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Additional WorkshopsQuicklinks to workshops:
The 12th Annual GENACIS WorkshopOrganizers: Sharon Wilsnack and Arlinda Kristjanson (email) Saturday, May 29 from 9 am to 5 pm Open to all interested GENACIS (Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: An International Study) is a collaborative project associated with the Kettil Bruun Society and coordinated by GENACIS partners at the University of North Dakota, the University of Southern Denmark, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems. The collaborative study includes comparable surveys of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems in women and men from more than 40 countries. The workshop is open to GENACIS members and others interested in research on gender, culture, and alcohol use. For more information, please contact Arlinda Kristjanson (email).
Gender WorkshopOrganizers: Alexandra Bogren (email) and Geoffrey Hunt (email) Saturday, May 29 from 9 am to 4.30 pm Open to all interested While issues of gender have been a part of alcohol and drugs research at least since the 1970s and 1980s, recent theoretical developments within gender studies have had much less impact on the field. Researchers in gender studies, such as Butler, Fenstermaker, Connell and Messerschmidt have developed important approaches and concepts for theorizing gender, which can be fruitfully utilized for studying alcohol and drug use (e.g., by conceptualizing gender as something people do; or by analyzing the construction of different femininities and masculinities). There is plenty of room for further development of gender theories in alcohol and drugs research, for example on topics such as embodiment, power and agency. In order to encourage further work on the theorization of gender in alcohol and drugs research, we invite researchers currently using feminist, post modernist, embodiment and other similar approaches to gender, alcohol and drugs to present and discuss their work in this workshop.
Qualitative Research WorkshopOrganizer: Alexandra Bogren (email) Sunday, May 30 from 9 am to 4.30 pm Open to all interested As in previous years, the Qualitative Research Workshop focus on providing researchers the opportunity of presenting their work in a supportive environment conducive to discussing qualitative research. We encourage qualitative researchers to present work in progress, even of a preliminary nature, to an audience of fellow qualitative researchers. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum both to obtain positive and constructive feedback aimed at improving participants' analyses as well as to offer an opportunity to participate in theoretical, methodological, and thematic discussions. We welcome researchers in all stages of their academic career, but particularly encourage researchers new to the field to attend and present their work at the workshop.
International Project on Alcohol and AssaultOrganizers: Robert Nash Parker (email) Sunday, May 30 2 pm to 5:30 pm Open to all interested The International Project on Alcohol and Assault announces a pre symposium meeting prior to the 2010 KBS annual symposium. As you may be aware, last year in Copenhagen this new project had its first meeting. This project is designed to facilitate collaboration among scholars representing as many countries as possible to conduct parallel time series analyses of the alcohol and assault relationship. Such results could be used to support a harm reduction strategy in these countries as a way to reduce the cost, social and economic, of assault, a crime of major proportions in even the most low crime societies. Thus we hope to foster comparative research and policy change in this project. As a result of the Copenhagen meeting, we developed a data check list for interested researchers to fill out, and at a pre KBS thematic conference meeting in Melbourne, happening in March 2010, we will examine all the check list sheets received and plan a set of presentations for the Luasanne pre symposium meeting. Anyone interesting in joining the project who was not able to participate in the meeting in Copenhagen can contact me (Norman Geisbrecht, Anne Hope, and I are the founders of this project) to get the check list and answers to any questions you may have about the project. Even if you can not attend the Thematic conference on Alcohol and VIolence in Melbourne, you can send me your check list and indicate your interest in being on the program for the pre symposium meeting in Lausanne. Please contact me for further information at robnp@aol.com.
AMPHORA WP5 project meetingOrganizers: Esa Österberg (email) Saturday, May 29 1 pm to 5:30 pm Working meeting - open to project members only
Developing an agenda for international, comparative research on alcohol and drug treatment systemsOrganizers: Sverre Nesvåg (email) Sunday, May 30 from 4 pm to 7 pm In October 2009 the Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues (NVC Finland) and Centre for Social Research of Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), Stockholm University, organized a KBS Thematic Meeting on Alcohol and Drug Treatment Systems. (see http://www.nordicwelfare.org for more information). At the end of the meeting the 40 participants agreed to follow up the paper presentations and discussions along two paths: 1) publication of a collection of the papers in a special edition of the Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (forthcoming during this autumn) and 2) organizing a pre-symposium workshop at this KBS Annual Symposium. The minimum aim of the workshop is, as the heading indicates, to develop an agenda for international, comparative research on alcohol and drug treatment systems, containing general topics and more specific research questions. Aims beyond this, will have to be up to the participants, but the following “ambition levels” can be formulated:
The workshop itself will be organized with short presentations from invited speakers and a lot of time for discussions. The following have confirmed that they will give short presentations at the workshop: Lynda Berends, Kerstin Stenius, Harald Klingemann, and myself. Invited speakers will be asked to produce about a half page abstract to be circulated to those who send me an e-mail, registering their interest. Thomas Babor and Mads Uffe Pedersen have told that they will not be able to attend the workshop but that they will produce an abstract for circulation. I also would like others who want to present their ideas in advance, to send me a short abstract or just to prepare for a short presentation at the workshop. To all interested in research about health and social services systems; welcome to the workshop! Sverre Nesvaag | |
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