Upcoming Conferences and Meetings

Kampala, Uganda, Uganda

The question of how to employ new technologies that have evolved out of the various genome/proteome projects and apply them to the neglected diseases within a clinical or research setting in Africa, or any other part of the developing world, will be the focus of this meeting. The organizers of this meeting have brought together a group of internationally recognized investigators who will provide practical insights for taking cutting edge concepts in the biosciences and applying them towards a better understanding of these diseases and/or the design of better strategies for controlling them. This meeting will also address operational issues such as the better integration of the various disease-specific control strategies and the need for capacity building especially as it relates to the issues surrounding clinical trials.

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Kilifi - Mombasa, Coast Province, Kenya

Through this conference, the participants wants to find out the moral reason why male circumcision was being carried, and why most of the Kenyan societies still encourage young men to undergo the traditional circumcision.

Organized by: National Work Culture Organization

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Wuhan, China

The Conference on Educational Renewal and School Development in an Era of Cultural Diversity will offer participants

• a first hand look at teacher education (including reform/response of teacher education to the conference theme, school partnerships, and international teacher education initiatives),
• an opportunity to build collaborative networks and partnerships to understand and lead school improvement, and
• insight into the leadership dimension so critical for education reform in an era of cultural diversity.
• an opportunity to engage in a dialog examining social, economic and individual equity issues through the framework of curriculum redesign and instructional improvement.

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Brussels, Belgium

In an increasingly interdependent world, international security issues need to be addressed in a manner which recognizes their multifaceted character and complexity. In line with this approach, the 2008 Annual Conference of the Brussels School of International Studies aims at tackling contemporary international security issues by fostering a multidisciplinary debate among graduate and postgraduate students in the fields of international studies, i.e. political science, economics and international law.

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University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Biotechnological developments (chiefly, assisted reproduction, cloning, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) and broader social changes in family structures (chiefly, higher rates of divorce and re-marriage, the possibility of same sex co-parenthood), have radically changed the options open to prospective parents. What kinds of children we create and within what familial arrangements we rear them are now, in principle, open to much greater choice than previously. This conference will address a range of ethical issues that arise from concerns about the life any future child might reasonably be expected to enjoy, about what makes someone a parent, and about what rights and duties a parent has. Possible topic areas include the right to procreate, the duty to (or not to) procreate, the role of the state in facilitating procreation, duties of prospective procreators to future children and relevant third parties, how disability bears on procreative decisions, the foundation and scope of parental rights and duties, the relevance of the distinction between ‘causal’ and ‘custodial’ parenthood, and how justice bears on procreative decision-making.

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