Presentation Archives

April 19, 2007--Monthly Speaker: Dr. Douglas A. Harper, Chair, Department of Sociology, Duquesne Univerity: "Re-Imagining an Ethnography: 'Good Company: A Tramp Life'"

March 22, 2007--Monthly Speaker: Dr. Wayne Brinda, Department of Instruction and Leadership in Education, Duquesne University: "The Odyssey Project."

Feb. 15, 2007--Monthy Speaker: Barbara Johnstone, Ph.D.: "Narrating Pittsburghese." 

Jan. 18, 2007--Monthly Speaker: Drs. Anne Brannen, Laura Engel, Kathy Glass, and Judy Suh, a panel from the Duquesne English Department: "More than Just Comma-Hunting: Research Methods in Literary Studies;" Moderator: Dr. Greg Barnhisel.

Nov. 30, 2006- Monthly Speaker: Sarah Louise MacMillen, Ph.D.: Ethnography of Suffering and Situated Seeing: "The Infinity of the Other," Feminist Methods; and CIQR Certificate Graduate Students Presentations:

• Katy Sampson, Department of Psychology: "Mental Health Care at the Margins: Ethnographic Reflections on a Community Clinic."
• Rodney Teague, Department of Psychology: "Gathering Around the Text: Reading Together as Emancipatory Community Therapeutic."
• Daniel Noam Warner,Department of Psychology:: "On the Use of Clinical Research Methods in Institutional Research."

Nov. 9, 2006- External Speaker: Dr. Kenneth J. Gergen: Religion, Relativism and the Moral Order (Public lecture) and Toward Relational Being (Symposium).

Oct. 19, 2006- Monthy Speaker: Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Ph.D.: Strategies of Dissent: Lessons from Paul Ricoeur for a New Rhetoric of Solidarity.

Sept. 21, 2006- Monthly Speaker: Daniel Lieberfeld, Ph.D.: Engendering Dissent: Israel's Four Mothers Movement and the War in Lebanon.

Academic Year 2005-2006

Sept 22, 2005- Monthly Speakers: Maureen O'Brien, Ph.D. and Helen Blier, Ph.D.: Focus Groups in Qualitative Research

Oct. 20, 2005 - Monthly Speakers: Leswin Laubscher, Ph.D. and Kathleen Roberts, Ph.D.: Culture and Identity

Nov. 3-4, 2005: External Speaker: Dr. Iris Marion Young: Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference, Responsibility and Global Justice: A social Connection Model

Dec. 1, 2005: Monthly Speakers: Constance Fischer, Ph.D. and Norman Conti, Ph.D.: Participant Observation and Empirical Phenomenological Research

Dec. 7, 2005: Special Event: CIQR Certificate Presentations: including

• Bill Blais, Department of Psychology: " Prometheus' Flame: A Mythological Examination of Technology."
• Linda Zane, Department of Education: "Teachers' Attachment Recollections from Childhood as Predictors of Teacher-Child Relationships WIthin Early Childhood Classrooms."
• Tanya A, Brown, Department of Psychology: "Conversations Matter: An Ethnographic Evaluation of a Local Community Iniative."
• Fadoua Loudiy, Department of Rhetoric ""Phobias Reborn: Politics of the Other and Excesses of Memory"
  Tom Sparrow, Department of Philosophy: "Essex School Discourse Analysis: What's it For?"
• Anne Marie Hansen, Department of Education: "Experiences in Service Learning: Listening to Many Voices."
• Mandy Schleifer, Department of Psychology: "Bridging the Research-Practice Gap: Involving Therapists in the Development of Clinically Relevant Research Questions."
• John Danna, Department of Psychology: "Narrative Change in Psychotherapy."

Jan.26, 2006: Monthly Speakers: Dr. James Swindal, Dept. of Philosophy, "Working Off the Past: The 'Methodology' of Critical Theory" and Dr. Laura Callanan, Dept. of English, "Literary Theory, Identity Politics, and the Ideals of Close Reading."

