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NOTE: These items are no longer current and links may not work. They are listed here only for historical & adminstrative purposes.

Photos from the 3rd International Conference, Warsaw, 2004. Vincent Hevern (Le Moyne College) has posted online a site containing about 120 digital photographs from his trip to Warsaw in 2004 for the 3rd International Conference. In addition to pictures of sights in Historic Warsaw, there are images from the conference itself. If you were at the conference, you are invited to look over the pictures to remind yourself of the great time we all had. If you were not at the conference, you can get a glimpse of the excitement and wonderful exchange that the conference's attendees experienced during those days. And, you can see, too, what excellent hosts we found in the students and faculty of the Warsaw School of Social Psychology! (posted 5/12/05).

4th International Conference on the Dialogical Self. The date is now firm. The next conference will be held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, during June 1-3, 2006. The conference website is posted and already contains information about the venue, organizing committee, accommodations, transportation options, and deadlines. The first dealine, submission of abstracts, is January 31, 2006. We look forward to seeing many old and new friends there. (03/07/05)

New Members of Executive Committee. Three new members have joined the Executive Committee of the International Society for Dialogical Science. They are:

• Dr. Giancarlo Dimaggio, III Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Roma, Italy
• Prof. Ivana Marková, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
• Prof. Piotr Oles, Institute of Psychology, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

A listing of the full Executive Committee can be found at this link. (Posted 9/22/04)

"Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy" Published. Hubert J. M. Hermans (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Giancarlo Dimaggio (Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Roma, Italy) have published their newly edited volume, "The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy." It is available from Brunner-Routledge (New York, USA & East Sussex, UK) with a 2004 publication date. The 17 chapters of this volume begin with an introduction by the editors. The bulk of the text is divided into four parts: Part I on General Theory, Part II on Theory and Clinical Practice, Part III on Reconstructing Dialogical Processes in Severely Affected Patients, and Part IV on Methodological Issues in the Psychotherapeutic Process. Further details of this volume can be found at the Brunner-Routledge site for readers in the United States and elsewhere in the world. [Link to text at Amazon.com, Labyrinth Books (NYC)] (posted 9/5/04)

Tentative Date for Fourth International Conference on the Dialogical Self. The 4th International Conference on the Dialogical Self (ICDS-4) will be hosted by the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. It is tentatively scheduled to be held June 1-3, 2006. Mark your calendars! (Posted 9/22/04)

Symposium on the Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy. At the 11th Biennial Conference of the North American Personal Construct Network -- CONSTRUCTIVISM 3-D: Diversity, Development, & Dialogue -- held at the University of Memphis in June, 2004, Dr. Giancarlo Dimaggio (Rome, Italy) chaired a symposium on the dialogical self in psychotherapy. He was joined by Paul Lysaker, John T. Lysaker, William Whelton, Giampaolo Salvatore, and Dario Catania. (posted 9/5/04)

Special Issue on the Dialogical Self and Modern Mass Communication Media. A special issue of the journal, Identity: International Journal of Theory and Research, on the "Dialogical Self in a Global and Digital Age" will be published as the October, 2004 issue (Vol. 4, issue 4) of the journal. Guest edited by Hubert Hermans (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) who introduces the issue, five papers examine the dialogical self with a focus upon weblogs and the Internet, cyberspatial environments and interpersonal relations, construction of the self in textual short-messaging systems (SMS), identity and television, and the use of space in the construction of identity across 800 years of communication media ("from Dante to cyberspace"). Authors include Vincent Hevern (Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA), Maria Beatrice Ligorio and Annarita Celeste Pugliese (University of Bari, Italy), Michele Cortini, Giusseppe Mininni, and Amelia Manuti (University of Bari, Italy), Susanna Annesse (University of Bari, Italy), and Cor van Halen and Jacques Jannsen (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands). (posted 1/29/04; updated 9/5/04)

Dialogicalscience.org. As we note above, ISDS has adopted Dialogicalscience.org as the domain name for online activities of the society. This will permit browsers easily to visit this website in the future whatever the specific Internet service provider locale which actually hosts this site. Currently, Dialogicalscience.org is being hosted at Le Moyne College via the faculty webpage of Prof. Vincent Hevern (Syracuse, New York). (posted 2/08/03)