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Call for Posters: American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Annual Conference & Workshops on Excellence in Clinical Practice

June 20-23, 2012 Seattle, Washington

Deadline March 1, 2012

Neuropsychologists, psychologists, students, interns, and residents are encouraged to submit their work for presentation.

The annual Edith Kaplan Trainee Research Award will be presented to the trainee voted to have the best poster presentation.

Call for Papers: Women in the Laboratory From Early Modern Times to the 20th Century

We want to call your attention to the session "Women in the Laboratory from early modern times to the 20th century" during the 5th International Conference of the European Society of History of Science is organized in Athens, 1-3 November 2012.

This is one out of the 2 symposia organized by the Commission on Women and Gender Studies of the DHST.

The deadline for abstract submission has been set for February 24, 2012 (Notification of acceptance by 2 April 2012)

Women in the Laboratory from early modern times to the 20th century

The laboratory is one of the fundamental spaces for teaching and research in science and technology. Being a space of knowledge transfer and development, it is not only modelled by physical settings, materials and the uses of instruments, but also by disciplinary traditions, social hierarchies and divisions of labour. The exclusive presence of men in laboratories compared to other science spaces like the salon, the field or the home shaped the science practiced in that space as well. What happened when women entered the laboratory space?

Gendered practices in e.g. radioactivity and genetics laboratories have already been subject to in-depth analyses, and more studies from these and especially from other fields and other time periods are needed/encouraged in order to shed light on the many facets of women’s presence in laboratories. Through comparative and contextual approaches we want to explore the laboratory space from a gender perspective, in the timespan that runs from early modern times to the 20th century. How did women conform to local laboratory cultures and how did their presence in turn reshape these cultures?

We are interested in studying laboratories which attracted a large number of female researchers as well as individual women working in laboratory environments dominated by men. Questions we would like to discuss in the session include: What characterized the laboratories which attracted many women? What roles did the women play in the laboratories? How did these roles affect the credibility of women in exchanges and discussions in the scientific community? To which extent and in what ways were these gendered practices disseminated from one place to another? And what did the presence of women in the laboratory add to the practice of science?

To find the symposium on the website of the conference, please vsit http://5eshs.hpdst.gr/symposia/50.

Feel free to contact us for any questions

The organizers, Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Call for Papers: 2012 Claremont International Jain Conference: Bioethics: Religious and Spiritual Approaches

Cosponsored by Claremont Lincoln University, the International School for Jain Studies, Jain Center of Southern California, and the Federation of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA)

Bioethics: Religious and Spiritual Approaches

August 24-25, 2012 Claremont, California

The rapid growth of the medical sciences and of medical technologies has given doctors the ability to diagnose and to cure as never before. At the same time, these breakthroughs raise perplexing ethical questions: when does life begin, and when does it end? When is the quality of life so compromised that doctors should cease further interventions? What is informed consent? What constraints should apply to research on human subjects? And, above all, how can the sanctity of life be preserved? This conference will bring the resources of Jainism (see note below), of the dharma traditions of India, and of the world’s religious and spiritual traditions in general to bear on the most difficult bioethical questions of our day.

The conference presupposes that religious and spiritual traditions can assist doctors and ethicists in thinking through these questions and coming to answers. We welcome paper proposals addressing any of the overlaps between bioethics and the religious traditions, including procreation, alternative medicines, birth and related issues (abortion, in vitro fertilization, population control, etc.), use of stem cells, cloning, the ethics of medical research, end of life issues. The Claremont International Jain Conferences are sponsored by the Jain community, but papers drawing on any of the world’s religious or spiritual traditions are warmly welcomed.

Keynote speakers include Dr. Cromwell Crawford (Univ. of Hawaii) and D.K. Bobra, M.D. Paper abstracts of 1,000 words should be emailed to Matthew Fisher matthew.fisher@cgu.edu by May 1, 2012. Applications from a wide range of fields are welcome, and graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals. Notifications will be made by May 31st.

