CFP ‘Communities in the Digital Age

Subject: [ACS] CFP ‘Communities in the Digital Age
CALL FOR PAPERS

12th June 2013, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury Christ Church
University, Canterbury, UK

Digital technologies are often seen to have the power to enhance the
lives of and strengthen communities as well as support participation
in public life. New tools, such as social media, could enhance
inclusive engagement leading to stronger, broader and more diverse
engagement through discussions and exchange on public issues or
cultural practices. The use of digital tools could also led to more
active communities through empowering people to become active citizens
or contributors to the cultural and social lives of their communities.

However, academic research and professional accounts paint a mix
picture about how digital transformations are shaping the lives of
communities, which this one day symposium’s theme seeks to explore.
The scale and significance of the understanding of communities in the
digital age is still contested, evidences are often sporadic, case
studies are still often isolated. Fundamental questions are still
abound: have the lives of communities really changed because of
digital transformations? Are communities more active because of the
opportunities offered by digital tools? Have community engagement and
participation improved because of digital transformation? What
cultural and media practices of communities affected by digital
transformation? Who are leading on increasing the use of digital tools
in communities?

We seek contributions which explores the theme of digital
transformations and communities. Topics may include, but not limited
to:

· Community engagement
· Lives of communities
· Cultural practices
· Community cohesion
· Digital inclusion and exclusion
· Local communication and local media
· Third or public sector organisations and their communities
· Culture and creative industries

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15th March, 2013. Please send
250 word abstracts to Agnes Gulyas (agnes.gulyas<mailto:agnes.gulyas>)

It is planned that the best papers will be published in a book.

The event organized by the Department of Media, Art and Design,
Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

For further information, please contact:

Dr Àgnes Gulyàs
Principal Lecturer
Department of Media, Art and Design
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
CT1 1QU
United Kingdom
Email:agnes.gulyas<mailto:agnes.gulyas>
Tel: 01227-782907

Best wishes,

Andy

07578984147
@andymiah

Professor Andy Miah
www.andymiah.net
www.creativefutur.es

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Brocher Foundation events in Bioethics

