News and Notes

Conferences and Symposia

Bulgaria

DATE: 25–27 April 1997
ORGANIZATION: Conference on Ethical and Philosophical Issues Confronting the Countries of Southeast Europe (I)
LOCATION: American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad
CONTACT: Dane Gordon, Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623 (e-mail: cahies@rit.edu)

DATE: 24–25 September 1997
ORGANIZATION: Conference on Ethical and Philosophical Issues Confronting the Countries of Southeast Europe (II)
LOCATION: American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad
CONTACT: Dane Gordon, Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623 (e-mail: cahies@rit.edu)

France

DATE: 29 June–1 July 1997
ORGANIZATION: Congrès International de L’Évolution Psychiatrique
THEME: Vulnerability and Destiny: On the Phenomenology of Schizophrenia
LOCATION: Marseille
CONTACT: Dr. Jean Naudin, Service de Psychiatrie, Pr Azorin, SHU Sainte-Marguerite, 275 Bd de Sainte-Marguerite, 13008 Marseille (phone: 33-91763284; fax: 33-91713193)

India

DATE: 1–4 August 1997
ORGANIZATION: Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
THEME: Relativism: Science, Religion, and Philosophy
LOCATION: Calcutta
CONTACT: D. Chakrabarti, Elong College, CB 2336, Elon College, NC 27244, U.S.A.

Poland

DATE: 5–9 June 1997
ORGANIZATION: International Society for Philosophy and the Sciences of Life
THEME: Origins of Life, Individuation, Evolution of Types, the New Critic of Reason, and the Human Creative Condition
LOCATION: Gdansk
CONTACT: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The World Phenomenology Institute, 348 Payson Rd., Belmont, MA 02178, U.S.A.

United Kingdom

DATE: 8–9 May 1997
Description: The Seventh Leeds Psychopathology Symposium
THEME: Self and Its Disorders
LOCATION: Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds
CONTACT: Mrs. Hilary L. Thackray, School of Continuing Education, Continuing Education Building, Springfield Mount, Leeds LS2 9NG, England, U.K.

U.S.A

DATE: 3–5 April 1997
DESCRIPTION: 24th Annual Richard R. Baker Philosophy [End Page 95] Colloquium and Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers
THEME: The Epistemic Subject
LOCATION: University of Dayton
CONTACT: Patricia Johnson, Philosophy, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1546 (e-mail: johnson@checkov.hm.udayton.edu)

DATE: 3–6 April 1997
ORGANIZATION: American Association for the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION: Annual Meeting
LOCATION: Williamsburg, Virginia
CONTACT: Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D., Department of Medical Humanities, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC 27858-4354

DATE: 11–13 April 1997
ORGANIZATION: New Mexico and West Texas Philosophical Society
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
LOCATION: Albuquerque, New Mexico
CONTACT: Hubert G. Alexander, 603 Girard, N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87106

DATE: 16–17 April 1997
Event: 21st Annual Phenomenology and Literature Congress
DESCRIPTION: Annual Meeting
LOCATION: Cambridge, Massachusetts
THEME: Elegy; The Creative Play of Emotions: Mourning, Loss, Melancholy, Longing, Resignation, Joy, Delight, Reconciliation
CONTACT: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The World Phenomenology Institute, 348 Payson Rd., Belmont, MA 02178

DATE: 23–26 April 1997
ORGANIZATION: American Philosophical Association—Central Division
DESCRIPTION: Annual Meeting
LOCATION: Pittsburgh
CONTACT: Robin Smith, Philosophy, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 (e-mail: rasmith@tamu.edu)

DATE: 23–26 April 1997
ORGANIZATION: North American Nietzsche Society (with APA)
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
LOCATION: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Richard Schacht, Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801

DATE: 23–26 April 1997
ORGANIZATION: Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (with APA)
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
LOCATION: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: A. Preus, Philosophy, Binghampton University, Binghampton, NY 13902-6000 (e-mail: apreus@bingvmb.cc.binghampton.edu)

DATE: 23–26 April 1997
ORGANIZATION: Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust (with APA)
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
LOCATION: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Alan Rosenberg, Philosophy, Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367

DATE: 17–18 May 1997
ORGANIZATION: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
THEME: Consciousness and Its Pathologies
DESCRIPTION: Annual Meeting
LOCATION: San Diego, California
CONTACT: Linda Muncy, Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75235-9070 (e-mail: lmuncy@mednet.swmed.edu)

DATE: 29 July–2 August 1997
ORGANIZATION: Hume Society
DESCRIPTION: 24th Hume Society Conference
LOCATION: Monterey, California
CONTACT: Saul Traiger, Philosophy, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041

DATE: 10–16 August 1998
ORGANIZATION: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (WCP)
DESCRIPTION: Conference
THEME: Paideia: Philosophy in the Education of Humanity
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts
CONTACT: American Organizing Committee, Boston University, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: paideia@bu.edu)

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