PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT SPECIAL ISSUE

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The next Psychohistory Forum WORK-IN-PROGRESS SATURDAY SEMINAR will be on February 1, 2003, when Robert Quackenbush (Liberty Avenue Project) will present “Understanding Children and Adolescents Through Their Symbolic Communications.”

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT: Congratulations to Irene Javors on being appointed Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at New Jersey City University for 2002-2003.

CONFERENCES: The Call for Papers for the July 6-9, 2003, Boston meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is now online at <http://ispp.org/ISPP/2003conf/2003call.html>. Contact Henry Lawton at <> for information on the June 6-8, 2003, International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) New York City meeting.

SPECIAL ISSUES: July 31, 2003, is the deadline for the special issue on authoritarianism of Psychology. The editor of the issue may be reached at <>.

TRAVEL: Andrew and Helen Brink have recently been traveling in France. Mary Coleman and Jay Gonen have been in France, Italy, and Switzerland, while Flora Hogman was in Portugal and Spain.

NEW MEMBERS: We welcome Michael Nielsen, Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Southern University and the author of Psychology of Religion Pages on the Internet at <www.psywww.com/psyrelig>, and Shirley Stewart, a writer, who recently retired as the editor of the quarterly of the UN/NGO Association for World Education.

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry, Ralph Colp, and Mary Lambert; Patrons Peter Petschauer, H. John Rogers, and Jacques Szaluta; Sustaining Members Kevin McCamant and Connee and Lee Shneidman; Supporting Members David Felix and Shirley Stewart; and Members James Booth, Sander Breiner, Charles Gouaux, Flora Hogman, Harry Keyishian, Peggy McLaughlin, Geraldine Pauling, Margery Quackenbush, and Roberta Rubin. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Robert Anderson, Jay Gonen, Moshe Hazani, Michael Isaacs, Norman Itzkowitz, David Lotto, Dennis Myers, Douglas Oman, John Rogers, Saliba Sarsar, Leah Slivko, Howard Stein, Lawrence Tritle, and Tobias Van Assche.

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Call for Papers

Emotions in History

March 2003

Some possible approaches include:

  • Changing Emphasis on Emotions Over Time
  • What Emotions Are Acceptable / Unacceptable in Different Classes, Cultures & Periods
  • The Interplay of Emotions and Ideology
  • Attempts to Use Science to Deny Emotion
  • Probing and Trusting the Emotions Expressed in Autobiography and Biography
  • Case Studies of Emotion, for example:
    • Darwin’s Love of Nature and Humility
    • Anger and Hatred in the Life of Marx
  • Gender Variations in Emotions
  • Group Fantasies Generated by Fear (Anthrax, Nuclear Terrorism, the Sniper)
  • The Expression of Emotion in Dreams

Length: 500-1500 words

Deadline: January 10

Contact: Paul Elovitz, Editor

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