News from the executive - Report on 4th International Congress of Plant Pathology held at the University of Melbourne, August 1983

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
G Weste ◽  
R Price
Keyword(s):  
Plant Pathology ◽  
International Congress ◽  
The University

The First International Congress of Africanists

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-252
Author(s):  
Michael Crowder
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Study ◽  
International Congress ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
Political Unification ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana

President Nkrumah, in opening this Congress in the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, called for the objective scientific study of Africa. He urged: ‘While some of us are engaged with the political unification of Africa, Africanists everywhere must also help in building the spiritual and cultural foundations of the unity of our continent.’ This appeal had in a sense already been answered by the arrival of scholars from nearly every State in Africa.

First International Congress of Africanists

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
International Congress ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Disciplinary Boundary ◽  
Preliminary Planning ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana ◽  
African Intellectuals ◽  
Boundary Lines

After more than two years of preliminary planning, the First International Congress of Africanists convened at the University of Ghana, Legon, on December 11, 1962. More than 600 scholars and observers attended the sessions, and both the size of the Congress and its organizational problems make an adequate report difficult. This brief summary by the editor of the Bulletin has been compiled with the assistance of other ASA members present in Accra; it attempts to convey a sense of the conference atmosphere as well as record its formal sessions. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by UNESCO. The conference opened with an address by President Nkrumah in which he stressed the importance of African studies in revitalizing Africa's cultural heritage, and in developing a sense of nationality and Africanness. He considered in detail the development of African studies as a serious academic study, the coming of age of African intellectuals, and the necessity of utilizing a subject such as sociology in planning for an African future, contrasting this with anthropology which he felt had little to offer modern Africa. His speech helped to establish a tone for the conference; in addition to academic matters strictly defined the conference participants found themselves concerned with such questions as the role of African and non-African Africanists, differing viewpoints of English and French speakers, and geographic and disciplinary boundary lines. Perhaps naturally at a first international conference, there were many preliminary problems to sort out before serious scholarly discussion could take place.

scholarly journals “Intertwangerlings”: A Multiple (Auto)Ethnography of Journeys, Gentle Collisions-Hard Boundaries, Statues, and Tilt and Turn Gate/Bridges at the 13th International Congress of Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042091161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hodkinson ◽  
Ella Houston ◽  
Norman Denzin ◽  
Heather Adams ◽  
Davina Kirkpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
The University

The article introduces the concept of the “intertwangle,” a concept grounded within the gentle collisions of delegates at the 13th International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois and the simultaneous retelling of multiple autoethnographies of such encounters. Through such encounters and “retellings,” perhaps a different way of thinking about autoethnography is developed. The article presents a story of a journey to and through the 13th Congress. A journey of no answers and no certainty—this journey is not a collaborative sharing of data but more of the gentle collisions and the recounting of different stories located within shared experiences. It is a simple journey bounded by way-markers of uncertainty, at times self-deprecation, loss, and death. It is a journey of new beginnings, of no ends—of uncertainty rather than certainty, revealing rather than obscuring and expanding rather than reducing.

The Doctor of Plant Medicine Program at the University of Florida: Growers, Agricultural Agencies, and Industries Need Plant Doctors

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
George N. Agrios
Keyword(s):  
Plant Pathology ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Applied Problem ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Plant Medicine ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
The University ◽  
Central Void

The Doctor of Plant Medicine program is a new graduate doctorate program that ushers in a new discipline, Plant Medicine, and a new profession, the Plant Doctor. Like anything else that is new, it has its share of skeptics. Plant medicine does not compete with or supplant any of the existing disciplines. It fills a central void left by the specialization of each discipline. Plant medicine does not do either basic or applied research but it depends for it and it borrows from the research done by PhDs of all the related disciplines including soils, agronomy, horticulture, entomology, nematology, plant pathology, etc. Plant medicine is an applied, problem-solving discipline and plant doctors learn to solve health problems of plants by learning to identify the biotic or abiotic cause of any such problem and by providing recommendations for its management or control. Accepted for publication 18 July 2001. Published 24 July 2001.

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