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Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1995
Call for Papers- The seventeenth annual conference of the Association for Integrative Studies September 28-October 1, 1995 at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Phoenix, AZ.
Reflections on a Discursive Psychology- Review of Rom Harre and Grant Gillett, The Discursive Mind (Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications, 1994.
Critical-Historical Review of Interdisciplinary Studies in Brazil by Ivani Catarine Arantes Fazenda PUC-SP (Brazil) Made available through the offices of AIS member Joe Garcia.
Charter of Transdisciplinarity (adopted at the First World Congress of Transdisciplinarity (Convento de Arrabida, Portugal, 2-7 November 1994. See AIS Newsletter 16:3 (October 1994)
Review of Business, Government Society: Newman S. Peery, Jr.'s book, Business, Government Society: Managing Competitiveness, Ethnics, and Social Issues, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.
New Multimedia Periodical, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (France) creating new type of periodical bringing together a variety approaches and media.
News in Brief:
- 20th annual meeting of the Society of Utopian Studies, Oct. 19-22, 1995, in Toronto, Canada.
- The National Association for Humanities Education's biennial conference March 30-April, 1995, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Teaching Across the Disciplines: Building Bridges and Making Connection in the Humanities Classroom."
Volume 17, Number 2, May, 1995
Suzi Gablik, keynoter for the 17th annual conference of the Association for Integrative Studies September 28-October 1, 1995, at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Phoenix, AZ.Review of Metaphors of Identity: A Culture Communication Dialogue, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. Metaphors of Identity is an invitation from an anthropologist to think about the interesting interplay between word images and concepts of self in specific social and cultural contexts. Review by Charles Adams, University of Massachusetts.
The Diversity of Symmetry; a review of SYMMETRY, A Unifying Concept, by Istvan and Magdolna Hargittai; Shelter Publications, Bolinas, California. Review by Nancy Nicholson, Miami University, Ohio.
Crossroads in Cultural Studies. A call for papers for an international conference, July 1-4, 1996, in Tampere, Finland.
Review of Interdisciplinary Curricula, General Education, and Liberal Learning: Selected Papers for the Third Annual Conference of the Institute for the Study of Post Secondary Education, 1993. Review by Ian Dinmore, Department of Liberal Studies, University of Redlands, California.
World Wide Web. Ongoing project of Professor Chris Wolfe in Miami University's School of Interdisciplinary Studies, and a committee of AIS Board of Directors.
Volume 17, Number 3, October, 1995
NSF Funds Project Dragonfly. An interdisciplinary joint venture from Miami University and the National Science Teachers Association awarded a $1.7 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.Review of Interdisciplinary Studies Today. A book by Julie Thompson Klein and William Doty, New Directions for Teaching and Learning. A review by Peg Downes, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
UNDERCURRENT Special Topic; Culture Wars. Call for submissions for issue #4.
New Interdisciplinary Journals.
Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1995
Identity and Development. A review of the book by Bosma, Harks, A., Graafsma, Tobi L.G., Grotevant, Harold D., and deLevita, David J. Identity and Development: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1994.Review of The Recovery of Rhetoric: Discourse and Disciplinary in the Human Sciences. A book by R.H. Roberts and J.M.M. Good, eds. London: Duckworth, and Charlottesville, UP Virginia, 1993; Knowledge: Disciplinary and Beyond, xii +278.
1995 AIS Conference. Wrap-up of the conference by Michael Cerveris, 1995 Conference chair.
The Bookshelf. New Interdisciplinary journals in print. A short review.
1996 AIS Conference information.
Call for Papers.