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Congratulations to Georgios Kounidas from the SMMSN who was awarded the second national prize in the British Geriatrics Society Movement Disorder essay competition.

The national prize was open to all medical, nursing and therapy students, and there were prizes for the top three essays. Georgios’ essay detailed the importance of End of Life care with a focus on Parkinson disease and related disorders. He was awarded £300 and his essay will be published on the British Geriatrics Society website.

Georgios has been working with Professor Zosia Miedzybrodzka on research into Huntington disease since he started his medical studies four years ago. Recently he was awarded the competitive Autumn Project Scholarship to work with Prof Phyo Myint on research into healthy ageing. 

Georgios has a keen interest in medical research and is working towards applying for an Academic Foundation Programme.

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NEW!  Inaugural Dr Michael Hyland prize commemorates a founding Chair (1979) of the ISPGM and consultant geriatrician in St Finbarr’s Hospital and Cork University Hospital.  It will be awarded annually to medical students (under and postgraduate) in Irish universities for the submission of an essay on a subject pertinent to older people or ageing and related conditions from a medical, biological or sociological point of view. This will be an annual open competition with the topic being selected by the ISPGM committee in advance and submissions welcomed by January 17 th  of each year. Volunteer adjudicators will be sought to judge the submissions with the winners announced in May of each year. The award will comprise a medal (first placed student) and prize money of €850 will be divided among first (€500), second (€250) and third (€100) placed students.  –

The title for the inaugural competition is “ Lifting of restrictions – The challenges of improving care for older people in Ireland as the COVID-19 pandemic enters a new phase ”

The competition is open to all years of undergraduate & postgraduate degree programmes in Medicine in Ireland. The format is a 2000 (maximum) word essay including a 100 word summary with max 20 references (Vancouver style): font – Times New Roman 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing without images. Submit essay by email to [email protected] with “2022 Dr Michael Hyland Essay Prize” in the subject line by midnight, 17th January 2022.

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Age and Ageing is the journal of the British Geriatrics Society, which also produces two scientific conferences every year to provide a forum for geriatricians and other professionals associated with older people's health care. Programmes cover a wide range of cutting-edge research presentations and clinical updates in areas affecting older people's care. The invited guest speakers are specifically chosen for their expertise in these topics.

The programme of the BGS Spring Conference 2022  covers the latest scientific research and the best clinical practice in the care of older people. Our ageing population is stimulating extensive NHS service redesign to deal with the challenge of caring for larger numbers of older people both in and out of hospitals. This conference will cover core areas of interest to all specialists responsible for the health care of older people.

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Dementia and Related Disorders New horizons in understanding the experience of Chinese people living with dementia: a positive psychology approach 

Frailty and Sarcopenia and GI/Nutrition New horizons in appetite and the anorexia of ageing

Dizziness Workshop Relationship between sarcopenia and orthostatic hypotension 

Clinical Quality Session: Improving the Quality of Frailty Discharge Summaries through Incorporation of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Classifying discharge scenarios to improve understanding and care

Clinical Quality Session: Delirium recognition and management in an inpatient rehabilitation unit  A software to prevent delirium in hospitalised older adults: development and feasibility assessment

Infection and Sepsis Diagnosing serious infections in older adults presenting to ambulatory care: a systematic review

Stroke # 1 Treatment and Rehabilitation Supporting stroke survivors living in care homes: challenges and opportunities for practice development and research  

Stroke # 2 Secondary Prevention and Post Stroke Problems Current characteristics and early functional outcome of older stroke patients: a population-based study (Dijon Stroke Registry)

Biology of Ageing: Novel falls risk factors in people with multiple comorbidities and assessment of physical function Post-hospital falls incidence and risk factors among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Biology of Ageing: Urinary Incontinence and ageing Physical multimorbidity and incident urinary incontinence among community-dwelling adults aged ≥50 years: findings from a prospective analysis of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Digital Health Enablers - Issues around increased use of technology Developing a virtual geriatric perioperative medicine clinic: a mixed methods healthcare improvement study  

Rehabilitation #1 Rehabilitation Services During and Post COVID The COVID rehabilitation paradox: why we need to protect and develop geriatric rehabilitation services in the face of the pandemic

Rehabilitation #2 Developing a rehabilitation ethos Impact of place of residence, frailty and other factors on rehabilitation outcomes post hip fracture

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This page contains a list of the academic competitions, prizes and awards available to students at St George's. These competitions are run by leading medical organisations across the country and overseas. Visit their websites to find more information about their competitions and how to apply. 

