Institute on Disability and Human Development

This call for papers is an opportunity for trainees within the AUCD network to share their research projects, leadership projects, or other program projects that they have been involved with during their traineeship. Trainees are asked to share research proposals, completed research projects, leadership projects, program evaluation projects, or program changes you have implemented in this call for papers. This is an opportunity to share your hard work with others, participate in scholarly activities, and generate discussion and ideas for future projects. Upon review and edits, summaries will be posted on the AUCD website in the Trainees section. Please send papers to AUCD Virtual Trainee Rene Jamison. By sending in papers, trainees give AUCD permission to post their submission on this website for an undetermined amount of time.

Papers must be submitted by May 14, 2007. Papers will be posted as they are submitted, so please feel free to submit them before the final due date. We are looking forward to reading many papers! Guidelines for submission follow below. An example is provided on the website.

http://www.aucd.org/template/news.cfm?news_id=1088&id=313&parent=313

Deadline 15: Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 7^th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities & Nations

http://d07.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro

In 2007, the conference will be held in in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 3 to 6 July. This conference will address a range of critically important themes in the study of diversity today. Main speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the field, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners.

This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, mediating cultural difference. All are encouraged to register and attend this significant and timely conference. A range of accommodation options is also available.

Participants are also welcome to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues. For those unable to attend the conference in person, virtual participation is also available.

We encourage all presenters to submit written papers to The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, a fully refereed academic journal. Virtual participants may also submit papers for consideration by the journal. All conference participants who have finalised their registration will receive a complimentary online subscription to the journal. This subscription is valid until one year after the conference end date.

If you would like to know more about this conference, bookmark the Diversity Conference site and return for further information-the site is regularly updated. You might also wish to subscribe to the conference and journal newsletter.

For all enquiries, please contact the conference secretariat.

Deadline 30: Poster submission for The 8th International Congress Autism – Europe

http://www.autismeurope.org/portal/Portals/0/Oslo%202007%201st%20&%20Call-REVISED%20DATES-ENG.pdf

Autism Europe invites you to share your knowledge with us at its 8th International Congress and open up a “A World of Possibilities” in the lives of persons with ASD. Please make a note of the dates and consider submitting a presentation or poster to promote the Congress theme. The scientific programme will focus on the practical outcomes, values and implications of research in terms of its contribution to the quality of life and development of persons with ASD. As well as keynote symposia leading into general discussions, poster presentations will be linked in with the topics of the main sessions. We see posters as a special opportunity for new generation researchers and operators in the field of Autism to present their work.

The Congress is also an opportunity to visit Oslo, the Viking capital and home of the Nobel Peace Prize, experience Scandinavian culture and the charming scenery of the fjords. Autism Europe and the Congress hosts, Autism Society Norway, look forward to welcoming you to the 8th International Congress.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline Thursday, 30 November 2006

Abstract Notification Deadline Tuesday, 20 February 2007

Submission Final Papers/Posters Wednesday, 30 May 2007

June

Deadline 1: CHADD's 19^th Annual/20th Anniversary International Conference on AD/HD

http://www.chadd.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Conferences_Training&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3182

The 19th Annual /20th Anniversary International Conference on AD/HD will be held November 7-10, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City just outside Washington, DC.

The CHADD Annual International Conference is the major research, practice and public information conference dedicated to issues related to AD/HD. Conference sessions will focus on providing current science-based information and the impact of this information on treatment plans for individuals with AD/HD. The conference will bring together researchers, clinicians, educators, adults with AD/HD, parents, and others. Major goals for the conference are to disseminate the latest developments in research; to facilitate an ongoing exchange about issues related to AD/HD by individuals with different experiences and viewpoints; and to increase public understanding of the disorder and its impact.

Proposals for presentations are invited. Empirical studies and best practices science-based intervention strategies are preferred, but others will be given consideration. These can include, but are not limited to, collaborative practices, learning differences, implementation of IDEA and Section 504, advocacy empowerment, research, educational interventions, inclusion, parent training, multimodal treatments issues particular to distinct populations (i.e. age, gender, ethnicity, etc.), co-existing conditions, diagnosis and treatment and innovative programs. Of special interest are presentations that address cultural diversity. These proposals will be organized by tracks--common topics of interest--that foster exchange, debate and dialogue among conference attendees. Sessions for Hispanic/Latino tracks are encouraged and must be submitted in Spanish and English.

