Master of Arts in Psychology

29th International Human Science Research Conference: Giving Voice to Experience 

29th International Human Science
Research Conference

Hosted by the Department of Psychology and
the College of Arts & Sciences
Seattle University, August 4-8, 2010.

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Fountain ImageThis year, attendees explored the possibilities and challenges that come with giving voice to experience. From the humanities to the human sciences, scholars face the dilemma of how to do justice to experiences that can become known through language, but are so much more than language itself. When we succeed, the experiences we apprehend and convey bring forth opportunities for red iscovery and renewal. When we fail, these same experiences can become sources of frustration, misrepresentation, or silence. As scholars and practitioners, many of us find ourselves at both ends of this continuum, and learn much from these experiences.

KEYNOTES:

RisserJames Risser is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the University Honors Program at Seattle University.  He received his Ph.D. from Duquesne University in 1978. He has served as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Collegium Phaenomenologicum. He is also the Associate Editor of Research in Phenomenology.   His published works include Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (1997) and Heidegger Toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s (1999) and he is coeditor of American Continental Philosophy (2000).   He has just completed his latest project: The Life of Understanding: Platonic Gestures for a Hermeneutics after Gadamer. Professor Risser’s presentation is entitled “On Language and Experience in the Understanding of Life.”  

Download Dr. Risser's keynote here.   

Delaney CroppedDelaney Ruston is an award winning documentary film maker and a practicing physician; she received her MD from Stanford University Medical Center and completed a Medicine Residency and Fellowship in Medical Ethics at the University of California at San Francisco. She works three days a week at the Pike Market Medical Clinic in Seattle, which serves many homeless people. Her most recent film project, Unlisted: A story of Schizophrenia, is a documentary about her late father. This project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other films include Crossroads, The Intersection of Pain and Addiction, Crisis and Control: What is the Role of psychiatric Advance Directives, and the forthcoming Where in the World is Mental Health, which is being filmed in several countries, including China and France.

 Finlay CroppedLinda Finlay works as a freelance Academic Consultant and Psychotherapist.  She writes educational materials and teaches psychology with the Open University, and offers training and mentorship on the use of qualitative methodology.  She is a qualified occupational therapist, academic psychologist and currently completing her accreditation to become an Existential-Relational Integrative Psychotherapist. She has published widely including four books since 2003: The Practice of Psychosocial Occupational Therapy; Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals, a volume co-edited with Claire Ballinger; Reflexivity: a Practical Guide for Researchers in Health and Social Science, a volume co-edited with Brendan Gough; and Relational Centred Research for Psychotherapists (co-authored with Ken Evans).  Her current book project, Phenomenology for Therapists, is due to be published by Wiley June 2011. Download Dr. Finlay's keynote here. 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Steen Halling 
Randy Horton
Kevin Krycka
George Kunz
Erica Lilleleht
George Sayre
Rebecca Severson  
Ada Fetters

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