SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

28^th NACS, Nordic Association for Clinical Sexology, Conference and Annual Meeting

Jyväskylä, Finland

September 8-11, 2005

Thursday afternoon (Pre conference) through Sunday noon

It is our pleasure to invite you to Central Finland with a professional approach on sexual pleasure theme with the excellent company of the Nordic colleagues and international guests.

In collaboration with:

Conference web page: www.seksologinenseura.net

Conference hotel Rantasipi Laajavuori

Laajavuorentie 30

40740 Jyväskylä

Tel: +358-14-628211

Fax: +358-14-628500

E-Mail: laajavuori.rantasipi@restel.fi

Web-page: http://www.rantasipi.fi/hotelli.cfm?id=rslaa

Jyväskylä city Information:

http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/international/ (also in Swedish)

REGISTRATION

Jyväskylä Congresses, the official congress office of the NACS 28^th Conference and Annual Meeting, will be responsible for handling registrations and hotel reservations.

To register, participants should fill in the online-registration form, which is available in April at: www.seksologinenseura.net - Registration and Accommodation Reservations Form. All reservations (including social program and hotel) should be made on the same form together with the registration. Each delegate must use a separate form.

Registration fees:

Pre-conference: by June 15: 60 €, students 40 €

After June 15: 75 €, students 50 €

Conference: by June 15: 290 €, students 250 €

After June 15: 330 €, students 290 €

Fees include scientific program, two lunches, four coffee breaks, a banquet dinner, Jyväskylä sightseeing, Jyväskylä City Reception, Social Excursion to Savutuvan apaja with dinner, and psychodrama workshop.

Accommodation is provided in the hotel: Rantasipi Laajavuori.

Make a note that accommodation has to be booked via online-registration form, not via Rantasipi Laajavuori Hotel desk! There is enough room for all participants in Rantasipi Laajavuori.

Room rates: 49€/person/night in double room

75 €/person/night in single room

If you have problems to fill in the online-form, please contact Jyväskylä Congresses:

Taru-Maija Heilala-Rasimov, Congress Manager, CMM

e-mail: taru-maija.heilala@jyvaskylaan.com

tel. +358 (0)14 339 8157, GSM +358 (0)500 803 663

Fax +358 (0)14 339 8159

JYVÄSKYLÄ CONGRESSES / Travel Agency Jyväskylään Ltd.

P.O.Box 212

FIN- 40101 Jyväskylä, Finland

www.jyvaskylaan.com/congresses

Get together party: It is organized on Thursday evening following the pre-conference session.

Jyväskylä City Reception: After a short sightseeing tour in Jyväskylä city on Friday evening Jyväskylä city reception is organized at the famous architect Alvar Aalto's museum. Reception is open for all attendees of the conference.

Savutuvan apaja Social Excursion: After the City reception on Friday evening the social excursion to Savutuvan apaja will be provided with bus transportation. This excursion with a dinner is included to the registration package. www.savutuvanapaja.fi

Banquet: Organized in Laajavuori restaurant on Saturday evening. The dinner is included to the registration package. Dance and entertainment will be provided.

Main topic: Sexual Pleasure

Approaches: Scientific, experiential & spontaneous, virtual

Experiential & spontaneity will be approached with psychodrama. Virtual online courses in Sexual Health Education will be demonstrated.

PRESYMPOSIUM

Organized by the Working Group of Sexology of the Finnish Association for Gynecology

Thursday, September 8, Rantasipi Laajavuori auditorium

Sexuality and Well Being

13:00 Opening of the Presymposium MD Leena Väisälä

13:05-13:40 MD, PhD Elina Hermanson: "Encountering an Adolescent at a Sexual Health Clinic"

13:40-14:20 MD, PhD Karol Bischof: "Postpartum Sexuality"

14:20-15:00 MD, PhD Nina Bohm-Starke "Options of treatment for vulvodynia"

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:10 MD Maija Palander: "Sexuality and the Menopause"

16:10-16:50 Speaker to be confirmed: "Modern Male Sexuality"

16:50-17:30 Lecturer Jouni Elomaa "Sexuality and Spirituality"

17:30 Closing Remarks

NACS CONFERENCE 2005

Friday 9 – Sunday 11, Rantasipi Laajavuori auditorium

Invited Key Note Speaker: Dr. David Schnarch from United States.

David Schnarch is the Head of Marriage and Family Health Center in Ever Green and a licensed clinical psychologist and the author of numerous books and articles on intimacy, sexuality, and relationships.

He offers the most unifying model of sexuality, intimacy, psychological development and systemic interaction. His clinical abilities attract clients and students from across the globe, building his reputation as a critical thinker, daring innovator, and gifted teacher.

He is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Certified Sex Therapy Supervisor, and a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).

Plenary: Using sex, and sexual pleasure, as a vehicle for personal development.

David Schnarch will give also a workshop: The politics of a couple changing its sexual repertoire.

Other international speakers:
Dr. Alain Giami, France: Medicalization of Sexual Pleasure

Prof. Sofiane Bouhdiba, Tunisia: Sexuality and Pleasure in Islam

Prof. Ilsa Lottes, United States: Applications of Sexual Rights in Evaluation of Sexual Health Policy

Psychodrama workshop: Psychodrama Trainer Sirkku Aitolehti: What hinders sexual pleasure? Experiencial investigation.

Confirmed Nordic speakers:
Thore Langefeldt, Norway, Elsa Almås, Norway, Bente Træen, Norway, Lars-Gösta Dahlöf, Sweden, Sune Innala, Sweden, Ansa Ojanlatva, Finland, Hannu Eerikäinen, Finland

The conference program will be available and updated in June: www.seksologinenseura.net

Meeting language: English.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

The participants of the meeting are encouraged to give their presentation. Titles of the presentations and abstracts should be sent to the Program Chair Osmo Kontula.

Abstracts of oral presentations and posters should be written in English, max. 300 words. They should start with the title following by the name of the author(s), contact information and the abstract text.

Posters: All attendees are encouraged to present posters at the meeting. Participants may submit a maximum of two poster presentations.

Audiovisual: A media projector with a PC laptop (for Powerpoint) will be provided.

Please email requests for other audiovisual equipment by August 15 to Osmo Kontula (Osmo.Kontula@vaestoliitto.fi) so that the feasibility can be checked out well ahead of time.

The deadline for abstracts submission: Please send your abstract no later than May 15, 2005 to Osmo Kontula, Osmo.Kontula@vaestoliitto.fi, Fax +358-9-6121211 or Population Research Institute, P.O.Box 849, 00101 Helsinki, Finland.

The abstract book of the meeting will be printed and distributed to the participants of the conference.

TRANSPORTATION

By Air

There are numerous flights to Helsinki from the Nordic cities. Jyväskylä can be reached via

Helsinki airport several times a day; in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening. The flight from Helsinki to Jyväskylä takes 40-50 minutes and costs with taxes around 130 euros. From Jyväskylä airport there is, after a request, airbus transportation to the meeting hotel, Rantasipi Laajavuori.

By Train

You can travel also by train from Helsinki and Turku (Åbo) to Jyväskylä. It runs around three and half hours and costs almost 50 euros (one way).