Deadline 1: 4th International Symposium on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in the Middle East

http://www.worldeventsforum.com/alzsymposium/abstracts.htm

The International Symposium on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in the Middle East, developed in collaboration with the Alzheimer's Disease International, aims:

to focus attention on dementia and neurodegenerative disorders of the aged in the Middle East

to raise scientific, medical and social awareness of these disorders

to enhance communication amongst medical and scientific workers in the region.

Alzheimer's disease and related illnesses have received relatively little attention in the region of the Middle East, an area with a population of over 225 million people. Recent work has demonstrated important geographical variations in the occurrence of AD, with studies showing low incidence and prevalence of the disease in Ballarbgarh, India and Ibadan, Nigeria, with high prevalence and incidence in African Americans and Hispanics in the USA. A recent report has found high AD prevalence, despite low apolipoprotein E e4 allele frequency, in Palestinian Arabs residing in Wadi Ara, in northern Israel. There have been few epidemiological studies of dementia performed in the Middle East. The progressive aging of Middle Eastern populations supports the importance of dementia studies in the region.

In April 2001, a meeting endorsed by the World Federation of Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease International and the Pancyprian Association of Alzheimer's Disease was held in Cyprus to bring together workers concerned with the medical and social aspects of AD. Participants were from Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, The Palestinian Authority, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, and Yugoslavia.

Deadline 15: MCHB Annual Federal/State Partnership Meeting

http://www.aucd.org/template/event.cfm?event_id=638&id=289

Call for Abstracts - Due June 15, 2007

The Maternal and Child Health Bureau is now accepting abstracts for their Annual Federal/State Partnership Meeting, Building Blocks 4 Promising Practice Models. Deadline for submitting abstracts is June 15, 2007. This is a two and half day meeting of the State Maternal and Child Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs, and State Systems Initiative Directors, from the 59 States and jurisdictions as well as the Bureau staff. Submit your abstracts to Florence Ondagkara by email only (fondagkara@hrsa.gov).

Deadline 22: Call for Participation for the 2007 AUCD Annual Meeting and Conference

On behalf of the AUCD Program Planning Committee and William Kiernan, Program Chairperson, we are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the 2007 AUCD Annual Meeting and Conference <http://www.aucd.org/template/event.cfm?event_id=664> , November 10-14, 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC.

This year's Meeting promises to be exceptionally stimulating and informative as we explore the theme:

Tomorrow is Here Today: The Interrelationship of Research, Education, Service, and Policy

We encourage you to submit proposals to be considered for presentation at the Annual Meeting which will challenge how we think about today and then use those ideas to shape how we think about tomorrow, while at the same time exploring the interrelationship of research, education, service, and policy at the international, national, state, and local levels.

Submit your proposal today! Help us realize the vision of full participation of persons with disabilities and their families in the life of our communities and our nation as we try to make a difference in their lives.

For complete details please visit our website www.aucd.org

<http://www.aucd.org/> or go directly to the Annual Meeting webpage

<http://www.aucd.org/template/event.cfm?event_id=664> for:

* A meeting description and introduction

* Presentation format descriptions

* Accessibility guidelines for presenters

* Proposal submission guidelines and worksheet

* Electronic proposal submission form (all proposals must be submitted electronically)

We invite you to be a partner in the AUCD 2007 Annual Meeting and Conference by responding to this Call for Participation.

Deadline for submission of proposals is June 22, 2007.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and to your participation in

the 2007 Annual Meeting and Conference

<http://www.aucd.org/template/event.cfm?event_id=664> .

--William Kiernan, PhD, and the AUCD Staff

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AUCD

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Deadline 30: Fourth special issue in the series Cognition and Technology

Editor: Itiel Dror (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id)

Learning technologies have been taking an increasing role in almost all learning environments. They are used in a variety of informal and formal educational environments, from early years to university level and throughout adulthood, as well as in many commercial, industrial, and governmental settings. With the greater use of learning technologies it is critical to better understand how they interact with human cognition. Both in terms of how they may facilitate and enhance (as well as hinder) learning, and also in terms of how they affect the way we learn and acquire information, and the nature of cognition.