February 16, 2006: Monthly Speaker: Katherine Blee, Ph.D.: "Racism as a Social Movement"

March 23-24, 2006: External Speaker: Edward S. Casey. Ph. D.: Coming to the Edge: Reflections on Borders and Boundaries and Research Methods in the Wake of Phenomenology.

April 21, 2006: Psychology Department and CIQR joint presentation: A Workshop on "Qualrus:" Software on Qualitative Research.

Academic Year 2004-2005

Sept 23, 2004 - Monthly Speaker, Cliff Bob of the Dept. of Political Science: "Comparative Methodologies and the Study of Transnational Politics."

Oct. 21, 2004 - Monthly Speaker - Bob Rogers, "Political Cartoons: A Borderline Example of Qualitative Research?"

November 4 & 5, 2004 - External Speaker - Elijah Anderson - "Violence and the Inner City Poor"

December 2, 2004 - Monthly Speaker - Jenny Hwang and Demmler Schenck (Psychology Dept.), "Struggling with location: A collaborative qualitative study of multicultural counseling competence in U.S. psychology."

January 27, 2005 - Monthly Speaker - Dr. Luke Mbefo, "Catholic Social Thought and Racism in Africa: An Application of Interpretive and Qualitative Research"

February 24, 2005 - Meeting for Business

March 17, 2005 - A Panel on "Interpreting Ancient Documents: the Question of Historical Accuracy."

Dr. Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer in Department of Religious Studies, University of  Pittsburgh: "Scholarly Research on the Historical Jesus:  How Do We Know What We (Think) We Know?"

Dr. Ronald Polansky, Dept. of Philosophy, Duquesne University: "Definitive Interpretation of Ancient Texts"

Dr. Patrick Juola, Dept. of Mathematics, Duquesne University: "Quantitative Linguistics as a base for Qualitative Judgements"

April 21, 2005 - Leswin Laubscher: "Arikaner identity, music and social change"

September 18, 2003 - Open House

October 16, 2003 - Panel Presentation on "Using the F Word: Feminist Methodology in Research and Teaching."

Linda Kinnahan (English Literature), "Between the Disciplines: Feminist Work and Interdisciplinary Studies."

Professor Jean Donovan (Theology), "Searching for Lost Voices."

 

November 20, 2003 - Panel Presentation on Cross Cultural/Cross Discourse Encounters: Translation as Metaphor.

December 4, 2003 - Invited Speaker, Mr. Daniel Kovalik, Assistant General Counsel of the United Steelworkers of America and a peace activist, "Colombia, U.S. Corporations, and Human Rights Abuses."

January 22, 2004 - Monthly Speaker, Dr. Daniel Burston, Psychology Department: "Ressentiment and Anti-Semitism in Max Scheler's Social Psychology"

Febrary 5, 2004 - Invited Speaker, Judith Stacey, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Gender and Sexuality at New York University: "Married to the Market? The New Haves and Have Nots of Contemporary
Conjugal Politics"

March 29, 2004 - Invited Speaker, Dr. Mary C. Boys, "Interpretations of the Passion and Death of Jesus: Implications for Jewish-Christian Relations", respondent: Rabbi Alvin Berkun

April 22, 2004 - Reception

Academic Year 2002-2003

• Certificate Proposal

September 19, 2002 - Professor Matt Schneirov, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Department of Sociology “Beyond the Culture Wars: The Politics of Alternative Health”

October 22, 2002 - Invited Speaker, Dr. Caroline Knowles, Reader in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton, Hampshire, England: "Four Journeys in Search for a Theory of Globalization"

November 14, 2002 - Invited Speaker, Dr. PAUL J. HOPPER, Thomas S. Baker Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University: "Grammatical COnstructions and Their Discourse Origins: Prototype or Family Resemblance?"

January 23, 2003 - Dr. John Beverley, Chair and Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh presented his paper, “Testimonio and the Politics of Empire.”

