History of Psychology Conference on the web?
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from CHEIRON. Larry Cahill will be organizing a similar forum in history of neuroscience through the Society for Neuroscience's Committee on the History of Neuroscience. Kudos to him and Christopher for leading the way. RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher D. Green" [christo@YORKU.CA] Date: Friday, January 2, 2004 8:09 am Subject: History of Psychology Conference on the web? As you probably know, it is possible to hold scholarly conferences over the world wide web. There have been many models, but one I have found to be particularly successful is currently being used for a conference on the topic of interdisciplinarity by France's Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). I invite you to have a look (http://www.interdisciplines.org/interdisciplinarity -- don't worry, it's in English). Essentially, the format goes like this: At the beginning of each month an invited article is posted to the site. For a period of one month thereafter, participants are invited to post comments, questions, etc. to the site to which the author (or others) can respond. At the end of the month, the article and its associated commentary are archived (but easily retrievable) and the the next month's invited article is posted. (By the way, Ian Hacking's paper is supposed to be posted this coming Monday.) The site is moderated (so that irrelevant and un(der)-informed postings can be filtered out). There is also "Guest Panel," I suppose to lend some credibility to the proceedings and to ensure that there is a "critical mass" of commentators. I would like to do something similar on a topic in the history of psychology. I would like to invite some discussion on (1) the pros and cons of this format and (2) what sort of topic might be appropriate. Obviously it has to be broad enough to interest a large number of members of the discipline, but not so broad that it interests no one in the discipline. In addition to the discussion here, I hope to hold face-to-face talks with those who are interested at Cheiron in June and at APA in August. Let the suggestions begin! Best regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: christo@yorku.ca phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/