Philosophy meetings & conferences

Illness, Narrative, and Phenomenology

Tuesday, July 9 2013 Medical Humanities research cluster, University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom

This one-day workshop will inaugurate the Medical Humanities research cluster at the University of Bristol. We welcome papers on any area of illness narrative, phenomenology of illness, narrative medicine, and phenomenology of health from a variety of disciplinary approaches, including (but not restricted to) literature, philosophy, medicine, psychology, arts & health, death studies, medical anthropology, health research, and medical education. We welcome submissions from practitioners and researchers in any domain of health research and practice.

Organizers:

Dr Havi Carel (Philosophy) - havi.carel@bristol.ac.uk

Dr Ulrika Maude (English) - ulrika.maude@ bristol.ac.uk.

The workshop is free and all are welcome. To register please email the organizers.

Altered Consciousness in Relation to Popular Culture

16-17 November 2013 Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom

This meeting will explore the theme of altered consciousness in relation to popular culture, psychology, philosophy, religion, medicine and literature during the period 1918-1980.

Many literary and popular authors and performers during the mid twentieth century represented altered states of consciousness in their work, responding to and participating in research relating to such topics as interplanetary contact, ESP, clairvoyance, telepathy, mind-altering drugs, psychic therapies, spiritualisms, shamanism, erotics, conversion, revivals, somnambulism, precognition, distraction, group mind, multiple personality, hypnotism, lucid dreaming, Vedanta, hysteria and automatism.

What was the continuing legacy of nineteenth-century approaches to mind and spirit? How did work at the fringes of psychiatry and psychology intersect with mind sciences that consolidated their authority during the mid-twentieth century? What are the key interactions between European, North American and non-Western sources? How did investigations cross the borders between arts, sciences, religion, education and the military?

This event is generously supported by: the British Society for the History of Science, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Centre for the History of the Emotions, and the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.
 

2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

October 24-27, 2013 Atlanta, Georgia

The 2013 Annual Meeting, "Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courage," will take place October 24-27, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Theme: Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courrage

The theme for the 2013 ASBH meeting, “Tradition, Innovation and Moral Courage,” encourages participants to respond to the ways bioethics is inspired and shaped by various moral traditions, beliefs, and methodological approaches, as well as how these very traditions and practices become the foci of contemporary bioethical work bearing on moral progress and moral “innovation.”  This year’s ASBH theme invites members to reflect on the dialectic among moral traditions, moral inquiry, and moral innovation, and the ways that cultures identifying themselves as morally progressive might conceptualize the meaning and role of moral courage in realizing that progress.  With bioethical work being received with ever increasing public scrutiny and impact, the 2013 ASBH conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, whose cultural roots and evolution reflect the ways tradition and innovation propelled and shaped a history in which moral courage played and continues to play a quintessential role.

European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics Annual Conference

September 19-21, 2013 Bochum, Germany

“Personalised medicine” – medicine for the person? Ethical challenges for medical research and practice

The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organise the EACME annual conference in 2013. The conference will be organised in cooperation with the Centre for Medical Ethics Bochum (ZME e.V.) and supported by the Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum. 

Contact details and further information:
President of the Conference: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann
Scientific Secretary: PD Dr. med. Jan Schildmann, M.A.  

Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Ruhr University Bochum
Markstrasse 258a
44799 Bochum
Germany 

Tel.: 0049 234-32-23394      
Fax: 0049 234-32-14205      
E-mail: info(at)eacme2013.org
Conference website: www.eacme2013.org