The Intersection of Qualitative Research and Cultural Psychology: Inviting Prof. Jaan Valsiner

published: 2012-12-11

Event Overview

People live with time in the situations of various cultural societies. It can be said that qualitative research has taken a role of understanding such people's lives. Then what does it mean that people fold culture, or they exist with time? What can we see by focusing on culture and time? And how can we see it?
The purpose of this symposium is to consider what positional relationship exists between qualitative research and cultural psychology, and how people's words and deeds or what has been changed and what has not been changed can be seen through its frame by inviting Prof. Jaan Valsiner from Clark University.
The keywords are cultural psychology, time, narrative and self. We are happy if you focus on your own interest and bring back to what can contribute to people's lives. Please join us on this occasion.

Date & Time December 24, 2012 13:00〜16:00
Place Conference Room, Soshikan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University
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56-1 Tojiinkita-machi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577
Participation Free of charge / No preliminary application required
Planning Tatsuya Sato (College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University) & Yuko Yasuda (Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University)

Program

13:00〜14:00 Lecture Foundations of Cultural Psychology  Jaan Valsiner (Clark University)
“Culture in Minds and Societies”

  • * This lecture is held as a event for publication of the Japanese version of Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology [Atarashii Bunkashinrigaku no Kochiku: Kokoro to Shakai nonakano Bunka] (shin-yo-sha) by Prof. Jaan Valsiner.
14:00〜14:10 Break
14:10〜15:30 Symposium Cutting Edge of Qualitative Research in Japan
Provision of Topics

  • “Role of Theory in Cultural Psychology: Significance of Form Maintenance and Three Layers Model of Genesis (TLMG)” Tatsuya Sato (Ritsumeikan University)
  • “Self Narratives of People with Infertility Multi-layered in Time: Under the Circle of Indetermination and Transformation” Yuko Yasuda (Ritsumeikan University)
  • “Establishment of Life Seen from Time Perspective” Toshiaki Shirai(Osaka Kyoiku University)

Chair: Masakuni Tagaki (Osaka Prefecture University)

Designated Discussion

Masayoshi Morioka (Kobe University),Yoko Yamada (Ritsumeikan University),Jaan Valsiner (Clark University)
15:30〜15:40 Break
15:40〜16:00 Discussion

Inquiries

Administrative Office, Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University
56-1 Tojiinkita-machi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577
E-mail: ars-vive@st.ritsumei.ac.jp TEL: +81-75-465-8475 FAX: +81-75-465-8245

Host

  • Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University
  • Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) “Loss and Conflict of Couples with Infertility and its Support: Applicative Development of Qualitative Research which Visualizes Invisible Choice and Path”(Representative:Yuko Yasuda)

Co-host

  • Study Group on Narrative and Qualitative Research (Representative:Yoko Yamada)
  • Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (Overseas Academic Research) “Methodology of Clinical Support and Dialogical Education Based on Polyphonic Narrative-fieldwork across Multiple Cultures” (Representative:Yoko Yamada)
  • * The lecture will be conducted in English but with overview in Japanese. The symposium will be conducted in Japanese.
  • * There is no parking available at the venue, so please use public transportation.

Prof. Jaan Valsiner's Comment

jaan_at_posterThe Symposium was a very good next step in the joint work that I have developed with my Japanese colleagues over the last 8 years. Its results should guide the development of new cultural psychology in Japan in the direction of qualitative studies of encounters of human beings with newly globalizing environments. I personally was very happy to see my old Japanese friends, hear of their work and their questions to me, which helped me to develop my thinking further. I will soon become the first Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at University of Aalborg, Denmark, and in my new Research Centre there I would like to welcome Japanese researchers– old friends and new– to develop further our joint work. Maybe I even learn to make miso soup for my visitors! I wish I could.