These issues pertain to specific technologies and to learning objectives. Specific technologies (and their usage) are important to understand in their own right; for example, how the use of electronic boards and visualization tools, e-learning, synchronic vs. a-synchronic remote learning, blackboard, simulation, virtual realities, and other technological learning environments affect learning and the learner. But also the learning technologies need to be considered and understood in light of learning objectives: not only the acquisition of information, but also the ability to retain and use it and the assessment of the effectiveness of the learning process. When considering how best to use learning technologies (and their vulnerabilities) one needs to be able to determine which learning materials and objectives are best suited for these technologies, which learning tools are most appropriate, and how to best use them. Furthermore, a fundamental issue to address is if and when learning technologies should replace traditional learning and when and how should learning technologies be blended with traditional learning.

Original and high quality papers that examine learning technologies either from an academic or from a practical perspective will be considered for publication. The first special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition devoted to Cognitive Technologies is now going to be published as a book. It is hoped that the Learning Technologies special issue will also appear in book form in the future.

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2007

Publication: Summer 2008

Send submissions and inquiries to:

id@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Itiel Dror

Psychology

Southampton University

Southampton SO17 1BJ

United Kingdom

July

Deadline 31: Workforce and HRM – Challenges, Chances, Perspectives

http://inderscience.blogspot.com/2007/01/call-for-papers-aging-workforce-and.html

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=570

Call for papers: Aging Workforce and HRM – Challenges, Chances, Perspectives
A special issue of the International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management (IJHRDM)
Important Dates

Submissions should be sent no later than : 31 July, 2007
The shift in demographics and the consequent potential lack of workforce, notably in many industrialised nations, as well as the attrition of skills and knowledge – also termed ‘workforce crisis’ or ‘shortage of skills and talent’ (cf. e.g. Dychtwald et al., 2006) – present a major challenge to companies and societies alike. Even though this crucial issue has recently started to raise the attention of scholars, business leaders and politicians, research on managing the aging workforce is still in its infancy. HRM, especially, is challenged to develop and implement appropriate instruments, strategies and methods not only to cope with the aging workforce but also to benefit from elderly employees. In this sense, HRM has to support both the organisation as well as the individuals. Strategies and measures that can be performed by organisations in order to prevent competence obsolescence and knowledge management initiatives to prevent a loss of valuable experience when experts retire are only a few of numerous questions relating to managing the aging workforce.
The purpose of this special issue is to provide theoretical and empirical research that helps explain how human resource management can provide tools and strategies to manage the aging workforce as well as aging competencies and effectively deal with the challenge of a looming workforce crisis. We seek both research and practice papers, which will enhance our understanding of the topic. Empirical research employing multiple methods, conceptual papers utilising a variety of theoretical perspectives, and practice papers that describe significant application issues, complex real-life situations requiring innovative solutions, or actual implementations of existing concepts or methodology are especially encouraged.
For more information, please see the Journal Call for Papers website.

August

Deadline 31: Put Your Creative Stamp on the 2008 Easter Seals Art Contest

Professional and amateur artists of all ages are invited to submit original artwork for the 2008 Easter Seals Art Contest. Winning designs will be featured on decorative stamps mailed to nearly 15 million households. Gain national exposure for your creative talents and help Easter Seals raise funds to provide much-needed services to children and adults with disabilities. All entries must be received by August 31, 2007.

http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntl_pr_seals_competition

Objective: To secure beautiful original lily art work from which Easter Seals can select six pieces that will become the 2008 Easter Seals seal stamps.

Background: Easter Seals, founded in 1919, is a non-profit organization which provides programs and services to help children and adults with disabilities achieve independence. Since 1934, Easter Seals has been using decorative stamps to raise money and create awareness of its programs.

Over the years, the stamps have transformed into the organization's logo -- the lily -- and have come to be known as Easter seals. Last year, about 19 million households nationwide received the organization's seals.

Benefit: Participating in this program is a wonderful opportunity to gain national exposure for your creative talents, while at the same time helping Easter Seals to raise funds to provide programs and services for people with disabilities.

Please contact Easter Seals for more information about the 2008 Seal Art Contest: http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntl_pr_seals_contactus

September

Deadline 1: Literary Representations of Cognitive Impairment

http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Science/0334.html

Literary scholars are invited to submit an article for the third special issue of the Journal of Literary Disability (JLd), which will be entitled The Representation of Cognitive Impairment.