The Brocher Fondation presents the upcoming symposia that you could subscribe to (attention limited number of participants): Solidarity: towards new solutions in the bioethics of biobanking; biosecurity; and health inequalities – March 21-22, 2013 Organized by: Alena Buyx (University College London – UK & Münster University – Germany), Barbara Prainsack (Brunel University – UK) The concept of solidarity has gained currency in bioethics in recent years; times of economic crises and major changes in how healthcare systems are organised render it ever more timely. At this multidisciplinary symposium, experts from a range of academic disciplines as well as policy fields will discuss the application of solidarity in connection to a range of current ethical, legal and social challenges posed by new medical research and technologies, where a solidarity-based framework could help unlock entrenched discussions and move policy making forward. Case studies to be examined include research biobanking; biosecurity; and health inequalities. In order to inform both ongoing conceptual debates in bioethics as well as develop new solutions for research and public health governance, each section of the symposium will be devoted to conceptual as well as empirical and/or policy-based work. Experts bringing in a more theoretical perspective will engage with those who work on empirical and social issues and in policy making; particular attention will be paid to European and international aspects. The meeting aims to further develop work that commenced in the context of a Fellowship funded by The Nuffield Foundation and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in 2011, and culminated in the publication of a Report commissioned by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (Prainsack B & Buyx A. Solidarity. Reflections on an emerging concept in bioethics. Full text available at http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/solidarity-0). While this Report, for the first time, offers a systematic analysis of solidarity in bioethics and some key elements of a systematic solidarity framework, it can be no more than a beginning of what we hope will be a long-term focus on, and work program around, solidarity in the larger bioethics community and related disciplines. Deadline: March 11th, 2013 Individualized choice: a new approach to reproductive autonomy in prenatal screening – April 4 to 5, 2013 Speakers will be: Prof L Chitty (GOSHCC Professor of Genetic and Fetal Medicine UCL Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street and UCLH NHS- Foundation Trusts, London), Dr I Maya (Genetics, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva), Prof dr M Cornel (Community Genetics, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam), Prof dr J Hewison (Psychology of Health Care, University of Leeds), Prof dr C Munthe (Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg), Prof dr S Wilkinson (Bioethics, Lancaster University), and A de Jong MA LLM (Ethics, Maastricht University). Together with the Brocher Foundation, we invite you for a one-and-a-half day multidisciplinary symposium on the ethics of new developments in prenatal screening. This symposium (Individualized choice: a new approach to reproductive autonomy in prenatal screening?) will be held at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, on 4-5 April 2013. By bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of experts we aim to provide a timely contribution to the necessary reassessment of the normative framework for prenatal screening in the light of ethical challenges and public policy issues raised by current technological developments, including new molecular tests and non-invasive methods. The symposium is meant to lead to recommendations for adequate guidance and policy making regarding prenatal screening strategies. The results will be presented in an international bio-ethics, genetics or gynecology journal. The meeting is scheduled for 35 participants in addition to speakers and organizers. We have invited professionals in the field of prenatal screening (including gynaecologists, clinical geneticists, cytogeneticists, midwifes, psychologists), as well as interested health lawyers, ethicists and policymakers. The programme provides ample opportunity for discussion with both speakers and participants. Deadline: February 22nd, 2013 The legal, ethical, gender, human rights and public health implications of HIV self-testing scale-up – April 8 to 9th, 2013 Organized by: Miriam Taegtmeyer (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK), Elizabeth Corbett (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK/Malawi), Rachel Baggaley (World Health Organization) This symposium aims to bring together leaders in HIV self-testing as well as those considering the legal, ethical, gender and human rights and public health implications of HIV self-testing. The specific objectives of the symposium are to: Review the existing evidence from public health approaches to self-testing Engage international experts in the debate around self-testing, including ethical aspects Raise awareness of the potential and the challenges of self-testing to policy makers Foster encouragement from donors in self-testing – including operational research and feasibility studies as well as explore potential for normative guidandce There is also an opportunity to publish in a special self-testing issue of AIDS and Behavior. Deadline: February 18th, 2013 Ethical, legal and social implications of rare diseases and orphan drugs in Europe – April 18 to 19th, 2013 Organized by: Wim Pinxten (University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands), David Cassiman (University of Leuven and University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Belgium) Steven Simoens (KU Leuven, Belgium) Despite the important efforts to encourage and reward the development of orphan drugs that have been made in many countries worldwide, significant numbers of patients are still awaiting the development and/or reimbursement of a treatment for their rare disease. This raises serious ethical, legal, and social concerns. This symposium will discuss how the diagnosis, care, and treatment of rare diseases can be improved by the coordination and centralization of efforts and resources. In addition, it will be explored how such coordination and/or centralization could be organized. Issues to be discussed include: (1) the impact of regulatory and policy interventions to encourage drug development; (2) the economic implications of drug development, market access and reimbursement; (3) the just allocation of resources between rare and more common diseases; (4) the needs, concerns, and representation of patients; (5) the conduct of clinical research and priority setting on the research agenda; (6) evidence base, medical decision making, and data sharing Deadline: March 30th, 2013 HOW TO REGISTER? You can directly fill in the subscription online form: www.brocher.ch/en/calendar-of-events/ To be aware of all our events & news, do not hesitate to join our community on: The Brocher Foundation Research for the future of human being and society If you are no longer interested, you can unsubscribe here.

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Comparative Research In Health Sociology and Social Epidemiology in European Societies.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2nd Special Interest Meeting on

Comparative Research In Health Sociology and Social Epidemiology

in European Societies.

A Global Health Sociology Network initiative

organized by the ESHMS in collaboration with the ISA RC 15 and the ESA RN 16

June 20th -21st 2013

Department of Sociology
Ghent University, Belgium

The main goal of the meeting is to share knowledge on comparative
research in sociological epidemiology and health sociology. Building on
the growing attention for the fundamental social causes of health and
illness, we want to focus on research contributing to the study of
societies and social change and their consequences for population
health. The working format will be in-depth discussions of full high-
quality paper presentations.

Format

The workshop is limited to 25 presentations in two or three parallel working groups. Each paper will have a 40 minute time slot, with 15 minutes for the presenter, 5 minutes for each of two discussants, and 15 minutes for general audience to ask questions.

Participants

We are especially interested in postdoctoral researchers and advanced PhD students in the final stage of their research. Starting PhD students are welcome too when accompanied by their supervisor.

We would greatly appreciate your contribution to this meeting. Since the format of the workshop is in-depth discussion of full paper presentations, we kindly invite you to consider participation as presenter and/or discussant.

