics of Embryo Donation, University of Potsdam, Dept. of Philosophy/LER,
Date: April 7th-April 8th, 2016, Venue: Neues Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Haus 8, Foyer 0.60/0.61
Website: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/phi/forschung/professurenforschungsschwerpunkte/professurfuerangewandteethik/
tagungtheethicsofembryodonation.html, Organization: Felicitas Krämer, [email protected]
Thursday, April 7
Friday, April 8
9:00
Registration open, coffee, tea and cake
9:30
Welcome, introduction of topic and participants (Felicitas
Krämer)
9:45
Introduction of Day 2 (Felicitas Krämer)
10:00-
Talk + discussion, Guido Pennings (Gent), Patients'
beliefs about their embryos and the effect on donation
to others, Chair: Felicitas Krämer
10:00-11:00
Talk + discussion: Felicitas Krämer (Potsdam), Ethical
implications of embryo donation, Chair: Guido Pennings
Short break
11:00-11:15
Short break
Talk + discussion: Lucy Frith (Liverpool),
Forming families with embryo donation: ethical
and social issues, Chair: Oliver Hallich
11:15-12:15
Talk + discussion: Oliver Hallich (Duisburg-Essen),
Embryo donation or embryo adoption: Conceptual and
normative issues, Chair: Lucy Frith
Lunch + coffee. Lunch is self-paid for participants, e.g. in
the canteen (Mensa), and paid for invited speakers.
12:15-13:30
Photo-session, lunch + coffee. Lunch is self-paid for
participants, and paid for invited speakers.
Talk + discussion: Claudia Wiesemann (Göttingen),
Embryo donation and the parent-child relationship
Chair: Matthias Kettner
13:30-14:30
Talk+ discussion: Alina Omerbasic (Potsdam), Embryo
donation and the non-identity problem, Chair: Helga
Müller
coffee break
14:30-14:45
coffee break
14:45-15:45
15:45
Talk + discussion: Helga Müller (http://www.dr-helgamueller.de), Embryo donation according to German
law – legal aspects and perspectives, Chair: Alina
Omerbasic
Talk + discussion: Matthias Kettner
(Witten-Herdecke), New (and better?)
forms of parenthood, Chair: Petra
Thorn
16.00-
coffee break
15:45-16:00
Closing words, End of conference
11:00
11:0011:15
11:1512:15
12:1513:30
13:3014:30
14:3014:45
14:45-
16:15
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16:15-
Talk + discussion: Petra Thorn (Chair of the
17:15
German Society for Fertility Counseling
(www.bkid.de), Embryo donation - the benefit of
pre-donation counselling, Chair: Felicitas Krämer
17:15
Closing words of Day One (Felicitas Krämer)
Leaving for conference dinner, downtown restaurant
Noidue, Lindenstr. 6, Potsdam, will be paid for
invited speakers, self-paid for participants

Institut für Philosophie Dr. Cornelia Buschmann