Giorgio Agamben's concept of bare life, embodied in the figure of homo sacer, as the life that can be killed without the commission of a crime - is frequently cited in contemporary accounts of the politically excluded - the refugee, the interned at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Yet his argument is founded upon an analysis of the collusion of biomedical discourse with the biopolitical imperatives of the modern state, citing the euthanasia programmes of disabled people in pre-war Germany as an exemplary instance of the production of bare lives. Those deemed to be cognitively impaired (although this term is itself subject to debate) often fall outside received definitions of the human. Theoretical models that assume certain fundamental attributes, for instance, full participation in a language community, the capacity to engage in rational discourse, or particular forms of self-awareness, implicitly exclude people without those cognitive abilities. Equally, discourses of 'access' and 'visibility' with their emphasis upon physicality may be inadequate to the task of addressing forms of cognitive difference. This special issue of JLD asks scholars to consider the problems - political, ethical and aesthetic - at stake in literary representations of cognitive impairment. The issue will include articles that explore literary works, as well as those that consider and critique contemporary theoretical models.

The issue will be edited by Dr. Lucy Burke and Dr. David Bolt. The deadline for manuscripts is not until 1 September 2007, but you are urged to send your proposal to David as soon as possible:
bolt@wellofthesaints.freeserve.co.uk

To find out more about submitting an article to JLD, visit:
www.journalofliterarydisability.com

Deadline 7: Anxiety and Comorbid Disorders, Understanding Risk, Optimizing Outcomes 28^th Annual Conference

http://www.adaa.org/conference&events/2008/2008%20Short%20call.pdf

On behalf of the 2008 Conference Committee, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America is pleased to announce the Call for Papers. The conference theme is “Anxiety and Comorbid Disorders: Understanding Risk, Optimizing Outcomes.” ADAA welcomes presentations focusing on evidence-based, new and complimentary treatments, diagnostic tools, case studies, and assessments as well as those that highlight research on the diagnosis, cause, or treatment of anxiety disorders and comorbid illnesses. Topics should include new research and novel techniques, neuroimaging, genetics, comorbidity of anxiety disorders with mood and other disorders, comorbidity with medical illnesses. Consistent with the theme, we encourage presentations highlighting the following areas:

Genetics

Resilience: inherited or acquired?

Familial risk, twin studies, gender

Genetic predisposition to comorbid disorders

Understanding Risk

Effect of genetic risk on treatment response

Relapse and recovery risk

Modifying risk with CBT, other effective treatments

Increased vulnerability to trauma

Impact of anxiety on acquisition, outcomes and relapse of comorbid disorders

Acquired Anxiety

Parenting, separation and attachment

Cultural aspects

Impact of stress, abuse and neglect on acquiring anxiety

Optimizing Outcomes

Combination, alternative and complimentary treatments

Family, couples therapy

This is the only annual meeting focused exclusively on the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders and comorbid illnesses and bringing together over 700 clinicians and researchers specializing in anxiety and related disorders. Be a part of it in 2008.

Deadline 15: Jerusalem, Israel, International Nursing Research Conference, Facing the Challenge of Health Care Systems in Transition

http://www.internationalnursingconference.org/index.asp?p=12

In partnership with the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers for Nursing and Midwifery Development

The Scientific Committee welcomes research abstracts for oral presentations, symposia, workshops and poster presentations on the topics listed below.

The length of oral presentations is 20 minutes.

Please note that submission for a symposium requires a convener to organize and take responsibility for several speakers on a specific topic. Submission for a workshop requires a convener, who takes responsibility for 'teaching' a defined topic.

Session length of a symposium/workshop ranges from 45 to 90 minutes, with one abstract, submitted by the convener.

Topics

Please keep in mind the theme of our conference: "Health systems in transition" and consider the relevance of your topic to this theme, while preparing your presentation.

(Please indicate on the Abstract Submission Form one topic in which you recommend that your presentation be scheduled).

