Conferences

May
6 Scottish Women's History Network Day Workshop
Interrogations: Women's voices in historical sources Institute for Education and Lifelong Learning, Tower Building, 11am - 4pm.
This day workshop will focus on the issues of retrieving, interpreting, and listening to women's voices from the past. Speakers have been invited from local archives to talk about the resources which are available. Researchers who are currently engaged in a range of women's history projects will be talking about their work, and the methodological problems they have faced. The final session of the day will be looking at work by oral historians. The day will end with a group discussion open to all who attend. Contact: Helen Carmichael, Tel: 01382 344512.

12-13 Regional politics in Russia
Institute for Education and Lifelong Learning, first floor, Tower Building.
This conference will raise issues on: Federalism and democratisation, regional electoral politics, and case studies on political institutions and democratisation. Contact Dr Cameron Ross, Tel: 01382 345064. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/politics/

June
9 Social Work
A one-day event examining issues of assessment in work with children who are neglected. The keynote speaker will be Professor Olive Stevenson from the University of Nottingham, with contributions from department of social work academic staff and agency practitioners currently engaged in joint work in this area. The event will be a joint venture between the University and the Tayside Area Child Protection Committee and has the support of Scotland's Association of Directors of Social Work (ADSW). For further information contact: Stacey Farmer Tel: 01382 344903.

27 - 30 Direct Broadcast of Earth Observation Data
The Fourth International EOS DB conference is a successor to the previous meetings which were held in Hawaii and Canberra; and is organised in association with NASA. This meeting will be concerned with Direct Broadcast of EO data in general with special emphasis on all aspects of the TERRA, which was successfully launched in December 1999, and AQUA programmes, both in the space and ground segments, including data processing. For more information contact: Nick Kirby on Tel: 01382 344933.

July
10 UK Women and Psychology Conference 2000
West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road
A pre-conference workshop entitled: The Voices of Domestic Violence: Are we listening? Representatives of any profession dealing with domestic violence or individuals interested in any aspect of this issue are invited to attend. Among the speakers are Jackie Bailie, MSP. For further information contact: Dr Suzanne Zeedyk or Joanne Gray, Tel: 01382 344611 or 344622 http://www.dundee.ac.uk/psychology/pows

10-12 The 2000 Annual Conference of the BPS Psychology of Women Section
West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road
This conference will be addressing issues on domestic violence, motherhood, sexuality, critical theory, constructions of identity and environmental issues. For more information contact: Dr Suzanne Zeedyk or Joanne Gray, Tel: 01382 344611 or 344622 http://www.dundee.ac.uk/psychology/

23 - 25 Alternative Perspectives on Finance, Fifth Biennial Conference
West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road
When was the last time you heard a finance conference presentation or read a finance journal article that struck you as bold and imaginative? Alternative Perspectives on Finance seeks to revitalise finance with different methodologies and qualitative and quantitative methods (behavioural, social, critical, legal, historical, philosophical, etc.) from other disciplines which are not commonly applied to finance issues. It also encourages the application of traditional methodologies and quantitative methods of finance to more unusual issues concerning finance. For more details contact: Professor Rob Gray, Tel: 01382 344789. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/accountancy/

25 - 27 CSEAR Research Summer School
West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road
This conference will, for the first time, be held in conjunction with the ninth Annual Summer School of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR). Details of the CSEAR Summer School can be found on the CSEAR Web site, http://www.dundee.ac.uk/accountancy/csaer/

30 - 4 August Dictyostelium 2000
West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road
Over 200 delegates from USA, Europe, Japan and Australia will be coming together to discuss the development of dictyostelium. Contact Dr Kees Weijer, Tel: 01382 345191

Nutrition 2000 Conference Series

April
28 Nutrition and Public Health in the Year 2000
Chaired by Professor Annie Anderson, centre for applied nutrition research, Dundee, the conference will address the 20th century problem of chronic, diet-related diseases. The conference aims to address current understanding of why and how to change nutritional status and includes presentations on public health nutrition, diet and dental decay, community food initiatives and the development of behaviour-change programmes.

June 23 Nutrition and the Hospital Patient in the Year 2000 will be chaired by Professor Chris Pennington, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, addressing a range of issues affecting nutritional status in patient care. These will include, the recognition of malnutrition and its significance in clinical outcomes, current developments in enteral and parenteral feeding and nutrition considerations in the surgical patient with cancer. Current evidence and guidelines as to the management of intestinal failure will also be reviewed.

October 6 Nutrition and the Gut in the Year 2000
Professor John Cummings, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee will chair our third and final conference of the series. Addressed will be a review of diet in the role of coeliac disease, crohn's disease and other bowel disorders including diet in the prevention of colorectal cancer. The use of pro/prebiotics and gut disease will also be presented.

For information on any of the three conferences in this series contact Anita Alexander on (01382) 345637.

Anyone wishing to publicise forthcoming conferences should contact the Press Office on 345108 or e-mail: c.l.e.pope@dundee.ac.uk

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