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*State
of the Newsletter
*Report
of the 2003 Conference at
*Information/
call for Papers 2004, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, August
5-8 (Note change from earlier announcement).
*Information/links
for
*Information
for 2005 Conference,
*
Proposals for 2006 Conference
*Human
Science Student Research Community
*New
Programs:
--Centre
for Qualitative Research, University of
--Center
for Humanistic
*News
about Transpersonal Research
*Book
and Journal Notes
*Links/Connections:
*DEADLINE FOR
SUBMISSIONS TO FALL 2004 NEWSLETTER:
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sending out the newsletter this year. The number of hard copies that we send
out is now down to just under 80, and there are about 600 names on our e-mail
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Please
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Theme: Human Science Research and Human Vulnerability
[submitted
by Britt-Marie Ternestedt and Ann-Margret Bergman]
The 22nd International Humans Science Research
Conference was held in
Keynote speeches were given by Amedeo Giorgi,
Professor at
There were 73 paper presentations and six poster
presentations.
During the conference there were also opportunities
for the participants to enjoy lunch music, sightseeing in the city center of
We want to thank all of you that participated in the
conference and for your contribution to the conference and we hope to see you
again next year.
CALL FOR
PAPERS
Addressing the
conference theme
EMBODIMENT and its
CONSEQUENCES
In HUMAN SCIENCE
RESEARCH
Abstracts
up to 250 words are invited for 40 minute papers, 90 minute
workshops/experiential sessions, or 120 minute panels (minimum 3 members). Please specify your intended
presentation. Include title, abstract,
author, institutional and contact information (include fax and email). Also, please include any audio visual and/or
electronic requirements, or other presentation aides. We are a very well equipped university, and
will work to accommodate all requests.
Presenters are urged to have back-up plans (i.e., overheads as well as
power point) in case of unforeseen circumstances. Presenters will be notified if we are unable
to accommodate your requests.
Persons
making submissions are encouraged to consider embodiment as subject and process
of inquiry, and to interrogate praxiological, pedagogical,
methodological and/or theoretical issues/applications/positions. Papers on other topics of relevance to human
science research are also welcome.
Unless otherwise indicated, the program committee will organize accepted
papers into resonant and/or thematic groupings.
This
year’s program team includes collaborators from
The
conference organizing committee is planning several “embodiment events” during
the course of the conference, and will be offering tour and entertainment
options based on participant interest.
Conference
website will be available via the
Submit abstracts to:
Maureen Connolly,
Program Chair,
Director, Centre for
Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies
TH 253A,
Fax: 905-688-8364 or
905-688-4505
Email: mconnoll@brocku.ca
Phone: 905-688-5550 x
3381 or 4707
Inquiries
can be made to Maureen Connolly at above contact information or to:
Georgann
Watson, Program Administrator,
Phone:
905-688-5550 x 4809 Fax:
905-688-0541 Email: gwatson@brocku.ca
Submission
deadline:
Reviews
completed by:
Acceptance
confirmed by:
by Steen Halling
Since most of those traveling
by plane to the conference in St. Catherine's will arrive by way of the
There are basically four ways
to get from the
1) Rent a car and drive. Take Highway 427 south and
then the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) west to St. Catherine’s. But there is a
catch. If you rent a car from an airport
location, you pay a 25% surcharge in taxes. That is, if the rental cost is
$200, you pay and extra $50. How to avoid this? Rent a car from a location away
from the airport. The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has an express bus that
goes to the western most subway station (at Kipling). It takes about 20 minutes
and costs $2.25. From there you can go anywhere in
Check the TTC web site: http://www.ttc.ca
2) There is a shuttle
(Niagara Airbus) that runs between the
Phone: (905) 677-8083 in
E-mail: airsales@niagaraairbus.com
Web
site: http://www.niagaraairbus.com
3) Take the bus from downtown
Check the web site for
Greyhound
4) The most civilized alternative—take the train from
downtown
The City of Toronto is well worth visiting before or after the
conference. This home of three million people was designated by UNESCO as the
world’s most diverse city in 1993. Over
180 national and ethnic groups living together in relative harmony and close to
half of the people living in
Accommodations in
Go to: http://www.torontotourism.com and find
information about every aspect of the city, including accommodations. Under
accommodations check under “bed and breakfast” for less expensive options, and
keep in mind that “Midtown” is only few miles north of downtown.