Association for Palliative Medicine :  undergraduate students are invited to submit reports of a clinical audit, or an essay on palliative medicine to win prizes worth up to £250. 

British Association of Dermatologists :  various prizes available for an essay competition, a thesis competition (for Masters or PhD theses) and an elective prize/project grant for work relating to dermatology. Also offer a grant of £3000 for medical students undertaking an Intercalated degree relevant to dermatology or skin biology. 

The British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology : essay competition open to medical students on the topics of neurophysiology or neuroscience, with a prize of up to £500 

The British Geriatrics Society : grants, prizes and awards to encourage high-quality research and professional development for those interested in older people's healthcare.

The British Holistic Medical Association : an annual essay competition looking for innovative ideas from medical students, with a prixe of up to £250.

British Society for Haematology : annual essay competition that centres on haematology.

ENT UK undergraduate essay prize : annual essay competition focused on ENT, as well as an elective prize available to medical students.

Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships—Harvard University : pays full Harvard University tuition and provides a stipend to cover living expenses for a single fellow for the academic year. 

Guts UK Charity—Dr Falk Awards : Various prizes including an essay compeition on gastroenterology and a prize for medical students undertaking a science degree focusing on gastroenterology.

HealthWatch student prize : a competition that asks students to provide a critical appraisal of hypothetical research protocols.

The Marfan Trust studentships   :  offer two studentship opportunities involving work in the Sonalee Laboratory, one focused on Marfan syndrome. They also offer a competiton for the participants in the studentships for oustanding project and contribution to research. 

The Medical Council on Alcohol : an essay compeititon run every year and a design competition held every two years, both open to medical students.

Medical Women's Federation : travel funds, student grants, elective bursaries and an essay competition. 

MRC London Intervollrgiate Doctoral Partnership Studentships : The Doctoral Training Partnership, between St George's and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, offer studentships, which includes tuition fees, an annual stipend and additional support for research and training.

National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia : award for outstanding achievement  for postgraduate medical students and an undergraduate research award presented by the Royal College of Anaesthetists' president.

Pain Relief Foundation : an essay competition focused on an aspect of chronic pain. 

The Pathological Society : an essay competition for undergraduates.

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Royal College of Ophthalmologists—Duke Elder Examination : the candidate with the highest mark wins a visit to St John's Eye Hospital in Jerusalem, or a £400 cash prize.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health—RCPCH Medical Student Prize : t he prize entitles an MBBS student to attend the RCPCH Annual Conference as a guest of the RCPCH. You will need to submit a short CV and a personal statement highlighting why you think you should be nominated. To apply or for more information, email  Vanessa Nsilu .

Royal College of Physicians : offers a variety of awards, prizes and bursaries. 

Royal College of Psychiatrists : offers a variety of prizes and awards to support psychiatric studies. 

Royal College of Radiologists : prizes for undergraduates, elective bursaries, research prizes and an essay competition focused on clinical radiology. 

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The Royal Society of Medicine : the Royal Society offers a wide range of prizes, awards, travel grants and bursaries. 

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When moscow viewed creative marxism as heresy.

The tormented and tortuous publication history of Dialectics of the Ideal by Soviet philosopher Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov brings to mind the sagas of other great underground Soviet era classics such as those by Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Corinna Lotz reflects on a publishing landmark

Some characterise Marxism as a mechanically-determined approach to human nature and activity. And yet, at the heart of Marx’s methodology and his critique of the capitalist system was the dynamic and open-ended spring of dialectics – or, put another way, its soul.

Marx and Engels’ dialectical approach, drawn from Hegel and taken up by later revolutionary thinkers, made it possible to understand both the determined aspects of human life and activity and the moments of revolutionary possibility, choice, freedom and social emancipation.

One thinker who took this side of Marx’s vast contribution to heart as no other was the Soviet philosopher Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov (1924-1979). His 56-page essay The Dialectics of the Ideal is the focal point of a new book by Canadian scholar Alex Levant and the Finnish philosopher Vesa Oittinen.

Ilyenkov’s legacy remained buried in various archives in the former Soviet Union until the early 1980s, just preceding (and heralding) Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost. He was brought to the attention of revolutionary activists by British Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy when Dialectical Logic and The Abstract and Concrete in Marx’s Capital first reached England via Progress books during the early 1980s. (These books, which became classics for creative Marxists, were available in Italian and German much earlier, as Levant and Oittinen’s amazingly comprehensive polyglot bibliography reveals).

