Conferences Around The World
2012
- Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychology
October 24-25, 2012
Cleveland, U.S.A. - 14th annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
October 18-21, 2012
Washington D.C., U.S.A. - Bioethics Education: content, methods, trends
UNESCO Bioethics conference
September 2-5, 2012
Tiberias, Israel - Worst Case Bioethics
European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care
August 15-18, 2012
Nazareth, Israel - Imagining Techno-Moral Change
Society for the Ethics and Politics of Emerging Technologies
July 2-4, 2012
Maastricht, The Netherlands - Thinking Ahead: Bioethics for the future, the future of Bioethics, challenges, changes, concepts
11th World Congress in Bioethics
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 26-29, 2012 - Generations: Imagining the Future to Promote Health and Justice
Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2012 conference
June 25-27, 2012
Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Collaboration in Action
Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Conference
June 15-16, 2012
Vancouver, Canada - International Conference on Stigma
Together Against Stigma: Changing how we see Mental Illness
June 4-6, 2012
Ottawa, Canada
Calling for Papers by February 29, 2012 - Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry annual meeting
The Biopsychosocial and Other Models for Psychiatry: Philosophical Perspectives
May 5-6, 2012
Philadelphia U.S.A. - Fostering Innovation in Canadian Bioethics
Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Conference
May 31-June 2, 2012
Montreal, Canada - Clinical Ethics in Diversity -8th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation
May 16-19, 2012
San Paulo, Brazil - First conference of the International Association for Education in Ethics
Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics
May 1-3, 2012
Pittsburgh U.S.A. - From Prevention to Reintegration: forensic mental health services across the continuum of care
Annual meeting of the International Association for Forensic Mental Health Services
April 22-24, 2012
Miami Beach, U.S.A. - Making Health Care Whole: Ethical Approaches to Navigating a Fragmenting System
April 20, 2012
Vancouver, Canada - Paranoia and Pain: embodied in psychology, literature, and bioscience
April 2-4, 2012
Liverpool, United Kingdom - The Moral Brain
Center for Bioethics, New York University
March 30-April 1, 2012
New York City, U.S.A. - 8th Annual Pacific Forensic Psychiatry Conference
Mental Health and the Justice System: Implications and Application of Treatment, Research, Policy and Law
March 28-30, 2012
Vancouver BC, Canada - 14th edition of the advanced European Bioethics course ‘Suffering, Death and Palliative Care’
(information available under intensive courses)
February 14-17, 2012
Nijmegen, the Netherlands - No Country for Old Men (or Women): increasing pressures on the health care system
New Zeland Bioethics Conference
January 27-29, 2012
Dunedin, New Zealand - What are the Ethical Issues Regarding Care of the Elderly?
Scottish Council on Human Bioethics
January 21, 2012
Edinburgh, Scotland - Signalling Fundamental Change? The Mental Health Act 2007 and confronting contemporary needs within psychiatry
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool
January 11, 2012
Liverpool, England
2011
- Intensive Course "Nursing Ethics"
December 7-9, 2011
Leuven, Belgium - Gender and Bioethics
November 21-22, 2011
Kazan, Russia - Intensive Course "Ethics of Reproductive Technologies"
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law
November 16-18, 2011
Leuven, Belgium - 2011 Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society
November 10-11, 2011
Washington DC, U.S.A. - Issues of Substance
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
November 6-9, 2011
Vancouver, Canada - Brain Matters: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Diversity
Religious Education Association
November 4-6, 2011
Toronto, Canada - Making Sense of Mental Illness: Biology, Medicine, and Society
European Molecular Biology Organization conference
November 4-5, 2011
Heidelberg, Germany - 6th International Conference on Applied Ethics
October 28-30, 2011
Sapporo, Japan - 7th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry
October 19-22, 2011
Prague, Czeck Republic - 13th annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
October 13-16, 2011
Minneapolis, U.S.A. - Distributive Justice in Health
Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho
October 6-7, 2011
Braga, Portugal - Intensive Course "Publish or Perish" on Research and Publishing in the field of Bioethics
