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.

We invite attendees to explore 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 rediscovery 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. Please consider sharing what you have learned by joining us in this important conversation. And, of course, presentations on other themes are also welcome.

 Abstracts due February 15, 2010!
Click HERE to submit

INVITED KEYNOTES:

James 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.”

Delaney 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.

 Jonathan A. Smith is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck University of London; his D. Phil in Psychology is from University of Oxford. Jonathan has articulated one particular experiential approach for psychology and the human sciences, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), now one of the best known qualitative methodologies in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and he has done numerous workshops on it. His book Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research (with Paul Flowers and Michael Larkin) has just been published by Sage. He has also edited four books on qualitative methods including Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Research Methods. As a researcher he has focused on issues of health and identity and has published many journal articles and received a number of research grants. He is on the editorial board of Qualitative Research in Psychology, Qualitative Studies in Health & Well-Being and Journal of Health Psychology.

 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: 

 The registration fee is $200, until June 1 (this includes refreshments during breaks and a wine and hors d’oeuvre reception the evening of August 4th; it does not include meals).

After June 1, the registration fee goes up to $250.

 Presenters MUST register no later than June 1 to be included in the program.

 The latest date for registration for the Conference is July 14, 2010.

 The registration fee for student is $75.

 We anticipate that this website will be ready to take registrations and reservations for on campus housing February 15, 2010. 

CONFERENCE EVENTS:

 We are planning two dinners participants can sign up for.

1. On Friday, August 6 there will be a dinner at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, about two miles (3 kilometers) from Seattle University. This is a lovely setting.
2. There will be a closing night barbeque on the university campus Saturday, August 7. This will be a low cost event.

The web site below is a terrific resource for finding hotels, restaurants, information about transportation to and from the airport, and just about anything else you could possibly imagine.  If you are looking for accommodations off campus, keep in mind that any hotel or bed and breakfast place that is located in the downtown area, Capital Hill, or First Hill will be no more than two miles (3 kilometers) from Seattle University.

 http://www.seattle.gov/html/visitor/aboutseattle.htm

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 Steen Halling

Randy Horton

Kevin Krycka

George Kunz

Erica Lilleleht

George Sayre

Rebecca Severson 

Ada Fetters (Graduate Assistant)

 RESOURCES AND LINKS

• Travel and Hotel Information 
• Conference On-Campus Housing   
• Virtual Tour