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Monday, November 9

F&ES Presentation

Time: 11 AM

Location: 205 Prospect Street, 3rd Floor, room 32

Speaker: Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld, Co-founder & Executive Director, African People & Wildlife Fund; Research Affiliate, F&ES

Topic: Conservation in Maasailand: A Village-Based Approach to Natural Resource Management in Tanzania

The presentation will include information about opportunities for research and internships with the African People & Wildlife Fund.

Population, Justice and Environment Panel

Time: 12 PM

Location: 205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor

Featured panelists: Laurie Mazur, Director of the Population Justice Project

                                      Vicky Markham, Director of the Center for Environment and Population

Join us for this exciting opportunity to participate in a panel discussion that generates awareness and mobilizes action on the interconnected issues of population growth, climate change, women's rights and global justice.

Leitner Program Lecture

Time: 12 PM

Location: Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave, room 203

Speaker: Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego

Topic: War, Moral Hazard and Ministerial Responsibility: England after the Glorious Revolution


History of Science and Medicine Lecture

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: 320 York St, room 119B

Speaker: Fa-ti Fan, Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Binghamton

Topic: Science, Earthquake Monitoring, and Everyday Knowledge in Communist China

Medical Students for Choice Lecture

Time: 5:30 PM

Location: 315 Cedar St, room 216

Speaker: Lisa Russell, filmmaker, “Not Yet Rain”

Topic: Reproductive Issues in Ethiopia

Tuesday, November 10

Child Study Center Grand Rounds Lecture

Time: 1 PM

Location: Donald J. Cohen Auditorium, Room E02, 230 South Frontage Rd

Speaker: Ruth L. Fischbach, PhD, MPE, Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Columbia University
Topic: Why Is Informed Consent So Important? Historical Reflections and Current Challenges
 

Munson Marine Lecture

Time: 5:30 PM

Location: 205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor

Speaker: Dr. Peter Brewer, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Schell Center Informational Session

Time: 6:10 PM

Location: 127 Wall St, room 128
Panel:    Sharanya Kanikkannan, Timap for Justice, Sierra Leone
              Brian Finucane, International Commission for Missing Persons, Bosnia/Herzegovina
              Scarlet Kim, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Switzerland
              Katie Reisner, Alternative Law Forum, India

Wednesday, November 11

African Studies Lecture

Time: 11:45 AM

Location: Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave, room 202

Speaker: Emmanuelle Ganne, Counselor, Accessions Division, WTO

Topic: What is at Stake for Africa in the Current Round of WTO negotiations?

F&ES Lecture

Time: 12 PM

Location: Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium, 195 Prospect Street

Speaker: Peter Raymond

Topic: Dirty old man river: Climatic versus land management controls on Mississippi River discharge and water chemistry

Gilder Lehrman Center Seminar

Time: 12 PM

Location: 230 Propsect Street, Room 101

Speaker: Richard Huzzey, Postdoctoral Fellow, British Studies, Yale University

Topic: The Moral Economy of Popular British Anti-Slavery

Rudd Center Seminar

Time: 12:30 PM

Location: 309 Edwards St conference room

Speaker: Boyd Swinburn, MD, Chair in Population Health; Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Obesity Prevention; Deakin University, Australia

Topic: Drivers of the Obesity Epidemic in the U.S. and Around the Globe

Thursday, November 12

Forest Forum Lunch

Time: 12 PM

Location: Marsh Hall rotunda, 360 Prospect St.

Speaker: Blake Hudson, Assistant Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law

Topic: Seeing the Global Forest for the Trees: How US Federalism Can Coexist with Global Governance of Forests

YACS@CIRA Seminar Series

Time: 12:30 PM

Location: CIRA, Ste 200, Rm 202, 135 College St

Speaker: Carl Latkin, Ph.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Title: Social Network Approaches to HIV Prevention

 

Perspectives on Medicine Lecture

Time: 1 PM

Location: 315 Cedar St, room 110

Speaker: Richard Belitsky, M.D., Deputy Dean for Education, Harold W. Jockers Associate, Professor of Medical Education, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, YSM

Topic: Strategic Planning for Education: Initial Recommendations and Plan for Feedback

 

Poynter Fellowship in Journalism Lecture

Time: 4 PM

Location: 53 Wall St., room 208

Speaker: Sharon Begley, Newsweek Senior Editor
Topic: Science Journalism in an Irrational World"
 

