13th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
in Honolulu, Hawaii,
August 20 to 23,
2009,
"World Peace through Humiliation-Free Global Human Interactions"
as part and subsequent to the 6th biennial conference of the International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR), with the theme "World Peace through Intercultural Understanding" August 15-19
HumanDHS presents a symposium at IAIR, and IAIR researchers present a symposium at the HumanDHS conference. This will allow cross-fertilization and networking opportunities.
Host, Organizer and Convener:
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology,
Shidler College of Business,
University of Hawai'i, Manoa, Honolulu
A big thank-you to you, dear Bhawuk!
• Frame
• List of Conveners
• Program
• List of Participants
• Papers
• What happened in our previous conferences? Please see Newsletters!
Frame
by Linda Hartling, 2004, Ph.D., Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA
In our conferences we aim at creating a humiliation-free, collaborative learning environment characterized by mutual respect, mutual empathy, and openness to difference. The perspective of "appreciative enquiry" is a useful frame of our work. Our HumanDHS efforts are not just about the work we do together, but also about HOW WE WORK TOGETHER. At appropriate points during our conferences, for example at the end of each day, we take a moment to reflect on the practices observed that contributed to an appreciative/humiliation-free learning experience.
It is important to emphasize that an appreciative approach is not about expecting people to agree. In fact, differences of opinion enrich the conversation and deepen people's understanding of ideas. Perhaps, this could be conceptualized as "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller), which means practicing radical respect for differences and being open to a variety of perspectives and engaging others without contempt or rankism. As we have seen in many fields, contempt and rankism drain energy away from the important work that needs to be done. Most people only know "conflict" as a form of war within a win/lose frame. "Waging good conflict," on the other side, is about being empathic and respectful, making room for authenticity, creating clarity, and growth.
Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.
Please see also Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, kindly written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the moderators of our workshops.
Please see furthermore Buddhist Teachings on Right Speech, which relate to our quest for appreciative enquiry, caring and being.
List of Conveners
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, Ph.D., Host, Organizer and Convener
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk is a Member in the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Films for Equal Dignity Project.
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, a Citizen of Nepal, is Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. He received his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [...] Professor Bhawuk is a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, and the recipient of Distinguished Scholar Award, Management Department, College of Business Administration (2000), the Best Paper Award from the International Division of the Academy of Management (1996), the Distinguished Service Award from the East West Center (1989), and the Lum Yip Kee Outstanding MBA Student Award from the College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii (1990). [read more]
For more information about the IAIR conference, please see www.interculturalacademy.org/.
Linda Hartling, Ph.D., Convener
Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, HumanDHS Global Core Team, HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, HumanDHS Research Team, and HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Dr. Linda Hartling is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, which is a new model of psychological development. In addition, Dr. Hartling coordinates and contributes to training programs, publications, and special projects for the JBMTI. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical/community psychology and has published papers on resilience, substance abuse prevention, shame and humiliation, relational practice in the workplace, and Relational-Cultural Theory. [read more]
Please see the preliminary draft of Linda's paper for Round Table 2 of our 2005 NY Workshop Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence.
Please see furthermore Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, first published by: The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278, co-authored with T. Luchetta, 1999,
and please see also:
Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation, the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMIT), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College No. 88, Wellesley, MA 02481, co-authored with Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, Judith V. Jordan, 2000.
See also:
Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.
Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (Dr. med.), Ph.D. (Dr. psychol.), Convener
Social Scientist, Founding Director and President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), recipient of the 2006 SBAP Award, anchored at the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, New York, furthermore affiliated to the University of Oslo, Department of Psychology (see http://folk.uio.no/evelinl/), Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Department of Psychology (see http://psyweb.svt.ntnu.no/ansatte/), and affiliated to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, teaching, furthermore, in South East Asia, the Middle East, and other places globally. [read more]
Neil Ryan Walsh, Co-Coordinator, together with Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, of a Special Session with and for Native Hawaiian and Polynesian Communities
Neil Ryan Walsh is currently working with the Kaminokawa-machi board of education as a member of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET Program). Neil has recently completed a part time internship with the United Nations Department of Public Informations Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (12/05 6/06). [read more]
Neil Ryan Walsh the Director and Coordinator of the HumanDHS Japan for Equal Dignity (JED) project.
Program (still to be developed)
Program for the Public Conference/s
We Are Greeted with an Artistic Performance
• Linda Hartling and Dharm P. S. Bhawuk Welcome Everybody to Our Public Conference/s
• Presentation: Humiliation & Religious Texts: Urgent Need for New Scriptures for the Global Village
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, Honolulu
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk is a Member in the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Films for Equal Dignity Project.
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, a Citizen of Nepal, is Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Professor Bhawuk is a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, and the recipient of Distinguished Scholar Award, Management Department, College of Business Administration (2000), the Best Paper Award from the International Division of the Academy of Management (1996), the Distinguished Service Award from the East West Center (1989), and the Lum Yip Kee Outstanding MBA Student Award from the College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii (1990).
