General Assembly
13 March 2012
Our General Assembly and conference will this year be in Utrecht, Netherlands, on 25-27 May. Details of the General Assembly and Open Meeting on Friday 25 May are here. In parallel with these there will be a programme for European Humanist Professionals, details of which are here. Below are details of the conference on Humanism and Resilience, which runs from the evening of Friday May 25 to lunchtime on Sunday May 27. Details are… read more »
Parallel to the EHF General Assembly and Open Meeting there is the possibility for professionals to visit Dutch humanist professionals at their workplace. These visits have been organised by European Humanist Professionals (EHP) in cooperation with the Dutch Humanist Alliance. In the first part of the day, there will be two groups. One group will visit the University Medical Centre of Utrecht, which has between 15,000 and 19,000 visitors every day and about 11,000 employees. The… read more »
22 February 2012
Our General Assembly, Open Meeting and Conference this year will be held at the end of May in Utrecht, Netherlands. The General Assembly and Open Meeting are on Friday 25 May. The conference starts with a keynote speech on Friday evening and ends at lunchtime on Sunday 27 May. Under the title Humanism and Resilience we will explore how humanism can help us in our everyday lives as citizens. Details of the conference are here and on the… read more »
11 June 2011
Our first meeting, on the morning of Friday 6 May, had a long agenda, including many contributions from member organisations. We met in an upstairs room of the ancient Palazzo Ducale, overlooking a large piazza. The date and the place were unfortunate: a strike meeting started outside in the piazza with loudly amplified speeches and great noise. Not only that: just after our coffee break some of the demonstrators charged up the ancient stone staircase… read more »
4 June 2011
24-27 May 2012: Utrecht, Netherlands: EHF General Assembly and Conference: Humanism and Resilience Our general assembly and conference will this year be in Utrecht, Netherlands, on 25-27 May. Under the title Humanism and Resilience we will explore how humanism can help us in our everyday lives as citizens. For the General Assembly and Open Meeting, see here. For the parallel session for European Humanist Professionals, see here. For the Conference see here or go to the conference… read more »
6 May 2011
This year our meetings were hosted by our Italian member organisation, the Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti, and were held in Genova, Italy. The advance notice of the arrangements, programme and notes on speakers are below. (NB that in the event there were some changes to the listed speakers.) A report on the Open Meeting is here. The main conference (pictured above) on Moral Foundations in A Godless World, and How to Discuss… read more »
18 January 2011
The main function of the annual General Assembly is the administrative and statutory management of EHF, but it usually takes place in parallel with important activities (congresses, conferences, seminars on an international or European level) set up by the Federation or by the host humanist organisation. It is therefore an opportunity to meet and exchange information and experience for the representatives of the member organisations. Those entitled to attend are:- Representatives of full member organisations… read more »
29 May 2010
This year our meetings were held in Stockholm, Sweden. We started with a well attended open meeting in the morning of Friday May 28. Our General Assembly followed in the afternoon. The next day – Saturday May 29 – we held a one-day conference on Women and Religion, as detailed below.The meetings were held at ABF, 41 Sveavägen, in central Stockholm. Stockholm offered excellent opportunities for tourism, which many of us took before or after the EHF events. Friday… read more »
24 February 2010
First details of the EHF’s general assembly and conference – on Women and Religion – have been published. They take place in Stockholm on 28-29 May.
23 June 2009
The open meeting before the 2009 General Assembly was devoted to two topics. In the first session, Vera Pegna spoke on The rule of law and why it matters to humanists and secularists. The EHF’s policy on rule of law is here. In the second session, John Keast, an advisor to the British government on educational matters and especially education concerning lifestances and ethics, spoke to us on The Religious Dimension of Intercultural Education. He… read more »