(Fwd) Conference announcement
FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator --- Forwarded message follows --- Society for Human Ecology XIth International Conference www.SocietyforHumanEcology.org Snow King Resort Jackson Hole, Wyoming, U.S.A. October 18 - 22, 2000 Democracy and Sustainability: Adaptive Planning and Management The Conference begins with Registration and Reception the evening of Wednesday, October 18th. Plenary and Presentations Sessions will be held Thursday through Saturday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Field Trips conducted by area resource managers will be held on Sunday, October 22nd. DEADLINES The Deadline for Presentation Titles and for inclusion in a Book of Abstracts is August 15, 2000. Submissions send to Jonathan Taylor, First Vice President, SHE: Please return promptly to: Dr. Jonathan Taylor First Vice President Society for Human Ecology USGS, 4512 McMurry Ave Fort Collins, CO 80525 U.S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registration Early / Late Fee Deadline is September 1 Registration and meeting logistics inquiries should be sent to: Barbara Carter Assistant to the Executive Director SHE College of the Atlantic 105 Eden St. Bar Harbor, ME 04609 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registration costs are: SHE Member - Early [paid by September 1]$125 SHE Member - Late [paid after Sept. 1]150 Non-SHE Member * - Early [paid by Sept. 1]175 Non-SHE Member * - Late [paid after Sept. 1] 200 Student Member - Early [paid by September 1]60 Student Member - Late [paid after Sept. 1] 75 Student Non-Member * -- add 25 Conference Fees include 1 Luncheon and 1 evening Banquet or Bar-B-Que. * Non-Member additional fee can be applied to SHE membership, if desired. SHE Members be sure to pay your annual dues ASAP to assure publication of Human Ecology Review as well as organization of the SHE-XI Conference. --- End of forwarded message --- Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841
(Fwd) conference announcement
FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator --- Forwarded message follows --- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Medicinal Plants , Traditional Medicines and Local Communities in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities of the next Millenium Dates: 16-19 May, 2000; Place: Nairobi, Kenya; in parallel to the COP-5 of the CBD We are pleased to inform interested parties that the Environment Liaison Centre International (ELCI) in collaboration with other organizations is planning to organize a four-day international conference on the promotion and development of medicinal plants and traditional medicine in Africa on 16-19 May 2000 in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference will be composed of a combination of presentations and workshops.The conference will be organized in parallel to the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP -5) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15-26 May 2000. CONFERENCE SCOPE AND AIMS Information relating to medicinal plants and traditional medicine can be found in documents and databases aimed at readers in a wide range of disciplines including botany, ecology, chemistry, medicine, veterinary science, etc. However there are few publications reporting current work or reviewing and analyzing recent advances in knowledge or in highlighting local experiences, challenges, constraints and opportunities in traditional medicine uses and in conservation and sustainable use and management of medicinal plants. In Africa and elsewhere, most publications related to medicinal plants and traditional medicine available have been produced on academic research work and on the conceptual foundations of African traditional medicine and its relationship with other medical systems. Access to these publications by the public, decision makers and local communities is still very limited because of their academic writing style and their unavailability. At the global level the Convention on Biological Diversity, an international treaty that has been signed by more than 160 member states of the United Nations provides an international legal framework for the conservation of biological diversity including access to and exchange of genetic materials and for bio-diversity prospecting. Many different approaches are being tried around the world to find ways to minimize, reduce and/or stop the loss of biodiversity, especially in the earth's biologically rich areas such as African tropical regions. Attaining the main goal of reducing habitat loss with its accompanying loss of biocultural diversity is still unfortunately some way off. The World Health Organization estimated that 80% of the population of developing countries rely on traditional medicines, mostly plant drugs for their primary health care needs. Also, modern pharmacopoeia still contain at least 25% drugs derived from plants and many others which are synthetic analogues built on prototype compounds isolated from plants. Demand for medicinal plants is increasing in both developing and developed countries and surprisingly, the bulk of the material traded is still from wild harvested sources on forest lands, as and only a very small number of species are