Newsletter Index - Volume 11

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Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1989

Review of Chaos : Making a New Science, - book about a new science which is the result of interdisciplinary endeavor. review by Jay Wentworth, Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University
Integrative Pedagogy-a report on some of the favorite teaching strategies of the participants at the last AIS Conference.
Interstudy Report, twenty-four individuals from nine countries gathered at Manchester School of Business in England for the fifth international conference of INTERSTUDY. Report by Julie Klein
Call for Papers-The School of Comparative Arts at Ohio University is compiling a Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts.
J. T. Fraser's Time,: The Familiar Stranger - review by Un-chol Shin, Humanities Department, Eastern Kentucky University
NMSA Endorses Interdisciplinarity- "Two, three, or four heads are better than one!-a resolution adopted at the last National Middle school Association Conference.
Letter to the Editor, Anne Brookes provides a very fruitful interpretive approach to attempts by Klein, Newell, and Shin in the last AIS Newsletter to define interdisciplinarity, by Robert Madden, Philosophy Department, Duquesne University.
Other Conferences-
Department of Sociology at University of Maryland, College Park to host an international symposium on "The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences" in March, 1989.
"Teaching the Humanities" is the theme for the next conference of the National Association for Humanities Education, in Kansas City.
The seventh annual conference on nontraditional/interdisciplinary programs to be held in Virginia Beach, VA, in May at the VA Beach Resort and Conference Center. Focus on "What if the university took teaching seriously?" Keynoter will be Russell Edgerton.

Volume 11, Number 2, May, 1989

Pre-conference Workshop-AIS will sponsor a Workshop on the Development of Interdisciplinary General Education Programs and Curricula.
Images of Order, -represents an important effort to develop an overall frame within which models of order that occur across disciplines might be mapped, by David Frank Maas. Review by Philip Lewin
Report on Mid-Year AIS Board Meeting-Meeting held for the purpose of long-range planning. Report by Anne Brooks
Award For Student Papers in Interdisciplinary Studies-For the second year, AIS is offering $200 awards for the best graduate and undergraduate papers in interdisciplinary studies.
Academic Challenge Award to "Western" -Miami University's School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program) awarded a 1989 Academic Challenge grant to bring Visiting Interdisciplinary Distinguished Scholars to the University.
Constitutional Amendments-Constitutional amendments listed and will be discussed at the business meeting at the next conference and then voted on by special mail ballot after the conference.
Summer Reading For Fall Conference-Two books listed for summer reading-Kenneth Boulding is the keynote speaker.
Interdisciplinarity In Belgium, a group of Belgian scientists, working at different universities and belonging to both the natural and social sciences, has founded the Centrum Leo Apostel at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. By L. Apostel and J. Van Landschoot.

News In Brief-
  • The Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society issued a call for papers for second biennial conference in November on "The Place of Values in Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Systems.
  • The International Christian Studies Association seeks manuscripts for its proposed Journal of interdisciplinary Studies.
  • The University of Leuven in Belgium now offers a multidisciplinary graduate Program in European Civilization: Ethnicity, Culture, and Society, which leads to an M.A. in European Studies.

Volume 11, Number 3, October, 1989

About Issues--That Issues in Integrative Studies has appeared irregularly reflects three main problems.
Windows on Creativity And Invention:, is an unusual and surprising book. Articles range in subject from an attempt to graph the creativity of famous individuals, to a review list of innovative individuals, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire d uring the last two centuries to theories of relationships between arts and sciences, theories of creativity itself, speculation about the relationship of brain function to creativity, and the management of creativity in large organizations. ed. Jacques G. Richardson, ed. a review by Daniel Larner.
From the President: Conference Highlights- upcoming conference at Sonoma State University in October, 1989. Article by Anne Brooks, Eastern Kentucky University.
News In Brief-
  • Paul K. Hoch, Head of the Science policy & Innovations Unit of the Institute of Management Studies at the University of Nottigham has initiated a 3-year comparative and historical project studying university-industry collaboration in interdisciplinary research centers.
  • Two papers presented at the last AID conference have been accepted for publication. Joan Fiscella's will be published as "Embedded Philosophy: A Case for Librarianship as Philosophy in Practice" in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy.
  • The Mid-America College Art Association to hold 53rd annual conference November, 1989, at the Omni Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati on the theme "The Map Is Not the Territory".
  • The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society will hold its second biennial conference November, 1989 in Little Rock, Arkansas on "The Place of Values in Food, Agriculture and Environmental Systems."
  • The Winterhur Museum and Gardens will host a national interdisciplinary conference on "The Material Culture of Gender/The Gender of Material Culture" in November.
  • The Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, and English at the University of Maryland College Park offering a symposium in November on "Writing the Social Text."
  • Antioch University (Seattle), Batelle Research Institute, and Orion-Wellspring (a conference management group) to hold a conference in Seattle, Spring 1990 on "Chaos in Praxis: The Application of Dynamic Nonlinear Systems in Social Realms."
Reflections on Teaching Technological Studies, Images as a multi-facted topic were used to teach an introductory course in Technology Studies. Nine faculty at Davidson College taught varying modules, as well as laboratory exercises. Article by Jo hn P. Brockway, director, Program in Technology Studies at Davidson College
Interdisciplinary Position Open-Christ College, the honors college of Valparaiso University, seeks dean.

Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1989

Technology and Political Theory, - issue is pedagogically useful, for the political relevance of the theory in question renders it an appropriate topic for a contemporary audience often lacking enthusiasm for the history of ideas or technology stud ies as ends in themselves, by Gary R. Weaver, Northwestern College, (Orange City, Iowa)
1989-1990 AIS Officers-AIS Board of Directors installed at the Sonoma Conference.
Clocks and Whistles, - American education is in trouble--no doubt about that by Marion Brady, Cocoa Florida
News in Brief-
  • The National Association for Science, Technology, and society to hold fifth Technology Literacy Conference in February at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Washing ton, DC.
  • The National Association for Ethnic Studies to hold 18th annual conference in March in Fort Collins, CO, theme of Ethnicity, Justice and the National Experience.
  • University House at University of Iowa to sponsor a Humanities Symposium in March on "Meaning in Texts and Actions: The questions of Paul Ricoeur."
  • Journal of the National Association for Ethnic Studies, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, invites manuscripts for special issues.
  • International Society for Ecological Economics seeks papers for an international, interdisciplinary conference, "The Ecological Economics of Sustainability: Making Local and Short-term Goals Consistent with Global and Long-term Goals," to be held at W orld Bank in Washington, DC, May, 1990.
Humanities Program-University of Washington Center for the Humanities announces a year-long program of symposia, lectures, courses and musical and dramatic presentations on Humanism and Public Life: Intellectuals in State Service-Classical Anti quity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.