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law
October 3-6, 2011
Leuven, Belgium - 12th Asian Bioethics conference
September 28-October 1, 2011
Taiwan - 7th World Congress on Bioethics
September 19-22, 2011
Gijon, Spain - Categoreis & Controversies: The Ethical Dimensions of the DSM-5
Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare
September 16, 2011
Philadelphia, USA - Bioethics from a Cross Cultural Perspective
September 15-17, 2011
Istanbul, Turkey - Ethics, Experience and Evidence: Integration of Perspectives in Psychiatry
September 2-4, 2011
Gothenburg, Sweden - Clinical Neuroscience and Society
University of Pennsylvania
July 22-24, 2011
Philadelphia, U.S.A. - Ethical Controversies: How to Meet Society's Obligation to Provide Healthcare to Children
July 22-23, 2011
Seattle, U.S.A. - 32nd Congress of the International Academy for Law and Mental Health
July 17-23, 2011
Berlin, Germany - Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law conference
Gold Coast, Australia
July 7-10, 2011
- Neuorenhancement
University of Mainz Department of Philosophy
July 7-9, 2011
Mainz, Germany - International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
Barcelona, Spain
June 29 - July 1, 2011 - Charting a New Course to Better Care
12th Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care conference
June 23-25, 2011
Halifax, Canada - Excellence in Health Care: meeting the challenges of Sustainability
22nd annual meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society
June 2-4, 2011
St. John, Canada
- 18th Session of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO
May 31-June 2, 2011
Baku, Azerbaijan - Brain Matters II
May 26-27, 2011
Montreal, Canada - Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act
May 24, 2010
London, U.K. - International Conference and Courses on Bioethics
May 23-30, 2011
Singapore - The Future of Psychiatric Nosology
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry annual meeting
May 14 & 15, 2011
Honolulu, U.S.A. - Mental Health and the Justice System
March 30 - April 1, 2011
Vancouver, Canada - National Nursing Ethics Conference
March 24-25, 2011
Los Angeles, U.S.A. - The Autumn of Life: the ethical challenges of ageing
4th International Congress on Bioethics
March 23-26, 2011
Strasbourg, Luxembourg - The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy
Osaka, Japan
March 20-22, 2011 - 4th World Congress on Women's Mental Health
Madrid Spain
March 16-19 2011 - 1st International Symposium
Fritz Jahr and European Roots of Bioethics: Establishing an International Scholars' Network (EUROBIONETHICS) Rijeka (Croatia), March 11-12 2011
for information email: irincic@medri.hr - Help or Hindrance? The role of emotions in biomedical decision making
Healthcare Ethics Consortium of Georgia Atlanta, U.S.A.
March 10 & 11, 2011
- Valuing Lives
March 5, 2011
New York, U.S.A. - 20th Anniversary meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
March 3-6, 2011
Cincinnati, U.S.A.
2010
- Healthcare Rationing
December 9-10, 2010
Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Transforming Humanity: Fantasy? Nightmare? Dream?
December 3 - 4, 2010
Philadelphia U.S.A.
- The Ethical Interface between Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Law
November 26, 2010
London, U.K. - Expanding the Frontiers of Neuroethics
November 22 - 26, 2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Governance of Healthcare - ethics, equity and justice
Third National Bioethics Conference
November 18-20, 2010
New Delhi, India - Dementia, Mental Illness & Addictions: ethical dilemmas, ethical demands
November 18-19, 2010
Saskatoon, Canada
- 5th International Conference on Applied Ethics
Sapporo, Japan
November 5-7, 2010 - Ethics of Invasive Brain Testing: limits and responsibilities
Cleveland, U.S.A.
October 3, 2010 - A Need to Confess? Writing About the Healthcare Experience
September 30 – October 2, 2010
The Given Institute of the University of Colorado
Aspen, Colorado - University of Greifswald International Ethics Conference
September 23-26, 2010
Heringsdorf Germany - Brains in Dialogue in Deep Brain Stimulation
September 20-21, 2010
Warsaw, Poland
- Ethics at the Business-Health Care Interface
September 17-19 2010
Toronto Canada - Empirical Ethics
Conferences hosted by the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics
September 16-18, 2010
Oslo, Norway - Protecting the Vulnerable in the 21st Century
September 15-17 2010
Cedarville University
Cedarville, Ohio, U.S.A. - Personhood in a Neurobiological Age
September 13, 2010
London, U.K.
