Countway Cinema: Plan 75 In-Person
Join Countway and the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University for a screening of Plan 75 with a panel discussion to follow.
This event will be held in person. Refreshments & fresh popcorn will be served!
Who decides how we live and when we die? In “Plan 75,” a dystopian film that feels disturbingly plausible, director Chie Hayakawa explores a not-too-distant future in which the Japanese government incentivizes adults over 75 to opt into voluntary euthanasia to ease the state’s burden of caring for an aging population. While speculative, Hayakawa’s film addresses very real issues of social welfare, the economics of an aging population, loneliness, and agism, to name a few. After our screening of “Plan 75,” we will be joined by a panel of scholars and medical practitioners to discuss some of the ethical dilemmas the film brings to light.
Click here to watch the trailer for Plan 75.
Moderator & Panelists:
Sara Press, PhD, is a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Department of the History of Science. She recently completed her PhD in English Literature and Science and Technology Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she remains a UBC Public Scholar.
Jeremy Nobel, M.D., MPH, is a primary-care physician, public health practitioner, and award-winning poet with faculty appointments at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Susan Nathan is a Geriatrician and Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician at VA Boston Healthcare System and is the site director of the My Life, My Story program at VA Boston.
Karen Thornber, PhD, is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, and President of Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.
Maud Jansen is an MD/PhD student in the History of Science at Harvard. She received her BA from the University of Chicago in interdisciplinary literature and philosophy, writing her thesis on rationality in Michel de Montaigne’s Essais.