Schell Center Human Rights Workshop

Time: 4:15 PM

Location: 127 Wall St, Faculty lounge

Speaker: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Professor of Law and Development and Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Topic: The State of the Right to Development After Developmentalism

Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar

Time: 4:15 PM

Location: 77 Prospect St, room A002

Speaker: Professor Ernest Sternberg, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Buffalo, SUNY

Topic: Purifying the World: What the Radical Anti-Empire Ideology Stands For

Program for Humanities in Medicine’s Richard Selzer Lecture

Time: 5 PM

Location: 333 Cedar St., Beaumont Room

Speaker: Nancy Rappaport, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Topic: The Role of Narrative and Reflection in Dealing with Tragedy

Health Management Professions Panel

Time: 6 PM

Location: Horchow Hall, General Motors Rm., 55 Hillhouse Ave.

Speakers: Yale alumni working in the health professions

For candidates who are interested in "MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare," "MSN: Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership" and "MPH: Health Management."

Friday, November 13

Agrarian Studies Colloquium

Time: 11 AM

Location: 77 Prospect St, room B012

Speaker: Erik Harms, Anthropology, Yale University

Topic: Social Demolition: Creative Destruction and the Production of Value in Vietnamese Land Clearance

Zigler Center Panel Discussion

Time: 11:30 AM

Location: 100 Wall St room 116

Panelists:

*Derrick Gordon, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Division of Prevention Community Research and the Consultation Center, YSM

*Anthony Judkins, Lead Planner, Department of Social Services, State of Connecticut

* Brett Rayford, Bureau Chief, Continuous Quality Improvement, Department of Children and Families, State of Connecticut

Topic: Connecticut’s Efforts to Engage Fathers on the Fringes: If You Build It Will They Come?

 

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Campus Conferences and Off-Campus Events

2009

 

 

11/9

The Age of Bio(in)security: Science, Citizens, and the Future

(Washington, DC)

11/9

Emerging Practices in Pain Medicine and Palliative Care: Advances in Nursing

(New York, NY)

11/11

Hartford Ethics Group: Dissociation & Second Life

(Trinity College)

12/8

Hartford Ethics Group: What Lies Beneath

(Trinity College)

2010

 

 

2/18-22

American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting

(San Diego, CA)

3/15-17

2nd Global Conference on Ethics in Public Life

(Austria)

4/1-3

DePauw University Undergraduate Ethics Symposium

(Greencastle, IN)

4/15-16

Integrating Climate Change and Development Ethics

(University Park, PA)

4/17

Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective

(Yale)

4/17-18

Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation 2010 Conference

(Yale)

4/23

NEW! Animal(s) Matter(s): The Future of Critical Animal Studies

(Liverpool, UK)

6/21-25

Nanotech 2010

(Anaheim, CA)

7/4-10

18th International Conference on Composites/Nano-Engineering

(Anchorage, AK)

July

Conference of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law

(Adelaide, Australia)

  

 

The Age of Bio(in)security: Science, Citizens, and the Future - an update on bioethics and biopolitics

 

The Appignani Bioethics Center and the American Humanist Association cordially invite you to this press conference and panel discussion to be held at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045 on Monday, November 9, 2009.  The press conference will take place from 9:30-10:00 AM, and the panel discussion from 10:00-11:30 AM.

Distinguished speakers Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D., David & Lyn Silfen University Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and Andrew Light, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress and Director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University will address questions of developing technologies while examining the intense politicization now in bioethics. This exciting discussion will be moderated by Ana Lita, Ph.D., Director of the Appignani Bioethics Center.

 

For more information and to RSVP contact

Ana Lita: alita@americanhumanist.org, www.humanistbioethics.org

Karen Frantz: kfranz@americanhumanist.org, www.americanhumanist.org

Emerging Practices in Pain Medicine and Palliative Care: Advances in Nursing

Monday November 9, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City

Program & registration form at the following link: http://www.stoppain.org/for_professionals/content/education/education.asp#6

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Hartford Ethics Group

 

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 7pm

Gregory P. Garvey will speak on Dissociation & Second Life: Pathology or a State of Mind?

 

"Classical" border/boundaries theories examine conflicts that arise between the domains of work, family and so-called third places such as clubs, sports and other social activities outside home or work life. I have argued for consideration of a fourth place, namely the virtual. In this presentation I will consider the impact of the "unrealness" of the experience of being "in" the virtual world of Second Life. I will further suggest that this experience of being "in world" invites a comparison with the diagnostic criteria for dissociation disorders such as depersonalization and derealization as described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-TR.