How to register?

The deadline for submission is March 30th 2013. Submissions will be send by e-mail to Rozemarijn.Dereuddre@Ugent.be.

*Submission for participants who wish to present should include:

- an extended abstract (word limit: 800 words)

- contact details of the author (name, affiliation, e-mail, postal address and telephone)

- notification whether you are willing and able to be discussant for (an) other paper(s)

*Submission for discussants should only include contact details (name, affiliation, e-mail, postal address and telephone).

Acceptance of the abstract

Selection is based on the quality of the abstract and acceptance will be announced before April 15th 2013. We encourage accepted presenters to send in full papers by June 1st 2013 (APA style, word limit: 7000 words, tables and references not included) by e-mail to Rozemarijn.Dereuddre@Ugent.be.

Costs of registration

The cost of registration is 300€ (250€ members of ESA or ISA; 200 € ESHMS members), including lunch on Thursday & Friday and a meeting dinner on Thursday evening in Het Pakhuis (http://www.pakhuis.be/sfeer/default.aspx).

Further information

Please feel free to contact Piet.Bracke@UGent.be for further information or have a look athttp://www.eshms.eu/.

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The Body and the Digital: Revised Deadline

The Body and the Digital: Revised Deadline

This year’s Journeys Across Media conference will take place on Friday 19th April, 2013, at the University of Reading. Please find attached our streamlined Call for Papers (including practice-led presentations/performances). The revised deadline for submission of abstracts is 8th February 2013. We would be grateful if you could pass this information on to interested parties.
Many thanks,
The JAM Organisers
Gary Cassidy, Edina Husanovic, Matthew McFrederick, Shelly Quirk, Johnmichael Rossi.
Journeys Across Media
The Body and The Digital
Friday 19th April 2013, University of Reading
2013 will mark the 11th anniversary of the annual Journeys Across Media (JAM) conference for postgraduate researchers, organised by postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. JAM 2013 seeks to foster emerging scholarship that investigates interactions and relationships between the body and the digital.
French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty once stated: “The body is our general medium for having a world.” Today, critical approaches and performance/art/media practices concerned with phenomenology, embodiment and the haptic continue to evolve as they encounter, engage with, respond to, incorporate and influence digital cultures.
JAM 2013 would like to open a dialogue about relationships between the body and the digital, particularly as expressed within contemporary scholarship and practices. Our initial questions include: how does the body encounter digital media and how do digital media frames position the body – both in mainstream iterations, social media contexts and in performance contexts? How has digital technology affected the ways in which we understand body movement traditions and conventions, across regional and national borders?
Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

* Interactivity between digital languages and the body
* Sonic representations of the body in digital performance
* The digitized body in performance
* The role of the body in digital games and virtual performance
* Post-colonial bodies in the contemporary moment
* Preparing the body for performance
* Notions of embodiment (e.g. violent, disabled, explicit)
* Traditions of corporeally-focused film, theatre and television
* Embodied spectatorship
* Phenomenology of the lived, performed and screened body
* The haunted body
* Politics of the body
* Unconventional and other bodies
JAM 2013 invites submissions from PhD and MA/MPhil scholars conducting research in these areas and seeks to provide a broad, cross-medial discussion forum. Previous delegates have welcomed the opportunity to gain experience of presenting and developing their work, and to establish contacts with fellow postgraduate researchers and academic staff. Presenters who are not able to deliver their papers live are offered the option of presenting digitally, either via Skype or digitally recorded presentation. Non-presenting delegates are also strongly encouraged to attend.

JAM has an ongoing collaboration with the Journal of Media Practice. Participants of both JAM 2011 and JAM 2012 have had their papers published by the journal. Please see Journal of Media Practice Volume 13, Issue 3, the most recent publication incorporating postgraduate papers originally delivered at JAM. Many of these focus on digitally-related performance and media practices, in the context of the 2013 conference theme, Time Tells. They have been written by scholars working (often through practice) in film, theatre, television, dance and performance.