A. Nursing practice

A1 Innovations in nursing care

A2 Caring for families

A3 Incorporating new technologies

A4 Caring for complex patients and symptom management

A5 Nursing special populations (e.g. the homeless, migrants, slum dwellers,

miners)

A6 Care of the old person and the chronically ill patient

A7 The interface between in-patient and out-patient care

A8 Infection control

B. Nursing education

B1 Innovations in nursing/midwifery education

B2 Educating nurses and midwives for the future

C. Nursing management

C1 Nursing management within an environment of budgetary constraints

C2 Quality and safety

C3 Coping with changes in the work environment

D. Health policy

D1 Globalization and health policy (e.g. migration, nursing shortages, poverty,

new knowledge required)

D2 Changing health systems and rationing of health services

D3 Embedding best practice within changing health systems –translating research

in to practice

E. Ethics

E1 Ethics, human rights and patients' rights

E2 Social justice and nursing

E3 Ethical issues in an electronic health care environment

E4 Ethical issues in clinical trials

F. Disaster preparedness and management

F1 Nursing in natural and man-made disasters

F2 Outcomes of trauma patients

G. Nursing informatics

G1 Knowledge, information and data management

H. Multicultural nursing/midwifery

H1 The informed client and patient empowerment

H2 Cultural diversity

I. Midwifery

J. Clinical trials

K. History of nursing/midwifery – lessons for tomorrow

L. Methodological issues in nursing/midwifery research – their relevance to changing health systems

October

Deadline 1: Essays in Philosophy is planning an issue on the Philosophy of Disability

This is an early call for papers. Essays in Philosophy is planning an issue on the Philosophy of Disability, to be published in January 2008. If you or a colleague is interested in this topic, please see the Editor's Note for this issue, below. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

From the main journal web page, there are links to submission guidelines as well as other sites. http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/.

a.. Submission deadline: 1 October 2007

b.. Editor's Note for Vol. 9, No. 1: Disability Studies is a growing research area for scholars, producing literature relevant to nearly all specializations within philosophy. Disability theory asks us to challenge our assumptions in medical ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, hermeneutics, and pedagogy. This issue of Essays in Philosophy is concerned with the philosophy of disability, bearing in mind that "disability" can be unpacked to include a variety of cognitive and physical states of being. Submissions are encouraged from a broadly construed understanding of this topic. For example:

a.. In what ways does disability theory's critique of "normalcy"

problematize current issues in medical ethics and eugenics?

b.. How do the arguments for disabled persons' rights and legal

recognition challenge social and political philosophy's traditional

assumptions about identities and personhood?

c.. Does the work of disabled artists ask us to revise how we

conceptualize art-making?

d.. When an artist chooses a disabled person as a subject, how does this

ask us to rethink traditional ideas of beauty, transcendence, the sublime (

i.e., Alison Lapper's sculpture in Trafalgar Square)?

e.. How does the participation and performance of disabled athletes shed

new light on ethics and sport? (Special Olympics, performance with and/or

without enhancements/modifications/augmentation/prosthetics)

f.. When teachers have disabled students, to what extent should they

change their pedagogy and classroom methodologies?

g.. In light of the increased use of technologies in and out of class,

especially those used by disabled students (WebCT, Blackboard, Powerpoint,

Email) how are we to engage in mediated communication, to positive and/or

negative ends?

h.. How can our 21st century understanding of disability and genetics be

used to revise or critique the received view of the history of philosophy

and epistemology?

i.. Can disability provide new areas for discussion in philosophy of

religion? Do disabilities imply a different access to spirituality? Does the

conception of God as disabled provide new insight on classic issues ie.,

theodicy?

All submissions should be sent to the General Editor via eMail:

mfg1@humboldt.edu

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Long lists and multi deadline call for papers

informaworld^TM Disability Studies/Performance Studies

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informaworld^TM is a one-stop site hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.

We aim to help researchers reach relevant resources as quickly as possible, leaving more time for the important part - your research. We listen to librarians and have built informaworld^TM to meet your needs. Welcome to our world...informaworld^TM

The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

http://www.psychiatrist.com/authors/call.htm

Call for Papers: Focus on Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health

To encourage scientific studies regarding the mental health of children and adolescents, promote excellent clinical care of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders, and help keep the psychiatric community informed about the latest research developments, the Journal invites authors to submit high-quality research manuscripts and scholarly reviews that "Focus on Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health."