Just as the Soviet Union was disappearing from history, Ilyenkov was again rescued from obscurity, at least for English-speaking readers, by British-Canadian philosopher David Bakhurst in his 1991 book, Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy .

The publication history of Dialectics of the Ideal is tortuous and tormented beyond belief. Indeed, it brings to mind the sagas of other great underground Soviet era classics such as those by Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn which only reached readers through smuggled samizdat manuscripts and risk-taking journalists.

The manuscript was completed in the mid-1970s but it was not published in its complete form until 2009, some 30 years after the death of its author. In the realm of philosophical writing it was perhaps comparable to another volume said to be “forged in hell”, as a tract published some 300 years earlier, was described by the religious authorities of the day. That was Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise of 1670.

But why did Ilyenkov’s “Ideal”, apparently a work of “pure theory”, prove so troubling to the Stalinist authorities? What enraged the bureaucrats of the Brezhnev years was that Ilyenkov advanced his work on materialist dialectics in opposition to officially-sanctioned positivists from the standpoint of developing Marxism itself. He openly built on the work of those who had gone before, most notably Lenin.

By implication, he was accusing the Soviet philosophical establishment and their supporters in the state, of being non-Marxist. Of course, Ilyenkov was right. The bureaucracy used Marxist phraseology in order to kill Marxism off. In their hands, it became the worst kind of dogma. Ilyenkov’s attack hit the jugular.

“To be a creative, thinking Marxist, in a state at the head of which were Marxists, was the most dangerous thing of all,” notes post-Soviet Marxist Vadim Mezhuev, quoted in Levant’s introduction.

When Ilyenkov and his comrades, encouraged by the Khrushchev thaw, put their heads above the parapet, they were spurred on by that moment of freedom (described by some as a philosophical renaissance in the Soviet Union) 1 , just as Spinoza had been by the humanist, cosmopolitan spirit afoot in Amsterdam, within the newly-independent Netherlands. But the authorities throughout 17 th century Europe immediately bore down hard against Spinoza’s “intolerably licentious book”. And so it turned out to be in the post-Khrushchev period. 2

The connection between Ilyenkov and Spinoza runs deep as Oittinen explains in his essay Evald Ilyenkov, the Soviet Spinozist : ”It is just [in] the concept of the ideal , the kernel of Ilyenkov’s own philosophical commitment, where Spinoza’s influence is strongest.”

While Spinoza was a pivotal figure in the 1920s debates, during the later Stalin era, Soviet philosophy fell largely silent about him. 3 But in the post-World War II period, Ilyenkov turned to him again and again, in lectures, articles and in his book Dialectical Logic . So much so that Oittinen describes Spinoza as a “guarantor for the concept of the Ideal”. He examines how Ilyenkov read him “as a philosopher of identity, as a thinker foreshadowing Hegel. Where Spinoza ‘sublated’ the Cartesian dualism, so in a like manner Hegel ‘sublates’ Kant’s dualism”.

Oittinen shows how Ilyenkov has adopted Spinoza’s monism and his concept of an active body, developing these in the light of Hegel and Marx.  For Spinoza what “unites thought and matter was the Substance, in Hegel it was the Spirit, and for Ilyenkov it was the concept of activity”. For him, the figure of action was in bodily movements which “generate thought, and the action is the mediating link between thought and body, rising above their dualism”. Following Marx, Ilyenkov adds the social character of human life to the activity paradigm “and even the ideality must be seen in this light”, Oittinen asserts.

Cartesian dualism had an afterlife in the positivist reductionism of official Soviet philosophy with which Ilyenkov locked horns in what turned out to be mortal combat. Levant’s closing essay returns to this issue and how Ilyenkov’s outlook can help overcome important dualist hurdles in today’s revolutionary practices.

It was not by chance that Ilyenkov so wholeheartedly espoused the heretical Jewish philosopher’s holistic view of the world, in which nature, god and spirit are connected through the concept of substance. It was Spinoza’s approach that allowed Ilyenkov to “cut the Gordian knot”, the conunundrum of Cartesian dualism in which mind and matter are eternally in opposition to each other. Ilyenkov deploys this understanding in his consistent rebuttal of the crude physiological reductionism of Soviet theoreticians like Alexander Bogdanov, Ilya Narsky and David Dubrovsky.

Dubrovsky’s 1968 attack on Ilyenkov’s concept of the Ideal and the ensuing controversy is documented in Andrey Maidansky’s fascinating and thoughtful contribution, Reality of the Ideal . Maidansky’s writings and online archive have in recent years provided an invaluable resource for all those researching Ilyenkov’s ideas.

