INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN SCIENCE
RESEARCH
NEWSLETTER
Fall 2005
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Table of Contents
*State of the Newsletter
*Report on the 2005 Conference,
* Information/Call for Papers for the 2006 Conference,
*Information for 2007 Conference,
* Restructuring our Organization?
* In Memoriam: Loren S. Barritt
* Event, Book and Journal Notes
*Links/Connections:
*DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS TO FALL 2006
NEWSLETTER: October 15, 2006*
*DEADLINE FOR SUMISSIONS TO THE SPECIAL SPRING
2006 NEWSLETTER:
JUNE
1, 2006
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State of the Newsletter
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Report on the 2005 International Human Science
Research Conference
University
of Bournemouth , United Kingdom
Dame Jane Gooda
IHSRC Report for IHSR
News
The 24th
Internationa
Immy Ho
IHSRC 2005 Business Meeting Minutes he
- Overview from Steen Ha
Steen invited members to active
- Ref
- Report and feedback from
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b) confirm conference attendance and payment prior to arriving
- Presentation and Proposa
Massimia
- Presentation and We
- Proposa
James Mor
There were interesting discussions
about whether the network shou
- Any other business
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Arising out of James Mor
- Discussion about best dates for future conferences
It appeared, after a
Kate Galvin and Les Todres
2006 Conference, 3-6 August, John F. Kennedy University
Pleasant Hills, California ,
USA
Conference Theme: The Multicultural
Future of Qualitative Research
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts:
March 1, 2006
Welcome
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the International Human Sciences Research Conference.
Over the years, qualitative research has taken a solid foothold in the Human Sciences
and the field of qualitative research itself is now very diverse. The focus of
the conference has continuously broadened to include a wide range of
disciplines and alternative qualitative approaches. Such diversity has been
welcomed and has enriched the debate about the boundaries and directions of
human science research.
More and more, previously
homogeneous groups are becoming multicultural societies with the embedded
richness as well as challenges this diversity brings. Throughout history there
have always been tendencies towards marginalization of perspectives or ways of
being that differ from the predominant ones. The history of this conference
itself has constituted a forum for integration with its interdisciplinary focus
and its acceptance of alternative perspectives. Over the past 25 years there
has been a shift towards more openness, collaboration, and alternative
perspectives have gained a respectable place in most of the human sciences. An
inherent problem of research in the human sciences is that of understanding
human beings with their infinite complexity and diversity in ways that can
somehow yield knowledge that is to some degree generalizable without being
reductionistic. This challenge of honoring diversity while also organizing around
some necessary commonality is an increasingly important issue in most, if not
all, societies. We chose the theme, The
Multicultural Future of Qualitative Research, for this conference with the
belief that the international community of Human Scientists and Practitioners
has a contribution to make in this diverse and changing landscape that
constitutes the world of today and tomorrow.
At this 25th anniversary it seems timely to look back at the past 25
years as well as look ahead to where we might be going and we very much hope
that you can join us here in Pleasant Hill, California, in the San Francisco
Bay Area, during August 3-6, 2006 to participate in the dialogue about the
multicultural and multifaceted future of the human sciences.
Call for Papers
Abstracts of up to 250 words are invited for 40 minute papers or 120 minute symposia (minimum 3 members).
It is our hope that the conference theme The Multicultural Future of Qualitative Research will invite and inspire you to address a wide variety of issues of diversity in a world that is rapidly changing, continuously presenting us with different ways of being, thinking and living.
To submit an abstract, please email the submission form along with your abstract to bgiorgi@jfku.edu or mail a printout to the address below.
Barbro
Giorgi
Director of MA Research
Email: bgiorgi@jfku.edu
Phone: +925-969-3408
Fax: +925-969-3401
Please ensure that you include all requested information as this will help the conference planning committee to make necessary arrangements.
Deadline for
submissions is March 1, 2006
The conference website is
This website will evolve to provide further news and information, such as details about keynote speakers, accommodation options, and travel suggestions as we approach the conference.
