4:30-5:30 pm — Reception

5:30-6:30 pm — Lecture-Concert

Please RSVP by May 11, 3 pm, to receive a security pass to enter Columbia University.

Ruth Naomi Floyd is a vocalist, composer, educator, flutist, and photographer. She has been at the forefront of creating musical and photographic works that express theology, history, and justice. Ruth performs and lectures on the intersection of beauty, theology, justice, culture, and the arts at universities, seminaries, conferences, and performance centers worldwide. Ruth is the first African American woman to serve as the Founding Director of a University Jazz Studies Program in the United States. She is an Artist-in-Residence at Temple University and is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Concordia College New York awarded Ruth an Honorary Doctorate for her unique and valuable contribution to the arts, her commitment to music education, and her work. Ruth is active in advocacy work in the incarcerated, unhoused, transgender, and HIV/AIDS communities. In addition, Ruth is an award-winning photographer whose work is included in permanent museum and private collections.

This special presentation is a part of Columbia’s Center for Clinical Medical Ethics annual colloquium on Medicine & the Art of Ethics.

This event is co-hosted by Columbia’s Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Columbia Religious Life. Please email ethics@cumc.columbia.edu if you have any questions.

Free!

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