Message-ID: <32DBF302.2B5B@mind.net> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:56:34 +0000 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@MIND.NET> Subject: [Fwd: Call for Papers - Pacific Science Inter-Congress] To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Thought this might be of interest to some of the listmembers:
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> WOMEN, SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT
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> FROM INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TO NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
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> The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, will host the VIII Pacific
> Science Association Inter-Congress from 13-19 July, 1997. A special sympposium,
> "Women, Science and Development: From Indigenous Knowldege to New Information
> Technologies' is being organized under the auspices of the Pacific Science
> Association and the Gender, Science and Development Programme of the Inter-
> national Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study. These topics have evolved
> from successful sessions on Women and Development (Honolulu 1991) and Human
> Resources for the Future: Women and Young Scientists in Asian and Pacific
> Science (Beijing 1995).
>
> The symposium will also build on the recommendations of the Gender Working
> Group of the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for Development and
> highlight the SPACHE ECOWOMAN and the WAINIMATE Traditional Medicine projects.
> Sessions will be organized around two major themes: 'Women, Science and Indi-
> geious Knowledge (women's traditional knowledge, 'indigeious' and 'western'
> science, the integraion of women's knowledge into development planning, etc.)
> and 'Women, Science and New Information Technologies (gender dimensions of
> information and communication technologies, empowerment through access to
> information, women and information technologies in Asia and the Pacific, etc.)
>
> There is increasing international interest in 'science in other places' as
> well as 'science with other faces' and these sessions will provide an arena
> for a regional exploration of both. Co-organizers are Nancy D. Lewis, Univer-
> sity of Hawaii, Leba Haolfaki Mataitini, University of the South Pacific, and
> Titilia Naitini, SPACHE.
>
> The early registration deadline for the Inter-Congress is January 31, 1997.
> Registration deadline is April 1, 1997. Registration must accompany submission
> of abstracts. Information on the Inter-Congress can be found at
> http://ruve.usp.ac.fj/~psa
> or c/o VIII Pacific Science Association Inter-Congress Secretariat,
> The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands
> (FAX 679 314007).
>
> For information on the symposium, contact Nancy Lewis (nl
> mailto:ANTHRO-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDUewis@hawaii.edu) at
> the address below. (please note that I will be away from Hawaii unitl 1/16)
>
> Nancy Davis Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Social Sciences
> 105 Hawaii Hall, University of Hawaii
> Honolulu, HI 96822
> Phone: (808) 956-6070, FAX: (808) 956-2340