Welcome to the AHG Calendar of Herbal Events.  If you have an event that you think would be of interest to our members and those who visit this website, send a description and contact information to calendar@americanherbalistsguild.com

September 2008

September 12-13: International Aloe Science Council’s 27th Annual Scientific Seminar, Omni Hotel, Dallas, TX. http://www.iasc.org/seminar.html/

September 15-22: Energetic Herbalism: The Study of Spagyrics, the Alchemical Preparations of Paracelsus. An 8-Day Professional Course in Italy.  Contact Robin DiPasquale (608-203-5890 or robindipasquale@yahoo.com)

September 23–26: Natural Products in Cancer Therapy, Naples, Italy. Contact Prof. Lanzotti, (lanzotti@unimol.it or lanzotti@unina.it ) or visit http://www.phytochemicalsociety.org/pdf/Naples-2008.pdf/

September 24-26: U.S. Pharmacopoeia Annual Scientific Meeting, Westin Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri USA. The meeting provides an opportunity to contribute to USP's standards–setting processes. Visit: http://www.usp.org/meetings/asMeeting/

October 2008

October 3-5: SE Women's Herbal Conference, Black Mountain, NC USA. Visit: http://www.redmoonherbs.com/

October 11: HerbDay, everywhere! Visit: http://www.herbday.org/

October 12: 7th Annual Catskill Mountain Ginseng/Medicinal Herb Festival, Historic Catskill Point, Catskill, Greene County, NY USA. Six educational lectures/workshops will be featured including growing ginseng, the cultivation, use and marketing of other medicinal herbs. Edward Fletcher, AHPA Board of Trustees Chair will be the keynote speaker. Contact Bob Beyfuss (Phone: (518) 622-9820; email rlb14@cornell.edu) or http://www.ahpa.org/Portals/0/pdfs/08_1012_7th_Annual_Catskill_Mountain_...

October 13-15:The fourth annual Symposium of Integrative Medicine Professionals in the Land of Enchantment (SIMPLE), Santa Fe, NM. Focus will be on the philosophy of, and advances in, integrative medicine. Speakers include Drs. Larry Dossey, Tieraona Lowdog, Lee Lipsenthal, Vasant Lad and others. For more information visit http://hsc.unm.edu/som/cfl/simpleConf.shtml/

October 15–18: Natural Products Expo East, the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. http://www.expoeast.com/

October 16-18:The 5th International Conference “Functional Foods for Chronic Diseases.” Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The conference will bring together experts in medicine, biology, and the food industry and will focus on advances of phytotherapy and food therapy of obesity and other related chronic diseases (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes etc.), with a special focus on the creation of functional and medicinal foods with new properties. For more information visit http://www.functionalfoodscenter.net/2061947.html/

October 24–26: The 2008 AHG Symposium: "Botanical Medicine in Oncology, Immunity, and Chronic Illness" with preconference intensives on October 23. Redmond, WA. http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/symposium_2008/

November 2008

November 2- 9: Biological Medicine Tour to Germany. More info from the Occidental Institute (Phone: 800-663-8342 within the USA or 250 490-3318 from outside the USA) email: support@oirf.com or visit http://www.oirf.com/

November 7-8: The WLBC will host the second William L. Brown Symposium at the Missouri Botanical Garden. This two-day symposium, entitled Ethnobotany: Integrating Biology and Ethnobotany. It will consist of a series of lectures and workshops. During the meeting, we will also honor Dr. Nancy Turner of the University of Victoria in British Columbia for her work on traditional land and resource management systems of indigenous peoples in western Canada; Dr. Turner is this year’s recipient of the Wm. L. Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation. For Additional information please visit Web Site:  http://www.wlbcenter.org/drawer/Symposium/website/homepage.htm/

November 9–14: 4th World Conference on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Cape Town, South Africa. Preliminary conference details at http://www.ahpa.org/portals/0/pdfs/08_1100_WOCMAPiv.pdf/. For additional information/future announcements, please email wocmap@up.ac.za.