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Call for Papers for a Session on The Secrets of Motion or the Natural Multidisciplinarity of Knowledge in the Italian Renaissance at the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy The conference will take place July 2 – 6, 2012 at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus If you would like to participate in the conference by presenting a paper in one or more of the workshops please note the following: Length of Paper: Papers should not exceed 3000 words or 10 double spaced pages, including Notes. Notes need not be included in the presentation of the papers but they should be in the version intended for the proceedings. Deadline The deadline for submitting your abstract to a Workshop Chair is April 15, 2012. To whom shall I submit my paper? On the conference website, http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/ you will find a list o...

Call for Papers: 2012 Conference on Medicine and Religion Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today Inaugural National Conference May 23-25, 2012 Chicago, Illinois The 2012 Conference on Medicine and Religion, sponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, will consider the relation of religion to the practice of medicine, with a focus on clinicians’ responses to the sick and the meaning and spiritual dimensions of the practice of medicine. This inaugural conference is supported by a grant from the Templeton Foundation. Plenary sessions will be organized around the following themes: 1) History of medicine and religion: How did we end up here? 2) Medicine as vocation: In what sense is caring for the sick a spiritual practice? 3) Intrinsically connected? The relationships between religion, ethics, science and the practice of medicine Lectures and discussions around these themes will be conducted in a sp...