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Conference about several papers discussed at the National Conference sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) in the U.S. The conference was arranged for the National Commission on Teacher Education that aims to meet the problem of the general education of all teachers. The event was participated by the representatives from the fields of music, drama and speech.

Information about several papers discussed at the summer meeting of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) in Boston, Massachusetts is presented. The meeting focused on the constitutional revisions relating to art education. The symposium featured Gordon Reynolds, the president of the Massachusetts School of Art as the acting chairman.

Information about several papers discussed at a March 1951 meeting of a group of directors of art education is presented. Changes were made in the interpretation of the art program in order to make a functional art education program possible. There is a lack of supervisors in many art programs. Several positive things are being done throughout the U.S. including workshops and community programs in art, as well as cooperative planning and interplay between museums and art galleries.

A conference paper about pre-logical experience in the thinking process is presented. The study aims to contribute to the methods of examining and establishing some facts in human experience in relation to pre-logic. It refers to a book on logical and intensive inquiry into the subject of dreams, daydreams, hunches, intuition, and the like type of mental processes.

The article discusses the highlights of a symposium of educators and others concerned with automation held in Washington, D.C. in 1962. The attendees pondered the educational implications of this developing manufacturing technique through which machines control their own operations. Participants in the symposium may revise their papers in the light of the discussion.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium titled "Vision in Art in People to People," the 7th Biennial Conference of the National Art Education Association in Kansas City, Kansas is presented. It was stated that the conference theme presents an opportunity to examine ideas that could affect the future in demonstrating art education. Several ideas from art educators were featured in the conference including by Pauline Johnson, Ivan E. Johnson, and Jack D. Stoops.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium regarding art education which was sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum College of Art on December 11, 1962 is presented. The symposium featured the point of view of Arthur R. Young, a professor of painting and graphics at the Teachers College of Columbia University, about the traditional practices in art education. Other panelists include Victor D'Amico, Howard S. Conant and Robert L. Iglehart.

A conference paper presented by Marylou Kuhn, associate professor of art at Florida State University, at the XVII World Congress International Society for Education Through Art which was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia on August 3-10, 1966 is presented. It discusses the relevance of art education to the future. The need for individuals who can utilize the innovations being born in a rapidly changing society is emphasized.

Information about several papers discussed at the seminar "Role of the Arts in Meeting the Social and Educational Needs of the Disadvantaged" that was held on November 15-19, 1966, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is presented. The importance of art education in bringing forward the capacities of the poor and the disadvantaged was emphasized. The seminar featured several politicians and educationists.

This article informs about the XIII Congress of the International Institute of Sociology to be held in Caracas, Venezuela from November 20- 25, 1972. The registration fee is US $ 20 and entitles each member to present papers, participate in workshops and receive a copy of the proceedings of the congress. The article also includes program details for the congress. Topics to be covered in the congress are "General Theoretical and Methodological Problems" and "Areas: Africa-Asia-Latin America-Arab World". There will be nine working groups. They are Sociology of Education, Sociology of Knowledge and Sociology of Art, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Family, Sociology of Work, Social Classes, Political Sociology, Sociology of Medicine, Sociology of Religion and Magic, Urbanism, Rural Development, Planning, Prospective Studies, Archives and Banks of Sociological Data and Open Themes. The autor maintains that the scientific use of the concept of innovation has undergone deep changes within the latest economic and sociological debate, if confronted with its original meaning, of neoclassical stamp, of external variable of the productive process. First with Kaldor, who considers it as an independent functions of capital accumulation; later with the substitution of Schumpeter scheme based on a rigorous distinction between the inventive process, which is outside the concern, and the innovatory one, which defines the role of the entrepreneur, with a more fluid scheme that regards large concerns as the subject of imputation of either process; lastly with Arrow's attempt to consider the worker's productive experience as a constituent part of that process of acquisition of Knowledge which culminates in the modification of technology; with these three passages it is possible to draw an outline leading to recognize innovation/invent ion as more and more deeply rooted within the real productive process.

Information about the daily sessions of the Open Research Reports Section at the 1974 National Art Education Association is presented. Empirical studies formed the largest number of presentations with some 17 different reports scheduled. Five theoretical papers on aesthetics were included in the program. The Open Research Reports Section featured four major panel presentations. Individuals conducting their studies for doctoral dissertations made almost one-third of the reports.

Information about the topics discussed at a convention initiated by the National Art Education Association on the advancement of women in art education is presented. Participants expressed their views on being an artist and a woman. They called for research papers focused on the professional development of women in art education. Finally, they solicited ideas and comments from men and women who are interested in the advancement of women in the profession.

