Super excited to initiate, as founding member, Early Career Bioethics Network and South Asian Bioethics Community! We have amazing small and growing community- if you are interested to lead and join the conversations here are the links.
Super excited to initiate, as founding member, Early Career Bioethics Network and South Asian Bioethics Community! We have amazing small and growing community- if you are interested to lead and join the conversations here are the links.
Talks/News
I was recently featured on Blog of IJFAB: the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics as Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight. Here is the linK https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/03/feminist-bioethics-scholar-spotlight-supriya-subramani/
"This installment of the Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight series features Supriya Subramani, a lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia who engages ethnographic and phenomenological methods to questions of morality, behavior, and attitudes in healthcare contexts. Dr. Subramani has a book forthcoming this month with Routledge entitled Passive Patient Culture in India: Disrespect in Law and Medicine. Read on to learn more about Dr. Subramani as she responds to our questions about how she relates to the field of bioethics, what she is currently working on and is excited about in her research, and what she does outside of her research, teaching, and scholarship. Her interview unpacks serious tensions internal to bioethics and those of us working within and sometimes against it, showing the value of feminist approaches to bioethics, but also the need for ongoing and critical reflection as we undertake feminist and bioethics related work, projects, and activism."
I was interviewed and feature on ABC news. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/health-workers-condemn-nsw-health-nurse-video/104927954.
More thoughts: This deeply troubling and problematic video pushes us to think about the role of healthcare professionals in ensuring care, respect, and dignity, as well as the broader systemic issues in healthcare that impact racialized communities. It also raises important questions we need to reckon with about the racial and political economy of outrage, given the current political climate. As someone who studies othering in healthcare, this incident highlights how institutions tend to overlook the deeper, systemic discrimination built into the healthcare system, instead reducing it to individual acts. I hope healthcare workers and conversations surrounding this actively uphold care and dignity, ensuring they don’t reinforce the very structures of dehumanization they envision to transform.
Longer opinion piece here on ABC Religion and Ethics
I was featured on ABC Radio National and Philosopher's Zone podcast titled 'Health care ethics: otherness and belonging'
New Publication alert! Subramani, S. (2024). Othering and ethics of belonging in migrants' embodied healthcare experiences. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13829
Excited to join new Editorial Board members of Asian Bioethics Review journal from Sept 2024! I hope in this new position I will be an active member and be part of knowledge production rather than just a name on site! ;)
Talk on 'Centering (Non)Normative Racialized Identities', 2-4 Dec, 2024, 2024 Annual conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.
'Co-production of Values and Knowledge: Possibilities of “Third Space”?, 6 Dec 2024 at Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV) 2024 symposium, Engaging individuals, engaging communities: Equity, marginalisation, and inclusion in health. Register here.
Powerful Stories Network Seminar 'Shifting Identities: Interplay of Self and Politics', Department of History, University of Sydney, October 25, 12:00-2:00pm. Register here.
'Unmasking (Narrow) Positionality', 2 & 3rd Sept 2024, Race in the Modern World (Part 2): Decolonisation & and the Future of Race, Organised Ethics and Agency Research Centre & Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University. Register here
Possibilities and Politics of Moral Cosmopolitanisms, WIP Seminar and Pre-talk with HDR students, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, 30th April 2024.
'To belong is to feel to belong: Theorizing emotions in moral cosmopolitanism' on 12th June 2024 at 13.00 BST. So happy to meet peers there! The Shame and Medicine Project and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter. Regsiter here.
Possibilities and Politics of Moral Cosmopolitanisms, Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference, July 2024
Facilitated Participatory Theatre workshop on 'The Journey Towards Belonging' at conference organized by NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS), 14th April 2024.
Oral Presentation: Taking postcolonial approach to research ethics, 19-22 Nov 2023 AABHL conference
Panellist in "Reconceptualising informed consent for the modern era": I will discuss the significance of emotions and affects in medical decision-making and consent process, and how it subverts the politics of normative values such as informed consent. 19-22 Nov 2023 AABHL conference.
Panellist in Reflexivity in Bioethics Research: From principle to practice. Drawing from my earlier work on 'Practising reflexivity: Ethics, methodology and theory construction, I will argue that practicing reflexivity is an epistemic, ethical, and epistemological project that demystifies the moral knowledge construction process. 19-22 Nov 2023 AABHL conference.
I gave a Keynote at Postgraduate Researcher Medical Humanities Conference "Medical Humanities and (In)Justice: Crossing Disciplines and Contexts." on 29th and 30th June 2023, University of Exeter. Here is the link for CfP!
Super excited to join Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney as Lecturer! I can't wait to teach and continue my research projects!
Happy to receive 2023 residency fellowship at Brocher Foundation, Geneva to work on my book project!
Presented: 'Ethics of Belonging: Why it matters to migrants’ healthcare debates?' at Ethick@Lunch organized by University of Augsberg on 2nd Dezember 2022.
Enjoyed two days of insightful conversations at 'The Philosophy of Empathy' workshop at The Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich!
Youtube: Respect and Shame workshop series links
24th Feb 2022 "Ethics of Belonging in Migrants' Healthcare Experiences' Research Colloquium, Seminar Room, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 30, 8006 Zürich
Presented: 'Doing Moral Phenomenology: Weaving in Reflexivity, Humility and Embodiment' got selected at British Society for Phenomenology UK Annual Conference-Engaged Phenomenology II, the BSP 2022!
Presented: 'Disrespect in Cross-cultural healthcare experiences' at 16th World Congress of Bioethics, University of Basel, July 2022
Respect and Shame in Healthcare and Bioethics Workshop Series
Event date: Oct - Dec 2021
Organizers: Supriya Subramani – Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich; Luna Dolezal, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter. Venue: Online, Register here
Oct 23/2020: My conversation with Dr. Usha Sriram on her experience of being diagnosied with COVID-19 on IJME/HEaL Blog
Oct 22/2020: My conversation with Dr. Usha Sriram on ethics in practice on IJME/HEaL Blog
Oct 13/2020: 'Moral Habitus: An approach to understanding embedded disrespectful practices' paper got accepted in Developing World Bioethics!
Oct 1/2020: Became Individual Collaborator with Luna Dolezal in Shame and Medicine project!Feb 9th 2021, 'Little acts of Disrespect: Why it matters?'. Organised by Department of Development Studies, ajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt of India. (Zoom meeting)
Talk|Revisiting Respect for Persons: Conceptual analysis and Implications for Clinical Practice. Nov 26th 2020. IBME, University of Zurich: Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87812764433?pwd=b1ZqcjNSTFNvcjBGankxQXhNL0IwQT09 Meeting ID: 878 1276 4433 Passcode: 484151
First Session| October 30th| Zoom Reflexivity Workshop (2:00-5:00 PM CET).
In this podcast, I will be talking to Valerie Luyckx, who is a trained medical professional and strong global advocate for patients with kidney disease on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and COVID-19.
Signed my first book contract with Routledge!! 13th July 2020
Talk| Little Acts of Disrespect: Why Micro-Inequities Matters to Bioethics? June 23rd 2020 at 1.45PM (CEDT). Organized by Institute of Medical Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine (EGTM Kolloquium), University of Munster