New deadline for submission of abstracts (presentations AND practice-led work): 8th February 2013
If you would like to deliver a fifteen-minute paper, please send a 250-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note tojam2013<mailto:jam2013>
A forum for practitioners to critically frame and discuss their practice will be made available during the conference. If you intend to present practice-led research, please send a 250-word outline describing your proposed presentation, within its critical/theoretical framework, including information about duration and technical/space requirements. Please also include a 50-word biographical note. Relevant images and links to your work would also be helpful. Please e-mail the conference organisers at jam2013<mailto:jam2013>.
We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider promotion of this conference through your networks.
Journeys Across Media is supported by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at Reading and the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD).

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Call for Papers – International Network of Humanistic Doping Research Conference

Call for papers

The INHDR is now accepting abstract submissions for consideration for presentation at the 2013 INHDR Conference. The theme for the conference will be “What do we (really) know about doping?” and will be held August 15 and 16, 2013 at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. Abstracts are welcome on any area of doping research related to the humanities or social sciences. The INHDR recognizes, values, and encourages interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies, and will give preference to those focused on the conference’s theme “What do we (really) know about doping?” and the conference’s key questions, which include:

• How prevalent is doping and how do we determine this number?
• What do we know about doping cultures? Are there any points of consensus?
• Which methods are worthwhile pursuing and which are not?
• What are the pros and cons for the methodology of the research we apply when trying to reach answers for our questions?
• How do we determine valid answers in the different sub-disciplines where sport and doping are studied (sociology, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, history, cultural studies)?
• Are we sufficiently aware of the number of assumptions and tacit premises that we apply when drafting research?
• What are the key problems still in need of research?

All abstracts must conform to the submission guidelines listed below and must be submitted prior to 1st March, 2013. INHDR is an advocate of opportunities for young scholars and encourages Ph.D.-student submissions.

Abstract Submission Guidelines:

The abstract should be between 250 and 500 words, written in English (the official language of the conference), and should conform to a commonly accepted academic referencing style.

Please E-mail your abstract to conference secretary Jonas Havelund, jhavelund

Keynote speakers who have already confirmed their participation:

• Prof, Dr. Don Catlin, Anti-Doping Research, Inc, USA
• Prof. Jay Coakley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
• Prof. John Hoberman, University of Texas, USA
• Prof. Carsten Lundby, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Dr. Werner Pitsch, University of Saarbruchen, Germany
• Prof. Verner Møller, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

More conference info can be found at http://ph.au.dk/en/om-instituttet/sektioner/sektion-for-idraet/forskning/forskningsenhedens-sport-og-kropskultur/international-network-of-humanistic-doping-research/online-resources/conference-section/2013-what-do-we-really-know-about-doping/

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Disability and Assistive Technologies (CFPs

Performance Enhancement and Health

Special Issue on: Disability and Assistive Technologies

 

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, disability is considered to be an evolving concept that “results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.” The theme of the United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2012) is: Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all. (http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1597)

The Royal Society’s ‘Human enhancement and the future of work’ project report, released in November 2012, documents how some scientific and engineering enhancements are likely to have an impact on the future of work.  Key messages from the report included not only the need to understand the nature and scope of enhancements, but their accessibility and financial costs, as well as the social and ethical impacts of their use. The report calls for interdisciplinary research and wide public consultation to inform policy, and “thus to harness maximum benefit with minimal harm.” http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/human-enhancement/workshop-report/

In keeping with these themes, this proposed Special Issue of Performance Enhancement & Health will be devoted to exploring critically the role of assistive technologies in performance enhancement and health for people with disabilities. Performance enhancement can be seen as the pharmacological, genetic, psychological or technological means to increase participation and productivity, improve quality of life and pleasure, and forge identities and build communities.

 

While assistive technologies promise greater participation, performance and health, they are not without their issues and problems, some related to access, others to dubious ends to which these technologies are put. For example, the recent Paralympics in London demonstrated greater participation and improved performances by athletes with disabilities, but exposed some ethically suspect and self-harming methods.

 

This inter-disciplinary and cross-professional special issue will seek innovative and provocative papers to challenge and extend our conceptions of ability and disability in our high-tech age.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topics

Original contributions, not currently under review to another journal or conference, are solicited in relevant areas including, but not limited to, the following:

 

• Body Image and Body Building
• ‘Boosting’ and Sport
• Diet, Nutrition and Wellbeing
• Education Technologies and Participation
• Epistemologies of Ability and Disability
• Ethics and Policy
• Genetic (Screening and Profiling) and Eugenics
• High-Tech Sport and Recreation
• Media Representation
• Medical and Social Discourses
• Paralympics and Doping
• Performing Arts
• Public Funding and Distributive Justice
• Reproduction and Family
• Sex and Intimacy
• Social Media and Community Development

 

 

Submissions

The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and all the authors’ names, affiliations and contact emails. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for originality, scientific and scholarly rigour, as well as coherence and clarity of writing.

