The Intersection of Qualitative Research and Cultural Psychology: Inviting Prof. Jaan Valsiner
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 |
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Place | Conference Room, Soshikan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/common/img/data/access-map-kinugasa.pdf http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/common/img/data/kinu_map.pdf 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”
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14:00〜14:10 | Break |
14:10〜15:30 | Symposium Cutting Edge of Qualitative Research in Japan Provision of Topics
Chair: Masakuni Tagaki (Osaka Prefecture University) Designated Discussion
Masayoshi Morioka (Kobe University),Yoko Yamada (Ritsumeikan University),Jaan Valsiner (Clark University)
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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
The 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.