In addition to manuscripts covering studies of the phenomenology of childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders and clinical trials of treatments for childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders and associated symptoms, for which the Journal is especially well known, authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts regarding the use of genomic and brain imaging studies related to childhood and adolescent mental health, which are of growing importance in understanding disorders that commonly present in childhood and adolescence. Specific disorders of interest include pediatric mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders as well as oppositional defiant and conduct disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, pervasive developmental disorders, tic disorders, mental retardation, other developmental disorders, and any other mental disorder that may present during childhood or adolescence. Other topics of interest include any biological, psychosocial, economic, or health services aspect of childhood and adolescent mental health. We also invite manuscripts related to the scientific understanding, differential diagnosis, early detection and monitoring, treatment, and prevention of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. Any research article or scholarly review of scientific importance or clinical relevance to the study of mental health in children and adolescents is also invited. All submitted manuscripts will undergo the Journal's usual editorial evaluation and peer review.

http://www.psychiatrist.com/authors/call.htm

Call for Papers: Focus on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders

To encourage scientific studies of Alzheimer’s disease, promote the optimal care of patients, and help keep the psychiatric community informed of the latest scientific and clinical developments, the Journal invites authors to submit high-quality research manuscripts and scholarly reviews that "Focus on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders."

In addition to the randomized clinical trials of putative treatments for cognitive and noncognitive symptoms for which the Journal is especially well known, authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts capitalizing on the use of genomic, proteomic, and brain imaging tools of growing importance to the study of Alzheimer’s disease and other psychiatric disorders. Other topics of interest include any biological, psychosocial, economic, or health services aspect of Alzheimer’s disease. We also invite manuscripts related to the scientific understanding, differential diagnosis, early detection and tracking, treatment, and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and, indeed, any research article or scholarly review of scientific importance or clinical relevance to the study of Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, and related disorders. All submitted manuscripts will undergo the Journal's usual editorial evaluation and peer review.

http://www.psychiatrist.com/authors/call.htm

Call for Papers: Focus on Women's Mental Health

Awareness of the importance of biological sex and gender to health is increasing. Medical research that emphasizes the differences in prevalence, etiology, and course of illnesses between women and men over the life cycle generates valuable insights into prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

In recognition of the need for increased gender-based research, the Journal invites submissions of randomized clinical trials of treatment interventions as well as well-designed, well-conducted studies of epidemiologic, biological, psychosocial, economic, and health services aspects of women’s mental health issues.

Topics of interest include all aspects of mental health issues pertinent to the female reproductive lifespan, disorders that disproportionately affect women, and inquiries into how gender impacts the course and treatment of disorders that affect both women and men. All submitted manuscripts will undergo the Journal's usual editorial evaluation and peer review.

http://www.psychiatrist.com/authors/call.htm

Mi Vida

FSG Australia is pleased to announce its first National Conference. ‘Mi Vida (My Life) Celebrating Communities’ conference will be held on the 6th and 7th of September 2007 at Legends Hotel, Surfers Paradise.

This conference is a way of celebrating community partnerships, concentrating on what has been achieved to assist people with disabilities live their chosen life.

FSG Australia is now calling for papers. Services are invited to put forward a submission (outlining content) if they wish to present a workshop at our conference.

This is your opportunity to showcase your innovative new program designed to make a difference in the lives of people with a disability.

For further information, please contact Tina on (07) 55640655 or tinam@fsg.org.au

http://www.fsg.org.au/files/pdf/Conference%20flier%20for%20website.pdf

Link Disability Magazine prize

http://www.disabilitynews.infoxchange.net.au/news/detail.chtml?filename_num=139354

Each edition of Link – Australia's premier disability lifestyle magazine – features a regular 'Letters' page with an exciting mix of feedback, opinions, comments and poetry. And each edition we select one letter as our $50 cash prize winner.

Even if you aren't the cash winner, you will receive a free copy of Link – and you get to share your message, gripe, positive experience, poem or question with the rest of the disability community!

So to be in the running to win, get writing! Send your letter to Kate Treloar, Link Editor, via editor@link.disability.com.au, or by traditional mail to the following address:

GPO Box 909,
Adelaide, South Australia 5001.

Not familiar with Link? Go to the website (http://www.linkonline.com.au) to find out more.

Note: By submitting a letter you are authorising Link to publish it in a future edition of Link Magazine, on www.linkonline.com.au, or in our e-newsletter The Common Link. Contributions may be edited for length and clarity. All published contributions will earn the author a free copy of the edition of Link containing their letter (alternatively current subscribers may specify that they would prefer to receive their free copy as an extension of their subscription). To receive your free copy, a postal address (not for publication) must be included with the original letter. Publication is at the sole discretion of the editor.

