School of Psychology
Te Kura Hinengaro Tangata
VISTING SCHOLAR SEMINAR SERIES
“From within our lives together: The nature of dialogical inquiry.”
Emeritus Professor John Shotter
John Shotter is currently a visiting scholar in the School of Psychology and is based at Turitea Campus. During his
visit he will be presenting 4 seminars at Turitea Campus, Palmerston North. He will also be presenting seminars at
Albany Campus, Auckland (in late May).
John Shotter is an Emeritus Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication, University of New
Hampshire, and has begun to work as a consultant with KCC International (Kensington Consultation Center). His
long term interest is in the social conditions conducive to people having a voice in the development of participatory
democracies and civil societies. He is the author of Images of Man in Psychological Research (Methuen, 1975),
Human Action and its Psychological Investigation (with Alan Gauld, Routledge, 1977), Social Accountability and
Selfhood (Blackwell, 1984), Cultural Politics of Everyday Life: Social Constructionism, Rhetoric, and Knowing of
the Third Kind (CP) (Open University Press and Toronto University Press, 1993), and Conversational Realities: the
Construction of Life through Language (CR) (Sage, 1993). He is the joint editor, along with Kenneth Gergen, of the
Sage series Inquiries in Social Constructionism. In 1997 he was an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College,
Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at The Swedish Institute of Work Life Research, Stockholm, Sweden.
Seminar Series Timetable
The following seminars will be held in the Psychology Building, Turitea Campus, Palmerston North.
Seminar 1: Bakhtin and Wittgenstein: Dialogicality and (a poetic approach to) the understanding of culture.
Date: 3 May 2004 Time: 12 noon Venue: Room P2.22
Seminar 2:
Renouncing "the way of theory:" Inserting a Wittgensteinian practice
into our everyday practices.
Date: 6 May 2004 Time: 12 noon Venue: Room P2.22
Seminar 3: Being 'moved by the embodied, responsive-expressive 'voice of an 'other'... Click here for a longer version
Date: 12 May 2004 Time: 12 noon Venue: Room P1.14
Seminar 4: Vygotsky and consciousness as con-scientia, as witnessable knowing along with others.
Date: 19 May 2004 Time: 12 noon Venue: Room P1.14
Seminar 5: Inquiries from within our lives together – a discussion.
Date: 21 May 2004 Time: 2.00pm Venue: Room P2.22
All Welcome - Please bring your own lunch; tea/coffee/juice provided.
Robyn Knuth
Secretary to the Head of School - Professor Ian Evans
School of Psychology
Te Kura Hinengaro Tangata
College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Massey University
Private Bag 11 222
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 6 350 5799 ext. 2042
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Email: r.l.knuth@massey.ac.nz
Psychology Website: http://psychology.massey.ac.nz
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Andy Lock Phone: +64 6 350 5799 extn 2061
School of Psychology Fax: +64 6 350 5673
Massey University Web: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock
Private Bag 11 222 e-mail: A.J.Lock@massey.ac.nz
Palmerston North
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