Congress

The Ninth World Congress of Bioethics and the Sixth International Congress of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics will be held 3-8 September, 2008, in Rijeka Croatia.

Announcements

FAB 2008 program available

Update on information for registering for the 2008 FAB Congress

Registration for FAB and IAB Congresses

9th World Congress of Bioethics and FAB 2008 Congress

Travel and Registration Grants

Information on grants for the 2008 FAB Congress in Croatia will be available later in 2007.

Application Procedure for Travel and Registration Grants

In order to be eligible for a grant, applicants must have been members of FAB for at least one year at the time of application. To apply for a travel grant, FAB members presenting a paper at a FAB or FAB-related conference must submit both a brief abstract of their paper and a brief statement of need to the Grants Committee. FAB members seeking a registration grant must submit only a brief statement of need to the Grants Committee.

To apply for a travel grant, FAB members presenting a paper at a FAB or FAB-related conference must submit the following:

• Full name of the applicant.
• Full contact information, including any relevant institutional or organizational affiliation.
• Details of pursuit of funding from other sources and outcome.
• A brief statement of need, including any circumstances related to special need, for instance underemployment or independent scholar status.
• Previous FAB grants awarded (year and amount).
• An extended abstract of the paper to be presented (not applicable for those requesting only assistance with registration).
• Anticipated participation in FAB organizational activities if applicable.
• For non-FAB conferences, details of the conference that the applicant wishes to attend, including location, sponsorship, dates, and its relevance to the goals of FAB, plus indication of acceptance of the paper to be presented.

Rationale and Criteria for FAB Travel and Registration Grants

FAB has limited funds to provide travel grants to help FAB members participate in FAB or FAB-related conferences. FAB also tries to assist members in developing countries to secure funding from other sources.

With rare exceptions, grants are provided only to support participants who are presenting papers at FAB or FAB-related conferences. Ordinarily, individual grants do not exceed US$1000, which can be paid out in the form of cash, airline tickets, or accommodations. Depending on the availability of funds, exceptions to the US$1000 limit are considered, but honored only when all other alternatives have been explored and exhausted. Preference is given to support participation in the Biennial International FAB Conference.

In addition, FAB has limited funds for registration grants. FAB members for at least one year seeking support to attend a FAB or FAB-related conference are eligible for these grants. Preference is given to active and/or long-standing members of FAB, particularly those who are participating in organizational activities and/or have inadequate institutional support.

Ordinarily an individual FAB member will only be eligible for a maximum of US$1000 in FAB travel grants within any two-year period. In ranking applications, the FAB Grants Committee will also take into account previous FAB-related grants awarded to the applicant and give some preference to applicants who have not been funded by FAB previously. The FAB Grants Committee considers all eligible applications and ranks them based on the following considerations:

• Whether the applicant's paper will diversify and/or enrich feminist approaches to bioethics.
• The applicant's history of continuing service to FAB or active participation in FAB activities (e.g., being a Country Representative or Advisory Board member).
• The applicant's access to alternate funding.
• The applicant's need, based on self-description, with some priority given to qualified applicants from developing countries whose applications otherwise meet the above criteria.
• For non-FAB conferences, the relation of the conference to FAB's mission.

International Association of Bioethics

FAB is affiliated with the International Association of Bioethics (IAB). The aims of the IAB are to:

1. Faciliate contacts and the exchange of information between those working in bioethics in different parts of the world.
2. Organize and promote international conferences in bioethics.
3. Encourage the development of research and teaching in bioethics.
4. Uphold the value of free, open and reasoned discussion of issues in bioethics.

For further details contact:

The Executive Officer
IAB
PO Box 280
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City 1101
Philippines

Phone: +632 436 8873
Fax: +632 426 9590
Email:

You may find the IAB website to be very useful, as it has a number of links to organizations with mandates related to our own and posts information on international bioethics conferences.

Officers of the IAB

President

Professor Alexander M. Capron
Director, Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law, World Health Organization WHO/SDE/ETH 20, Avenue Appia CH-1211, Genève 27 Switzerland

Vice President

Professor Matti Häyry
Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics, School of Law, The University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom

Secretary

Professor Leonardo D. De Castro
Dept. of Philosophy, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 1101 Philippines

Treasurer

Angela Amondi Wasunna
The Hastings Center, 21 Malcolm Gordon Road, Garrison, New York 10524-5555

Members of the Board of Directors

• Professor George J. Agich
  Director, Bowling Green Experience (University Values Program) 404 Moseley Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
• Jayapaul Azariah
  New No. 4, 8th Lane, Indira Nagar Chennai 600 020 India
• Professor S.R. Benatar
  Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory 7925, University of Cape Town, Capetown, South Africa
• Professor Debora Diniz
  Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender (ANIS) Caixa Postal 8011, 70673-970 Brasília-DF Brazil
• Susan Dodds
  Philosophy Program, School of English Literature, Philosophy and Languages, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
• Professor John Harris
  The University of Manchester, Humanities Building, The Centre for Social Ethics & Policy, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL UK
• Nie Jing-Bao
  Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, P.O. Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Dr. Florencia Luna
  FLACSO, Ugarteche 3050 4 87, Capital Federal (1425) Argentina
• Professor Darryl Macer
  Regional Advisor in Social and Human Sciences for Asia and the Pacific, Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), UNESCO Bangkok, 920 Sukhumvit Road, Prakanong, Bangkok 10110 Thailand
• Assoc. Professor Paul McNeill
  University of New South Wales, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
• Professor Maria do Céu Patrão
  Neves Dept. of Philosoph, University of the Açores, 9501-855 Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores Portugal
• Thomas Pogge
  CAPPE, ANU, LPO Box 8260, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
• José Eduardo Siqueira
  State University of Londrina (Paraná) University Hospital - Health Science Center (UEL) Av. Robert Koch, 60 Paraná, Brazil
• Professor Sang-yong Song
  Philosophy Department, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Songdong-gu Seoul 133-791 Korea
• Dr. Rosemarie Tong
  Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 USA
• Professor Boris G. Yudin
  Piljugina Street 26, Building 1, Apt. 66, Moscow 117393 Russia
• Dr. Elma Zoboli
  Nursing School, Universtity of Sao Paulo, 419 Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar Av, 05403-000 - Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil