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 UNITN International Human Science Research Conference, New frontiers of phenomenology |
Rovereto - MART - 13-16 June 2007
IHSRC 2007- International Human Science Research Conference
New frontiers of phenomenology
Beyond postmodernism in empirical research
The international Human Science Research Conference is a distinguished international network in human science research, with a long and well-established cultural tradition in researching human experience within a qualitative approach. Starting from a clear phenomenological choice, during the years the group has been opening also to other qualitative research approaches.
Since 1982 the conference has been holding yearly every other year in North America, Europe, Asia or South Africa. The present edition will be held in Italy for the very first time.
IHSRC will take place in Rovereto, hosted by the Faculty of Cognitive Science and the Department of Cognitive Science and Education of the University of Trento.
The conference, peer-reviewed, will be organized in parallel sessions for presenting papers and symposia. Keynote speakers will address the conference theme.
In the two decades of the last century, the post-modern climate and mood represented undoubtedly a fundamental and necessary fracture with the positivistic optimism, and it marked the crisis of the calculating, omniscient, omnipotent reason.
The rich semantic ambiguity of this notion invites us to assume it in its complexity and, at the same time, requires today to be frankly questioned. That is why some extreme consequences of the post-modern turn in human sciences have also entailed a mistrust in the same possibility of any scientific knowledge, giving rise sometimes to skepticism, pessimism as well as scientific nihilism.
Among the opportunities to overcome this impasse between the post-modern subjectivism and the re-emerging temptations coming from an hard objectivistic paradigm, based on natural sciences, phenomenology seems to represent a stimulating third way, worth to be explored and discussed.
The 2007 conference will focus on discussing, theoretically, methodologically and empirically, what is happening around and after the post-modern discourse and the implications of this debate in human science research.
The challenge of IHSRC 2007 will be to explore collectively the possible horizons for the research in human science today and if phenomenology can be considered an up-to-date approach to deal with these challenges.
Deadlines
Registration: the deadline for registration and payment is 15th May 2007
Important communication: for all that have tried to submit an abstract and didn't receive a confirmation, please contact the scientific Committee, because it probably occured a problem.
Scientific Secreatriat
fax +39 0464 483514 - ihsrc@unitn.it
February 28, 2007: Communication of proposal acceptance
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