Academia meetings & conferences

39th Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference

Waves of Change: Charting the Course for Gerontology Education

February 28 - March 3, 2013 St. Petersburg, Florida

The AGHE Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference is the premier national forum for discussing ideas and issues in gerontological and geriatric education. Educators, clinicians, administrators, researchers, and students share their experiences, expertise, and innovations regarding teaching and learning about aging and older persons. Plan now to be part of this opportunity for professional growth and development.

Upon completion of the Annual Meeting, participants will be better able to:

Describe educational programs and models addressing gerontology and geriatric content at a variety of higher education and learner levels

Understand key educational public policy issues as they relate to funding for higher education and work force preparedness

Identify factors that facilitate gerontology and geriatric education program growth and sustainability

Utilize educational evaluation methods to document learner outcomes and program value

Compare and apply teaching materials, methods, and tools in a variety of content areas to improve their institution’s educational programs

Develop collaborative opportunities in the scholarship of teaching and learning, with national and international colleagues in the field of aging

Strengthen the learning experiences and mentoring available to students in the field of gerontology and geriatrics education

2012 Physician Assistant Education Association Annual Education Forum

November 7-11, 2012 Seattle, Washington

Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism

21-22 Sept 2012 Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom

Half day Friday, all day Saturday

Discounted advance ticket prices (until 1 May) £80 / £55 students and unwaged; full cost ticket prices (after 1 May) £95 /£65 students and unwaged

This two-day conference, supported by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism (Birkbeck, University of London), Birkbeck College, University of London and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies of the University of Essex, will bring together historians, social theorists and psychoanalysts to explore the impact of the Second World War and totalitarianism on psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the war and totalitarian systems.

Topics include:

the role of psychoanalysis in the war effort, military intelligence and in postwar reconstruction
the crisis of psychoanalysis in Central Europe
the work of Hannah Arendt and other theorists of totalitarianism
cultural anthropology, fascism and the Cold War
visions of the child and the creation of the War Nurseries
the psychoanalytic sociology of the Frankfurt School
war and the origins of group therapy
neo-Freudianism
the psychoanalytic theorization of anti-Semitism
mourning, memory and trans-generational trauma
Winnicott and the social democratic vision.

Presentations will be 20-minutes arranged in panels, followed by discussion, all in a plenary format.
Ticket prices: £95 / £65 (students and unwaged)

For all enquiries please contact Marjory Goodall (marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk).

School and College Organization for Prevention Educators (SCOPE) 2012 Annual Conference

SCOPE 2nd Annual Conference October 18-20, 2012 Orlando, Florida

SCOPE is an independent, not-for-profit membership association for prevention educators and professionals. SCOPE embraces an ecological, inclusive, holistic, feminist, public health, evidence-based and multi-disciplinary vision of prevention.

Disability and the Majority World: The 2nd International Conference

Date: 26th- 27th September, 2012

Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

We are pleased to confirm that the 2nd international conference 'Disability and the Majority World' will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University. The conference seeks to bring together researchers, disability activists, practitioners, organisations, and others from various fields, to discuss a range of key and emerging themes around disability in the global South. It provides a much needed inter-disciplinary, critical, supportive and open space to debate, question and challenge, while exploring alternatives in a safe and friendly environment.

Registration

The conference is FREE of charge, but all delegates need to register. This will help us gauge attendance and make adequate preparations.

Cancellations: we would appreciate if those registered but no longer able to attend to please inform us by email Shaun Grech: S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk

Conference Programme

In the spirit of an eco-friendly conference, please note that we will be providing an e-pack instead of printed material on the day.

Meals

The conference is free, which means that lunch and refreshments will have to be purchased from the University or elsewhere. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements so we can make the refactory aware of delegate requirements.

Bursaries

We are afraid that despite the need, we are unable to provide bursaries (for travel, lodging or other expenses) to attend the conference.

American Society of Human Genetics 62nd Annual Meeting

Tuesday, November 6 through Saturday, November 10, 2012 San Francisco, California

The world's top scientists and clinicians in the human genetics field will gather to present their latest research findings at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), which will be held on November 6-10, 2012, in San Francisco, CA (http://www.ashg.org/2012meeting). ASHG is the primary professional membership organization for human genetics specialists worldwide, representing nearly 8,000 researchers, academicians, clinicians, genetic counselors, nurses, and others with a special interest in this area (http://www.ashg.org).