BIO: Professor Greg Garvey teaches in the Department of Computer Science and Interactive Digital Design at Quinnipiac University. Previously at Quinnipiac University he was the Visiting Fellow in the Arts and also was an Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University. Prior to joining Quinnipiac University he was Chair of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montreal and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Design Institute. He received a Masters of Science in Visual Studies degree from MIT and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT from 1983-85. He also has a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He was born in Appleton, Wisconsin.

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The Hartford Ethics Group is a monthly discussion group on bioethics themes coordinated by James Hughes and Miller Brown of Trinity College. For more information, or to submit a topic, please contact James Hughes at: james.hughes at trincoll.edu

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Hartford Ethics Group

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 7pm

Christina Spiesel will speak on "What Lies Beneath: What We all Need to Know About Digital Technology If We Use It for Legal Judgment"

Adjudication is moving on-line and there have already been proposals for on-line courts. I will raise questions that courts must face and, ultimately, need to answer before moving all out toward technologically mediated, legally binding decision making. Certainly, digital technologies can greatly extend our capacity to both communicate and gather in groups across an ever smaller globe. In addition, these new technologies can provide tools for research, data storage and retrieval, and, as well, for analysis -tools that promise to ground us better in facts and to help us decide more wisely. Humans love these powerful tools and become instantly attracted to their use.  But implementing them in a judicial system is not without risk because of fundamental issues inherent in the structure of the technologically mediated universe that we are in the midst of creating. For example: Are courts ready to take on all the many issues around privacy and public participation, to protect indi

viduals from unacceptable intrusion and over application of state power and to guarantee their own transparency? Are they prepared to make the case for justice as an important social and public good that must not become yet another consumer product available at different price points? Are they prepared to become designers of the systems they use? The innocence of Adam is just too dangerous for our new Garden of Eden.

BIO: Christina Spiesel is an artist and writer with a background in technology, both as a member of a commercial software development team and as a pedagogue using digital and other technological tools. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and Adjunct Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law and at New York Law School, where she co-teaches Visual Persuasion in the Law.  She is co-author of Law on Display, The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment (New York University Press, 2009). Besides this book, her published writing takes on various issues of pictures and the law.  She has examined theoretical questions ("Reading Words and Pictures:  Some Suggestions from Cognitive Science, Some Thoughts for the Law," in M. Freeman & O.Goodenough (eds.), Law, Mind and Brain (Ashgate, 2009), issues arising from the medium (the forthcoming "The Fate of the Iconic Sign: Punishing Pictures," about Taser video), and problems in popular culture's

representation of the law ("The CSI Effect: Modern Ordeal" also in press).  She has presented her work at annual meetings of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, the Law and Society Association, the American Society for Law, Culture, and Humanities, the International Association for Law and Mental Health, and at the 2009 annual conference on ODR (on-line dispute resolution).  She serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and Second Nature, An International Journal of Creative Media, on-line. Finally, she is a founding board member of True Vote Connecticut, a group that seeks to advise state government on issues pertaining to the use of digital technology for voting.

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The Hartford Ethics Group is a monthly discussion group on bioethics themes coordinated by James Hughes and Miller Brown of Trinity College. For more information, or to submit a topic, please contact James Hughes at: james.hughes at trincoll.edu

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American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting

February 18-22

San Diego CA

Do you want to hear from some of the world’s leading experts on safe water, global infectious diseases, and earthquakes? What do you think the report card on Obama’s S&T initiatives will be? Learn firsthand by attending a program that speaks to your multidisciplinary and field-related interests. Interact with your peers from around the world, all in one place -- the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego, 18-22 February 2010.

Speakers:

Peter C. Agre, M.D., AAAS President, and Director, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University for the discovery of aquaporins, the key proteins that transport water across cell membranes. Soon after, he began working to extend his studies of aquaporins to malaria, addressing the question of whether or not aquaporins could be exploited as a means of treating or preventing the disease. He will open the meeting on Thursday, 18 February, with his presidential address.

Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is a driving force behind today's advances in genomics and co-chair of President Obama's council of science and technology advisers. He will measure S&T in the first year of the new U.S. Administration. He will deliver a plenary lecture on Science and Technology in the First Year of the New Administration.

Kellogg Schwab, Ph.D., director, Center for Water and Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, runs a program that integrates researchers from public health, engineering, behavior, policy, and economic disciplines to address the critical triangle of water, food, and energy. He will give a topical lecture on Improving Access To Potable Water Throughout The World.

Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D., chief, Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, studies HIV prevention in international settings including Mexico, Brazil, Canada, and Afghanistan. She also leads three NIH-funded studies of HIV risk behaviors among drug users and sex workers on the Mexico-U.S. border. She will give a topical lecture on Infectious Diseases Have No Passport: Battling HIV, TB, and STDs on the Mexico-U.S. Border.

Thomas H. Jordan, Ph.D., director, Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, understands the machinery that drives plate tectonics. He has made a series of major discoveries about the three-dimensional structure of the Earth's interior using the waves from earthquakes to look deep inside the earth. He will give a topical lecture on Understanding Earthquakes Through Large-Scale Simulations.

What else can you learn? Who else can you meet? Explore the program and register now while deep discounts on registration rates and housing are available.

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2nd Global Conference on Ethics in Public Life

Monday 15th March - Wednesday 17th March 2010

Salzburg, Austria

After last year's successful inaugural conference, The Ethics in Public Life project announces its second global conference. This inter-disciplinary project seeks to explore the role, character, nature and place of ethics in public life. Politicians might use moral rhetoric and justifications for their actions, and public agencies and institutions claim to have ethically informed constitutions, policies and practices, but contemporary critiques have raised significant questions about how ethical public life is. Critics point to an absence of deliberative public engagement with ethical debates, the instrumentality and functionality to ethical processes in policies and institutions and a decided gap between moral rhetoric and ethical thinking. Ethical discourse has arguably become the domain of legitimation for self-interested and ideological preferences, mystification rather than clarity in public debate and moral imposition of rather than ethical debate in public policy, opinion formation and institutional practices and services.

Organising Chairs

Paul Reynolds

Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy

Centre Director, CREED,

Edge Hill University

United Kingdom

E-mail: prr@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher

Network Founder & Network Leader

Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

United Kingdom

E-mail: epl2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Critical Issues programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. This project is run by Inter-Disciplinary.Net in association with the Centre for Research Ethics and Ethical Deliberation (CREED) at Edge Hill University.

For further details about the conference please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/ethics-and-public-life/call-for-papers/

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DePauw University Undergraduate Ethics Symposium

 

Lauren Lefebvre ('09) writes that her alma mater (DePauw Univeristy) holds an undergraduate ethics symposium each year in April.  This year's program is April 1-3.  Undergraduate papers are being accepted for review for this symposium (additional perks: paid travel, hotel and lots of free food included!)  For further information: http://prindleinstitute.depauw.edu/programs/ethics_symposium09.asp

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Integrating Climate Change and Development Ethics

April 15 & 16, 2010, Penn State

The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University is organizing an international conference to be held at Penn State University on April 15 and 16, 2010 on Integrating Climate Change and Development Ethics.

For information on the conference see:
http://rockethics.psu.edu/climate/events/idcce/


Because climate change can adversely affect the ability of human development prospects and climate change policies should take into account human development needs, there is a need to integrate climate change and human development ethics. There is also a significant opportunity for climate change and human development ethicists to learn from each other about the ethical issues that should be understood if climate change and human development ethics were integrated. This conference will explore the linkages between climate change ethics and human development ethics. Because these issues are deeply interdisciplinary, organizers of the conference also welcome papers on relevant scientific, economic, and legal issues that should be considered in any ethical analysis of linkages between climate change and development concerns.

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Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective

A Northeast Regional Conference

Yale University, April 17, 2010

New Haven, Connecticut

TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 

9:00                Welcome & Opening Remarks: Paul Sabin, Assistant Professor of History, Yale

9:15-10:45    Panel 1  

10:45              Coffee Break  

11:00-12:30  Panel 2

12:30               Lunch Remarks by Donald Worster

                          Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of U.S. History, University of Kansas

2:00-4:00      Panel 3

4:00                Coffee Break  

4:30-5:30      Faculty panel:   Karl Jacoby, Professor of History, Brown University;  

                          Emmanuel Kreike, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University;  

                          Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT  

5:30                 Reception and Happy Hour

The Unite For Sight Global Health & Innovation 2010 Conference

April 17-18, 2010

Yale University

Registration Open
(Register in September for lowest registration rate)


200 Speakers representing all disciplines of global health, social entrepreneurship, international development, and innovation. Keynote speakers include Seth Godin, Jacqueline Novogratz, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs.

