International News and Notes

Conferences and Symposia

Germany

DATE: 23-26 September 2004
EVENT: 7th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology
THEME: Time, Memory and History
LOCATION: Heidelberg
CONTACT: Thomas Fuchs, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg, Vosstr. 2, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany; thomas_fuchs@med.uni-heidelberg.de; web site: www.psychiatrie.uni-hd.de, link: ppp2004

Greece

DATE: 1-6 August 2004
EVENT: XVth International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture
THEME: Excellence and Perfection of Body and Soul in the Hellenic Tradition
LOCATION: Pyrgos, Elia
CONTACT: http://www.crvp.org/ Philosophical_Calencar/callforpapers/ OLYMPIC%20CENTER%20FOR%20PHILOSOPHY %20AND% 20CULTURE.htm

Italy

DATE: 10-13 November 2004
ORGANIZATION: World Psychiatric Congress: Treatments in Psychiatry
EVENT: A three-hour course on Phenomenological and Anthropological Psychiatry in the 21^st Century (sponsored by The Irwin Foundation)
LOCATION: Florence
CONTACT: Michael A. Schwartz; mindbrain1@aol.com

Spain

DATE: 2-7 August 2004
ORGANIZATION: International Society for the Study of European Ideas
EVENT: 9th International ISSEI Conference
THEME: Narrative of Modernity: Co-Existence of Differences
LOCATION: Pamplona, Spain
CONTACT: http://issei2004.haifa.ac.il/Introduction%20and%20Conference%20Topic

DATE: 24-27 August 2005
EVENT: XIXth International Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (together with the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics)
THEME: Ethics and Philosophy of Emerging Medical Technologies
LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT: Dr. Bert Gordijn, Secretary of the ESPMH, Dept. Of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, University Medical Center, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands, b.gordijn@efg.umcn.nl

U.S.A.

DATE: 17-21 July 2004
ORGANIZATION: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
EVENT: Meeting
LOCATION: Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
CONTACT: Siegfried Van Duffell, Ghent University, Belgium, siegfried.vanduffel@pandora.be; Andrew Fiala, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, fialaa@uwgb.edu; Society Web Site: http://www.phil.stmarytx.edu/SPCWhm/index.htm

DATE: 30 July-1 August, 2004
ORGANIZATION: International Christian Studies Association
EVENT: VI World Congress
LOCATION: Pasadena, California
CONTACT: Dr. O. Gruenwald, 1065 Pine Bluff Drive, Pasadena, CA 91107; www.jis3.org

DATE: 3-6 August 2004
EVENT: Conference (The first conference in a three-conference series entitled Consequentiality)
THEME: Consequentiality: Human, All Too Human
LOCATION: San Diego, California
CONTACT: Dena Hurst, Florida State University, dlh4059@garnet.acns.fsu.edu or dlhurst@earthlink.net

DATE: 4-8 August 2004
ORGANIZATION: The American Association of Philosophy Teachers
EVENT: The Fifteenth International Workshop-Conference
THEME: Teaching Philosophy
LOCATION: University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
CONTACT: Mimi Marinucci, Philosophy Program, 266 Patterson Hall, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004-2430, http://aapt-online.dhs.org

DATE: 22-23 October 2004
ORGANIZATION: New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology (NEI)
EVENT: conference
THEME: Language, Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology
LOCATION: Portland, Maine
CONTACT: the Conference Planning Committee; TheInstitute@une.edu

DATE: 15-17 October 2004
ORGANIZATION: New York City Chapter of The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
EVENT: Retreat & Colloquium
THEME: Holism in Mental Health: Integrating the Biopsychosocial Subject
LOCATION: Woodstock, New York
CONTACT: Christian Perring, Department of Philosophy, Dowling College, Idle Hour Blvd., Oakdale, NY 11769, perringc@dowling.edu

DATE: 18-21 November 2004
ORGANIZATION: Philosophy of Science Association
EVENT: Nineteenth Biennial Meetings
LOCATION: Austin, Texas
CONTACT: http://www.temple.edu/psa2004/

DATE: 21-22 May 2005
ORGANIZATION: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
EVENT: Annual Meeting
THEME: Technology and Psychiatry
LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia
CONTACT: Linda Muncy, Dept. of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9070; 214-648-4960 (tel); 214-648-4967 (fax); linda.muncy@utsouthwestern.edu; www3.utsouthwestern.edu/aapp

National and Local Groups

Australia

ORGANIZATION: Interest Group for Philosophy and Psychiatry
CONTACT: Dr. Jeanette Martin and Dr. Stephanie Winfield, Australia/New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2/97 Edgecliffe Road, Bondi Junction-NSW 2002

Denmark

ORGANIZATION: Danish Group for Philosophy, Medicine and Mental Health
CONTACT: Dr. Soren Holm, Department of Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3C - 2200N
CONTACT: Dr. Anton Aggernaes, Institute...