International News and Notes

Conferences and Symposia

Brazil

DATE: 29 June-1 August 2003

EVENT: 10th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation

LOCATION: Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

CONTACT: website: www.cin.ufpe.br

Cuba

DATE: 7-10 January 2004

EVENT:2nd Biennial Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological, and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory

LOCATION: Instituto de Filosofia, Havana, Cuba

CONTACT: e-mail: filosof@ceniai.inf.cu (subject line: Professor Sotolongo)

Germany

DATE: 10-12 October 2003

EVENT: Discovering the Nanoscale: Philosophical Historical, & Sociological Perspectives

LOCATION: Technische Uniersität, Damstadt, Germany

CONTACT: Alfred Nordmann, Institut for Philosophie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Scholss, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany (e-mail: Nordmann@ phil.tu-darmstadt.de; website: www.cla.sc.edu/Phil/scistud/call.html)

Greece

DATE: 18-22 May 2003

ORGANIZATION: International Society for Universal Dialogue

EVENT: 5th World Congress

THEME: Relilgion, Politics, and Suffering: Intercultural Dimensions and Challenges for Philosophy

LOCATION: Pyrgos, Greece

CONTACT: John Rensenbrink, Government, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011

Iran

DATE: 16-18 May 2003

EVENT: 2nd International Conference on Human Rights

THEME: Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights

LOCATION: Mofid University, Qom, Iran

CONTACT: Conference Secretariat, Mofid University, Sadooq Ave., Qom, Iran (webs site: TFHR@mofidu.ac.ir)

Italy

DATE: 2-5 July 2003

EVENT: Metaphysics 2003: Second World Conference

LOCATION: Assumption Conference Center, Viale Romania 32, 00197 Rome, Italy

CONTACT: e-mail: InfoMetafisica@arsap.net; website: www.arsap.net/metafisica/ENG_index.htm

DATE: 28th July-3 August 2003

EVENT: International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic, Business, Education, Science, Medicine, and Mobile Technologies on the Internet

LOCATION: Scuola Superiore G Reiss Romoli (SSGRR) Congress Center, Telecom Italia Learning Services, L=Aquila (near Rome), Italy (website: www.ssgrr.it)

CONTACT: e-mail: ssgrr2003s@rti7020.etf.bg.ac.yu

DATE: 5-8 August 2003

ORGANIZATION: International Society for Value Inquiry

THEME: Global Issues in the Twenty-First Century

LOCATION: Florence

CONTACT: G. John Abbarno, D=Youville College, Buffalo, NY 14201 (e-mail: abbarnojo@dyc.edu)

Spain

DATE: 7-13 August 2003

EVENT: 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, & Philosophy of Science

LOCATION: Oviedo

CONTACT: Roger Bosch, Departamento de Filosofia, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus del Milán, C/ Tte Alfonso Martinex s/n, E-33071 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain (e-mail: roger@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es; website: www.uniovi.es/Congresos/2003/DLMPS)

Sweden

DATE: 15-16 November 2003

EVENT: conference

THEME: Philosophy, Phenomenology and Psychiatry

LOCATION: Faculty of Arts, Göteborg University, Göteborg

CONTACT: SFFP, Department of Philosophy, Göteborg University, Box 200, SE-405 30, Göteborg, Sweden (fax: +46 31 773 4945; e-mail: sffp@ www.phil.gu.se)

Turkey

DATE: 8-10 August 2003

ORGANIZATION: Council for Research in Values & Philosophy

EVENT: conference

THEME: Philosophical Challenges and Prospects of the Dialogue of Cultural Traditions

LOCATION: Istanbul

CONTACT: George F. McLean, Council for Research in Values & Philosophy, Cardinal Station, PO Box 261, Washington, DC 20064 (e-mail: mclean@cua.edu; website: www.crvp.org)

DATE: 10-17 August 2003

EVENT: XXIst World Congress of Philosophy

LOCATION: Istanbul

THEME: Philosophy Facing World Problems

CONTACT: Congress Secretariat, 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Ahmet Rasim Sok. 8/2, Cankaya, 06550 Ankhara, Turkey (e-mail: toc@tfk.org.tr; website: www.tfk.org.tr)

DATE: 10-17 August 2003

EVENT: 53rd International Phenomenology Conference

THEME: Phenomenology of Life meeting the Challenges of the Present Day World

LOCATION: Istanbul

CONTACT: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, NH 03755 (website: www.phenomenology.org)

DATE: 10-17 August 2003

ORGANIZATION: International Society for Value Inquiry

THEME: Global Issues in the Twenty-First Century

LOCATION: Istanbul

CONTACT: g. John Abbarno, D=Youville College, Buffalo, NY 14201 (e-mail: abbarnojo@dyc.edu)

United Kingdom

DATE: 2-5 July 2003

EVENT: The 2nd Annual ARHB Conference on Innateness and the Structure of the Mind

THEME: Culture and the Innate Mind

LOCATION: University of Sheffield, England

CONTACT: e-mail: innateness_project@shef.ac.uk; website: www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/AHRB-Project/YearTwoConference.html

DATE: 21-22 August 2003

EVENT: Conference

THEME: Approaches to Ancient Medicine

LOCATION: Classics Department...