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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 7.3 (2000) 236-240



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International News and Notes


Conferences And Symposia

Belgium

DATE: 27-29 June 2001
EVENT: Military Obedience: Ethical, Military, and Legal Perspectives
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
LOCATION: Brussels
CONTACT: Guy C. Van Damme, Royal Military Academy, Avenue de la Renaissance, 30, 1000, Brussels, Belgium (e-mail: guy.van.damme@filo.rma.ac.be; website: www.rma.ac.be/RMA-FILO/Collogue/home.html)

Canada

DATE: 1-6 July 2001
ORGANIZATION: The International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH)
DESCRIPTION: 26th International Congress on Law and Mental Health
THEME: Mental Health Crisis and Social Change
LOCATION: Montreal, Canada
CONTACT: International Academy of Law and Mental Health, c/o Chaire de psychiatrie legale et d'ethique biomedicale Philippe Pinel, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville (tel: +1 (514) 343-5938; fax: +1 (514) 343-2452; e-mail: admin@ialmh.org; webpage: http://www.ialmh.org)

India

DATE: 27-31 October 2001
ORGANIZATION: World Association for Social Psychiatry
DESCRIPTION: 17th World Congress of World Association for Social Psychiatry
THEME: Science, Psychiatry and Society--Search for Synergy
LOCATION: Agra, India
CONTACT: Professor Shridhar Sharma, Congress President, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, P.O. Box 9520, Delhi--110095, India (tel: 91-11- 2114025, 2112136; fax: 91-11-2299227; e-mail: wasp_congress@vsnl.com; website: www.17thwaspcongress.com)

Italy

DATE: 18-23 June 2001
EVENT: International Joint (CADE, TABLEAUX, and FTP) Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR)
DESCRIPTION: Conference
LOCATION: Siena
CONTACT: Fabio Massacci, University of Siena, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy (e-mail: ijcar-cch@dii.unisi.it; website: www.dii.uni-si.it/~ijcar/)

The Netherlands

DATE: 20-24 June 2001
ORGANIZATION: International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
DESCRIPTION: 20th World Congress
THEME: Pluralism and Law
LOCATION: Amsterdam
CONTACT: IVR Congress Committee, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit, De Boeelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (e-mail: ivrcongress@rechten.vu.nl) [End Page 236]

Portugal

DATE: 16-18 August 2001
ORGANIZATION: European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare
DESCRIPTION: 15th International Congress
THEME: Wisdom in Healthcare
LOCATION: Lisbon
CONTACT: Prof. dr. Henk ten Have, Secretariat ESPMH, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands (tel: +31 24 361 53 20; Fax: +31 24 354 02 54; e-mail h.tenhave@efg.kun.nl)

Scotland

DATE: 9-11 July 2001
ORGANIZATION: Society for Philosophy and Technology
DESCRIPTION: International Conference
THEME: Nature and Technology
LOCATION: University of Aberdeen
CONTACT: Andrew Light, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, 53 Washington Square, South, Room 401E., New York, NY 10012 (e-mail: alight@binghamton.edu; website: www.spt.org)

DATE: 13-15 June 2001
ORGANIZATION: British Society for Ethical Theory
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
LOCATION: University of Glasgow
CONTACT: Angus McKay, Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland (e-mail: A.McKay@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk; website: www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/conference.html)

South Africa


DATE: 15-16 August 2001
EVENT: Conference: Analytic Existentialism
DESCRIPTION: Conference
LOCATION: Cape Town
CONTACT: David Benatar, Philosophy, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa (e-mail: dbenatar@humanities.uct.ac.za; website: www.uct.ac.za/depts/philosophy/conference.htm)

United Kingdom


DATE: 3-5 July 2001
EVENT: Conference: Imagination and the Arts
DESCRIPTION: Conference
LOCATION: University of Leeds
CONTACT: Matthew Kieran, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom (e-mail: m.l.Kieran@leeds.ac.uk; website: www.bitwall.com/art)

U.S.A.

DATE: 20-22 July 2001
ORGANIZATION: Behavioral Research Council
DESCRIPTION: Conference
LOCATION: Great Barrington, Massachusetts
CONTACT: Elias L. Khalil, Behavioral Research Council, American Institute for Economic Research, Division St., Great Barrington, MA 01230-1000 (e-mail: elk@aier.org; website: www.brc-aier.org)

DATE: 23-27 July 2001
ORGANIZATION: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
LOCATION: St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico
CONTACT: Andrew Fiala, Philosophy and Humanistic Studies, University of Wisconsin...

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