Abstract

It seems to me that attending a conference is a very personal experience. I well recall that as I travelled back from Tasmania by the Empress of Australia and left the Elysium that is Hobart and thought of the rat race to which I would be returning, I wondered if I did not want to turn around, as soon as I arrived at Balmain, and go back to Hobart. A conference in this kind of setting spreads an umbrella of euphoria over you and everything is very unreal. You see and hear only those things that have meaning and purpose for you. So much else is filtered out. Consequently it is not possible for me to be able to present to you the distillation of five days of deliberations in just half an hour. I can only give you the euphoric consequences or impressions it made on me and I hope that these have some meaning for you.