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 7th International Conference on the Dialogical Self (ICDS-7) will take place October 25-28, 2012 at the University of Georgia (USA). Note that the UGA is located in the town of Athens, too! The chair of the Organizing Committee is Bob Fecho (Professor in the Dept. of Language and Literacy Education at UGA). The official conference website is

http://www.coe.uga.edu/dialogicalself2012/

The keynote speakers at the conference will include

• Jeffrey Jensen Arnett (Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA)
• Miguel Gonçalves (University of Minho)
• Hubert Hermans (Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Peter Raggatt (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia)

Additionally, featured lectures will be given by

• Henderikus (Hank) Stam (University of Calgary, Canada)
• John Rowan (Fellow of the British Psychological Society)
• Vincent Hevern (Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Important Dates

• Deadline for submissions has been extended to April 30, 2012. Submissions may be made at http://www.coe.uga.edu/dialogicalself2012/submissions/
• Registration for the conference is now open: http://www.coe.uga.edu/dialogicalself2012/registration/. Register before May 31, 2012 to receive a discounted rate.

Note: A Post-Conference Workshop on Dialogical Self Approach in Coaching, Training, Counseling, and Education will be held on Monday, October 29, 2012. Sponsored by the International Institute for the Dialogical Self and facilitated by Hubert Hermans, Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka, and Ton Voogt, the workshop, like the conference, will take place at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens, GA, USA. (posted 08/20/2011; updated 10/20/2011)

Recent News
Last updated: 04/28/2012

International Journal for Dialogical Science (IJDS): New Special Issue Published

The Spring, 2012 issue of the IJDS (Vol. 6, No. 1) has just been published and can be accessed online at this link. Guest edited by Sergio Salvatore and Alessandro Gennaro (University of Salento, Italy) the focus of the 12 papers and commentaries in the issue is Psychotherapy as Dialogical Endeavor: Theory Methodological, and Clinical Implications.

International Journal for Dialogical Science. The Fall 2011 Issue is now posted online at this link. It includes four articles:

• Flattening Hierarchies? Thoughts on Collaboration and Psychological Dialogues That Clients Might Consider Socially Just (Tom Strong, University of Calgary)
• Dialogue: Where Language Meets Activity. An Essay Review of Language as Dialogue. From Rules to Principles of Probability by Edda Weigand [2009] (Marie-Cécile Bertau, Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Interview with Edda Weigand (Marie-Cécile Bertau, Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Story Formed Identity and Spirituality in Psychological and Theological Dialogue (Peter J. Jankowski, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN)

International Journal for Dialogical Science. The International Journal for Dialogical Science (IJDS) presents a dual set of special issues focusing upon Empirical Approaches to the Dialogical Self. Both issues have been edited by Kataryzna Stemplewska-Zakowicz (Helena Chadkowska University of Management and Law [Warsaw]) and Piotr K. Oles (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin). The first part of this set in Vol. 4 No. 1 (Fall, 2010) has as its focus "Expanding on the Theory" and consists of six papers. The second part in Vol. 4 No. 2 (Winter, 2010) focuses on "Applications" of the theory and consists of a further six papers. (Posted 03/12/11)

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