International News and Notes
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Conferences and Symposia
Belgium
DATE: 19–20 September 2006
EVENT: Qualitative Diversity Research: Looking Ahead
ORGANIZATION: The Research Centre for Organisation Studies
LOCATION: Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
CONTACT: Maddy Janssens; maddy.janssens@econ.kuleuven.be; Patrizia Zanoni; patrizia.zanoni@econ.kuleuven.be
DATE: 28–30 September 2006
EVENT: Conference
THEME: The Social Sciences and Democracy: A Philosophy of Science Perspective
LOCATION: The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Ghent
CONTACT: http://logica.ugent.be/ssd/
Greece
DATE: 30 July–4 August 2006
EVENT: XVIIth International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture
THEME: Arts and Sciences in the Greek Philosophical Tradition
LOCATION: Pyrgos and Ancient Olympia, Elia, Athens
CONTACT: Leonidas C. Bargeliotes, 9, Aristotelous St., 151 24 Amaroussion, Greece; lbargel@cc.uoa.gr; Georgios Anagnostopoulos, University of California, San Diego; ganagnos@ucsd.edu; Christos Evangeliou, Towson University; cevangeliou@towson.edu
DATE: 6–13 August 2006
EVENT: First International Bilingual Summer Seminar
THEME: EUDAIMONIA in Greek Philsophical and Cultural Tradition-Eudaimonism, Perfectionism and their Critics
LOCATION: Ancient Olympia
CONTACT: Professor Leonida C. Bargeliotes, President of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture, 9 Aristotelous Street, 151 24 Amaroussion, Athens, Greence; lbargel@cc.uoa.gr
Hvar
DATE: 9–13 October 2006
EVENT: International Symposium
THEME: Platonism and Forms of Intelligence
LOCATION: The Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
CONTACT: Andrea Mador; andrea@ifzg.hr; Laura Blažetić; laura@ifzg.hr; Marie-Élise Zovko; marie-elise.zvko@zg.htnet.hr; www.Ifzgr.hr
Latvia
DATE: 24–26 August 2006
EVENT: Rethinking Education in the Perspective of Life – Interdisciplinary Investigation
ORGANIZATION: The World Phenomenology Institute, its centers and affiliated societies
LOCATION: Daugavpils Pedagogical University, Daugavpils
CONTACT: Prof. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Program Coordinator, World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, NH 03755, USA; Fax: 802-295-5963; website: www.phenomenology.org [End Page 181]
U.S.A.
DATE: 2–6 August 2006
EVENT: The 16th International Workshop–Conference on Teaching Philosophy
ORGANIZATION: American Association of Philosophy Teachers
LOCATION: Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Andrew Carpenter; acarpenter@kaplan.edu
DATE: 17–27 August 2006
EVENT: IAPC 2006 Summer Seminar in Philosophy for Children
LOCATION: St. Marguerite's Retreat House, Mendham, New Jersey
CONTACT: http//frontpage.montclair.edu/iapc/summerseminarsflyer.htm
DATE: 15–17 September 2006
EVENT: Third Annual Metaethics Workshop
LOCATION: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
CONTACT: Russ Shafer-Landau; shaferlandau@wisc.edu; http://philosophy.wisc.edu/info/2006%20Metaethics%20Workshop.htm
DATE: 13–14 October 2006
EVENT: 11th Annual Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference
THEME: Methodology and Explanation
LOCATION: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
CONTACT: www.brown.edu/departments/philosophy/gradconference/gradconference.html
DATE: 20–22 October2006
EVENT: International Converence
THEME: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, 2006
ORGANIZATION: including annual meeting of scholarly societies in the history of ancient and medieval philosophy: Society for Ancient Green Philosophy; Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies; Association of Chinese Philosophers in America; Council for Philosophical Studies of Neoplatonism; and others
LOCATION: Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 113 W. 60th St., New York, New York 10023
CONTACT: Greek: Anthony Preus; apreus@binghampton.edu and Daryl M. Tress; tress@fordham.edu; Medieval Christian: Joseph Koterski; koterski@fordham.edu; Medieval Jewish: Oliver Leaman; oleaman@uky.edu; Asian (Chinese, Indic, and other Asian traditions): Prviz Morewedge; pmorewed@gsp-online.org; Tibetan Buddhist: Marie Friquegnon; friguegnonM@wpunj.edu; Local Arrangements: Jane Dryden; janedryden@gmail.com
DATE: 2–5 November 2006
EVENT: The Seventh Biennial Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association
THEME: Reclaiming Democracy: Visions and Practices from the Radical Left
LOCATION: Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
CONTACT: anne.pomeroy@stockton.edu
DATE: 2–5 November 2006
EVENT: Ninth Annual "Building Bridges", Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
LOCATION: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
CONTACT: Kevin Booth; kbooth@unibyte.com
DATE: 1 December 2006
EVENT: The Phenomenology of John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)
LOCATION: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Dr. Daniel J. Martino; martino@duq.edu; Dr. James Swindal; swindalj@duq.edu
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...