Conference Details

Plenary sessions take place in Mudd Auditorium, Claremont Lincoln University, 1325 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA 91711. There is an inexpensive registration fee and a discount for students.Early registration at a reduced rate will close on July 15th.

The conference hotel is the Claremont DoubleTree, 555 W. Foothill Blvd. in Claremont; (909) 626-2411. Other accommodations can be found at Hotel Claremont (909) 621-4831. Claremont is 15 minutes from the Ontario International Airport.

Note on Jainism:

Jainism is one of the oldest religions originating from India. At the very heart of Jainism is the ethic of non-violence, Ahimsa , which means ‘Respect for all living beings.’ Ahimsa continues to guide the daily lives of all Jains, who are egetarians, and practice ecology and conservation. Out of 14 million Jains in the world, 125,000 are settled in North America. The other two tenets of Jainsim are non-absolutism, which means that real truth has multiple facets, and non-possessiveness, which means that one should balance one’s needs and desires. JAINA is the umbrella organization of nearly 70 Jain centers and congregations in North America, that has Special Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Organizing Committee:

Matthew Fisher, Coordinator
Dr. Manoj Jain
Dr. Nitin Shah
Manish Mehta, Ph.D.
Rajen Dhami

Call for Abstracts: Summer Conference Research in Forensic Psychiatry

5th to 6th July 2012, in Regensburg, Germany

The Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Unit at the University of Regensburg invites you to take part in its 8th International Summer Conference from July 5 to 6, 2012.

The annual Summer Conference in Regensburg (Germany) is an international conference on topics of the Forensic Psychiatry. International experts for Forensic Psychiatry, Forensic Psychology and Criminology are invited as keynote speakers and chairs. Apart from an active participation as a presenter a passive participation is possible as well.

Proposals should address one of the following topics:

prediction of dangerousness & recidivism
offender treatment
crime scene analysis / investigative psychology
risk management
forensic juvenile psychiatry
psychopathy: concepts & research
forensic neurobiology & neuroimaging
forensic assessment
sexual preference disorders
sexual abuse & maltreatment

The keynote speakers this year are Prof. Dr. Michael C. Seto (Canada) and Prof. Dr. Stephen W. Smallbone (Australia)

Deadline for abstract submission: May 25, 2012

For further information visit the conference website or contact Ms Simone Schwabenbauer at simone.schwabenbauer@medbo.de

Call for Papers: Complaining about Medicine, c.1700-2000

History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

(Dr Jonathan Reinarz, Director)

2-3 November 2012

Keynote Speakers: Professor Andrew Scull (University of California, San Diego), Professor John Clarke (Open University), Dr Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

In recent years, studies into experiences of health care have led historians to engage with the issue of the medical complaint. As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet and failings in service provision, the complaint is both a vital antidote to progressive histories of health care and, in generating contemporary investigation and debate, has also left a fertile seam for historical research. Often it is only when things go wrong that we begin to understand the complexity at work in past events. This two-day international conference will explore what has happened historically when medicine generated complaints.

Amidst the opening salvos of the mechanism/animism debate at the start of the eighteenth century, medical men complained about each other and their theories, and those outside this professional circle denounced the pointless barbarity of medical experiments and techniques. As the Enlightenment blossomed, traditional treatments were challenged by empirical knowledge, by Western therapeutics and by patients’ complaints – at least until, in the nineteenth century, professional licensing and standards were formalised against a backdrop of mixed health care provision. Even then, complaining about medicine proliferated, with patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups directing the path of practice in the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first with the controversy surrounding, for example, the MMR vaccine. This conference seeks to address how each of these aspects of the medical complaint – between sciences, professions, practitioners and sectors; within politics, ethics and regulatory bodies; across nations and cultures; from interested parties and patients – has manifested in modern medicine, c.1700-2000, how it has been dealt with and how it was resolved, if at all.

