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  • International News and Notes

Conferences and symposia

Denmark

  • date: 19–23 August 2008

  • event: An International, Interdisciplinary Research Conference on the Diversity of Conceptions and Cultural Images of Conflicts

  • theme: Understanding Conflicts–Cross-Cultural Perspectives

  • location: Aarhaus

  • contact: www.understandingconflicts.net

Finland

  • date: 28 July–2 August 2008

  • event: 11thInternational Conference

  • theme: Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy

  • organization: International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), in cooperation with the University of Helsinki

  • location: University of Helsinki

  • contact: Professor Ann Ward,Ann.Ward@uregina.ca; http://issei2008.haifa.ac.il/WardAnn.htm

France

  • date: 13–19 July 2008

  • event: 14thInternational Philosophy Colloquium Evian

  • theme: What is Second Nature? – Reason, History, Institutions

  • location: Evian (Lake Geneva)

  • contact: Georg W. Bertram;evian@philosophie.fu-berlin.de

Greece

  • date: 12–19 July 2008

  • event: 2ndInternational Conference of Philosophy

  • theme: Greek Philosophy and Its Relevance to Issues of our Age

  • organization: The International Association for Greek Philosophy (IAGP)

  • location: Athens, Greece

  • contact: Professor Konstantine Boudouris, President of the Organizing Committee, 5 Simonidou Str., 174 56 Alimos (Athens), Greece; www.hri.org/iagp ; www.iagp.gr ;kboud714@ppp.uoa.gr

  • date: 24 July 2008

  • event: 20thInternational Conference of Philosophy

  • theme: Greek Philosophy and Its Relevance to Issues of Our Age

  • organization: The Organizing Committee of the 20thInternational Conference of Philosophy

  • location: To be announced

  • contact: http://www.hri.org/iagp/ ; http://www.iagp.gr

  • date: 8–12 August 2008

  • event: XIXth International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture

  • theme: Ecology and Ethics in the Age of Globalization

  • location: Ancient Olympia and Pyrgos, Elia, Greece

  • contact: Leonidas Bargeliotis, 9 Aristotelous Street, 151 24 Amaroussion, Greece;lbargel@cc.uoa.gr

India

  • date: 6–9 January 2009

  • event: International and Interdisciplinary Conference

  • theme: Self, Identity and Culture: East and West [End Page 385]

  • organization: The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion; The Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness, Bethany College, West Virginia

  • location: Kolkata

  • contact: Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti;cchakrabarti@bethanywv.edu

U.S.A

  • date: 11–13 August 2008

  • event: XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum

  • location: University of Texas at Austin

  • contact: Lesley Dean-Jones,ldjones@mail.utexas. edu

  • date: 6–8 October 2008

  • event: Conference

  • theme: Psychiatry and Freedom

  • organization: International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry

  • location: Dallas, Texas

  • contact: www.utsouthwestern.edu/psychiatryan-dfreedomHollee Nash,hollee.nash@utsouth-western.edu; Linda Muncy,linda.muncy@utsouthwestern.edu

  • date: 16–17 May 2009

  • event: 21stAnnual Meeting

  • theme: Philosophical Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

  • organization: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry

  • location: San Francisco, California

  • contact: Linda Muncy,linda.muncy@utsouthwest-ern.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

Canada

  • organization: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry - Canadian Affiliate Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • contact: Edwin Hersch, M.D., 586 Eglinton Ave. E., Suite 707, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P1P2;swords@allstream.net

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 of Neuro physiology,University of Copenhagen, Buldborgvej 25 - DK, 2000 Fredriksberg

Finland

  • organization: Finnish Group for Philosophy, Medicine and Mental Health

  • contact: Professor Ingmar Porn and Dr. Markus Heinimaa, Department of Philosophy, University of Turku - 20700 Turku

France

  • organization:L’Évolution Psychiatrique

  • contact: Professor Yves Thoret, 53 Aven Anatole, 78300, Poissy

Germany

  • organization: Referat Philosophische Grundlagen der Psychiatrie, DGPPN (German Psychiatric Association

  • contact: Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Psychiatrische Klinik, Voßstr. 4, D-69115 Heidelberg;thomas_fuchs@med.uni-heidelberg.de; Dr. Martin Heinze, Klinikum Bremen-Ost;Martin.Heinze@Klinikum-Bre-men-Ost.de; www.dgppn.de

  • organization: Gesellschaft für Philosophie und Wis-senschaften der Psyche

  • contact: Dr. Christian Kupke, c/o Charité Klinik für Psychiatrie und psychotherapie Schumannstr. 20/21, 10117 Berlin,kupke@onlinehome.de; www.gpwp.de

Israel

  • organization: Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy

  • contact: Dr. Ran Lahav, 25 Yarmin Street - Mevascret Zion 90805

Italy

  • organization: Società Italiana per la Psciopatologia...

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