Like Spinoza, Ilyenkov developed a philosophy that abolished the seemingly insurmountable barrier between ourselves and our Other(s) – the natural and physical world of which we are a part, including that of our fellow human beings. In his Dialectics of the Ideal , as in his other writings, Ilyenkov deconstructs Cartesian-Kantian dualism’s anxiety about accepting the evidence of our sensations and its scepticism about our ability to cognise the world.

This much of Ilyenkov’s contribution to philosophy was familiar since the 1980s to non-Russian readers through those of his books translated and published by Progress as well as New Park Publications ( Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism 1982). But now, thanks to Levant’s fluent translation of the restored full essay, we can explore the dynamic nature and revolutionary potential of Ilyenkov’s view of the Ideal.

Levant, Oittinen, Mareyev, Maidansky and their colleagues provide an expanded and cross-fertilised understanding of the historical setting of his work, placing it in the context of contemporary Soviet philosophical culture. They show how his contribution has enriched key concepts in psychology, political economy and the theory of knowledge.

The theoretical potential as well as the practical value of Ilyenkov’s notion of the Ideal for in human psychology are outlined by cultural-historical theorist and educationalist Birger Siebert in Prospects for a Cultural-Historical Psychology of Intelligence . Tarja Knuuttila of Helsinki university’s Collegium of Advanced Studies in an intriguing contribution notes that Umberto Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics and Ilyenkov’s Dialectical Logic and Dialectics of the Ideal were written contemporaneously and discovers common ground between them. She critiques both Peter Jones and David Bakhurst. She challenges the hypostatisation of “meaning” and the use of the idea of “representation” or “image” in connection with the Ideal, insisting on its continuous movement and activity.

Oittinen and Paula Rauhala’s discussion of the value-form debate and Ilyenkov’s first book The Dialectics of the Abstract and Concrete in Thought (1960) is an eye-opener, especially for all those who are familiar with the 1982 Progress translation. It now turns out this was heavily edited and truncated.  

Although Ilyenkov eventually received the prestigious Chernyshevsky Prize for the book in 1965, it had taken nine years to get it into print, due to opposition from the top ideology bureaucrats in the Soviet Union. In 1958, Ilyenkov finally consented to edit the manuscript radically and shorten it by almost half. Even the title was changed from “in thought” to “in Marx’s Capital”.  But so strong was Ilyenkov’s message that even this stark re-editing could not erase it.

Oittinen and Rauhala go on to provide a sweeping overview of Ilyenkov’s ideas in the light of international discussions and controversies about Marx’s method, the nature of value and the logic of capital from the 1960s to the present day. They contrast Ilyenkov’s dialectical and historical, law-governed but contradictory understanding of value as a concrete system of interacting phenomena with those of German theorists Hans-Georg Backhaus and Michael Heinrich.

Ilyenkov’s creative form of Marxism has languished like a buried jewel in the subterranean vaults of the former Soviet Union for too long. His powerful connection with the early Soviet period through the influence of the brilliant psychologist Lev Vygotsky (who died in 1935, aged only 38) was first documented for non-Russian readers by Bakhurst.  Now, thanks to Levant and Oittinen’s dedicated efforts, his significance for today can and should be explored.

In his closing essay, Emancipating Open Marxism: E.V. Ilyenkov’s Post-Cartesian Anti-Dualism, Levant flings open a door, not only on to a hidden history but to the relevance of Ilyenkov’s ideas. He proposes that there is a significant legacy of creative Soviet Marxism of the post-Stalin period which can enrich the debates of the Open Marxism movement associated with Werner Bonefield, John Holloway, Richard Gunn and Kosmos Pschopedis, amongst others.

Levant considers that Ilyenkov’s dialectical concept of the Ideal can help overcome the objectivism that prevails in some Marxist approaches, while also avoiding the subjectivism that often weakens Open Marxism. 

Alongside Open Marxism we have the challenge of taking his ideas forward in relation to the major ideological and political issues of our own times. His approach in Dialectics of the Ideal can offer a deeper grasp of today’s ideological crises, as we have argued elsewhere. 4 Ilyenkov’s Ideal comprises all humanly constructed things and activities, including their origins in human aspirations and practices.  It is a “concrete universal” but in a vanishing, negative form which has its Other in the realm of economic and political reality.

