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The International Conference “At the Threshold of the Millennium,” sponsored by the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will be held in the city of Lima from April 15 to 20, 1998 A number of respected figures of the arts, culture, science and politics, and experts in different disciplines from all around the world, have confirmed their attendance The Conference will focus on four central themes Culture, Environment, Gender and Violence By sponsoring this conference, the IPA shows its concern for meeting the particular challenges facing the present and the future of psychoanalysis as a therapeutical method, as a science, and as a professional practice and its commitment to promote a multidisciplinary cross-fertilization engaging a variety of fields and activities
The scientific programme of the conference will be addressed in symposia, panels and workshops The format of the conference will provide the opportunity for intra- and interdisciplinary dialogue and for establishing links amongst the four main themes. At every level of the conference, specific scenarios (local, national, regional and international) will allow for processing, elaborating and synthesyzing the various segments of the event
Topics proposed so far
“Knowledge, culture, and development”
“The perplexities of the future sects and millenarisms”
“The end of two centuries of revolutions and new humanisms”
“Public health and human development”
“The gender question in the world of economics”
“Women's literature at the end of the century”
“End-of-the-millennium women's view of men”