The ASHG Annual Meeting continues to be the largest human genetics meeting in the world, attracting more than 7,000 scientific participants each year. The ASHG 2012 Meeting will provide attendees with the latest information about cutting-edge developments in human genetics and genomics research. In addition, nearly 250 U.S. and international exhibitors at this year's ASHG Exhibitor Trade Show will offer an unprecedented opportunity to view the latest advances in genetics-related products and services derived, in part, from work presented at previous ASHG meetings.

Topics to be addressed in the scientific program for the ASHG 2012 Meeting will include: gene discovery in human genetics; new insights and challenges from next generation sequencing; advances in medical genetics and translation/applications in clinical care; progress in gene therapy; personalized medicine; cancer genetics; advances in non-invasive prenatal diagnosis; revelations about human alleles from studies of model organisms; implications of population genetic studies; modeling in statistical genetics; data centralization and its implications for our field; ethical, legal and social implications of genomics; changes in genetics education; and much more.

For more information about the ASHG 2012 Annual Meeting, or to register and/or submit an abstract for presentation at this year’s meeting, please go to: http://www.ashg.org/2012meeting.

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students

November 7-10, 2012 San Jose, California

ABRCMS
American Society for Microbiology Education Department
1752 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Ph: 202-942-9348
Fax: 202-403-3513

Email:abrcms@asmusa.org

Between Science and History. Historians and Scientists About Science and its History

8 June 2012 Leiden, the Netherlands

This symposium, initiated by the Leiden Philosophical foundations of the historiography of science research group, brings historians of science and scientists together in order to reveal the differences between their perspective on science and its history and facilitate a constructive dialogue.

Theme
The science wars are over. Scientists and historians of science have ceased their intellectual trench-warfare: the unbridgeable division between radical postmodernist science studies and naive scientism is now a battle of the past, referred to exclusively in footnotes.

This is a good thing, in the sense that it has made room for nuanced views. However, even in the absence of war rhetoric there may be genuine and important differences between the way scientists look at science and the way historians see it. For example, it seems plausible that historians think differently about the extent to which scientific thinking is bound to a specific time and place than do the scientists who work with the results of that thinking; or that historians are less inclined to identify the validity of a scientific theory as a cause of its success than are scientists.

Whether these differences do indeed exist is an interesting question; and if they do, the question is important what implications these different perspectives have for the communication of insights and to what extent the principles and values of both can be harmonized.

Programme
The day will consist of three parts:

1) sessions of one hour each, in which a historian of science and a scientist will both give a presentation of 15 minutes about a subject area touching the expertise of both, followed by discussion with each other and with the audience;

2) presentations of 20 minutes by individual speakers, providing a perspective about the relation of the historiography of science to science. Guiding questions are:

what kind of knowledge is required for good historiography of science?
to what extent can historians neglect the current state of scientific knowledge?
to what extent does scientific knowledge belong to a specific time and place?
can historical knowledge be of aid to current scientists?

3) a panel discussion, of the speakers of this day with each other and with the audience.

For more information about the symposium, you can contact Jeroen Bouterse: jeroen.bouterse@gmail.com

International Neuroethics Society 2012 Annual Meeting

The International Neuroethics Society is pleased to announce that the 2012 Annual Meeting will take place on October 11 and 12 in New Orleans as a satellite of the Society for Neuroscience meeting.

The International Neuroethics Society is an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, clinicians and other professionals who share an interest in the social, legal, ethical and policy implications of advances in neuroscience. Our mission is to promote the development and responsible application of neuroscience through interdisciplinary and international research, education, outreach and public engagement for the benefit of people of all nations, ethnicities, and cultures.

German Science in Southern Europe, 1933-45

October 11-13, 2012 Lisbon, Portugal

The European fascist period is certainly a time of exclusions, disruptions, and confrontations, but it is also a time of network building and scientific and cultural exchange: the exhibitions, public lectures, academic or even touristic exchange that Germany organizes between 1933 and 1945 in the southern European countries (from Portugal to Romania, not forgetting Spain, Italy or Greece) reflect a hybrid (i.e. political and scientific) concern to be "recognized and imitated" (to put it in the words of the Hamburger romanist and NSDAP member Wilhelm Giese).

The Conference is hosted by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon, and organized by the Research project The Power of Science; German Science in Portugal, 1933-45.

Further Information:

Please address all inquiries to pos.conference@gmail.com