The article discusses the highlights of the 34th annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) held in Chicago, Illinois, from April 2 to 4, 1982. Several papers related to late imperial Chinese history were presented during the meeting. Albert Feuerwerker chaired a symposium on state granaries and food supply in Qing China.

Information about several papers discussed at the 12th International Radiocarbon Conference related to the developments in radiocarbon dating in archaeology is presented. During the conference, a move to agree on universally accepted calibration curves was taken after such curves vary from year to year and from one laboratory to another. The conference also supported a set of resolutions aimed at the establishment of a comprehensive radiocarbon data base.

This article focuses on the 29th congress of the Institut International de Sociologie that will be held in Rome during June 12-16, 1989. The meeting will be held on the premises of the University of Rome and of the Italian National Research Council which is located just in front of the University, in Piazzale Aldo Moro. During the plenary sessions, simultaneous translations for English, French and Italian will be provided. Session organizers will have to make calls for the papers, to screen them, to propose a working agenda, to chair the session, and to function as a rapporteur, providing a summary of the working session proceedings to the Concluding Plenary Session.

The article reports on announcements for workshops, programs, and other activities related to sociology. The scientific debate and the practical experiments in the field of self-management in Bulgaria over the last years have raised worldwide attention. It also informs that a scientific program will be organized as outlined in the provisional program. Each participant, who submits a paper, should send this not later than June 1, 1989. The papers will be printed in the workshop-collected papers, which will be distributed to the participants at the beginning of the workshop.

Information about the topics and papers presented at the first Inter-Congress of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) held on August 7-10, 1989 in Vermillion, South Dakota is presented. The papers presented during the session include "Human Remains: To Interfere or Leave Untouched?," "Recent Disturbances of the Dead," and "Archaeology and the Burials of Living Traditions." The statements, known as the Vermillion Accord, adopted by WAC's Executive Committee are enumerated.

The article discusses the highlights of the Fifth International Conference on Ming History at the Xi'an People's Hotel in Xi'an, China from August 15 to August 20, 1993. The participants included scholars from the People's Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and from the U.S. Topics of papers presented at the conference included economic and institutional history, the Ming founding, and social history. Comments on the papers are offered. A list of participants, along with their institutional affiliation and paper topic, is presented.

The article discusses the papers presented at the conference titled "The Monsters and the Neocritics" regarding the lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," by J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ganim explains the history of medievalism and how the ancient period had been considered as barbaric. Louise Fradenburg tackles the resistance shown by medievalists to psychoanalysis. Carolyn Dinshaw suggests that the denaturalization of race can be done by studying the mixed race individual.

The article discusses the highlights of the 48th annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies held in Honolulu, Hawaii from April 11-14, 1996. Jingyuan Zhang of Georgetown University was the chairman of a panel on "Narrating the Empire: Literature, Culture, and the Body Politic in Early Modern China." Meanwhile Stephen H. West of the University of California-Berkeley was the chairman of a panel "In Honor of James I. Crump's Contribution to the Study of Yuan Drama, Part 1: Lust, Desire, and Love in Yuan Drama."

The article presents proceedings of the session on Teaching Chaucer in the Nineties at the meeting of the New Chaucer Society held at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland on July 24, 1994. The author shares that teacher-scholars from a wide spectrum of academic institutions and at various stages in their careers attended the meeting. Papers and abstracts on teaching the literary works of Geoffrey Chaucer were presented.

The article discusses the highlights of the Second Meeting of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) which was held in San Marino, California on April 3 and 4, 1998. The paper "Demistifying Qi: The Politics of Cultural Translation and Interpretation in the Early Jesuit Mission to China," by Qiong Zhang was presented in a panel discussion titled "Spiritual Conquests: Religion and Missionaries in the 17th Century" chaired by Rose Beiler.

The article discusses the highlights of the International Symposium on Chinese Society Since the Ming Dynasty that was held at Nankai University in Tianjin, China from August 30 to September 3, 1999. There were 117 participants from China and 46 participants from Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries. The Organizing Committee for the event was composed of four history professors, including Nan Bingwen and Zhang Guogang. The papers presented at the event were divided between plenary sessions and four smaller sessions.

The article discusses the highlights of an academic conference on overseas Sinology and the cultural exchanges between China and Southeast Asia that was held in Xiamen, China on November 28 to December 1, 1999. Sponsors of the event include the Chinese Society for the History of Relations Between China and Foreign Countries and Hong Kong Chinese Wannian Internet Ltd. The topics of the papers presented include western studies of Confucius and Confucianism and research about Sinology.

The article discusses the highlights of the 52nd annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) held in San Diego, California, from March 9 to 12, 2000. Papers relating to the Ming period that were presented during the meeting included one on politics and intellectual networking in the late Ming capitals. Joanna Handlin Smith chaired a panel discussion on status, power and identity in 16th-century China, while Paul S. Ropp chaired a panel discussion on male discourses on female suicide in the late Imperial China.