 

More specific guidelines for the preparation of the manuscripts are provided at the Performance Enhancement and Health website, http://www.elsevier.com/journals/performance-enhancement-and-health/2211-2669/guide-for-authors

 

Deadline for Submission:  Monday 18 February 2013

 

 

Guest Editor

Associate Professor Dennis Hemphill

School of Sport and Exercise Science

Institute for Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL)

Victoria Institute for Education, Diversity and Lifelong Learning (Victoria Institute)

Victoria University, Australia

 

 

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The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture

The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture CHArt 27th Annual Conference Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011 London, venue to be confirmed Utopian hopes for the ubiquity of digital and networked technologies leading to a more transparent and democratic society are being met by expressions of concern about their implications for art. Nicholas Bourriaud has observed that such technologies can bring about a “collective desire to create new areas of conviviality and introduce new types of transaction with regard to the cultural object”. However, others perceive an imminent threat, characterised by such terms as a digital ‘deluge’ or ‘oblivion’. CHArt is interested to examine critically both positive views and apocalyptic concerns about the implications of the widespread merger of telecommunications and computer technology in society for art, its history and practice. Read the full Call For Papers … Submissions should be in the form of a 300-400 word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s, and should be emailed to chart@kcl.ac.uk by Friday June 17th 2011. s activities become a member of CHArt s publications CHArt Yearbook 2005: DIGITAL ART HISTORY. A Subject in Transiti

http://www.chart.ac.uk/

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Death & Dying in the Digital Age

Final call for papers, CDAS Conference 2011
Death & Dying in the Digital Age
25 & 26 June 2011
Bath Royal Literary and Literary Institute, Bath

How do the internet and other digital technologies affect how people die and mourn? How may their use in palliative and bereavement care be evaluated? Abstracts (250 words) are welcomed from computer scientists and designers, health and social care practitioners, social science and humanities researchers, entrepreneurs. Topics could include but are not limited to:

Dying: Do digital communications change the experience of dying? How are email, social network sites, blogs, etc used by dying people and their carers? How may such technologies be developed?

Funerals and mourning: How are digital technologies used in and around the funeral? How do social networking sites change the experience of mourning? What is the online experience of communicating with the dead and talking to other mourners?

Digital inheritance: Digital wills, digital archiving, digital archaeology, the
mortality/immortality of digital data, Social Network Sites policies on deceased members.

The submission of abstracts closes on 14 March. Email cdas@bath.ac.uk with your
submission, along with full contact details.

For full details on the conference, for conference updates and to book, visit the CDAS website at:http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/news/conferences/index.html

Tony Walter
Centre for Death & Society, SPS, University of Bath, Bath BA2
7AY, UK. 01225-383595  www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/people

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The XIV Master Degree in Bioethics and Law at the University of Barcelona (2011-2013)

Jointly organised by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the University of Barcelona and the Bioethics and Law Observatory in Barcelona Science Park.

The Master Degree in Bioethics and Law is a post-graduate study course offered by the University of Barcelona and adheres to the UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum. It is a two-year course and represents 90 ECTS credits; it may be undertaken entirely by distance-learning through the virtual campus, which includes the opportunity to attend teaching sessions every January.

The Master Degree is orientated towards the education and training in bioethics of healthcare professionals, members of ethics committees, legal practitioners and in general of individuals who are interested in obtaining an overall, flexible and integrated picture of bioethics set against a background of respect for recognised human rights, and in acquiring interdisciplinary training to facilitate rational decision-making in the face of problems stemming from scientific progress.

The teaching staff for the course is made up of professionals and academics of recognised standing led by Dr. María Casado, holder of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the University of Barcelona.  The methodology is adaptable to the needs of individual students from different professional and geographical areas.

For full information on teaching staff, objectives and methodology, please visit:

www.bioeticayderecho.ub.es/master

Registration is now open for the new course which begins in October 2011. Applicants should send a brief CV to obd@pcb.ub.es together with the pre-registration form which can be downloaded from the admissions section of the course website: www.bioeticayderecho.ub.es/master

Applicants must provide properly-authenticated proof that they have a university degree, as well as sufficient knowledge of Spanish, as this is the language in which the course is taught.