PennEnglish: Calls for Papers

cfp@english.upenn.edu

Calls for Papers in

English & American Literature

Edited by Jennifer Higginbotham

The English Department at the University of Pennsylvania hosts an electronic mailing list ( cfp@english.upenn.edu) and website (http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP ) for calls for papers on English and American Literature and Culture. We encourage conference or panel organizers and volume editors to find the largest possible audience for their announcements by posting them on this list and web archive.

Announcements can include upcoming conferences, panels, essay collections, and special journal issues related to English and American literature, and can include calls for completed papers, abstracts, and proposals. The boundaries are flexible: all English-language literatures, cultural studies, literary theory, bibliography, humanities computing, and comparative literature (even when not concerned specifically with English or American literature) are within the pale. Conferences or panels devoted exclusively to literature not in English, to music or art, to history, etc., are excluded unless they are relevant to students of English and American literature, as are lecture series, regular meetings of small local societies, fellowship opportunities, etc. Essay competitions and prizes are excluded unless they will result directly in publication or presentation of a paper. Calls for creative writing are also excluded. Due to the volume of postings and the fact that each posting must be approved and edited by hand, the CFP list and web archive is only for calls for papers, not for general conference announcements.

http://cfp.english.upenn.edu

Journal of Aging Humanities and the Arts – Call for Papers

The Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, the official jour nal of the Humanities and Arts Committee of the Gerontological Society of America, is soliciting articles in the following fields:

(1) Language and Communication; (2) Literary Production, Reception, and Analysis; (3) Biography and Autobiography; (4) Human and Spiritual Values and Beliefs; (5) Art and Music Therapy with Aging Patients; (6) Narrative Medicine in Interactions with Aging Patients; (7) Issues of Death and Dying; (8) Creativity and Aging and (9) Social Construction of Age. The editors aim to publish interdisciplinary essays quarterly focusing on a common interest in age and the necessity to reach readers from many disciplines.

Please send manuscripts and inquires to JAHA@wku.edu. Co-editors, Anne M. Wyatt- Brown, < amwb@lin.ufl.edu > and Dana Bradley at < dana.bradley@wku.edu > Rigorous scholarship is expected and submissions will be considered in the following categories:

Articles: Synthetic and original research (approximately 3500 words).

Vital Visionaries: Substantial commentary/report guiding future directions of scholars/researchers (approximately 1500 words. From any age: First person narrative essays informing the broader understanding of the aging process (approximately 1000 words).

Creative works: Original and previously unpublished poems, artwork, musical scores and film reviews. Only black and white reproduction is possible at this point. Narrative explanations must accompany any creative work. Submissions in all areas will be peer reviewed.

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National Arts Center and Disability Call for Entries Page

http://nadc.ucla.edu/callforentries.cfm

National Arts &Disability Center

The mission of the NADC is to promote the full inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities into all facets of the arts community.

Brief History

The NADC is a leading consultant in the arts and disability community, and the only center of its kind. Since 1994, we provided technical assistance to over 31,564 individuals, disseminated information to over 669,080 individuals and organizations, and provided training to 5,069 professionals, paraprofessionals, or artists with and without disabilities. Recipients of our technical assistance include museums, performing arts organizations, art centers, film and television companies and unions, universities and colleges, national publications, disability specific groups, artists with disabilities, arts educators, students, arts administrators and government policy makers.

The NADC is a program of the Tarjan Center at the University of California, Los Angeles - Semel Institute. Its programs are supported by UCLA and federal, state and private grants and contracts.

Focus on Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Call for Papers

http://www.psychiatrist.com/authors/call.htm

…Specific disorders of interest include pediatric mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders as well as oppositional defiant and conduct disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, pervasive developmental disorders, tic disorders, mental retardation, other developmental disorders, and any other mental disorder that may present during childhood or adolescence. Other topics of interest include any biological, psychosocial, economic, or health services aspect of childhood and adolescent mental health…

…In addition to the randomized clinical trials of putative treatments for cognitive and noncognitive symptoms for which the Journal is especially well known, authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts capitalizing on the use of genomic, proteomic, and brain imaging tools of growing importance to the study of Alzheimer’s disease and other psychiatric disorders. Other topics of interest include any biological, psychosocial, economic, or health services aspect of Alzheimer’s disease…

…In recognition of the need for increased gender-based research, the Journal invites submissions of randomized clinical trials of treatment interventions as well as well-designed, well-conducted studies of epidemiologic, biological, psychosocial, economic, and health services aspects of women’s mental health issues…

During the Fall Semester: U of C Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop

The Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop is currently looking for presenters for the 2006/2007 academic year. If you have a paper you would like to present at the workshop please email the student coordinator for the workshop, Jennifer Vanore, at jvanore@uchicago.edu for available dates.