Papers are encouraged from all disciplines, including ethics and the medical humanities. Proposals are sought for physical, mental and emotional medicine and healing. It is anticipated that topics will encompass, but will not be restricted, to the following:

-- Grievances between medical practitioners
-- Criticism of medical innovation and pioneers, new techniques, syndromes or disease classifications
-- Conflict between humoral/herbal/complementary and modernising/mainstream/Western medicine
-- Objections to legislation and policy; its absence, drafting, application and workability
-- Complaints about public health conception and measures
-- Tensions within the mixed economy of health care
-- Whistleblowers and trade union intervention
-- Protests from, or on behalf of, patients, service users, their families and/or advocates
-- Objections to self-help and self-medication
-- The impact of professionalisation/professional bodies and the legal profession on medical and ethical standards
-- Complaint resolution in closed institutional/organisational settings
-- Complaints as agents of change
-- Conciliation practices in the public sphere or individual communities and institutions
-- Apologies, official and informal, and their reception

Proposals are invited for individual papers of 20 minutes; panel submissions of 3 papers will also be considered favourably. Limited travel assistance may be available for unsupported post-graduate speakers and those on a low income. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words in length and should be submitted to Dr Rebecca Wynter (r.i.wynter@bham.ac.uk) no later than 23 April 2012.

Call for Papers: Perspective as Practice: An International Conference on the Circulation of Optical Knowledge In and Outside the Workshop

Berlin, Germany October 12-13, 2012

Deadline: 15 March, 2012

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science invites proposals from scholars in the history of science and technology, the history of art, technical art history and conservation science and other related disciplines for an international conference on the production and circulation of optical knowledge in workshop and design practices of the visual and decorative arts and (garden) architecture between the fourteenth and seventeenth century.

This conference addresses both the practical optical knowledge produced in the context of artists’ workshops and artists’ appropriation and use of the science of optics (perspectiva), which included questions of psychology, physiology, anatomy, physics, and mathematics, for the production of art and architecture, including gardens. We welcome, in particular, papers which discuss the material practices of artists (as diverse as gardeners and goldsmiths) in imitating and representing the effects of light, creating the illusion of space and the shaping of landscape (from the use of paper and other instruments, also on real sites, to experimentation with the optical qualities of pigments and binding media). Equally welcome are papers which throw light on artists’ reading of texts on optics and their possible use in the context of the workshop.

We see this conference as a correction to the ways in which Erwin Panofsky’s "Perspective as Symbolic Form" – written more than 80 years ago – has shaped the historiography of perspective up until the present day, despite more recent important interventions by a.o. James Elkins and Hans Belting). Therefore, instead of seeking connections with worldviews and philosophies of space, this conference takes into account the polysemy of perspective associated with the practice of perspective. The conference will bring out the variety of uses and different meanings of perspectiva – during the period between 1300 and 1700 and across different sites of artists’ appropriations of optical knowledge. By situating artists’ optical knowledge in workshop and design practices, we anticipate that the conference papers will be attentive to a variety of constructions that create the illusion of space, and pay as much attention to other types of optical knowledge as to the geometry of perspective. We especially welcome innovative approaches to the study of the circulation of optical knowledge within the artist’s workshop.

Organizers: Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin & Jeanne Peiffer, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris
Invited speakers: Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht), Filippo Camerota (Florence), Georges Farhat (Toronto), Francesca Fiorani (Virginia), Elaheh Kheirandish (Harvard), Dominique Raynaud (Grenoble), Pietro Roccasecca (Rome)

Submission guidelines: Please submit a 300-words abstract as e-mail attachment along with your name, institutional affiliation and email address to officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Please indicate in the subject line of your message: submission optics workshop.

