MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS

1st Annual Meeting

International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN)



Hyatt Regency Hotel
Buffalo, New York, USA

Wednesday, 8 May 1996



Call for Papers

The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) was formed in 1995; the first annual meeting will be held May 8, 1996, in Buffalo, New York as a satellite meeting of the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM).

Please submit proposals for papers (platform or poster) and thematic symposia, on any aspect of the history of the neurosciences. Papers must have at least one author who is a member of the society (for information on membership, please contact Duane E. Haines; see address, below). Platform papers will normally be 10-20 minutes in duration followed by 5-10 minutes for discussion. Poster papers will normally fill an 8 x 4 foot poster board area.

HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT for consideration by the Program Committee:   Abstracts should be one page, typed single-space, have a title, and describe both the topic of the proposed paper and the major points to be discussed in the paper. If you are proposing a symposium, a title and abstract for each of the proposed presentations should be provided, as well as a title for the symposium.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:  Your abstract (3 copies) must be received by Wednesday, 31 JANUARY 1996.   Decisions by the Program Committee will be made by the end of February 1996.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Rachael Rosner (York University: Toronto, Ontario, Canada) -- Committee Chair
Samuel Greenblatt (Providence Hospital: Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
Harry Whitaker (UQAM: Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

SEND ABSTRACTS (3 copies) to:

Prof. Harry A. Whitaker
Laboratoire de neuroscience de la cognition
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Case postale 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA H3C 3P8


514-987-8547  office phone
514-987-8952  fax

ISHN Membership Information:

Duane E. Haines, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy
University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505  USA


601-984-1640  phone
601-984-1655  fax


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