Course fees: €5,500 (First year registration fee €2,650; second year €2,850)

Deadline for applications: September 2011.

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This announcement is transmitted through the UNESCO Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs). The GEObs is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics and technology ethics. The system currently comprises six databases on ethics experts, ethics institutions, ethics teaching programmes, ethics related legislation and guidelines, codes of conduct and resources in ethics. For more information, please visit the observatory’s website at: www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geobs

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Division de l’éthique des sciences et des technologies

Secteur des sciences sociales et humaines

UNESCO

XIV Édition du Master en Bioéthique et Droit de l’Université de Barcelone (2011-2013)

Co-organisé par la Chaire UNESCO de Bioéthique de l’Université de Barcelone et l’Observatoire de Bioéthique et Droit, qui siège au Parc Scientifique de Barcelone.

Le Master en Bioéthique et Droit est un programme de formation de l’Université de Barcelone qui suit le Cours de base de Bioéthique de l’UNESCO. Il s’agit d’un cursus de deux années universitaires, correspondant à 90 crédits ECTS ; il peut être entièrement suivi à distance par l’intermédiaire du Campus virtuel, avec la possibilité d’assister chaque mois de janvier à des cours à l’université.

Le but de ce Master est la formation des professionnels de la santé en matière de bioéthique, des membres des comités d’éthique, des praticiens en droit et, en général, des personnes voulant obtenir une vision globale, flexible et inclusive de la bioéthique basée sur le respect des Droits de l’Homme, ainsi qu’acquérir une formation interdisciplinaire indispensable pour la prise de décisions rationnelles face aux problèmes posés par les progrès scientifiques et technologiques.

Les professeurs encadrant le Master sont des professionnels et des universitaires reconnus dirigés par le professeur María Casado, titulaire de la Chaire UNESCO de Bioéthique de l’Université de Barcelone.  La méthodologie est adaptée aux besoins individuels des élèves qui proviennent de différentes aires géographiques et professionnelles.

Pour obtenir des informations complémentaires sur les professeurs, les objectifs et la méthodologie du Master, veuillez consulter le site web :

www.bioeticayderecho.ub.es/master

Les personnes intéressées doivent envoyer un bref CV à l’adresse e-mail obd@pcb.ub.es et remplir le bulletin de préinscription directement téléchargeable sur le site du Master: www.bioeticayderecho.ub.es/master

Les candidats doivent être en possession d’un diplôme universitaire, dûment authentifié, et avoir une connaissance suffisante de l’espagnol, car ce Master est entièrement enseigné dans cette langue.

Le prix du cours est de 5500 € (2650 € pour la première année et 2850 € pour la deuxième année)

Date limite des candidatures: Septembre 2011.

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Ceci est une annonce de l’Observatoire mondial d’éthique de l’UNESCO (GEObs). GEObs est un système de bases de données de portée mondiale sur la bioéthique et les autres domaines de l’éthique appliquée des sciences et des technologies tels que l’éthique de l’environnement, l’éthique des sciences et l’éthique des technologies. Le système comprend actuellement six bases de données sur les experts en éthique, les institutions d’éthique, les programmes d’enseignement de l’éthique, la législation et les principes directeurs en matière d’éthique, les codes de conduites, et les ressources en éthique. Pour plus d’informations, veuillez visiter le site web de l’Observatoire: www.unesco.org/shs/fr/ethics/geobs

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División de la Ética de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

Sector de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas

UNESCO

XIV Edición del Máster en Bioética y Derecho de la Universidad de Barcelona (2011-2013)

Co-organizado por  Cátedra UNESCO de Bioética de la Universidad de Barcelona y  el Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho desde el Parque Científico de Barcelona.

El Master en Bioética y Derecho constituye un programa de formación de segundo ciclo de la Universidad de Barcelona, que se adhiere al Programa de base de Estudios sobre Bioética de la UNESCO. Se trata de un curso de maestría con una duración de dos años académicos, adaptado a 90 créditos ECTS;  puede ser cursado enteramente a distancia a través del campus virtual, con la posibilidad de asistir a sesiones presenciales en Barcelona durante cada mes de enero.