Deadline for proposals: March 15, 2012

Call for Papers: Wounded Bodies, Tortured Souls: Narratives of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Trauma

Postgraduate Conference, University of Portsmouth, 14th June 2012

In recent years the study of trauma has become central to contemporary conceptualisations of personal and collective narratives of pain and loss. Often identified as a ‘modern’ phenomenon, a product of industrialisation and modernisation, trauma emerged as a distinct pathology alongside the rise of a middle-class readership, and accounts of physical and psychological wounds abound in Victorian fiction. In turn, Victorian tropes of trauma have been appropriated by the neo-Victorian novel, often in ways which offer a self-conscious or critical engagement with past representations.

This conference seeks to examine the intersection between the physical and psychical representation of trauma in both Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature. It aims to explore the importance of the relationship between the mind and the body, as well as the relationship between Victorian literary representations and neo-Victorian appropriations. We welcome papers examining representations of trauma in Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction, as well as contributions from the fields of literary theory, cultural studies, and the visual arts.

Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Victorian trauma narratives
Pain in Victorian art, literature and culture
Neo-Victorian traumatic appropriations
‘Wound Culture’
Traumatic performances (race/gender/sexuality, etc.)
Imperial trauma

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers lasting 20 minutes, and a brief biographical note (100 words), to Emily Hunt (emily.hunt@port.ac.uk) or Alex Messem (alexandra.messem@port.ac.uk) by 16 March 2012.

Call for Papers: Third Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Metallic Medical Materials and Devices

Wednesday November 14, 2012 Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for Abstract Submittal: Wednesday May 16, 2012

Papers are invited for the Third Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Metallic Medical Materials and Devices, to be held Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Sponsored by ASTM Committees E08 on Fatigue and Fracture and F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices, the symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, GA, in conjunction with the November standards development meetings of Committee.

OBJECTIVES
The intent of this conference is to provide an updated set of presentations on fatigue and fracture mechanics principles as applied to the fatigue, fracture and life predictive methodologies involved in metallic medical materials, such as Nitinol, 304, 316L, MP35N, and other commonly used stainless steels as well as Ti-6-4, Co-Cr, etc. and devices such as peripheral stents, prosthetics, etc. We intend to have several Invited Presentations from experts in this area of mechanics who will begin key sessions for this conference.

Specific objectives:
It is our intent to illustrate with up-to-date presentations, what fatigue and fracture mechanics techniques developed within the past few years are now being applied successfully to the design and durability assessment of medical devices where fatigue initiation and crack propagation is of major consideration. We will also be soliciting presentations that address the utility of existing and proposed fatigue and fracture mechanics standards in analyzing medical devices and fatigue initiation and propagation-based methods for interpreting cyclic stress and strain tensor data from computational analysis for fatigue life predictions and analysis. Finally, given the criticality of the data, we will be soliciting presentations on medical device patient's duty cycles and the corresponding patient?s medical device boundary conditions.

Who Should Attend?
The symposium is intended for mechanical engineers, material scientists and metallurgists in medical device companies, material supplies industry, and in regulatory agencies. In addition, university professors and graduate students performing basic research in the medical device area are encouraged to attend.

The language of the symposium will be English.

ABSTRACT SUBMITTAL

To participate in the symposium, presenters/authors must submit online the Abstract Submittal Form and attach a 250-300 word preliminary abstract no later than May 16, 2012. Scroll to the top of the page to "Go to Abstract Submittal Form". To ensure your abstract was received into the ASTM database system, please email hsparks@astm.org stating that your abstract was submitted.

The abstract must include a clear definition of the objective and approach of the work discussed, pointing out material that is new, and present sufficient details regarding results. The presentation and manuscript must not be of a commercial nature nor can it have been previously published. Because a limited number of abstracts will be accepted, be sure that the abstract is complete to allow for careful assessment of the paper's suitability for this symposium. The Symposium Co-Chairmen will notify you via postal mail by May 30, 2012 of your paper's acceptability for presentation at the symposium. If the preliminary abstract is accepted, the presenter/author will be requested to submit a final camera-ready abstract several months before the symposium. The final abstracts will be distributed in an abstract booklet at the symposium.

