UK Alexander von Humboldt Association Meetings

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

UK Alexander von Humboldt Association
Third Annual Meeting

Friday 25 June 1999
Goethe Institute, 50 Princes Gate,
Exhibition Road, S. Kensington, London SW7

Programme
(for cost and registration details contact the Secretary)

10:00 Registration and coffee

10:30-12:45 Session 1: Unconventional drug therapies - do they have a place in the scientific era ?
Chairman: Professor GVR Born FRS

10:30
Japanese phytotherapy [Kampo]: its role between experience-based knowledge and modern drug therapy
Dr med Heidrun Reissenweber, Research Unit for Japanese Phytptherapy [Kampo], Department of Internal Medicine Munich

10:50
Homeopathy: science or myth ?
Dr Peter Fisher, Editor, British Homeopathic Journal, London

11:10
Truth or wishful thinking: is objectivity possible ?
Professor David Colquoun FRS, Department of Pharmacology, University College London

11:30
Evidence-based complementary medicine: a contradiction in terms ?
Professor Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine, University of Exeter

11:50
Open Debate

12:45-13:45 Buffet Lunch

13:45-14:15 Annual General Meeting

14:15-16:15 Session II: Humboldt Forum
Chairman: Dr Peter Wilkinson

Presentations of the work, interests and activities of current UK Humboldtians, with questions, discussion and opportunities for other contributions from the floor.

Professor Ian Hartley - Photogrammetry
Professor Roddy Williamson - Octopus, the soft intelligence
Dr Helen Wantanabe - Court culture in Dresden 1580-1730
Professor David Langslow - The Latin Alexander

16:15-16:45 Tea and refreshments

16:45-17:30 Session III: Alexander von Humboldt - the forerunner of the modern scientific community
Dr Manfred Osten, General Secretary, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

18:00-20:00 Reception by kind invitation of Ambassador Gebhardt von Moltke at the Residence of the German Ambassador, 23 Belgrave Square, London

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	10:00	Registration and coffee
	10:30-12:45	Session 1: Unconventional drug therapies - do they have a place in the scientific era ? Chairman: Professor GVR Born FRS
	10:30	Japanese phytotherapy [Kampo]: its role between experience-based knowledge and modern drug therapy Dr med Heidrun Reissenweber, Research Unit for Japanese Phytptherapy [Kampo], Department of Internal Medicine Munich
	10:50	Homeopathy: science or myth ? Dr Peter Fisher, Editor, British Homeopathic Journal, London
	11:10	Truth or wishful thinking: is objectivity possible ? Professor David Colquoun FRS, Department of Pharmacology, University College London
	11:30	Evidence-based complementary medicine: a contradiction in terms ? Professor Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine, University of Exeter
	11:50	Open Debate
	12:45-13:45	Buffet Lunch
	13:45-14:15	Annual General Meeting
	14:15-16:15	Session II: Humboldt Forum Chairman: Dr Peter Wilkinson
		Presentations of the work, interests and activities of current UK Humboldtians, with questions, discussion and opportunities for other contributions from the floor. Professor Ian Hartley - Photogrammetry Professor Roddy Williamson - Octopus, the soft intelligence Dr Helen Wantanabe - Court culture in Dresden 1580-1730 Professor David Langslow - The Latin Alexander
	16:15-16:45	Tea and refreshments
	16:45-17:30	Session III: Alexander von Humboldt - the forerunner of the modern scientific community Dr Manfred Osten, General Secretary, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
	18:00-20:00	Reception by kind invitation of Ambassador Gebhardt von Moltke at the Residence of the German Ambassador, 23 Belgrave Square, London