cultivated. At the same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has earmarked the year 2000 as the year which all should have access to health, a laudable goal which is still far from being achieved. Herbal medicines and traditional healers are receiving attention from mainstream health officials and international medical research and training institutions as governments confront the high cost and inefficiencies of official health programmes aimed at populations. The increasing cost of modern drugs coupled with the decline in the purchasing power of the African people caused by the weakening of the African currencies and the limited national resources make it mandatory that efforts should be intensified to produce drugs from plants in Africa. A number of international organizations now have started to support projects and programmes within Africa which are drawing on the cultural acceptability and economic accessibility of safe and effective traditional medical practices. On the other hand, in many African countries, there are no unified and coherent programmes to promote medicinal plants, traditional medicine and ethnopharmacology, nor to assure that biological resources are being harvested at a sustainable level. Several small isolated activities are being undertaken on individual basis without any institutional support and coordination at the national or regional levels. This situation often leads, to duplication of efforts or inefficient use of limited available resources. There are still gaps in knowledge of how traditional knowledge systems of health work, their limitations and prospects. Successful experiences and approaches on conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants are still rare. With regard to research aspec
Re: (Fwd) conference announcement and call for papers (please forw
How do I unsubscribe from this list? I keep trying and nothing happens. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" wrote: > FYI... > > Stefanie Rixecker > ECOFEM Coordinator > > --- Forwarded message follows --- > > > From: L. Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE: > ECLIPSESE AND RE-EMERGENCES > > UTA Conference on the Suppressions > and Reassertions of The Female Principle > in Human Cultures. > > University of Texas at Arlington, > March 30-April 1, 2000. > > This conference recognizes the suppression > of femaleness as a primary meaning of > Western and other cultures over a long > period. It seeks to identify, document, > account for, and interpret this suppression > via the specific forms it takes from early > periods to the present, and to identify and > describe newly developing practices that > counter it. Exposures, descriptions, and > theorizations of such suppression may be > essential to projecting a future for femaleness > in human societies. > > We invite proposals from all fields of the > humanities and the social and behavioral > sciences. Papers may deal exclusively with > suppressions (including concealments of > suppression) and their cultural contexts, > with the figures or contents suppressed, > with examples of femaleness that > uncharacteristically elude suppression or > otherwise counter it, or with re-emergences, > or combinations of these, and may draw on > the following as a possible framework: > > Bearing a positive social value in an > advanced Asian society as late as the seventh > century, the female principle sinks into > general anathema in the West by the time of > classical civilization, and into near > oblivion by the time of the early church. > There it remains, under powerful forms of > social repression, into the twentieth century. > Then, via numerous separate discourses, > pluralist thought creates a climate of > opinion in which femaleness can re-emerge > in literary, philosophical, religious, > and other languages under a positive sign. > > Papers may be descriptive, an/or interpretive > or theoretical accounts of specific forms of > suppression, such as the sexual; of forms > taken by coverups of suppression; of cultural > contexts mandating suppression; and of > femaleness eluding suppression or otherwise > countering it--all these in discourses and > social practices worldwide. Cross-disciplinary > and new theoretical approaches are encouraged. > > Submission Information: > See the following page or send inquiries to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Postal mail: > Conference on the Female Principle > Department of English 19035 > University of Texas at Arlington > Arlington, Texas 760l9 > > Ph. 817-272-2692 > --- End of forwarded message --- > > > Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker > Division of Environmental Management & Design > Lincoln University, Canterbury > PO Box 84 > Aotearoa New Zealand > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fax: 64-03-325-3841 >
(Fwd) conference announcement and call for papers (please forw
FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator --- Forwarded message follows --- From: L. Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE: ECLIPSESE AND RE-EMERGENCES UTA Conference on the Suppressions and Reassertions of The Female Principle in Human Cultures. University of Texas at Arlington, March 30-April 1, 2000. This conference recognizes the suppression of femaleness as a primary meaning of Western and other cultures over a long period. It seeks to identify, document, account for, and interpret this suppression via the specific forms it takes from early periods to the present, and to identify and describe newly developing practices that counter it. Exposures, descriptions, and theorizations of such suppression may be essential to projecting a future for femaleness in human societies. We invite proposals from all fields of the humanities and the social and behavioral sciences. Papers may deal exclusively with suppressions (including concealments of suppression) and their cultural contexts, with the figures or contents suppressed, with examples of femaleness that uncharacteristically elude suppression or otherwise counter it, or with re-emergences, or combinations of these, and may draw on the following as a possible framework: Bearing a positive social value in an advanced Asian society as late as the seventh century, the female principle sinks into general anathema in the West by the time of classical civilization, and into near oblivion by the time of the early church. There it remains, under powerful forms of social repression, into the twentieth century. Then, via numerous separate discourses, pluralist thought creates a climate of opinion in which femaleness can re-emerge in literary, philosophical, religious, and other languages under a positive sign. Papers may be descriptive, an/or interpretive or theoretical accounts of specific forms of suppression, such as the sexual; of forms taken by coverups of suppression; of cultural contexts mandating suppression; and of femaleness eluding suppression or otherwise countering it--all these in discourses and social practices worldwide. Cross-disciplinary and new theoretical approaches are encouraged. Submission Information: See the following page or send inquiries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postal mail: Conference on the Female Principle Department of English 19035 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas 760l9 Ph. 817-272-2692 --- End of forwarded message --- Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841
(Fwd) Conference Announcement: Nature, Society and History
FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: Tom Dietz, George Mason University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 8:31 AM <+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+> This is the Second Call for the International Conference: NATURE, SOCIETY AND HISTORY Long Term Dynamics of Social Metabolism International Conference September, 30th, - October, 2nd, 1999 Vienna, Austria Second Circular & Final Call for Papers December 1998 http://www.univie.ac.at/iffsocec <+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+> OUR VISION On the threshold of the third millennium the global community faces a number of unprecedented challenges. Among these one of the most daunting is the challenge of making the planet ecologically sustainable. How can humans redirect the global ecology to achieve this unassailable goal? How can we reshape our systems of production and our patterns of consumption - our societal metabolism - to be sustainable over the long-term? How can we foster new forms of social and economic organization that enhance, rather than degrade, the carrying capacity of the earth's ecosystems? This current ecological challenge is the contingent result of the long-term historical development of anthropogenic systems. Modern systems of industrial metabolism - encompassing material and energy flows - are also an outcome of this history. Hence, an understanding of industrial metabolism is crucially dependent upon an understanding of long-term historical dynamics. Since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, a turning point in global ecological awareness, there has been considerable progress in theoretical knowledge, empirical knowledge, policy knowledge, management knowledge, and geopolitical knowledge on the one hand. On the other hand there has been far less progress in integrating these various knowledge systems. The variety of knowledge systems has evolved often unmindful of one another, staying within their often selfcontained domains of inquiry. As a result, the intellectual landscape is an orchard with trees bearing different fruit. This conference seeks to harvest the intellectual orchard and collect its valuable fruit from different scientific communities at one location. So sociologists, environmental historians, cultural anthropologists, geographers, material accounting experts, and others are invited to bring together their special expertise, and to commonly look at the long-term dynamics of societies' metabolism. <+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+> SYMPOSIA TOPICS and CHAIRS 1. Population and Health: What are the different dynamics of population growth in different cultures? Are there universal tendencies in demography? Are people becoming more healthy? Are there new risks for infections due to changing conditions for microorganisms? Chairs: Alfred Crosby, N.N. 2. Cities and Settlements: Are there historical tendencies of living conditions in towns as e.g. sanitation, water supply, garbage