- Mundalization, Bioethics and Policy
8th Asian Bioethics conference
July 31 - August 2, 2010
Singapore
- 10th World Congress of Bioethics
Official Congress Wesite
Singapore
July 28-31, 2010 - Clinical Neuroscience and Society Conference
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, U.S.A.
July 23-25, 2010 - 32nd Congress of the International Academy for Law and Mental Health
Berlin, Germany
July 17-23, 2011 - Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities
Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health
July 12-16, 2010
Geneva, Switzerland - Real People: The Self in Mental Health and Social Care
13th Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry
Manchester, U.K.
June 28-30, 2010 - Moral Expertise
June 28-29, 2010
Cardiff, Wales U.K. - Confronting Risks in Mental Health Research
June 10, 2010
St. Louis University, Chicago, U.S.A.
- Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting
Kelowna B.C.
June 8-12, 2010 - Mental Health and Forensic Practice Across the Lifespan: prevention and promotion
10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
Vancouver, Canada
May 25-27, 2010 - Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act
May 24, 2010
London, U.K - 6th annual International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation and the International Society for Clinical Bioethics Conference
Portland U.S.A
May 11-14, 2010 - Neuroethics Society Meeting
Washington DC, USA
May 10-11, 2010 - Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics
Second Global Conference
Prague, Czech Republic
May 3-5, 3010 - 5th annual Mental Health & Justice conference
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
April 28, 2010
Pontypool, Ontario
Contact Sheila Carron scarron@rmh.org for more info - Priority Setting in Difficult Economic Times
The International Society for Priorities in Health Care
April 23-25, 2010
Boston U.S.A. - Neuroscience, Evolution, and Morality
College of the Holy Cross
March 18-19, 2010
Worcester, U.S.A. - "Ethics After Harm" Conference
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
January 29-31, 2010 - Moral Theory and Theorizing in Ethical Deliberation
School of Health Science
Swansea University, U.K.
January 8-9th, 2010 - Autonomy and Mental Health Conference
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Cambridge, U.K.
January 7-8, 2010
2009
- Law and Neurosciences: our growing understanding of the brain and its impact on the legal system
October 26-31 2009
Acquefredda di Maratea, Italy - 12th Annual International Conference for Philosophy & Psychiatry
Lisbon, Portugal
October 22-24, 2009 - Annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Washington, DC
October 15-18, 2009 - Brain Matters: new directions in neuroethics
Halifax, Canada
September 24-26, 2009 - 8th Brazilian Congress on Bioethics
Búzios, Brazil
September 23-26, 2009 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
Edinburgh, Scotland
June 24-26, 2009 - "Just Evidence?"
Annual meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society
Hamilton, Canada
June 11-14, 2009 - Coma and Consciousness: clinical, societal and ethical implications 13th Congress of the Association of Cognitive Study
Berlin, Germany
June 4 2009 - 10th National Conference Collaborative Mental Health Care
Hamilton, Canada
May 28-30, 2009 - Philosophical Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
San Francisco, U.S.A.
May 16-17, 2009 - Engaging Reflection in Health Professional Education and Practice
London, Canada
May 13-15, 2009 - Neuroethics Conference
Centre for Philosophy, Justice & Health
University College London
London, U.K.
May 8 2009 - Ethics, Addictions & Concurrent Disorders Workshop
Toronto, Canada
April 30, 2009 - 10th Asian Bioethics Conference
Tehran, Iran
April 26-29, 2009 - 4th International Conference on Spirituality & Mental Health
Ottawa, Canada
April 23-24, 2009 - The Neuroethics of Addiction
U.B.C.'s Core Network for Neuroethics
April 14, 2009
Vancouver, Canada - Hooked: Legal and Ethical Implications of Recent Advances in Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Arizona State University
Phoenix, U.S.
April 10, 2009 - Mental Health and Justice System Across the Lifespan
6th Annual Forensic Psychiatry Conference
Vancouver, Canada
April 1-3, 2009 - 6th Annual Forensic Psychiatry Conference

Mental Health and the Justice System Across the Lifespan
Vancouver BC
April 1-3, 2009 - 5th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation
Taipei, Taiwan
March 12-14, 2009 - Tenth Asian Bioethics Conference
April 26-29, 2009
Tehran, Iran
- 3rd Annual Pacific Psychopharmacology Conference

Vancouver BC
February 13-14, 2009
2008
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self
Heidelberg, Germany
November 13-15, 2008
- 1st annual Neuroethics Society meeting
Washington D.C., U.S.A.
