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<div align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>~ Call for Papers ~</strong></span></div>
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The International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM) will hold its 44th Congress in <strong>Tbilisi, Georgia</strong>, <strong>September 10-14, 2014</strong>. The main topic is "The Great Silk Road".</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br />The <a href="http://medicaltraditions.org">Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions</a> (IPMT) is organizing a panel on the circulation of materia medica, remedies and therapeutics, theories and methods, between the East and the West, China and the Mediterranean. Original papers are invited on any aspect of this phenomenon from the most ancient identifiable traces of the Silk Road to the 15th/16th century, on both knowledge and practice, from the East to the West and conversely, including the many intermediaries along the Road. Multidisciplinary approaches are encouraged.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Website of the congress: <a href="http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/">http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Abstract guidelines: <a href="http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/index.php/abstracts/abstracts-guidelines">http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/index.php/abstracts/abstracts-guidelines</a></div>
<div dir="ltr"><br />Registration information: <a href="http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/index.php/registration/registration-packages">http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/index.php/registration/registration-packages</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Registration online will be activated soon.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Here is the link: <a href="http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/index.php/registration/registration-process">http://ishm-congress-tbilisi2014.org/index.php/registration/registration-process</a><br />
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Participants are welcome to contact <em>ARTION Conference & Events</em> - The Official Professional Congress Organiser for the 44th ISHM Congress - at <a href="mailto:ishm2014@artion.ge">ishm2014@artion.ge</a> in order to receive support related to travel arrangements, post-congress activities and any other query. </p>
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<p>Thanks and best,</p>
<p>Emanuela Appetiti</p>
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