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"Alcoholism:Historical and Social Issues" Conference Programme

28th of August 2009:

9.00-9,30: Opening Ceremony Union Hall – National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia

Section 1: History of alcohol’s consumption and addiction

9, 45 -13, 00 Chairman Petar Atanacković

Radu Ota (Romania), A few Accounts on the Attestation of the Cult of Liber Pater - Dionysus in Apulum (Alba Iulia)

Hasso Spode (Germany), Keynote adress: Alcohol Studies and Alcohol Cultures

Adriana Ţuţuianu, Elena Cucui, Adina Goşa (Romania), Traditional Viticulture in Alba County.

Judy Stove (Australia), ‘The Evils of Ardent Spirits’: Quakers and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Australia”

Coffe Break: 11,30-11,45

Oana Tamas (Romania), Alcoholism, a social phenomenon in the romanian territories in the second half of the XIXth century

John O’Brien (Ireland), The Irish and Intoxication

Monica Muresan (Romania), Alcoholism as Grounds for Divorce at Greek-Catholics in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century

Lunch 13-15: Pub13

15,30 -19,00 Chairman: Hasso Spode
Tudor Rosu (Romania), Temperance & Abstinence in Transylvania at the beginning of the XXth Century. The Case of Blaj Theological Association.

Adrian Zandberg (Poland), “Drugs of the working classes”. Economic depression, alcohol taxation and the change in the consumption patterns of psychoactive substances in Poland (1929-1939)

Iulia Adina Pop (Romania), Alcoholism in Women’s Everydays in Romania (1850-1940)

Ioana Rustoiu, Mariana Egri (Romania), About wineyards, alcohol and alcoholism in documents of the orthodox and greek catholic parishes from Alba County (1850-1930)

Coffe Break 17,30-17,45

Petar Atanacković (Serbia), Between support, lack of interest and mockery. Public perception of alcoholism and anti-alcoholism in Serbia in the first half of 20th century

Marius Rotar (Romania), Anti-Alcoholism Actions in Interwar Romania

19,30 Dinner

2. Social and medical issues of alcohol addiction
29th of August

9,00-13 Chairman Eugen Baican

Wilfried K. Koehler (Germany), Sociocultural aspects in the treatment of alcohol addicts

Ludmila Cojocari (Moldavia), „100 grams for Victory” or the dilemmas of collective memory in Republic of Moldavia

Virgiliu Barladeanu (Moldavia), The result of anti-alcoholism action in Soviet Moldavia beetwen 1995-1997

Vlad Milea (Romania), Attitudes towards alcohol’s consumption: consequences

Frantz Floyd (SUA), Compatibility of the Minnesota Model for the Treatment of Addictions and the Romanian Culture

Coffe Break:11,30-11,45

Naima Khatoon (India), Alcoholism and its Impact on Society

Ioana Todor (Romania), Psychological models of alcohol addiction

P. D. Akrivos (Greece), Individual Psychology and Substance Dependence Prevention

13,00 Lunch: Pub 1315,30 – 17,30 Chairman: Ludmila Cojocari

I.Marincu, L.Negrutiu, I.Iacobiciu, A.M.Neghina, M.Cornianu, R.Neghina (Romania), Bacterial infections in chronic alcoholic patients

P. D. Akrivos & Simonie Xanthoghiorgou (Greece), The Disease Model of Alcoholism, Simonie Xanthoghiorgou a case study

Eugen Baican (Romania), Social-cultural Determinatives and Significations in Alcohol and other drugs Use and Addiction

I.Marincu, L.Negrutiu, I.Iacobiciu, A.M.Neghina, M.Cornianu, R.Neghina (Romania), Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in chronic alcoholic patients

Cristina Petcu, The development of a pattern focused on alcohol consumption prevention in Romania

Coffe Break 17,30 -17,45

I.Marincu, L.Negrutiu, I.Iacobiciu, A.M.Neghina, M.Cornianu, R.Neghina (Romania), Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in chronic alcoholic patients

Claudiu Stefani (Romania), Social Patterns of alcohol’s consumption in Alba County

Iulian Negru (Romania), Spirituality of Alcohol Addiction Dinner: 20,00

2. Tomorrow 26th of August 2009 at 11 p.m. Conference Press at the National Museum of Unificiation Alba Iulia about "Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues" International Conference.