The International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS) serves as a network of scholars – both researchers and practitioners – whose work focuses upon dialogue and the self. Members come from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds including psychology, sociology and social anthropology, psychiatry, the humanities including literature, history, philosophy, theology, the arts, and others. Members live and work in more than two dozen countries. ISDS was formally constituted under Dutch law in June 2002 and was established at Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Dialogicalscience.org is the official web domain for ISDS
  


The Sixth International Conference on the Dialogical Self (ICDS-6)
has been announced at this website.

ICDS6

It will take place in Athens, Greece from September 30 to October 3, 2010
with the cooperation of the Institute for Cognitive Analytic Therapy in Greece.

NOTE: While the tentative plan announced in Cambridge in 2008 was to hold the 6th conference in Kyoto, Japan, the ensuing world economic crisis and increased costs of international transportation have led a decision to this change of venue.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Scientific Committee for the ICDS-6 has issued a Call for Papers for the conference with a submission deadline of December 31, 2009. Note that, in keeping with the practice of each of the previous conferences, the official language of the ICDS-6 including papers, posters, symposia, and discussions will be English.


Recent News
Last updated: 4/26/2009
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New Issue of the International Journal for Dialogical Science
The newest issue of the IJDS (Fall, 2008, Vol. 3, No. 1) includes a large special issue focusing upon the cultural psychology of dialogical self. It is edited by Gyuseog Han (Chonnam National University, Korea) and Jaan Valsiner (Clark University, USA) and contains 5 target papers with multiple peer commentaries. This issue also includes an extended regular article, The Relevance of Secondness to the Psychological Study of the Dialogical Self, by Mariela Michel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Fernando Andacht (University of Ottawa), & William B. Gomes (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). (Posted: 2/9/09)


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Fifth International Conference on the Dialogical Self
From August 26 to 29, 2008, Queens College of Cambridge Univerity in the United Kingdom served as the venue for the Fifth International Conference on the Dialogical Self. More than 300 participants from 43 different countries assembled for the meeting.

The conference was co-sponsored by the University of Sterling (UK), L’Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland), University of Cambridge (UK) and Radboud University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands).

About 200 photographs from the conference are now available for browsing online at this link at Flickr. They include images of conference presentations, different social gatherings during the conference, and the beautiful surrounding environment of the university. (Posted: 1/4/2009)



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