As many of you know, The Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for the development of critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. The workshop’s primary purpose is to promote analyses of the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with other practices, constructs, and systems of domination. In bringing together work in queer and gender theory, workshop members build vocabularies and analytical tools in order to evaluate presentations with informed perspectives on how gender and sexuality theories inform and constitute one another. The workshop serves as a forum for discussing both graduate student papers and as-yet-unpublished work from scholars in the field. Graduate student presentations may focus on any area of gender and sexuality studies with gender and sexuality understood as always already embedded in other social practices and categorizations.

Starting on October 10th, the workshop will meet every two weeks. Meetings will be held on the first floor of the Center for Gender Studies located at 5733 South University Avenue. The workshop will meet every other Tuesday from 4:30-6:00 PM.

Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR)

http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201775

The Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR) is a new, quarterly international journal (first issue due January 2007) that aims to publish empirical, methodological, and theoretical articles about mixed methods research. The editors seek empirical research studies across the social, behavioral, health, and human sciences that employ mixed methods research, and methodological manuscripts advancing knowledge about mixed methods research. Mixed methods research is defined as research in which the investigator collects and analyzes data, integrates the findings, and draws inferences using both qualitative and quantitative approaches or methods in a single study or program of inquiry. Of primary importance to journal editors will be building an international and multidisciplinary community of mixed methods researchers. JMMR invites articles from a wide variety of international perspectives across the social, behavioral, and human sciences. JMMR seeks original research in the social, behavioral, health, and human sciences that fits the definition of mixed methods research. These studies need to include some aspect of their research that advances knowledge of mixed methods research in addition to making a contribution to a substantive area in the scholars' field of inquiry. All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers, including members of the distinguished, multidisciplinary editorial board.

Distance Education Clearinghouse Conference Database

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conf/cfpList.cfm

The Conference Database of the Distance Education Clearinghouse identifies worldwide conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events of interest to distance education and related fields. Events may be on site or online, but in all cases, the topic must always relate to distance education. You can find conferences by title, location, or date. Call for Papers information is also available in the Conference Database. Additionally, you are invited to submit a conference or call for consideration for this database.

National Federation of Voluntary Bodies Call for Papers page

National Federation of Voluntary Bodies Providing Services to People with Intellectual Disability - a national umbrella organisation for voluntary/non-statutory agencies who provide direct services to people with intellectual disability in Ireland. Our members are both voluntary and religious bodies with a clear vision rooted in the respect for and the dignity of the person. In all, our National Federation comprises some 61 affiliated organisations who between them account for in excess of 85% of this country’s direct service provision for people with intellectual disability. Our members employ approximately 14,000 staff covering a wide range of professional disciplines providing services and supports to over 20,000 people with intellectual disability.

http://www.fedvol.ie/news/default.asp?NCID=130&NID

PapersInvited

PapersInvited was conceived and developed to assist researchers at all levels - scientists, professors, post-docs and students who are seeking publishing opportunities for their research papers. PapersInvited presents an exhaustive list of Calls for Papers issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines. PapersInvited has become the preferred destination where conference organizers, journal publishers, researchers and academicians come together to issue and receive information resources that encourage presentation and publication of contemporary research.

http://www.papersinvited.com/search/simplesearch.asp

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Deadline 15: Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 7th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities & Nations

Deadline 30: Poster submission for The 8th International Congress Autism – Europe

Deadline 1: 4th International Symposium on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in the Middle East

Deadline 30: Fourth special issue in the series Cognition and Technology

Deadline 31: Workforce and HRM – Challenges, Chances, Perspectives

Deadline 15: Jerusalem, Israel, International Nursing Research Conference, Facing the Challenge of Health Care Systems in Transition

National Arts Center and Disability Call for Entries Page

Deadline 15: Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 7^th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities & Nations