Thus understood, like Spinoza’s “blasphemies”, Ilyenkov’s philosophical penetration into the dialectics of social and individual human thought and practice had the potential to break up and expose the ideologies that keep women and men chained to the system. Ilyenkov did this under the most difficult conditions of the Soviet Union, driven first by hope and then extinguished by ideological repression. Ilyenkov directed his energies at restoring the revolutionary dynamic of the Soviet Union but was short-circuited in his mission. The climate at the Institute of Philosophy where he worked worsened in the 1970s. He was prevented from travelling to philosophical conferences abroad and a former KGB operative Elena Modrzhinskaya persecuted him. 5  With nowhere to turn, he took his own life in 1979.

Today, at least in some countries, we are lucky enough to have the freedom to discuss, exchange and publish ideas as well as organise. The challenge is to deconstruct the painfully negative forms of the Ideal in today’s world – the power of reactionary ideologies, east, west, north and south. What lies behind the violent break-up of nation states and the exploitation of globalisation’s extreme discontents and alienation by atavistic forces, for example? They are a distorted reflection in the Ideal world of the deep and insoluble contradictions of a dying system.  The challenge is to widen and concretise Ilyenkov's approach as a collective political enterprise.

27 June 2014

More on Ilyenkov

Ilyenkov – A philosopher under suspicion : A profile of Ilyenkov's life and work by philosophy scholar Sergei Mareyev.

The ‘heretic’ philosopher who challenged Stalinism : a paper on the contemporary significance of both Ilyenkov and Spinoza presented by A World to Win at an international conference in Helsinki.

Dialectics of the Ideal, Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism , edited by Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen, is published by Brill, 2014.

1 Guseinov, A and Lektorsky V.A., Philosophy in Russia: History and Present State , Diogenes 56, 2009

2 A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Stephen Nadler, Princeton University Press 2011

3 The tragic history of Soviet philosophy in the 1920s and 1930s has been documented by, amongst others, Yehoshua Yakhot in The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR . English translation, Mehring Books 2012

4 Contradictions within the Ideal , Mediation and Transformation in Global Capitalist Society by Corinna Lotz, Paul Feldman, Penny Cole and Gerry Gold. Presented at University of Helsinki April 2014.

5 Interview with David Bakhurst

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2021/2022 2018/2019 2017/2018 2017 2015/2016 2013/2014 2011/2012 2007/2008

Men's Euro Hockey League - Final Round - 2021/2022

Dinamo elektrostal moscow - identity.

• Official name : Hockey Club Dinamo Elektrostal
• Country : Russia
• Location : Moscow
• Founded : 1994
• Wikipedia link : http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinamo_Elektrostal

Dinamo Elektrostal Moscow - Titles, trophies and places of honor

• Best result : First Round in 2021/2022
• Best result : 1st
• 1 times first in 2010
• 1 times second in 2009
• 1 times third in 2017

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"They fell to the ground with screams": Russian Guards fired at children single near Moscow - there is a casualty

2023-08-20T20:58:57.477Z

Highlights: In Russia, in the city of Elektrostal (Moscow region), during demonstrations, Rosgvardia soldiers began shooting at spectators with children from machine guns with blank cartridges. One child received serious damage from a rebounded cartridge case. In the video, a child can be heard crying and screaming violently. It is also interesting that Russia recently arranged a solemn farewell to Vladimir Shestakov, convicted for the murder of a child, who became a mercenary of PMC "Wagner" and was liquidated in the war in Ukraine.

In Russia, in the city of Elektrostal (Moscow region), during demonstrations, Rosgvardia soldiers began shooting at spectators with children from machine guns with blank cartridges.

So far, one injured child is known.

This was reported by the local Telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU.

"Small children were clutching their heads screaming and falling to the ground. Not without injuries. The child received serious damage from a rebounded cartridge case," the report said.

One of the witnesses to the incident posted a video. It was her child who was shot by the Russian Guards. In the video, a child can be heard crying and screaming violently.

After the woman realized that her child had been wounded, she called her husband and doctor.

Meanwhile, Russian occupier Ivan Alekseev in the war in Ukraine after a drunken quarrel killed his colleague and tried to cover up the crime, saying it was the work of "Ukrainian saboteurs."

It is also interesting that Russia recently arranged a solemn farewell to Vladimir Shestakov, convicted for the murder of a child, who became a mercenary of PMC "Wagner" and was liquidated in the war in Ukraine.

• The suspect in the murder of a military volunteer was released from custody
• They will teach "patriotism": Russians in the occupied territories launch cadet classes
• Russia has created another training ground near Mariupol: how many soldiers are in the city

Source: tsn

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