• Presentation: Humiliation in a Globalizing World
Evelin Lindner, Founding Director and President of HumanDHS
This talk highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso and micro levels, and in all fields of public policy.
Please see background material: In Times of Globalization and Human Rights: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force? In: Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2007.
Please see an earlier version here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742)
• Presentation: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Relational-Cultural Theory
Linda Hartling, Founding Director and President of HumanDHS
Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, HumanDHS Global Core Team, HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, HumanDHS Research Team, and HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Dr. Linda Hartling is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, which is a new model of psychological development. In addition, Dr. Hartling coordinates and contributes to training programs, publications, and special projects for the JBMTI. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical/community psychology and has published papers on resilience, substance abuse prevention, shame and humiliation, relational practice in the workplace, and Relational-Cultural Theory.
International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR) Researchers Present a Symposium
Panel Discussion with the Audience
Program for the Closed Part of Our Conference
Day One, August 20
8.00-9.00 Registration
9.00-9.15 Dharm P. S. Bhawuk Welcomes Everybody to the Closed Part of Our Conference
9.15 Participants Present Each Other
(by first interviewing another participant and then speaking as if s/he was him or her)
10.30 Welcoming All Participants
Donald Klein and Linda Hartling usually welcome everyody and set the frame of our conference within "Appreciative Enquiry." Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.
Linda usually keeps our workshop together with her continuous caring interventions, and Don's caring wisdom always carried our conferences through crucial moments! With great sadness, we mourn Don's passing and would like to recognize his life and life work with deep love and admiration!
We Are Greeted with an Artistic Performance
11.00-12.30 Introductory Presentation: Humiliation in a Globalising World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?
Evelin Lindner, Founding Director and President of HumanDHS
This talk highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso and micro levels, and in all fields of public policy.
Please see background material: In Times of Globalization and Human Rights: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force? In: Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2007.
Please see an earlier version here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-16.00 Open Space Technology
Our Open Space was kindly facilitated by Alan Klein. The Open Space began on Day One, and continued on Day Two and Day Three. The program for the Open Space on Day Two and Three emerged during Day One. Please read here more about the Open Space and what it entails.
We have already some session proposals:
• Native Hawaiian and Polynesian Communities, faciliated by Dharm P. S. Bhawuk and Neil Ryan Walsh
• World Films for Equal Dignity, facilitated by Tina Ottman and Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, Directors and Coordinators of our World Films for Equal Dignity project
• Humiliation and Dreams, a talk/session by Dakshinamoorthi Raja Ganesan
• Asian Religious Worldviews and Alienation, and/or Alienation and Dreams, a talk/session by Dakshinamoorthi Raja Ganesan
• Quantum Peace Exploring a New Paradigm for Peace-Building, a talk by Victoria C. Fontan
• Giving Voices to the Environmentally Humiliated and Misrecognized: Nature and Women by Keitaro Morita (adapted from a similar presentation at the 9th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Hangzhou, China, 13th-16th April 2007)
• Intercultural Research, faciliated by International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR) researchers
16.00 End of Day One
Day Two, August 21
9:00 Welcome
9.30 - 10.15 The Role of Dignity and Humilation for Relational-Cultural Theory
Linda Hartling, Founding Director and President of HumanDHS
Dr. Linda Hartling is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, which is a new model of psychological development. In addition, Dr. Hartling coordinates and contributes to training programs, publications, and special projects for the JBMTI. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical/community psychology and has published papers on resilience, substance abuse prevention, shame and humiliation, relational practice in the workplace, and Relational-Cultural Theory.
10.30-13.00 Open Space Continued
13.00-14.00 Lunch
10.30-13.00 Open Space Continued
15.00 End of Day Two
Day Three, August 22
9:00 Welcome
9.30 - 10.15 Humiliation & Religious Texts: Urgent Need for New Scriptures for the Global Village
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, Honolulu
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk is a Member in the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Films for Equal Dignity Project.
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, a Citizen of Nepal, is Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Professor Bhawuk is a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, and the recipient of Distinguished Scholar Award, Management Department, College of Business Administration (2000), the Best Paper Award from the International Division of the Academy of Management (1996), the Distinguished Service Award from the East West Center (1989), and the Lum Yip Kee Outstanding MBA Student Award from the College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii (1990).
10.30-13.00 Open Space Continued
13.00-14.00 Lunch
10.30-13.00 Open Space Continued
15.00 End of Day Three
Day Four, August 23
We Go on a Sightseeing Trip!
Tentative List of Participants
• Anne Brown, Research Fellow, The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Stephanie Heuer
HumanDignity for Children: Finding a Voice for Dignity
• Dakshinamoorthi Raja Ganesan
Papers
All participants are warmly invited to send in papers.
Please notify us, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as a journal article.
Please see earlier submitted papers here:
• List of All Publications
