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From: Harry Whitaker <brainlg(a)u.washington.edu> Notice and Call for Papers Please circulate to anyone who is interested. --------------------------------------------- HISTORY of the NEUROSCIENCES MEETING Saturday & Sunday, May 13-14, 1995 University of Quebec at Montreal (Bldg Athanase-David, D-R200) Accomodations at: Hotel Days Inn Vieux-Montreal, 1199 Rue Berri; Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2L 4C6 Hotel's phone: (514-845-9236) Hotel's FAX: (514-849-9855) ====================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS or POSTERS: please correspond with Harry Whitaker (see below, E-mail preferred) if you would like to present a paper or poster at this conference. General Schedule Saturday 13 May: 08h00 coffee-juice-croissants (Athanase-David D-R200, UQAM) 09h00 paper sessions 11h00 poster discussions 12h00 - 14h00 lunch in conference room, continue w/ discussions 14h00 afternoon paper sessions 16h45 final paper or poster sessions as needed 18h00 dinner on own Sunday 14 May 08h00 breakfast---Hotel Days-Inn: Senneville conference room 09h00 -- 12h00 business meeting ======================================================== Accepted papers/posters for the saturday program, as of this date, are the following (there is room for more): (1) Hugh Buckingham (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA) "Connectionism from Aristotle to Hartley" (tentative title) (2) Lauren Harris (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI) "Blood and Hand: Two Millennia of Sanguine Stories" (3) Stanley Finger (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) "Neuropsychological Contributions of Marc Dax and Gustave Dax" (4) Patrick McNamara (State University of New York--Buffalo, NY) History of ideas on the functional specializations of the insula (5) Rachael Rosner (York University --Toronto, Canada) Psychoanalysis as Disciplinary Compromise: Reflections on German psychiatry and neurology in the 1890s (6) Darryl Bruce (St. Mary's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia) Lashley, Hebb, Connections, and Criticisms (7) Peter Koehler (De Wever Hospital, Heerlen, Netherlands) Von Monakow's Influence on Neuroscience (8) Duane Haines (Univ of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) (on Herrick; title not finalized) (9) C.U.M.Smith (Aston University, UK) Charles Bell and Charles Darwin on expression of the emotions: was there a paradigm shift? (10) Carl Craver & Steven Small(University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA) (on classical diagram makers; title not finalized) (11) F. Clifford Rose (London Neurological Centre, London, UK) (title not finalized) (12) Claudio Luzzatti (University of Milan, Milan, Italy) and Harry Whitaker (University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Que) Neuropsychology in the 17th Century (tentative title) ======================================================== [B] Business meeting to discuss a proposed History of Neurosciences Society on Saturday, May 13 The Senneville meeting room has been booked on Sunday, May 14th from 8h00-13h00. Breakfast orders will be taken by the hotel restaurant, in the room, beginning at 8 am. The business meeting, an organizational meeting to explore possibility of founding a society for the history of the neurosciences, will begin at 09h00; also on the agenda: plans for the Second International Congress for the History of Neurosciences which is to be held in Montreal in 1996 (the first congress was in London in 1994); also on the agenda: plans for an E-mail history list to coordinate with the new society. Business meeting organizers: Stanley Finger (US) Duane Haines (US) Peter Koehler (Netherlands) F. Clifford Rose (UK) C.U.M. Smith (UK) Harry Whitaker (Canada) Additional persons involved in planning the new society for the history of neuroscience: Malcolm Macmillan (Australia) Claudio Luzzatti (Italy) Paul Eling (Netherlands) Lauren Harris (US) Hugh Buckingham (US) -------------------------------------------------------- Local arrangements contact for hotel & registration info): Dr. Harry A. Whitaker Neurological Surgery, RI-20 University of Washington Seattle, WA 9895 E-mail: brainlg(a)u.washington.edu