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The Kettil Bruun Society’s Annual Symposium is held in Stavanger in 2012.

It is hosted by University of Stavanger – UiS, International research Institute – IRIS, Alcohol and Drug Research- KORFOR, Rogaland A-senter – RAS and Stavanger Universitetssykehus.

The primary purpose of the symposium is to provide a forum where researchers involved in studies on alcohol can exchange ideas about their ongoing research.

The Symposium focuses on the discussion of papers that are pre-circulated electronically at this website. Papers are presented in 10-minute segments, followed by comments from the discussant and general audience participation. Any person who submits a paper may be asked to be a discussant or chair of a session.

The annual meeting in June now stands as a junction for several projects and ad hoc convents. The meeting in Stavanger in June 2012 will be the 38th of this kind, following the meeting in Lausanne 2010 and Melbourne in 2011.

Pre-symposium workshops and special meetings will be held on Saturday June 2, and Sunday June 3. Information about workshops will be posted as soon as the program is ready.
Both the Pre-symposium workshops and the symposium sessions will be held at the University of Stavanger – www.uis.no

Key dates:
Dec 10: Application for travel support closes
Jan 10: Early bird registration closes
Feb 1: Call for abstract closes
April 1: Registration closes
May 1: Submission of papers closes
June 4-8: Conference

It is now possible to sign up for the conference

Colloquium of the University of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.  Thematic Meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society.

Conference Hotel Majvik, Helsinki, Finland 14-17th October 2012

Objective

Addiction is a concept that has relatively recently – within two or three decades – become a common expression that covers no longer only traditional substance use but a wide and growing range of behaviours like gambling, gaming, internet use, even eating disorders, shopping, shoplifting, sexual behaviour and others. The increasingly widespread use has been observed in the public media, in expert discourses, in popular culture, in the world of commercials, and even in everyday talk. The concept of addiction is being introduced in the international classifications of diseases, and addiction is the topic of many research and prevention programmes today.

The Colloquium and Thematic meeting provides a platform for discussing the usefulness of framing consumption risks as addictions, or even as different aspects of a singular phenomenon. Critical and careful analysis of evidence, reflexion on the moral and practical implications of the concept in different contexts, and the way forward need to be given a proper and free space of interchange between different points of view. It might be envisioned that some sort of consensus emerges that could be useful for policy-makers, but this CFP is not foreseeing that as necessary.

Organization

The conference will be organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in collaboration with The Kettil Bruun Society, The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies and the National Institute of Public Health.

Deadlines

16.04.2012 Registration and abstract submission (matias.karekallas(at)helsinki.fi)

01.05.2012 Letter of acceptance of the registration

30.06.2012 Payment of early bird registration fee 300 euros

16.09.2012 Payment of regular registration fee 400 euros

16.09.2012 Free cancellation ends

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