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First Annual Penn Bioethics Film Festival

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 (All day)

Annenberg Center for Performing Arts

The first annual Penn Bioethics Film Festival is taking place from April 12 through April 14.  The theme is Authority and Rebellion.  

The three-day festival will include screenings of Experimenter (2015), Dying to Know (2014), The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) and Transformation (2006). The film series spotlights ethical questions about psychological research and human experimentation. Panel discussions led by Penn faculty and special guests will follow each presentation. Special guests include:

Rick Doblin, founder of the Mulit-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies;

Werner Erhard, founder of the Erhard Seminars Training (est) organization; and

Zach Leary, trans-humanist yogi and stepson of LSD pioneer Timothy Leary.

A full schedule of films and commentary is available here.