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April. Top US philosopher Martha Nussbaum, whose award-winning book, Hiding from Humanity: Shame, Disgust, and the Law , explores the link between emotions and the law, will be in discussion with leading British philosophers, including John Haldane and David Archard, at Newcastle 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ this month. Nussbaum's Hiding from Humanity: Author Meets Critics is on April 3.

* The impact of religion on happiness, fertility and marital stability will be on the agenda at the Religion and the Individual conference at Manchester 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, organised by the Sociology of Religion Study Group. Delegates will debate issues such as the impact of individualism on institutional religion. Speakers include Ralph W. Hood Jr from the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Tennessee. April 3-5.  

* A Hull police officer will give a paper on an innovative project that offers kerb-crawler education at the Sex Workers and Clients conference run by the British Society of Criminology and the British Sociological Association at Birmingham 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ. Other papers cover the dilemmas of policing sexual violence. There is also a workshop on how child sex abuse is presented in the media. April 5.

* Cosmopolitanism and anthropology is the theme of the Association of Social Anthropologists' Diamond Jubilee Conference at Keele 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ. Papers include Richard Wilson's on whether a critic of cosmopolitanism can believe in human rights. April 10-13.  

* Is the medical model the best way to treat addiction? Delegates at Unhooked Thinking , a multidisciplinary conference on addiction, think not. April 19-21. Assembly Rooms, Bath.