FYI. By the way, the ATHG listserv group now has a hundred subscribers, a surprise during the summer vacation months. * David Fahey (Miami Univ.) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Ron copied to me your note on the Kettil Bruun Society and his response. Actually, Kettil was a Swedish-speaking Finn whose Finnish was a bit rough, so you were not entirely wrong. The two Geoffreys -- Geoffrey Giles and Geoffrey Hunt -- were both at the most recent annual "marketplace" meeting of the KBS -- in Porto last month, about 200 participants -- and might be able to wrote you a historian-oriented account. Historical papers are indeed in a minority, but are very much welcomed. The KBS also sponsors one or two smaller thematic meetings each year -- usually about 50 participants -- and some of them have had a more substantial historical orientation. KBS grew in 1987 out of two forerunners: the Alcohol Epidemiology Section of ICAA (which indeed continues in rump form at ICAA meetings, to keep the franchise) and the International Group for Comparative Alcohol Studies, which in turn grew out of the International Study of Alcohol Controls Experiences after ISACE ended in 1981. At the heart of the KBS are about 10 social science alcohol research centres in almost as many countries, along with a lot of individual scholars. The "marketplace" meetings have scholars and papers from more than 20 countries -- dominated, still, by what Harry Levine calls the "temperance cultures". I'm not sure of the context of your note, so let me know if any more would be useful. Cheers, Robin ([log in to unmask])