Additional workshops

The 11th Annual GENACIS Workshop

The 11th Annual GENACIS Workshop
Organizers:/contact persons: Sharon Wilsnack (swilsnac@medicine.nodak.edu) and Arlinda Kristjanson (akristja@medicine.nodak.edu)
GENACIS (Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: An International Study) is a collaborative project associated with the Kettil Bruun Society and coordinated by GENACIS partners at the University of North Dakota, the University of Southern Denmark, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems. The collaborative study includes comparable surveys of alcohol use and alcohol-related problems in women and men from more than 40 countries.
The 11th Annual GENACIS Workshop will be held May 30 (afternoon in room 2.1.12), May 31 (in room 2.1.12), and Tuesday, 2th June from 17.30-19.00 (room 1.1.18), 2009.  The workshop is open to GENACIS members and others interested in research on gender, culture, and alcohol use. 
For more information, please contact Arlinda Kristjanson (akristja@medicine.nodak.edu).

Qualitative Research Workshop

Organizer: Alexandra Bogren (alexandra.bogren@sociology.su.se)

Sunday, May 31 from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Room 1.1.18
Tuesday, 2th June from 17.30-19.00 Room 2.1.12

Open to all interested

As in previous years, the Qualitative Research Workshop focus on providing younger and less experienced researchers the opportunity of presenting their work in a supportive environment conducive to discussing qualitative research. We encourage qualitative researchers to present work in progress, even of a preliminary nature, to an audience of fellow qualitative researchers. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum both to obtain positive and constructive feedback aimed at improving participants’ analyses as well as to offer an opportunity to participate in theoretical, methodological, and thematic discussions.
The workshop deliberately has no specific topic designated, as the organizers wish to encourage presentations on a wide-range of topics  using a wide-range of approaches to qualitative analysis.Interested presenters are requested to send an outline of their proposed presentation to Alexandra Bogren (alexandra.bogren@sociology.su.se) by April 15th for approval by the workshop committee (Alexandra Bogren, Jakob Demant, Geoffrey Hunt, Peter Nygaard and Jukka Törrönen). Interested presenters are reminded that the workshop presentations may be similar to their papers presented at the main conference. The final program and chosen presentations will be decided by May 15th and papers circulated to all interested participants.

Pre-workshop on:
The history of key concepts, the diffusion,
translatability and ownership of concepts and national
conceptual traditions in the addiction field

Organizers: (Sidsel Eriksen sidsel@hum.ku.dk)  
Kerstin Stenius ( kerstin.stenius@stakes.fi)

Sunday, May 31 from 1 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Room 2.0.63
Tuesday, 2th June from 17.30-19.00 Room 2.0.63

Open to all interested.

We would like to invite all interested to a pre-workshop on The history of key concepts, the
diffusion,  translatability and ownership of concepts and national conceptual traditions in the addiction field. This session will deal particularly with methodological aspects of conceptual history analyses, using the papers on this topic that will be submitted to the meeting – and we hereby also specially invite researchers to submit such papers.
The discussions on conceptual history in the addiction field will continue during the meeting, on Tuesday afternoon, when we will consider the formation of a new comparative project within KBS.
Further information about the workshops and the project, which already has taken off within the frame of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors, will be distributed to the mailing list soon.

Publishing Addiction Science

Practical and Ethical Issues in Publishing Addiction Science.
Invitation to workshop in Copenhagen, June 5, 2009, 1-6 pm, immediately following the KBS meeting.

Room 1.1.18 & 2.0.63

The International Society for Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE) hereby invites young investigators to a half day work-shop based on the book “Publishing Addiction Science – A Guide of the Perplexed”, 2nd edition (available at www.isaje.net).
The aim of the workshop is to teach authors in the addiction field to make informed choices of publication channels for their scientific products and to improve the use of honest and verifiable methods in reporting research results.
The workshop, lasting from 1pm until 6 pm, will be conducted in parallel sessions, each with four modules, one devoted to practical issues, the other to ethical challenges. The workshop format consists of lectures by experienced editors, followed by interactive exercises, questions, and discussions. Participants who attend one session will have the opportunity to participate in the other session by means of a web-based tutorial that can be taken either before or after the workshop. The core topics will be: How to Choose a Journal, How to Write a Good Research Paper, How to Write a Qualitative Paper, Publication Issues for Graduate Students and Postdocs, Responding to Referee Comments, Good Citation Practices, Moral Reasoning in Addiction Publishing and Conflict of Interest in Relation to Funding Sources. Among the lecturing editors will be Thomas Babor (Addiction), Isidore Obot (African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research), Kerstin Stenius (Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift) and Betsy Thom (Drugs: education, prevention and policy).
There will be no costs for participation in the workshop. Note that for didactical reasons the number of participants in the work shop will have to be limited. 
The workshop will take place in the same facilities as the KBS meeting.
We hereby ask those interested in the workshop to contact Kerstin Stenius (kerstin.stenius@stakes.fi or Kerstin.stenius@thl.fi), stating your home country, institution, disciplinary background and academic degree or position.

New International Comparative Project on Alcohol and Assault

Sunday, May 31, 13-17

Room 1.1.12

Please join us for a KBS 2009 Pre Conference discussion of the possibility of forming a new international comparative research group and project on Alcohol and Assault in Copenhagen on Sunday, May 31, 2009.  The meeting will be held at 3 pm on Sunday afternoon.  The sponsors of this discussion are Norman Giesbrecht, Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada, Ann Hope, Ireland, and Robert Nash Parker, University of California, USA.  Although a significant amount of research on topics like the link between alcohol and homicide has been conducted by many KBS researchers, the fact that murder is such a rare event has been a factor, so we believe, in limiting the impact the research has had on policy discussions about alcohol regulation.  However, alcohol related assaults occur much more often than do murders, and impact a much larger segment of the societies we study.  We have gathered some basic time series data for Canada, Ireland, and the US, and will present a paper in the main symposium on the analysis of this link, but it occurred to us that a project on Alcohol and Assault along the lines of the very successful GENACIS project might be a vehicle to involve a number of like mined researchers, increase the number of countries within which we examine this relationship, and provide a mechanism for comparative analysis of the alcohol and violence relationship.  If this project is of interest, please join us for a preliminary discussion of whether we might want to launch such a project, how we should proceed, what countries are likely possibilities in terms of data and potential collaborators, and how to make this all happen in the next few years.  Please contact Robert Nash Parker (robnp@aol.com) for further information; hope to see you Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2009 in Copenhagen.

Workshop on Alcopops and other Youth Drinks
- politics, taxes and trends

Tuesday, 2th June from 17.30-19.00

Room 2.1.18

Open to all interested

 In the context of a general concern over intoxication among teenagers and young adults, the Australian government put a special tax on alcopops a year ago.  This has been controversial, and became highly politicized when parliament failed to back up the government’s initiative.  Meanwhile, the effects of the increased tax are highly contested.  Alcopops have also been a point of contention in a number of other countries over the last decade, and special taxes have been imposed in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the U.K.   The literature on the effects of the special taxes is scattered and small, and most discussions of the politics of alcopops have been about a particular society.   The idea of the workshop is to find out if there are common interests in a comparative international study considering both the policy debates and discussions and the effects of taxes and other control measures.  The convenors of the workshop are Michael Livingston (Australia) and Caroline Dale (U.K.)
Please email: MichaelL@TURNINGPOINT.ORG.AU and Caroline.Dale@lshtm.ac.uk for further information.

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