November 13-14, 2008
- 9th Asian Bioethics Conference
Jogyakarta, Indonesia
November 3-7 2008
- The AAMFT Annual conference: Ethical and Legal Challenges in Contemporary Family Therapy
Memphis, TN
October 30-November 2 2008
- Refugees, Forced Migration and Mental Health: Recovery from Trauma and the Destigmatization of Mental Illness
Toronto, Canada
October 31, 2008
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual meeting
Cleveland, U.S.A.
October 23-26, 2008
- Psychiaty and Freedom, International Conference for Psychiatry and Mental Health
Dallas, USA
October 6-8, 2008
- Cognitive Disability: A Challenge to Moral Philosophy
Stony Brook University in Stony Brook (Manhattan), New York
September 18-20, 2008
- Conundrums and Controversies in Mental Health and Illness
Institute of Values in Health Care, Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, U.S.A.
September 5-6, 2008
- 9th World Congress of Bioethics
Rijeka, Croatia
September 3-8, 2008
- European Bioethics in a Global Context
Tartu, Estonia
August 20-23, 2008
e-mail: b.godign@efg.umcn.nl
- 11th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic Mental Health Services
Vienna, Austria
July 14-16, 2008
- Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting
St. John's, Canada
June 18-21, 2008
- Madness, Citizenship and Social Justice: A Human Rights Conference
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
June 12-15, 2008 - Qualitative Mental Health Research International Conference
Tampere, Finland
June 9-11, 2008
- Storying our World
May 7-10, 2008
Toronto, Canada
- Association for Practical and Professional Ethics annual meeting
San Antonio, Texas, USA
February 21-24, 2008
2007
- Second National Bioethics Conference
Bangalore, India
December 6-8, 2007
- The Ethics of Neuroimaging and the Neuroimaging of Ethics
Deft University of Technology and the 3TU
The Netherlands
November 13, 2007
- Cognition: embodied, embedded, enactive, extended
University of Central Florida
Orlando, USA
October 21-23, 2007
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual meeting
Washington DC, USA
October 18-21, 2007
- Innovations in Human Services and Justice Initiatives
Toronto, Canada
September 24-26, 2007
- Setting an Ethical Agenda for Health Promotion
Ghent, Belgium
September 18-20, 2007
- Bioethics in the Real World
Zurich, Switzerland
September 13-15, 2007
- 10th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology
Sun City South, South Africa
August 26-30, 2007
- Human Mind, Human Kind
Aarhus, Denmark
August 15-18, 2007
- 7th International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services
Montreal Canada
June 25-28, 2007
- Perspectives on the Body and Embodiment
Dublin, Ireland
June 8-9, 2007
- International Conference on Clinical Ethics & Consultation
Toronto, Canada
June 1-3, 2007
- Neuroethics Society Breakfast Meeting
Toronto, Canada
June 1, 2007
- Canadian Bioethics Society annual meeting
Toronto, Canada
May 30-June 1, 2007
- Global Health and Ethics
(see Ethics, then Upcoming Events)
Toronto, Canada
May 30, 2007
- World Conference on Bioethics
Gijon, Spain
May 21-25, 2007
- Wellness in Body, Mind, and Spirit: bioethical dimensions
Halifax, Canada
May 23-26, 2007
- Ethics in Research in the Behavioral Sciences
St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA
May 7-10, 2007
- From the Brain to Human Culture: Intersections between the Humanities and Neuroscience
(See Events Calendar)
Bucknell University
Lewisburg PA, USA
April 20-21, 2007
- 10th Subtle Technologies Festival
Toronto, Canada
March 24-27, 2007
- 10th National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference
Michigan State University
East Lansing, USA
March 23-25, 2007
- 8th Asian Bioethics Conference
Bangkok, Thailand
March 19-23, 2007
- International Meeting of Women Mental Health
(See Newsletter, then Calendar)
Lima, Peru
March 7-10, 2007
- 16th Association for Professional and Practical Ethics annual meeting
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
February 22-25, 2007