PUBLICATION

Symposium presenters are required to submit their papers to the Selected Technical Paper (STP), an online and printed, peer-reviewed publication for the international scientific and engineering community. After the final selection of abstracts has been approved, the ASTM Editorial Office will send authors' instructions via email only. Manuscripts to be peer reviewed for the STP are due online no later than October 30, 2012 at the ASTM Editorial Office. The corresponding author (the author who is the main contact with ASTM Headquarters) will receive a copy of his/her paper in portable document format (PDF). All published authors will have the opportunity to purchase reprints of their papers at a nominal cost.

ASTM publishes individual paper(s) in the online STP as they are finalized ASTM also publishes a printed book as a Selected Technical Papers (STP). (A minimum of ten papers is required for a printed STP.) Only those papers submitted by the manuscript due date will be included in the STP.

TECHNICAL CHAIR CONTACT INFORMATION

Additional information about the symposium is available from Symposium Co-Chairmen:

M.R. Mitchell
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Email: michael.r.mitchell@nau.edu, tel: 928-814-8622

Stephen W. Smith
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA, USA
Email: stephen.w.smith@nasa.gov, tel: 757-864-8946

Terry Woods
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Silver Springs
MD, USA
E-mail: terry.woods@fda.hhs.gov, tel: 301-796-2503 or

Brian Berg
Boston Scientific Corp.
Saint Paul, MN, USA
E-mail: bergb@bsci.com, tel: 763-494- 2677

ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.

Call for Papers: Michael E. Beard Conference: Asbestos Laboratory Issues

Papers are invited for the Michael E. Beard Conference: Asbestos Laboratory Issues to be held January 31 – February 1, 2013. Sponsored by ASTM Committee D22 on Air Quality, the symposium will be held at the Hyatt in Jacksonville, Florida, in conjunction with the January standards development meetings of other ASTM International Committees.

Objective
The ASTM Johnson Asbestos Conferences have served as a forum for the discussion of asbestos issues in the summers of 1986, 1988, 1992, 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2011. These conferences have been a major contributor to the advancement and understanding of asbestos in a number of areas including monitoring technology. Unfortunately, there are members of the asbestos analytical community who are not able to attend a summer conference because that tends to be a very busy time for them. As a solution, the Michael E. Beard Conference was established as an 'interim' Johnson Conference halfway between the summer Johnsons. To that end, we present the preliminary program for the "ASTM 2013 Michael E. Beard Conference: Asbestos Laboratory Issues".

This meeting is a two-day set of presentations on asbestos topics of interest to those who work in laboratories, those who use laboratory analytical data, and those who need to understand how to interpret asbestos analytical results. The meeting will be held on January 31 and February 1, 2013. The meeting will follow the policies established for the Johnson Conferences to encourage the presentation of the most recent work in the field and to allow open and frank discussion of new ideas and possible interpretation of the data. No proceedings from the conference will be published (although some form of extended abstracts is under consideration), and recording of presentations will not be permitted. The conference will be divided into four sessions: 1. Analysis of Soil, Vermiculite, Talc and Other Media, 2. Quality Assurance, Training, and Inter- laboratory Studies, 3. Issues Between the Laboratory and Field Operations, and 4. Interaction Between the Labs and NVLAP, Auditors and Government Agencies.

This ASTM-International Conference is dedicated to the memory of Michael E. Beard (1940 – 2008). Mr. Beard served for many years as the Chair of ASTM Subcommittee D22.07 on Sampling and Analysis of Asbestos. This subcommittee remains responsible for developing methods for monitoring asbestos in various media. One of Mike's most memorable contributions was in the long term stewarding of the ASTM Johnson Asbestos Conferences.