Do make your reservations well ahead of time
because
The exact dates will be
announced next year but it will be held during
the first two weeks of August.
According to tradition, the
2006 conference would be held in
The IHSSC is a virtual
community for graduate and undergraduate students in the human sciences and is
associated with the International Human Science Research Conference. It got at its start at the 2001 IHSR Conference
in
[submitted
by Les Todres]
The
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/researchCQRindex.html
Clark Moustakas, founding
member of the Humanistic Psychology movement and originator of Heuristic
Research established the Center. The Center offers degrees emphasizing
existential-humanistic principles and clinical application. Learners complete
theses and dissertations utilizing heuristic, phenomenological and other human
science methodologies. Conctact Shawn Rubin at shawn@humanpsyc.edu or check the web site:
[submitted by Rosemarie
Anderson]
Integral
Inquiry, developed by William Braud, emphasizes the multileveled and complex
nature of human experience and the correspondingly multifaceted and pluralistic
nature of research. Integral Inquiry website provides comprehensive resources
in transpersonal psychology and related areas of interest, such as
spirituality, consciousness studies, mysticism, and parapsychology. http://www.integral-inquiry.com/.
Intuitive
Inquiry is a hermeneutical approach to research that incorporates and
cultivates the epistemologies of the heart as central to research. Research
techniques include proprioceptive and kinesthetic intuition, empathic
identification, and embodied writing are blended with conventional modes of
data gathering, analysis, and presentation of findings. For information contact
the developer, Rosemarie Anderson at: randerson@itp.edu.
Gillie
Jennifer
Bullington, The Mysterious Life of the Body: A New Look at Psychosomatics
[Söder tälje,
http://www.akademibokhandeln.se/akb/awi.html
Larry
Davidson, who has been involved in studying schizophrenia from a
phenomenological viewpoint for a number of years has just published Living
outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia
[New York University Press, 2003, 227pp, $19
pb]. This is a remarkable book
both for those who are interested in phenomenological research and those who
want to understand the experience of those persons who live with this
diagnosis. This is a valuable book for
researchers, family members, clinicians, and anyone who values the truth that
comes from carefully listening to stories.
Mufid
James Hannush’s, Becoming Good
parents: An existential Journey [2002, SUNY Press, 172 pp. $17 pb] has been
praised by Fred Wertz as providing “a counterpoint to the superficial and
overly formulaic popular ‘how to’ literature on parenting as it provides no
specific techniques or rigid directives but rather challenges each parent to
rise to the distinctive existential demands of becoming a parent, through a
guided reflection on its meaning, in his or her unique, concrete situation.”
This book has received a good deal of praise.
Daniel
Liechty’s edited book Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
the Legacy of Ernest Becker [2002,
Praeger, 300 pp; $67 hb] includes contributions from a broad range of thinkers
such as Kirk Schneider, Gavin de Becker, Robert Langs, Steen Halling, Jeff Greenberg,
Sheldon Solomon, James Aho, David Loy, and Kirby Farrell who have been inspired
by the writings of Ernest Becker. The topics they discuss include leadership,
the nature of evil, leadership, death denial, forgiveness, the transcendent
dimension in social science, and working with children in poverty. This is an
impressive volume.
Qualitative
Research in Psychology is a new journal, which starting in February of 2004 will
publish articles that use qualitative methods as well as theoretical papers that
address conceptual issues underlying qualitative research. The aim of the
editors, David Giles, Brendan Gough, and Martin Packer, is to provide a forum
for a wide range of qualitative approaches. For more information, go to: http://www.qualresearchpsych.com
Kirk
Schneider has a new book coming out in spring of 2004. Rediscovery of Awe:
Splendor, Mystery and the Fluid center of Life [Paragon House, $19.95]
offers a timely alternative to the two currently dominant world views,
nihilistic relativism and dogmatic fundamentalism. It weds faith to doubt, and
the depth and pathos of religiosity to the openness and discernment of science.
