Newsletter
Volume 29 | 2006 | Number 1
CIEC 2006
8th International Congress on Behavior Studies/ VIII Congreso Internacional sobre el Estudio de la Conducta
By María Xesús Froján Parga,
Director of the Organizing Committee
As director of the Organizing Committee of the 8 th International Congress on Behavior Studies, I am very pleased to announce the 8th Congress will take place in the beautiful medieval city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on September 27-30, 2006. The International Congress on Behavior Studies is a biannual series that began in 1992 in Guadalajara, Mexico with Fred S. Keller and W. N. Schoenfeld as presidents.
Since then, the congress has been held without interruption in different countries with presidents of international renown. The 8 th edition is no exception, with Dr. Hayne Reese of the University of West Virginia presiding. Dr. Reese will also give a plenary conference, as will Dr. John Staddon, of Duke University, and Peter Hacker, of Saint John's College at the University of Oxford. Dr. Peter Harzem, of Auburn University, will open the event, and Dr. Emilio Ribes, from the University of Guadalajara, will close it.
The congress is an international forum for scholarly exchange on scientific and philosophical issues concerning the study of behavior. Typically scholars from many countries attend, including Brazil, France, Italy, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Taiwan, Turkey, Spain, the United States, and others. The program will include invited addresses, oral presentations, symposia, posters, and discussion panels. The panels will provide opportunities for the audience and the presenters to interact on contemporary issues of significance. Contributions may be on experimental, theoretical, philosophical, methodological, historical, or applied topics in a wide variety of behavioral phenomena. The program committee welcomes suggestions for discussion topics, names of distinguished scholars who may be invited, and any format not included in the above list.
We are working hard to organize a congress of the highest scientific quality where suppositions, theories, methods, findings, and applications to behavioral science are discussed. Contributions to the program from all perspectives are welcome, regardless of whether favorable to behaviorism or not, so as to facilitate well-informed exchange of views. The only criterion for inclusion in the program is the quality of scholarship.
For more information, please visit the event Web page at http://www.ciec2006.com.