Conventions: Jun 20, 2008
- Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in Philadelphia
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 22, 2008,
Sheraton Philadelphia City Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United StatesAt this convention, Americans for the Arts will come together to share the strategies and the secrets of leading creative communities. We'll celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first percent for art ordinance in the city that created it. We'll visit traditions in arts education that date back to the founding of the country and continue on the cutting edge. We'll also fast-forward to a new vision of civic leadership being crafted daily by the collaborative spirit of Philadelphia's artists, arts administrators, business innovators, and elected leaders.
Civic life is evolving in all of our communities and the arts are at the center. In this year of democratic decision-making, join more than 1,000 of your colleagues to laugh, listen, learn, and lead in the place where it all began—and is happening again. - full details
- Episteme 2008
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 21, 2009,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire United States
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Papers should be no more than 5,000 words, excluding notes and references, and should be prepared for blind review. Electronic submissions should be sent to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong by January 15, 2008. Approximately six papers will be selected from the submissions for presentation at the conference. A smaller subset of these papers will be published in an issue of EPISTEME, with Frederick Schauer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong as Guest Editors. Conference organizers are: Frederick Schauer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. - full details
- The Role of Genetics and Gene Expression in Sleep Regulation and Dysregulation
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 20, 2008,
The New York Academy of Sciences New York, New York United StatesThe program will highlight both our understanding of how genetic susceptibility leads to sleep disorders and the way specific "sleep genes" are regulated. It is anticipated that this increased understanding in the genetic mechanism associated with sleep disorders will help in the panel discussion about current and future therapies for sleep disorders.
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- 5th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008)
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 22, 2008,
Amsterdam, Noord Holland NetherlandsThe International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Data Mining, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
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- Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Graphics Hardware 2008
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 21, 2008,
Saravejo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaGraphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum for exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics hardware. The event, held annually since 1986, offers a unique perspective on graphics hardware by combining discussions and constructive critique of innovative concepts as well as product-level designs. It is an inclusive forum for the entire graphics hardware community and brings together researchers, engineers, and architects.
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- School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference 2008
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 23, 2008,
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United StatesMark your calendars and prepare to join your colleagues for SNA’s Annual National Conference (ANC), July 20-23, 2008, which is sure to be the school nutrition event of the year! This year, in Philadelphia’s historic setting, you will find the tools, training, new products and networks you need to achieve professional and personal goals. Whether you’re new to school nutrition or at the height of your career, ANC offers you a diverse line-up of educational programming, inspiring general session speakers and dynamic networking opportunities.
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- RCN Gynaecology Nurses Forum Annual Conference 2008
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 21, 2008,
RCN Headquarters, Cowdray Hall, London, England, United KingdomProgramme includes:
HPV Vaccines
Sensitive Disposal
Update on TOP
Sexuality and Gynaecology
IUDs and IUS in practice
Role of Advanced Nurse Practitioner - full details
- Sexual Abuse in a Religious Context Conference
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 21, 2008,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales AustraliaThis two day workshop will bring together experts from a range of disciplines: psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, ethics, law, theology, indigenous studies, religious studies and social sciences, to examine the issue of sexual abuse and exploitation in religious contexts.
Of particular focus will be: the psychological/psychiatric and spiritual sequelae of abuse; the impact and damage on the victims and on the institutions and organisations that may be held accountable. - full details
- Glucocorticoids and Mood: Clinical Manifestations, Risk Factors and Molecular Mechanisms
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 21, 2008,
San Diego Marriot Del Mar San Diego, California United StatesThe UCSD Department of Psychiatry and The Diana Foundation would like to invite you to attend the Glucocorticoids and Mood: Clinical Manifestations, Risk Factors and Molecular Mechanisms symposium. We believe the time has come for a state-of-the-art scientific symposium focusing on the effects of glucocorticoids on mood and the mechanisms mediating these effects. The conference will encompass many aspects of the clinical effects of glucocorticoids in a variety of illnesses and in health, including molecular mechanisms, glucocorticoid resistance and sensitivity, glucocorticoid receptor polymorphisms, and implications for therapy.
In light of the important clinical implications for treatment of a wide range of diseases with glucocorticoids and the potential serious side effects of depression and suicidality, it is timely that this subject be re-visited due to new research. The topics addressed will include a survey of clinical features of glucocorticoid treatment and molecular and genetic factors in glucocorticoid resistance and sensitivity. The topics will be of relevance to many medical specialties in which glucocorticoid therapy is widely used, including but not limited to, rheumatology, orthopedics, pain management, allergy/immunology and asthma. - full details
- AAI 2008 Introductory Course in Immunology
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 26, 2008,
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United StatesUnder the direction of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine faculty member Dr. Terri Laufer, outstanding teachers and researchers in immunology will lecture on the basic principles of their respective areas. These lectures are presented in a complete but comprehensible manner for students new to the discipline or seeking more information to complement general biology or science training.
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- The Black Hand of Irish Republicanism: the Fenians and History
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 21, 2008,
Queen’s University Belfast Belfast IrelandThe Irish Republican Brotherhood was a secret, oath-bound organisation which plotted political revolution in Ireland between the 1850s and the War of Independence, 1919-21. Far from being an exclusively Irish entity, Fenianism represented an international phenomenon with a well-organised presence throughout Britain, continental Europe, much of North America, and the Pacific. As well as orchestrating military operations in several states, Fenians constructed political machines in urban America, participated in political struggles in Ireland, and infiltrated the island’s literary and sporting cultures. This joint University of Ulster and Queen’s University of Belfast conference – marking the 150th anniversary of the founding of the IRB – seeks to bring scholars working on Fenianism together to consider the history of the organisation. Papers looking at the IRB in a diasporic, transnational, or imperial context are particularly welcome. Other key themes include memory and commemoration, British counter-intelligence and counter-insurgency, and popular culture, religion, and identity.
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- LOMERS Summer Conference
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 21, 2008,
Institute of English Studies, University of London Senate House London, England, United KingdomLOMERS (London Old and Middle English Research Seminar) Summer Conference
STUDIES IN THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT
Friday 20, Saturday 21 June 2008
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- Poetics after '45. Crisis and Creativity
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Jun 20, 2008 - Jun 22, 2008,
Queen's University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland United KingdomDrawing on historian Dan Diner’s 1988 description of the events of the Third Reich as a “Zivilisationsbruch”, i.e a rupture in civilization, the aim of this conference is to examine how this rupture might be reflected in poetics. Crisis is always also a privileged moment for change and creativity, it designates a period of transition and opens the field for new developments. Adorno’s earlier, and famous, dictum that to write poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric, as much as it has haunted poetical discourse has also given rise to multifarious poetic and theoretical endeavours directed towards a transformation of the prevailing sense of negativism into artistic/literary acts of resistance against the odds of history. Such challenges have ranged from Peter Weiss's poetics of resistance and Blanchot's l'écriture du désastre to more recent propositions describing certain kinds of literature as acts of "testimony" (Levinas a.o.) and processes of "survival" (Agamben), to mention just a few.
Other responses to the Holocaust were based on the conviction that entirely new beginnings were necessary in order to replace a humanist tradition which had been completely stripped of its credibility, and to address the prevailing sense of a loss of innocence. - full details