El Master se orienta a la formación y capacitación en bioética de profesionales sanitarios, miembros de comités de ética, operadores jurídicos y, en general, a aquellas personas interesadas en obtener una visión global, flexible e integradora de la bioética, enmarcándola en el respeto a los Derechos Humanos reconocidos, y en conseguir una formación interdisciplinar  que permita la toma racional de decisiones ante problemas derivados del progreso científico.

El profesorado del Master está formado por profesionales y académicos  de reconocido prestigio y dirigido por la Dra. María Casado -Titular de la Cátedra UNESCO de Bioética de la Universidad de Barcelona-.  La metodología se adapta a las necesidades de cada alumno, procedentes de distintos ámbitos profesionales y geográficos.

Información completa sobre el profesorado, objetivos y metodología en:

www.bioeticayderecho.ub.es/master

El proceso de inscripción ya está abierto y el nuevo curso dará comienzo en octubre de 2011.  Los interesados deben remitir a obd@pcb.ub.es un breve CV y el boletín de preinscripción que se puede descargar desde la página Web del Master: www.bioeticayderecho.ub.es/master

Los candidatos deben acreditar estar en posesión de un título universitario  -debidamente legalizado- y un conocimiento suficiente del español, dado que el Máster se imparte en dicha lengua.

El importe del curso es de 5500€ (2650€ matrícula primer curso y 2850€ matrícula segundo curso).

Fecha límite para las solicitudes: septiembre de 2011.

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Este anuncio es trasmitido a través del Observatorio mundial de ética de la UNESCO (GEObs). El Observatorio mundial de ética es un sistema de base de datos con amplia cobertura mundial en bioética y otras áreas de ética aplicada a la ciencia y la tecnología tales como ética ambiental, ética de la ciencia y ética de la tecnología. El sistema actualmente compromete cinco bases de datos, una sobre expertos, otra sobre Instituciones de bioética, programas de educación en ética, legislaciones relacionadas a ética y la bioética y guías así como códigos de conducta. Para más información, por favor visite la página web del observatorio en:

www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geobs

 

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“What should happen to your brain after you die?”

“What should happen to your brain after you die?”

Gengage <http://www.gengage.org.uk/index.php>  will be holding a deliberative event on brain donation and brain banking.

Dates and times: Friday, 4 March 2011, 2.30 – 5 pm A reception will follow the event (5 pm – 6 pm)

Venue: Glasgow Science Centre <http://www.gsc.org.uk/> , 50 Pacific Quay Glasgow G51 1EA

Organised by: Gengage, The Scottish Healthcare Genetics Public Engagement Network <http://www.gengage.org.uk/index.php>

Programme:

Please join us for an in-depth discussion addressing issues such as:

*       Should we donate our brains for research after we die?
*       If so, what sort of procedures should be put in place to ensure that
they are used as we would wish?
*       Should researchers be allowed to conduct genetic research on donated
human brains?
*       Should the use of donated brain material give rise to commercial
gain?
*       Is brain donation the same as tissue or organ donation?

A series of short presentations will be followed by facilitated round-table discussions. Participants will be asked to ‘vote’ on a number of questions.

Panellists and presentations:

# Chair: Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley (Professor of Medical and Family Sociology, University of Edinburgh)
# Dr Colin Smith (Senior Lecturer in Pathology and Consultant Neuropathologist at the Edinburgh Sudden Death Brain Bank) – What are brain banks and why do we need them?
# Siddharthan Chandran (Professor of Clinical Neurology, MRC, UNIVERSITY of Edinburgh, and Director of the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research) – Why medical research needs your brains
# Dr. Martyn Pickersgill (Research Fellow, Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh) – All that glitters: just how special is the brain?
# Ms Tracey Millar (Research Nurse Co-ordinator, MRC Sudden Death Brain and Tissue Bank) – Experience of approaching bereaved families
# Kathryn Hunter – TBC (Lecturer in Law, Northumbria University) – The legal regulation of tissue banking

Booking and Directions:

This event is *FREE* but must be booked in advance through our website -http://www.gengage.org.uk/gengage-events.php?id=152 or by calling our office – 0131 6514750.

Online booking: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1007023033

Book early as places are limited.

Directions to the venue may be found here:
http://www.gsc.org.uk/traveldirections.aspx

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