The Conference Co-Chairs are soliciting presentations to fill out the program. Each presentation slot is 20 minutes long. Each speaker is allowed 15 minutes for delivering the paper, with the remaining 5 minutes set aside for discussion. Those interested in giving a presentation in one of the sessions listed above should submit a title and short abstract to Jim Millette (jmillette@mvainc.com), Jim Webber (webber@wadsworth.org ), Larry Pierce (fiberquant@abilnet.com), or Owen Crankshaw (osc@rti.org) by Friday, February 24, 2012 to be considered.

The language of the symposium will be English.

TECHNICAL CHAIR CONTACT INFORMATION

Additional information about the symposium is available from Symposium Co-Chairmen:

Jim Millette
MVA Scientific Consultants
Duluth, GA, USA
Email: jmillette@mvainc.com
tel: 770-662-8509

Jim Webber
New York State Department of Health
Albany, NY, USA
E-mail: webber@wadsworth.org
tel: 518-474-0009

Larry Pierce
Fiberquant Inc
Phoenix, AZ, USA
E-mail: lspierce@fiberquant.com
tel: 602-276-6139

Owen Crankshaw
RTI International
Durham, NC, USA
E-mail: osc@rti.org
tel: 919-541-7470

ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.

Call for Abstracts: Symposium on the Mechanism of Concussion in Sports

November 13, 2012 Atlanta, Georgia

Deadline for Abstract Submittal: Sunday April 15, 2012

Papers are invited for the Symposium on the Mechanism of Concussion in Sports, sponsored by ASTM Committee F08 on Sports Equipment and Facilities and its Subcommittee on Medical Aspects and Biomechanics, in cooperation with the Hockey Equipment Certification Council (HECC) and USA Hockey. The symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia in conjunction with the November 14-16, 2012 ASTM standards development meetings of Committee F08.

This symposium is a follow up to a similar meeting held on November 20, 2000 in Orlando, Florida. The objective of the symposium is to review the current state of the art and science of the mechanism of concussion in sports, with the possibility of developing methods and techniques for decreasing the risk for concussions and possibly the prevention of concussions in sports.

Papers are invited on, but are not limited to:

Studies on specific mechanical forces that cause concussions
Techniques to decrease concussive forces to the head
The effects of hydration before, after, and during sports competition on the decreasing the effect of concussive forces The effect of the use of different type of mouth guards and how these mouth guards can decrease the effect of concussive forces
Coaching and training techniques that can decrease the effect of concussive forces to the head

Papers on the above subjects are invited from (but not limited to) the fields of sports science, sports medicine, athletic training,

The language of the symposium will be English.

ABSTRACT SUBMITTAL

To participate in the symposium, presenters/authors must submit online the Abstract Submittal Form and attach a 250-300 word preliminary abstract no later than April 15, 2012

PUBLICATION

Symposium presenters are required to submit their papers to the Selected Technical Paper (STP), an online and printed, peer-reviewed publication for the international scientific and engineering community. After the final selection of abstracts has been approved, the ASTM Editorial Office will send authors' instructions via email only. Manuscripts to be peer reviewed for the STP are due online no later than December 15, 2012 at the ASTM Editorial Office. The corresponding author (the author who is the main contact with ASTM Headquarters) will receive a copy of his/her paper in portable document format (PDF). All published authors will have the opportunity to purchase reprints of their papers at a nominal cost.

ASTM publishes individual paper(s) in the online STP as they are finalized ASTM also publishes a printed book as a Selected Technical Papers (STP). (A minimum of ten papers is required for a printed STP.) Only those papers submitted by the manuscript due date will be included in the STP.

TECHNICAL CHAIR CONTACT INFORMATION

Additional information about the symposium is available from Symposium Co-Chairmen:
Mariusz Ziejewski, Ph.D.
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58108
Email: Mariusz.Ziejewski@ndsu.edu
Tel: 701-231-7098; Fax 701-293-1454

Alan Ashare, M.D.
St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Tufts Medical School
Boston, MA
Email: alan.ashare.md@steward.org
Tel: 617-789-2828; Fax: 617-562-7247

ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.