The article discusses the highlights of the thirteenth biennial meeting of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) in Torina, Italy from August 30 to September 2, 2000. With a theme, titled "The Spirit of the Metropolis," the event featured several papers related to the Ming dynasty including Julian Ward's "The Urban Wanderer: Chinese Travellers in Provincial Towns and Cities." The event also included two workshops related to the Ming dynasty.

The article discusses the highlights of the Ninth International Conference on Ming History held at Wuyishan, Fujian Province, China from August 25 to 29, 2001. The event was opened by Chen Zhiping of Xiamen University while Liu Chongri, president of the Chinese Society for Ming Dynasty History (CSMDH) which sponsored the program, made the opening speech. One of the speakers, Yang Guozhen of Xiamen University, assessed the studies of historian Fu Yiling about Chinese history. Several papers presented during the conference are mentioned.

The article discusses the highlights of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) Conference, which took place from August 26-28, 2002 in Moscow, Russia. The papers presented during the conference include "Chinese Fiction of the Ming Dynasty in Korean Editions," by Choe Yung-chul, "Gardens in the Poetry of Ruan Dacheng," by Alison Hardie, and "Heroic Sexuality: Friendship and Love in Late Imperial Fiction," by Giovanni Vitiello.

The article discusses the highlights of the workshop "The World of Wang Shizhen: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in 16th Century China," organized by Ken Hammond at Leiden University in the Netherlands in June 2003. Some of the papers presented at the conference are "Wang Shizhen as Partisan: The Case of Yang Jisheng," "The Rehabilitation of Wang Shizhen's Father" and "Two Representative Literati of the 16th Century: Wang Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng."

The article discusses the highlights of the Third International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS3), held in Singapore in August 2003. In a panel on New Perspectives on Pre-Modern and Early Modern Chinese Culture, the papers "The Making of Gender Roles in Pre-Modern Chinese Drama and Its Modern Transformation" and "Numinous Father and Holy Mother: The Ethos in Late Ming Paired Cultivation Practice" were presented. A panel on The Zhiguai Tradition in Chinese Fiction was chaired by Kow Mei Kao.

The article reports that the National Middle School Association (NMSA) held a press conference on November 5, 2003, to announce the release of the third edition of its landmark position paper entitled "This We Believe: Successful Schools for Young Adolescents," and its companion document "Research and Resources in Support of This We Believe." These two timely and important books became available at the 30th annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia and through the Web site of NMSA. The new 3rd edition of "This We Believe: Successful Schools for Young Adolescents" includes an expanded list of young adolescents characteristics and an expanded Call to Action for all middle level stakeholders. "Research and Resources in Support of This We Believe" discusses the growing research base about young adolescents growth and development and successful practices in middle level schools. Both books are important professional development tools to build knowledge and commitment among educators.

The article discusses the highlights of a conference titled "The World of Wang Shizhen: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Sixteenth Century China" held in Leiden, the Netherlands, from June 13 to 14, 2003. Among the themes of the papers presented for discussion include political life, mysticism and culture, and aesthetic dimensions. An overview of the sessions held during the event is offered.

The article presents information on the 2005 Biennial Conference of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (IAST) that was held in Beijing, China. IAST is a self-recruiting group of scholars following the honoured traditions of British clubs. Fellowship is not open to any fee paying associates. It can only be achieved by invitation of the confreres after a finicky selection process that includes a highly qualified quorum of affirmative ballots. IAST, founded in 1988, was one of the harbingers of the growing demand for excellence in tourism research and has tried to keep true to this goal since. At any rate, only active IAST fellows are invited to participate in the sessions, although each one of them has the right to invite one guest if the latter contributes a paper to the proceedings. IAST fellows have many different academic backgrounds and a plurality of research strategies. This makes a second specialty for IAST conferences. In order to accommodate a number of papers with no common focus, their leitmotiv has to be as encompassing as the one for this Ninth Biennial Session in Beijing.

Information about the 38th International Conference of the Round Table on Archives of the International Council of Archives which was held at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on November 27 to December 1, 2005, is presented. Ross Gibbs of the Australasian archival delegation presented two papers at the conference, one on "Preserving Memory on the Web" and a joint paper on "Integrating Recordkeeping in Australian Performance Audits."

Information on the reports discussed at the "Theory and Practice," an annual conference of the Association of Canadian Archivists is presented. The papers at this conference considered theoretical developments and some radical changes to traditional archival principles and concepts. They also explored practical implementations of new theory in Australia, Canada and Great Britain, offering interesting reflections and guidance.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference on tourism research in Poland. According to the conference organizers, its aim is to create a wide, international forum for discussion, in which representatives of various academic fields could exchange their views under the supervision of researchers. The conference featured several representatives including R. Winiarski, K. Przerclawski, Josef A. Mazanec and others.