If you require any further information or help please do not hesitate to contact:
Anita Korenstein
Office of Institutional Research
Email: akoren@jfku.edu
Phone: +925-969-3456
IHSRC
- ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM
[This form will be available on conference
website]
ABSTRACT DETAILS:
Title of presentation:
Is this a joint presentation:
If yes, please supply the name and contact details of other presenters:
Audio/Visual requirements:
ABSTRACT:
Please include a copy of your abstract with this form.
Any further information:
AUTHOR DETAILS:
Title:
First Name:
Surname:
Job Title:
Institution:
If your abstract is accepted for the conference you will be required to provide a short biographical statement. You may complete this here:
ADDRESS DETAILS:
Mailing address:
Postcode:
Country:
Tel no:
Fax no:
E-mail address:
Please email to bgiorgi@jfku.edu or return
the form to the following address:
Barbro
Giorgi
Director
of MA research
Email: bgiorgi@jfku.edu
Phone:
+925-969-3408
Fax: +925-969-3401
2007
Conference (June 13-16), University
of Trento
(Rovereto
Branch) Italy
The 26th
conference will be held in the north-eastern part of
Rovereto is a small and ancient Venetian city close to the Alps and
The general theme for the 2007 conference will be announced at the 2006
conference at
For further
information, please contact
Web site www.unitn.it
Rovereto: http://www.apt.rovereto.tn.it/welcome.htm
Trentino region: http://www.trentino.to/
Restructuring the IHSR
Conference?
The question of changing
the format of our organization came up during the business meeting, as well as
during some informal conversations, at the Bournemouth University
Conference. I will try to briefly
capture some of the questions and comments here, but I also want to acknowledge
that I have my own perspective on all of this and thus my inclusion of issues
may be quite selective.
There
is no question that we are a unique organization. We have a way of doing things
that has worked pretty well for twenty-five years even though we have no
membership dues, no officers, no financial resources, and no written guidelines
(except insofar as general statements from previous conferences provide points
of orientation for the hosts for subsequent years). Those who are brave and
kind enough to offer to host the conference can consult with previous
organizers as they do their planning. Often, I get questions about traditions
and preferences around the structure of the conference. In this day of ever-growing bureaucracy,
mission statements, procedural principles, and public relations, we are
certainly an anomaly.
Over the years some guidelines have been established. For
example, slots for individual presentations should be about forty minutes, and
presenters should allow at least ten minutes for discussion, there should be
venues and time for informal conversation during the conference, and the number
of invited speakers should not be too large so as to allow time for other presentations
and to keep the cost of the conference down.
The problems that were discussed at the past conference
included the following: there are not enough explicit guidelines for conference
organizers, a fair number of people come and present but do return for the next
conference (roughly two thirds of the participants in Bournemouth had not
attended before), and how widely and where the conference is advertised varies
a great deal from year to year. So there may be a lack of continuity across the
years. Of course, that also means that the organizers have a good deal of
autonomy. The lack of written guidelines became a problem this year at the
business meeting—James Morley brought a proposal to host the conference in
three years, and I thought it would be better to wait another year before
formally voting on the proposal since the tradition has been that we just plan
two years ahead and so there might be other institutions that were planning to
provide a proposal for 2008 at the 2006 conference. If we had written rules,
this disagreement would have been easily resolved. Another broader issue, if I
understand it correctly, is that if we had more of a standard structure we
might become more of a player in the field of human science research and
theory.
In any case, we (those present at the business meeting)
did agree with Barbro Giorgi that it would be appropriate to have a session
(apart from the business meeting) dedicated to the issue of structure at the
next conference. I do not know how such a session will be set up, but thought
it would be helpful to have a special edition of the newsletter come out early
summer consisting of comments and proposals from people concerned about the
future of our “organization.” So if you
have comments or proposals, please send them to me by June 1, 2006. You may
want to address specific issues or the overall nature of the conference. My
only suggestions (and these are suggestions you are free to ignore) are to
write plainly and to keep your proposals relatively brief.
Steen Halling
In Memoriam: Loren S. Barritt
(1936-2005)
Professor Loren (Biff)
Barritt was active in the Human Science Research Conference from its very
beginning. He was a professor in the
Those
of us who had the pleasure of meeting Loren Barritt at the HSR conferences
remember him for his even-handedness, his willingness to listen, and his
warmth. Biff was a teacher and a researcher who was deeply involved with his
subject matter; when he spoke of his experience with teachers and their
struggles in the classroom, it was clear that he had taken to heart what he had
seen and heard. My recollection is that he last attended the IHSR conference in
1992 at
Steen Halling
Event, Book, and Journal Notes
Events:
The 24th Annual Symposium of the
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Books:
Sven Arvidson (2006). The Sphere of Attention: Context and Margin.
Marie
Balter and Richard Katz (2000). Nobody’s
child.
Constance Fischer (Ed.). (2005). Qualitative Research Methods for
Psychologists: Introduction through Empirical Studies.
The book has fourteen original articles presenting various qualitative
research methods (e.g., grounded theory, phenomenological, conceptual
encounter, and focus groups) by means of actual studies. The topics studied
include joy, forgiveness, psychotherapy, diagnostics, and the life of mystics,
and psychoeducational HIV/AIDS interventions. This will be a very useful book
for researchers and for classes in research,
Gunnar Karlsson (2004). Psychonalysisen i Ny Belysining
[Psychoanalysis in a new
light].
Daniel Liechty (Ed.). (2005). The Ernest Becker Reader.
George Yancy and Susan Hadley (Eds.). (2005). Narrative Identities:
Psychologists Engaged in Self-construction.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Health and Well-Being
This new journal, based in
Humanistic Psychologist: Special Issue on Intuitive Inquiry.
The 2004
Methods Issue (32, 4) contains a review of intuitive inquiry by its developer,
Rosemarie Anderson. Dr. Anderson describes intuitive inquiry as an epistemology
of the heart and invites mainstream researchers to use intuitive inquiry, blend
it with methods they already use, and create complementary strategies for
qualitative research. Four articles provide case examples: Jay Dufrechou
explores the experience of grief, weeping, and other deep emotions in response
to nature, Sharon Hoffman portrays the potential of compassionate connection
through storytelling by relaying the story of a woman with breast cancer, Vipassana Esbjörn-Hargens describes how women
mystics of today make sense of the body, and
Cortney R. Phelon presents a model of the healing presence of a
psychotherapist based on reflections, literature reviews, and group interviews
of exemplar psychotherapists. Rosemarie
Anderson can be reached at the
Links/Connections
Center for Applied
Phenomenological Research at the
The Center represents scholars from a variety of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, nursing, and literature. The focus is on utilizing phenomenological and other qualitative methods to gain a better understanding of human experience.
Center for Humanistic
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.
Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research. Located at
Existential-Humanistic
Institute,
Human Science Research
Studies. This
web site, which was 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 artfulsoftware 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
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
Initiative in Phenomenological Practice. This is a new web site and it is described as an “international network connecting anyone who is interested in the ongoingly open possibility of phenomenology by carrying out original phenomenological investigations of any theme, in any context, and using a variety of phenomenological methods.”
http://www.phenomenology.ro/ipp/
Institute of Health and Community Studies at
Bournemouth University in the
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ihcs/researchCQRindex.html
International Journal of Existential Psychology
and Psychotherapy—IJEPP is the
official organ of the International
Society for Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy. It is published
online at:
http://www.existentialpsychology.org
International Network of Personal Meaning—is related to both of the above. It is a
multidisciplinary, learned society, dedicated to the advancement of knowledge
on the vital role of meaning in mental and physical health, spiritual
development and other areas of life. It was founded by Dr. Paul Wong and is
located in
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.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods—this free multilingual and multidisciplinary electronic journal is published by the above Institute. All submissions are peer reviewed. Articles should be focused on some aspects of qualitative methodology. They do not publish articles reporting on the results of qualitative studies.
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.
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/
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
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
The
http://www.library.duq.edu/silverman/index.htm
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).
http://pages.slu.edu/faculty/harriss3/SPHS/aboutSPHS.html
Dr. Hiroshi Yasunaga
gave the keynote address at the 2002 conference in