Call for Abstracts: 14th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research
Sunday 21 through Thursday 25 April 2013 Orlando, Florida. Satellite Meetings will be held Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April 2013.
Abstracts submission deadline: 12 September 2012. All abstracts must be submitted online.
Call for Abstracts: Science in Culture Project: Neuroscience and the Law – Free Will, Responsibility and Punishment
Workshop 18-19th June, 2012
Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This workshop aims to bring together early-career researchers in law, philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology to explore in what way, if any, recent findings in neuroscience (broadly construed) can inform debates on the source of voluntary action and the related notions of moral and criminal responsibility.
Issues that might be addressed are: Should we hold criminals diagnosed with psychopathy less accountable for their crimes given that studies show that psychopaths have reduced moral judgment and/or empathy? Does evidence from neuroscience and behavioral genetics have any implications for the scope of circumstances that are understood as “mitigating”? Does such evidence have any bearing on whether the purpose of punishment for criminal acts should be conceived as a matter of retribution or rehabilitation? Do the “timing experiments” by Benjamin Libet and others fundamentally undermine the voluntary control condition that many compatibilists claim is a condition for moral accountability? If so, does it in turn also undermine the condition for criminal responsibility?
Abstract submission: We invite PhD students and early-career researchers from philosophy, law, neuroscience and psychology to submit abstracts for presentation. We welcome any submission that addresses responsibility in the three-way intersection between law, neuroscience, and philosophy. All extended abstract submissions should be no more than 1000 words and in PDF-format. They should also be properly prepared for blind refereeing. The abstract should state the primary discipline of your paper (e.g. philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, or law) and be sent to Marion Godman, marion.godman@sas.ac.uk by May 28th (***Note approaching deadline ***).
Successful applicants will be sent an invitation to attend by May 31st. We will pay speakers’ travel (within the UK) and accommodation costs. Anyone who applies but is not selected to present will be welcome to attend the event free of charge, but we cannot subsidize travel and accommodation.
Organization committee: Marion Godman (Institute of Philosophy) and Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham and Institute of Philosophy London)
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