The article highlights various issues discussed at the General Session of the 2004 annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Mary M. Brooks and Dinah Eastop presented the paper "Matter Out of Place: Paradigms for Analyzing Textile Cleaning." Richard Kerschner and Ken Sutherland discussed "Here We Go 'Round Again: Cleaning Linseed Oil From Carousel Animals at the Shelburne Museum."

The article offers information on papers presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), held in San Francisco, California, from April 6 to 9, 2006. The papers discussed in a panel on Southeastern Coastal China in the 12th-15th Centuries: Local Society at the Crossroads of Culture and Commerce include one by Matoshi Oka of Hiroshima University and another by Yasuhiro Yokkaichi of Kyushu University. The Society for Ming Studies sponsored a panel on Local Visions of the Ming in the Lae Qing.

Information about several papers discussed at an Expert Meeting by the ATLAS Backpacker Research Group in Bangkok, Thailand in September 2005 is presented. The meeting titled "Advancing Research Agendas in Backpacker Travel" was aimed at reflecting on the advances made in backpacker research, and was attended by 31 delegates from 12 countries. The event featured several executives and experts of the tourism industry including Philip Pearce, Darya Maoz, and Alison McIntosh.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference titled "Special Interest Tourism: An Indian Imperative" which was conducted in India on March 25, 2006 is presented. The topic discussed during the conference included the development of certain special interest tourism forms, and the role of information technology and the use of data mining for profiling tourists. The conference featured several executives of the industry including Asok Kumar Mishra, Sutheeshna Babu, and Anand Iyengar.

Information about several papers discussed at the Regional Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming of International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD)-Suppoter Projects in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia is presented. Topics discussed includes the countries' gender mainstreaming process and the combined progress made by the project. The workshop featured 50 participants representing the project countries like Theonakhet Saphakdy as the workshop coordinator.

Information about several papers discussed at the Regional Gender Experts' workshop on Gender Analysis Toolkit for Urban Environmental Management in Southeast Asia is presented. The workshop, held in Louangphrabang. Laos, focused on the lack of framework governing both gender and urban environmental management issues in Southeast Asia. The workshop featured several gender specialists including Kyoko Kusakabe of the Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications (SEA-UEMA).

A conference paper about patients' shame and self-blame is presented. It discusses the clinical, ethical, and conceptual problems that can be confronted by analysts who overuse their analytic love to save patients with poor self-care. The author determines that a respect for the patient's freedom of self-determination must be appended with analytic empathy.

A conference paper about a framework for the treatment of patients with self-care problems is presented. The author believes that concerned actions should be viewed as the opening of a paradoxical potential space in the transference-countertransference relationship. Self-care problems are believed to be caused by the breakdown of a central dialectic in the parent-child relationship. This dialectic must be reestablished and repaired in the treatment relationship.

A conference paper about the victimization of the patients and analysts in the analytic process is presented. It examines how an analyst's efforts in trying to expand the patient's ability to understand and integrate experiences of agency and victimization implicates him in internalized scenarios. Such a situation results in the analyst's inability to understand the patterns and becomes entangled in it. In turn, the patients are also victimized by the personalities of their analysts.

A conference paper about the clinical strategy for patients who attempts an illusion of "oneness" with the therapist is presented. The strategy uses the "romantic" approach, as well as go beyond such approach. The author suggests using the patient-therapist bond to pinpoint inchoate psychic states. To create new ways of being and relating, the therapist must facilitate the therapist-patient bond to bring the merged relationship to realization.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on rainbow families legal, health and social frameworks is presented. Topics include lesbian and gay parenting which presents a definitive picture of parents with good mental health and children developing well. The symposium featured several professors including Charlotte Patterson, Kristen Walker and Deborah Dempsey.

Information is presented about several papers discussed at a conference sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on the challenges and opportunities in the digitization of conservation documents. Topics include Internet access to art collections, the impact of electronic documentation on the preservation of archives, and the financing of the labor needed to digitize conservation documents.

Information about the International Development Studies Conference on Mainstreaming Human Security in Bangkok, Thailand on May 4-5, 2007 is presented. It notes that to contextualize the human security matters for the Asian region is the ultimate goal of the conference through the discussions on the theoretical aspects and investigations of the ongoing debates on human security in the region. An overview of the 63 papers presented in 12 different panels is presented.

Information about several papers discussed during the SASPEN Biennial General Meeting (BGM) held in South Africa is presented. During the event, members unanimously agreed to proceed with the election of the duly nominated members to the Council and seek ratification by post or electronic mail (e-mail) so that elected Council can proceed with its work.