Book Chat with Professor Nita Farahany presenting “The Battle For Your Brain” with Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa moderating.

Join Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa for a fireside chat with Professor Nita Farahany as they discuss Professor Farahany’s new book, “The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”

March 21, 2023 from 12 – 1 pm in Room 5042 at UNC School of Law (Van Hecke-Wettach Hall)

Lunch will be served so please RSVP to ensure an accurate head count.

For those who can’t attend in person, a Zoom webinar link will be sent at the time of registration.

About the speakers:

Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning tenured law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law where she is the Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program at Carolina Law. She is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University since 2017 and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School (2022-2023). She was a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Professor Ajunwa’s book, The Quantified Worker, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in April 2023.

Nita Farahany, author of “The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology” (St. Martin’s Press 2023), is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy and Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a widely published scholar on the ethics of emerging technologiesand frequent commentator for national media and radio and keynote speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum, and judicial conferences worldwide.From 2010-2017, she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, immediate past President of the International Neuroethics Society, ELSI advisor to the NIH Brain Initiativeand to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, member of the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders and the Standing Committee on Biotechnology Capabilities and National Security Needsfor the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks for the World Economic Forum. She is the Reporter for the Drafting Committee on updating the Uniform Determination of Death Committee for the Uniform Law Commission(ULC), as well as a ULC Commissioner. Farahany is a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and on the Board of Advisors forScientific American. She also serves on scientific and ethics advisory boards for corporations. Farahany holds an AB (Genetics) from Dartmouth College, an ALM (Biology) from Harvard University, and a JD, MA, and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from Duke University.