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日程：2026年3月16日（月）～18日（水）

場所：神戸大学六甲台第２キャンパス

主催：神戸大学生命・自然科学ELSI研究プロジェクト(KOBELSI)

使用言語：英語

International Symposium "Consent and Privacy"

When we share our personal information with commercial companies through devices such as smartphones, or when we share our genetic information with medical associations for research purposes, there is no doubt that consent and privacy matter. Many related philosophical and ethical questions remain topics of ongoing inquiry: What is the nature of consent and privacy? Why is privacy morally significant? How can consent be morally transformative? How do consent and privacy matter in the use or development of new technologies? Under what conditions can we appropriately consent to share our personal information? Depending on the type of personal information, should the bar for consenting change?

This international symposium aims to address such philosophical and ethical questions about consent, privacy, and their relationship, in relation to the use or development of new technology. Although our particular focus is on issues of privacy and consent in the field of engineering biology, this symposium also covers many other fields and issues in which consent and privacy matter.

Date: March 16-18, 2026

Venue: Kobe University

Organizers: KOBELSI and Innovative Ethics Project, Kobe University

Speakers and Discussants:

・Tom Dougherty, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

・Charlotte A. Tschider, Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law & Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy

・Elizabeth Edenberg, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, The City University of New York (CUNY)

・Darrell Rowbottom, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

・Dan Pallies, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

・Tsutomu Sawai, Professor (Special Recognition), Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University

・Yumi Tomiyama, Associate Professor, Law, Economics and Management, Okinawa University

・Masahiko Tsukamoto, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University

・Togo Tsukahara, Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University

・Keiji Nishida, Professor, Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University

・Okui Go, Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University

Tentative Program:

March 16 (Mon): Takigawa Memorial Hall

14:00-14:10 Opening Remark: Takuya Niikawa

14:10:15:40 Keynote: Elizabeth Edenberg

“Consent and Securing Digital Rights”

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Dan Pallies

"Bioengineering Consent"

March 17 (Tue): Takigawa Memorial Hall

13:00-14:00 Darrell Rowbottom

(TBD)

14:00-14:10 Break

14:10-15:40 Keynote: Tom Dougherty

“Consent to Sharing Information”

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Keynote: Charlotte A. Tschider

“Individual v. Collective Benefit: Situating Consent in Healthcare Innovation”

17:30-19:30 Reception

March 18 (Wed): Daisel OI Hall

10:00-11:20 Workshop on Smartglasses and Privacy

10:00-10:25 Masahiko Tsukamoto

10:25-10:50 Togo Tsukahara

10:50-11:00 Commentary: Yumi Tomiyama

General Discussion 11:00-11:20

11:20-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Tsutomu Sawai

"Ethical and Empirical Perspectives on Consent in Human Brain Organoid Research"

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-16:50 Workshop on ELSI for bio-engineering

14:00-14:15 Naoto Chatani, opening remark on ELSI for bio-engineering

14:15-15:15 Keji Nishida

15:20-16:20: Go Okui

16:20-16:50: General Discussion

16:50 Closing Remark: Takuya Niikawa