disposal, transport? How will transport and communication infrastructure shape future settlement patterns? Chairs: Bernd Hamm and Clemens Zimmermann 3. Traditions in Coping with Nature: Are the historically new patterns of industrial metabolism based upon in particular cultural traditions in the relationship with nature? Does the "industrial society" represent a specific "Western way of life"? Which other patterns have historically evolved? What does this mean for sustainable development? Chairs: Aromar Revi and Thomas Macho 4. Risk, Crises and Continuities: What were the crises and continuities most important for the economic or ecological transition of the past 200 years? How did material flow and risk management change over time? Which major ecological, economic or social crises will be the most significant for the? Chairs: Roswitha Kvnigswieser and Christian Pfister 5. Using and Shaping the Land: What is the relationship between land use and social metabolism? How did societies in the past use and shape the land? What are the ecological impacts of globalization especially since the time of discoveries? What is the relation between land use and global change? Invited chairs: William Cronon and Bill Turner II 6. Energetic and Material Metabolism: What happened in the transformation from the solar to the fossil-fuel society? How did the material metabolism change over the past 200 years? What are the technological and economic implications of changes in material and energy use? How will our energetic and material future look like? Chairs: Joan Martinez-Alier and Carlo Jaeger <+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+>+<+> CONFERENCE PROGRAM - Thursday, 30.9. 10.00 - 19.30
(Fwd) Conference Announcement: WOMEN, SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
FYI...Stefanie --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Second Bulletin II INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS WOMEN, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 17 - 19 1998 LOCATION: Museo Roca - Vicente Lopez 2220, Buenos Aires, Argentina ORGANIZED BY: Red Argentina de Genero, Ciencia y Tecnologia - RAGCYT - (Argentinean Net on Gender, Science and Technology) Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Genero Facultad de Filosofia y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires Puan 470, 4to. Piso oficina 460 1406 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Fax: + 54 1 432 0121 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sponsored by: * Universidad de Buenos Aires (University of Buenos Aires) * Honorable Camara de Diputados de la Nacion Argentina (National Congress) * United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) * Comision Nacional de Cooperacion con la Unesco (UNESCO National Cooperation Agency) ACADEMIC COORDINATION: * Ana Franchi * Silvia Kochen * Diana Maffia PROJECT MANAGER: Patricia Laura Gomez SCIENTIFIC BOARD: * Dora Barrancos - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Nora Dominguez - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Gloria Dubner - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Eva Giberti - Universidad Hebrea Bar - Illan, Argentina * Graciela Hierro - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico * Fatima Oliveira - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil * Juana Maria Pasquini - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina * Eulalia Perez Sedeno - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espana * Sara Rietti - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Fanny Tabak - Universidad Nacional de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil * Lucia Tossi - Laboratorio Pierre et Marie Curie, Francia SESSIONS TITLE: * Feminist History of Science and Technology * Biography of Women in Science and Technology * Epistemology and Feminist * Women, Power and Knowledge * Impact of Science and Technology on Women * Subjectivity and Knowledge * Science and Technology in Literary Discourses * Innovations and Pedagogic Experiences to Introduce Women on Science and Technology * Diagnosis of Women's Participation on Science and Technology * Affirmative Actions in Public Policy regarding Science and Technology EXPONENTS and LECTURERS: * Jose Omar Acha - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Maria Elena Acosta - Distrito Escolar San Martin, Argentina * Mariflor Aguilar Rivero - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico * Elida Aponte Sanchez - Universidad de Zulia, Venezuela * Tatiana Artemieva - Russian Academy of Sciencies, Russia * Teresa Azcarate - Asociacion de Especialistas Universitarias en Estudios de la Mujer / Espacio Feminista, Pluralista y Autonomo, Argentina * Ana Maria Bach - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Maria Elena Bartis - Asociacion de Especialistas Universitarias en Estudios de la Mujer / Espacio Feminista, Pluralista y Autonomo, Argentina * Andrea Emilce Bevacqua - Instituto de la Central de Trabajadores Argentinos, Argentina * Norma Blazquez Graf - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico * Andrea Bolcatto - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina * Gloria Bonder - Universidad de Buenos Aires // Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, Argentina * Isabel Boschi - Fundacion "Isabel Boschi", Argentina * Stella Maris Brunetto - Escuela Jaim Najman Bialik, Argentina * Mabel Campagnoli - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Maria Cristina Casciano Maciel - Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, Uruguay * Laura Cerrato - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * July Chaneton - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Alejandra Graciela Ciriza Jofre - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas / Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina * Maria Lucila Colombo - Legislatura de la Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires / Sindicato de Amas de Casa de la Republica Argentina, Argentina * Stella Maris Delgado - Distrito Escolar San Martin, Argentina * Monica Di Santo - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Lucila Diaz Roenner - Espacio Feminista, Pluralista y Autonomo, Argentina * Marilyn Dieguez Pinto - SENACYT, Panama * Patricia Digilio - Asociacion Argentina de Investigaciones Eticas, Argentina * Ana Beatriz Dominguez Mon - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Maria Teresa Doring Hermosillo - Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Xochimilco, Mexico * Gloria Dubner - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Edith Arlinet Elorza - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina * Maria Elina Estebanez - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina * Beatriz Lidia Fainholc - Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CEDIPROE, Argentina * Susana Finquelievich - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina * Amalia Eugenia Fischer Pfaeffle - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil * Ana Franchi - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas yTecnicas, Argentina
(Fwd) Conference Announcement
FYI...Stefanie --- Forwarded Message Follows --- >Please share this announcement with other lists or individuals who >might be interested. > >=== > >PRACTICING THEORY: >an interdisciplinary conference to interrogate and engage categories >of theory and practice > >Saturday April 5, 1997 >Douglass Campus, Rutgers University >New Brunswick, NJ > >The Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University announces >the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Saturday, April 5 on >the Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, from 9:00am to 6:00pm. The >conference, "Practicing Theory," will feature Jane Flax, professor of >Political Science at Howard University, as the keynote speaker. >Graduate students from around the country will be presenting papers >throughout the day, and a performance by Ananya Chatterjea, Women's >Studies faculty member at Temple University, is scheduled at 3:00pm. >Registration is $7 in advance (by March 21), $10 at the door. >Breakfast and lunch will be provided. > >Registration information and forms are available from the IRW website: >http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/IRW/ > >Conference program: >9am: Registration (Douglass College Center) >9:30am to 3pm: Panels (DCC) > "Conversations on Postcolonialism" > "Theoretical Tremors: Upheaval, Intersection, and Location" > "Power, Practice, and Participation: Conceiving Community" > "Reconstructing the Ivory Tower: Examining Academia" > "Articulating Theories: The Politics of Representation" > "Textualizing the Female Body" > "Legal Bodies/Corpus Legibus" > "Revolutionizing Multiculturalism" > "Constructing Citizens: Women, Class and Social Change" >3pm: "Unable to Remember Roop Kanwar" Performance by > Ananya Chatterjea, Professor, Women's Studies, Temple University > (Art History 200, Douglass Campus) >4:15pm "Displacing Woman: Retheorizing Feminist Theorizing" > Keynote Address, Jane Flax, Professor, Political Science, Howard > University > > >For more information, contact the conference coordinators: >Rose Corrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Liz Felter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Natalia Kariaeva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >or > >The Institute for Research on Women >27 Clifton Avenue >Douglass Campus, Rutgers University >New Brunswick, NJ 08903 >phone: 908/932- 9072; fax: 908/932-0861 > > >== > > >Rose Corrigan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dept. of Political Science, Rutgers University >Program in Women & Politics > >- >Private reply: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Public replies:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To subscribe, signoff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Listserv questions:Mark Folmsbee, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List owners: Michelle Rabouin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Leslie Bender (Sabbatical) >WashLawWeb: A Comprehensive Legal Research Site > http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/washlaw/washlaw.html > > ** Joan C. Callahan / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 606-257-1861 FAX: 606-257-3286 "May we always resist what we know in our hearts to be wrong. May we do right and keep our word." Nikky Finney, RICE ** * Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
