till Saturday, January 17, 2009
Congress Center Leipzig
Leipzig Interventional Course
LINC is an interdisciplinary live course, designed to provide a global platform, permitting the discussion of the "vascular patients" by integrating colleagues of different specialties who are performing endovascular interventions.
Main topics
- Carotid stenting: a critical update
- Patient specific treatment strategies for lower limb revascularisation
- Pioneering techniques for peripheral CTOs
- Stenting of femoral and infrapopliteal arteries - review of evidence
- Advanced techniques in vascular and cardiac surgery
- Endovascular repair of thoracic and aortic aneurysms
Language(s)
- Englisch / English
Venue
Congress Center Leipzig , Messe-Allee 1, 04356 Leipzig
Contact
Antonie Jäger
Jagdstrasse 4a
80639 München
Tel: +49 (0)89 1 29 54 40
Fax: +49 (0)89 13 93 67 04
E-Mail: info@leipzig-interventional-course.de
Further information
till Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 3:00 pm
Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften
Risk and Planet Earth - Vulnerability, Natural Hazards, Integrated Adaptation Strategies
Mother earth can seem inhospitable. Constant environmental threats as well as periodically occurring extreme weather events like floods, tempests or heavy turbulences can have a powerful impact on our lives. Preventing the worst effects of such cataclysms requires interdisciplinary academic collaboration as well as close cooperation between academia and politics. Against this background, Leipzig University in cooperation with the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) organize a scientific conference with lectures, panels, discussion rounds and workshops on the topic "Risk and Planet Earth". The three-day conference will bring together experts from natural and social sciences to discuss questions of resilience and strategies for the prevention of catastrophic losses by extreme weather events. The workshops are meant to reflect scientific research and concrete practices. The congress connects perspectives from three different continents: North America, Africa and Europe. Disaster prevention and mitigation are the focus of the three-day event. The main question concerns adaptation, that is, adaption to given parameters, as well as to expected changes. In this context, it is necessary to discuss a) what exactly the future will bring, b) which strategies secure optimal adaptation, and c) how these strategies can be implemented in daily practice. Speakers include representatives of several pertinent transnational organizations (IOM, IYPE, ICSU) as well as scientists of various disciplines from South Africa, Japan, USA, Germany and Switzerland.
Language(s)
- Englisch / English
- Deutsch / German
Venue
Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften, Hörsäle und Seminarräume, Linnéstraße 5, 04103 Leipzig
Contact
Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften, Prof. Dr. Gerd Tetzlaff
Stephanstraße 3
04103 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97 32850
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 32899
E-Mail: risikoerde2009@uni-leipzig.de
Further information
Bibliotheca Albertina
The Religious Factor in Contemporary World Order - Religion and Globalization
Peter Beyer studied theology (Religious Studies) at the University of Toronto and the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto. His doctoral dissertation was on "Louis Riel and the postdoctoral studies on 19th and 20th century French Canadian Roman Catholicism". His research focuses on sociological understanding of the relations between religion and globalisation, religion in contemporary Canada, and religion and immigration. In his monograph on Religion in Global Society (2006), he regards religion as a dimension of the historical globalisation process. In 2008, Beyer received the Professor of the Year Award at the Faculty of Arts.
Language(s)
- Englisch / English
Venue
Bibliotheca Albertina, Vortragssaal, Beethovenstr. 6, 04107 Leipzig
Contact
Profilbildender Forschungsbereich "Riskante Ordnungen"
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97-35636 / -35629
Fax: +49 (0)341 97-35619
E-Mail: riskord@uni-leipzig.de
Further information
till Sunday, March 15, 2009
Neue Messe
Book Fair Academy
Organised jointly by Universität Leipzig and the Leipzig Trade Fair, it forms the academic focal point of the Leipzig Book Fair. Over nearly 200 square metres of exhibition space, the University does more than present the latest publications; at the forefront are fascinating lectures, presentations and panel discussions by and with leading Leipzig researchers. The presentation and programme of events will centre on the University's 600th anniversary.
Venue
Neue Messe, Halle 3, Stand G201/H200, Messe-Allee 1, 04356 Leipzig
Contact
Universität Leipzig, Dezernat 5 / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Forschungsförderung
Ritterstraße 26
04109 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97 35042
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 35009
E-Mail: buchmesseakademie@uni-leipzig.de
Further information
Alte Handelsbörse
Liberty of Conscience: the Attack on Equal Respect
Martha Nussbaum took her B.A. at New York University in Classical Philology and Theatre Science, going on to do an M.A. (Philosophy) and Ph.D. (Classical Philology) at Harvard University. Today, she teaches law and ethics at the Law School of the University of Chicago and is co-director of the Centre for Law, Philosophy and Human Values. Nussbaum is known first and foremost for her research on Amartya Sen's "capabilities approach" and its evolution. For her most recent publication, "Frontiers of Justice", she received the Elaine and David Spitz Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book in liberal/democratic theory, in 2008.
Language(s)
- Englisch / English
Venue
Alte Handelsbörse, Naschmarkt, 04109 Leipzig
Contact
Profilbildender Forschungsbereich "Riskante Ordnungen"
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
Tel: +49 (0)341 97-35636 / -35629
Fax: +49 (0)341 97 35619
E-Mail: riskord@uni-leipzig.de