There are strong pre-publication praise for this book from Maurice Friedman, David
Elkins, and Mark Stern
David
L. Smith is author of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The History of
Jonathan
A. Smith is editor of Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide to Research
Methods [2003, SAGE, 258 pp. $29.95], an eminently readable textbook for
anyone interested in the theory and practice of the various qualitative methods
in psychology. The chapters are written by distinguished scholars and
researchers: on phenomenology, (Amedeo and Barbro Giorgi), grounded theory
(Kathy Charmaz), discourse analysis (Carla Willing), the origins of qualitative
research (Peter Ashworth), interpretive phenomenology (Jonathan Smith and Mike
Osborn), cooperative inquiry (Peter Reason), and more. The contributors follow
a format set out by the editor and the result is a reader friendly and very
lucid text that is useful to student and researcher alike.
1)
2)
Existential-Humanistic
Institute,
3) Web site for Human Science Research Studies. This web site, started in 2001, provides
published (in the form of articles, chapters, monographs, or books, but not
dissertations) English language human science research studies, that is,
research that is within the phenomenological and hermeneutical/interpretive
traditions, broadly defined. This web site
is made possible by the support of Peter Brawley of Artful Software who is
kindly donating his services.
The content of the web
site was published in the winter 2003 edition of the Journal of Humanistic
Psychology. If you know of studies that are not listed, send the complete
reference information (APA format) to shalling@seattleu.edu.
Our plan is to update the list about four times a year.
http://www.artfulsoftware.com/humanscienceresearch.html
4)
Indo-Pacific
Journal of Phenomenology—this is a peer reviewed interdisciplinary on-line
journal intended to provide scholars in the southern hemisphere with an avenue
through which they can express their scholarship. The journal is an initiative
of the Phenomenology Research Group based at
5)
International
Institute for Qualitative Methodology—this Institute, which is located at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and is headed up by Dr. Janice Morse
(keynote speaker at the IHSR Conference in Sheffield, UK, 1999), sets up an
annual conference in Banff, Alberta in May. The members of the institute seek
to promote the development of qualitative research methods and to encourage
collaboration among groups and institutions that are involved in this form of
research.
6) International Journal of Qualitative
Methods—this free multilingual and multidisciplinary electronic journal is
published by the above Institute. All submissions are peer reviewed. Articled
should be focused on some aspects of qualitative methodology. They do not
publish articles reporting on the results of quantitative studies.
7) Interest Group on “First Person Science”
This is
their statement of purpose:
“Some
of us are forming a group to bring together the many kinds of knowledge that
now exist about human beings. We are envisioning the possibility of a ‘first
person science’ which should develop along with the two current sciences, 1)
the reductive physical sciences, and 2) holistic ecology. Many kinds of
knowledge about human beings could easily give rise to testable variables, or
have already done so. Social policies, currently based only on the two existing
sciences, need a third science to go along with the other two.” For more
information, please contact Gene Gendlin: gend@midway.uchicago.edu
8) Network for Research on Experiential
Psychotherapies (NREP): This web site is devoted to the purpose of stimulating
research on experiential/humanistic psychotherapies. It has been founded to
provide an overview of the whole range of experiential therapy research. It
seeks to foster dialogue among researchers and to provide support for new
researchers.
http://www.experiential-researchers.org/
9) Newsletter
of Phenomenology—this free weekly newsletter provides information about what is
going on in the world of phenomenology, including information about conferences
and workshops, lectures, new books. To subscribe, e-mail:
Newsletter_of_phenomenology_subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To submit content, please e-mail it to: Newsletter_of_phenomenology@yahoogroups.com
10) Phenomenology Online—This site provides public
access to articles, monographs, and other materials discussing and exemplifying
phenomenological research. It is edited by Max van Manen. The site has access
to numerous full-text articles, including many from the journal Phenomenology
+ Pedagogy
http://www.phenomenologyonline.com
11) The
http://www.library.duq.edu/silverman/index.htm
12) Society for
Phenomenology and the Human Sciences—SPHS encourages the application of
phenomenological methodology to specific investigations within the human
sciences. You are invited to join SPHS in its effort to achieve a deeper
understanding of and engagement with the Life-World. SPHS holds its meetings in
conjunction with SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
Contact
Philip Lewin re SPHS at pmlewin@yahoo.com
The
SPEP web site is at: http://spep.org
13) Dr. Hiroshi Yasunaga gave the keynote