Sociology

On Whose Terms? Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts 13 to 14 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://onwhoseterms.org Contact name: Dr. Deirdre Osborne This conference focuses upon local, national and transnational perspectives on Black British literature and the arts. It aims to celebrate and critically engage with the field. Organized by: Goldsmiths, University of London

Researching ethnicity, racism-related stress at work, and professionals' well-being 28 February 2008 Lancaster, England, United Kingdom Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/2129/ Contact name: Dr Anu Garg Some confirmed speakers: Prof Aneez Esmail, Associate Vice-President & Professor of General Practice, Manchester University. Prof James Nazroo, Professor of Sociology, Manchester University. Dr A Garg,PDF(ESRC), Lancaster University. Organized by: Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University; and ESRC

Structured along the theme A Journey Into Islamic Values which promises a succinct yet informative day detailing the intrinsic aspects and values about Islam. Organized by: Islamic Society, University of Essex

The first of a series of one-day conferences looking at the exploration of intellectual, political and environmental frontiers by Irish and Scottish migrants and their descendants. Organized by: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

This intensive residential course will give delegates a basic broad knowledge of ultrasound screening of congenital anomalies and a comprehensive understanding of how to access the fetal heart and screen for congenital heart disease.

The meeting provides an international forum to discuss the problems facing the public and private sectors, the engineering and scientific communities in terms of the new land available for development purposes. The Conference will look at long term plans for the productive re-use of properties that have been abandoned or lie idle, in order to satisfy current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own requirements.

INECE is pleased to announce that it will hold its 8th International Conference on 5-11 April 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. INECE’s triennial international conferences bring together environmental compliance and enforcement practitioners from more than 80 countries and organizations to build partnerships for enforcement cooperation and to share a wide range of skills and experiences that improve compliance with international and domestic environmental laws. The 7th Conference (2005) provided training on INECE's principles of compliance and enforcement course and fostered the development of a new compliance and enforcement network for the Maghreb region. The Conference resulted in the Marrakech Statement and Call to Action on making law work for people, environment, and sustainable development. The 8th Conference will open with two days dedicated to local capacity building and networking events. The subsequent five days will feature action-oriented thematic workshops, distinguished keynote speakers, and networking opportunities for over 150 invited participants, and will include a day for field visits to sites of innovative environmental enforcement initiatives in South Africa. Central themes of the Conference will include "Strategic Management of Environmental Compliance & Enforcement Programs," "Detecting Noncompliance," "Transboundary Compliance," "Biodiversity and Compliance," "Climate Change and Compliance," and "Compliance Promotion and Social Aspects." INECE will be releasing a Call for Papers on these and other environmental compliance and enforcement topics in advance of the Conference. South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, which is supporting the Conference, noted that "[e]nvironmental compliance and enforcement are becoming high profile issues in South Africa in the context of high economic growth and development, ...the ongoing protection of our biodiversity and protected areas, and the required adaptation for climate change. We therefore welcome the attention that the INECE Conference will bring to environmental compliance and enforcement in South and Southern Africa." Additional information on the 8th Conference, including the Call for Papers, will be made available in the coming months. Conference participation is by invitation only; nominations will be made through the regional compliance and enforcement networks.

Dear colleagues, It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 3rd Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 "Metacognition", which will be held from 8th to 10th of May, 2008 in the city of Ioannina, Greece. The first meeting was held in 2004 in Amsterdam and the second in 2006 in Cambridge. Both meetings were highly successful in bringing together SIG members as well as researchers from all over the world. We aspire to continue this tradition. The aim of this meeting is to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of research findings and expertise, relating to the processes, the ecological validity and the applications of metacognition. The relations of metacognition with learning and thinking from early childhood to old age in various settings will be highlighted. The meeting will include symposia, individual papers, and posters. Dr Beate Sodian, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany, and Dr Marcel V. J. Veenman, University of Leiden and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have been invited as keynote speakers to the meeting. The scope of the previous meetings has typically been very broad, and we hope to draw together once again a wide range of researchers and experts in the field of Metacognition. We would, therefore, welcome submissions covering all areas of Metacognition research, including: The facets of metacognition Metacognitive experiences Metacognitive knowledge Metacognitive skills Metamemory The measurement of metacognition Development of metacognition The cognitive underpinnings of metacognition Theory of mind Epistemological thinking Self-regulation and metacognition Executive processes and metacognition Metacognition and learning Social processes in metacognition The Organizing Committee will work tirelessly towards an excellent conference programme. We hope that Ioannina's atmosphere and lakeside location will make it a welcoming venue for all participants and that the meeting will be an enjoyable and enriching experience in scientific, personal and social respects. The Presidents of the Organizing Committee Anastasia Efklides Plousia Misailidi Deadlines Submission of proposals: October 15, 2007 Notice of acceptance: November 15, 2007 Early Registration: January 15, 2008 For further information please visit the meeting website: http://sig16.uoi.gr

The 35th Conference on Value Inquiry with the theme “Values and Medicine” will be held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing New Jersey 5-6 April, 2008. Broad participation is sought. Papers that address concerns of values in medicine and values in relation to medicine are welcome. Submissions are due by 14 January 2008, and should consist of at least a seven hundred word abstract that has been prepared for blind review. The submission of complete papers is encouraged and early submission is advised. Reading time of papers should be about twenty minutes. Papers may be practically or theoretically oriented. Topics may be disciplinary and range over issues within a single field of value inquiry such as normative ethics, applied ethics, aesthetics, political theory, or economics. Topics may be interdisciplinary and range over issues between two or more fields of value inquiry. Topics may even be meta-disciplinary and range over purely conceptual issues important for fuller understanding of matters of values and medicine. The College of New Jersey, which has recently been recognized as having one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States, is approximately five miles from Trenton, the state capital, ten miles from Princeton, and one hour from both Philadelphia and New York, all of which are easily accessible by public transportation. To submit a paper or an abstract, or for additional information contact: Review Committee 35th Conference on Value Inquiry The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Road Ewing, NJ 08618 e-mail: papers.james@gmail.com

15th International Summer School in Cognitive Science NBU, Sofia, June 30 - July 19, 2008 Courses Margaret Boden (University of Sussex, UK) - Creativity and Computers Paul Smolensky (Rumelhart Prize Winner for 2005, John Hopkins University, USA) - Explaining Grammatical Competence and Performance in an Integrated Connectionist/Symbolic Computational Architecture Geraldine Legendre (John Hopkins University, USA) - Optimal Morphosyntax and Its Acquisition Bradley Schlaggar (Washington University at Saint Louis, USA) - Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of Typical and Atypical Development Terry Regier (University of Chicago, USA) - Language and Thought Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - Analogy and Cognition Eve Clark (Stanford University, USA) - Acquisition of Meaning Herbert Clark (Stanford University, USA) - Using Language Jeffrey Elman (Rumelhart Prize Winner for 2007, University of California at San Diego, USA) - Connectionist Models of Language Processing Organised by the New Bulgarian University Endorsed by the Cognitive Science Society Sponsored by European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) http://www.escop.org/ Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science New Bulgarian University 21 Montevideo Str. Sofia 1618 phone: (+3592) 8110-401 e-mail: school@cogs.nbu.bg