Social innovation sessions by the CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, Mulago Foundation, Good Capital, mothers2mothers, Share Our Strength, Root Cause, and many others.

2,200 participants from all 50 states and from more than 55 countries who are immersed in global health and international development, public health, eye care, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.

Presented annually by Unite For Sight, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization free of commercial interests and committed to promoting high quality care for all. GH/Innovate 2010 is the 7th annual conference.

Collaborate on designs and strategies to identify global problems, engage in social entrepreneurship, and create real solutions.

Network with leading innovators, organizations, universities, and other change-makers.

Keynote Speakers

  • Seth Godin
    MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com
  • Jacqueline Novogratz
    MBA, Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund
  • Jeffrey Sachs
    PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
  • Sonia Ehrlich Sachs
    MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

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Animal(s) Matter(s): the Future of Critical Animal Studies
April 23rd 2010, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool


Sponsored by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, the Society for Applied Philosophy, the Mind Association and the Department of Philosophy at Liverpool.
 
Speakers:
Alistair Currie (PETA) Gauging, Changing and Mobilising Public Opinion: Challenges for AR Advocates.
Prof Celia Deane-Drummond (Chester & CAFOD) Taking leave of the animal: transhumanity as transanimality.
Jasmijn de Boo (Animals Count) Animal protection on hold in conservative UK
Prof Robert Garner (Leicester) In Defence of Sentiency: A Critique of One Version of Animal Rights
Dr Simon James (Durham) Animal Minds and the Demand for Evidence
Dr Dan Lyons (Uncaged Campaigns) Advancing animal protection: Strategic action in an adverse structural context
Dr Karen Morgan (Cardiff) Ethical veganism and animal rights: learning from feminist research and activism
Dr Anat Pike (UEL) Creaturely Ethics: Beyond the Discourse of Rights
Dr Richard Twine (Lancaster) Putting the ‘critical’ in Critical Animal Studies. What does it mean?
Dr Richard White (Sheffield Hallam) Building Alliances between academic and activist communities.

Cost (including lunch & refreshments): £40 (waged); £30 (students & unwaged), payable to University of Liverpool.
 
For more information, please contact Stephen R.L.Clark, srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK

Dept of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, 7 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WY.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/info/staff/A639849
http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~srlclark/srlc.htm

 

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Save the Date! Nanotech 2010!
June 21-25, 2010 • Anaheim, CA
Anaheim Convention Center

 

Nanotech 2009 was the world’s largest and most anticipated annual nanotechnology conference and expo. Now in our 12th year, we expect over 4,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors.

 

18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITES/NANO-ENGINEERING

July 4-10, 2010, Anchorage, AK

www.uno.edu/~engr/composite

Interested authors should submit tentative paper title immediately.   The two-page detailed abstract, should be written, by following the abstract format in web page.

Please apply for travel funds and passport visa early, since this can take time.

All ICCE-18 Anchorage short papers will be reviewed and selected detailed short papers will be published in the World Journal of Engineering.  Participants of ICCE-18 are encouraged to expand the short paper to become a full-length paper and then submit it to any journals of his/her choice, or submit for review in the World Journal of Engineering.  Thus, most participants will have two journal publications (one short paper, one long paper) as a benefit of coming to ICCE-18 Anchorage.

If you are sure you cannot attend ICCE-18, please do not submit a paper title to me.

David Hui

dhui@uno.edu

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Conference of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law [AABHL] July 2010

 

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the inaugural annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law [AABHL] in July 2010. The AABHL will replace the Australasian Bioethics Association and Australasian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics which have traditionally held joint meetings. 

The Conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, commencing Thursday evening and concluding Sunday with lunch. The venue will confirmed shortly. An optional day tour of McLaren Vale, one of Australia's best known and most historic wine regions will be available Friday prior to the commencement of sessions. 

Choice... do we have any? 

Who chooses what is ethical? Who should choose? What shapes choice? 

Researchers, practitioners, politicians, lawyers and commercial interests have an impact on matters that the community might consider to be their choice. How do we ensure the public is informed about and engaged with the work of bioethics? The 2010 AABHL Conference will explore questions of choice across many settings from: 

  • The theoretical to the practical 
  • Research to application 
  • Law to policy and practice 

The Conference will bring together representatives from around Australia, the Pacific and Asia for a series of plenary lectures and contributed papers that will ensure a vibrant and exciting program.

Add your name to the mailing list for up to date information or visit http://www.plevin.com.au/aabhl2010/index.htm for more information.