February 27, 2003 - Panel on "Ethical, Methodological and Regulatory Dimensions of Human Subject Research"

Dr. Charles Hanna, Associate Professor of Sociology, Duquesne University
Dr. Rodney Hobson, Assistant Professor of Education, Duquesne University
Dr. Sandra Quinn, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Community Health
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Paul Richer, Associate Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University.

March 20, 2003 - Invited Speaker, A presentation by Chuck Collins on "Why America Should Tax Estates and Other Accumulated Fortunes", Co-sponsored by CIQR, the Center for Social and Public Policy, and the Thomas Merton Center.

Academic Year 2001-2002

September 13, 2001 - Dr. Noreen B. Garman, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Marina Piantanida, School of Education and Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh: "Qualitative Dissertation Research

October 11, 2001 - Invited Lecturer, Professor Ernesto Laclau, Department of Government and Director of the Doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex, England; Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Buffalo: "The Construction of Popular Identities"

October 25, 2001 - Discussion of "Forgiving Another: Emergence of the Dialogical Approach," by Steen Halling, Michael Leifer, and Jan O. Rowe, an article in a forthcoming collection of articles on interpretive and qualitative method edited by Dr. Constance Fischer.

November 15, 2001 - Professor Mark Frisch, Department of Modern Languages and Literature: "You Might Be Able to Get There from Here: Reconsidering Borges and the Postmodern"

November 29, 2001 - Panel including:

Professor Maureen R. O'Brien, Dept. of Theology and Director of Pastoral Ministry:"Ministry Practices and Education at the Boundaries: Studying Lay Ecclesial Ministers and their Multiple Knowledge Communities."

Professor Gary Federman, Dept of Political Science: "No Man's America: The Assassination of William Mckinley and the Birth of Disciplinary Society."

Professor Chad Lackey, Dept. of Sociology:"The Rhetoric of Violence in Popular Culture: The Cases of White Collar and Computer Crime."

January 17, 2002 - Organizational Meeting

February 21, 2002 - Invited Speaker, Dr. Sonia Ospina, Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy, Director of the Doctoral Program 1997-2001, New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service: "New Lenses on Leadership: A Constructionist Approach"

March 21, 2002 - Invited Speaker, Professor John Markoff, Department of Sociology and Research Profesor in the University Center for International Studies, The University of Pittsburgh: "Margins, Centers, and Democracy: The Paradigmatic History of Women's Suffrage."

April 18, 2002 - Panel including

Dr. Barbara Duarte Esgalhado, Dept. of Psychology: "The Formulation of Subjectivity as a Three-Dimensional Process"

Dr. Suzanne Barnard, Dept. of Psychology, and Dr. Monique Roelofs, Dept. of Philosophy, "A Sensory Send-off: Nicolette and the Pleasures of Aesthetification"

June 13 - Drs. Lisa Lopez Levers and Emma Mosley (Education) and graduate students: “Experiences of Racism and African American Responses to the Images of Lynchings in ‘Without Sanctuary’: From Inquiry to Pedagogy.”

Academic Year 2000-2001

September 14, 2000 - Ellen Olshansky: : A Paradox of Data-based Findings and Intuitive Processes: When a Concept Defies Measurement"

October 19, 2000 - Drs. Orlando and Rhonda Harrison, School of Education: "Alternative Views of Success: Two Views from Educationa Research"

November 16, 2000 - Dr. Judith Bowman, Mary Pappert School of Music: "Masters in Music Education Online: Perspectives on Online Learning"

January 18, 2001 - Dr. Gary Shank, School of Education: "The Mirror, the Window, and the Lantern"

February 22, 2001 - Dr. Lisa Lopez Levers, Counseling Psychology and Special Education Dept, School of Education: "An Ethnographic Analysis of Traditional Healing and Rehabilitation Services in Southern Africa: Crosscultural Implications"

March 24, 2001 - GSO Conference: Conversations with the Other: including

Dr. Lanei Rodemeyer (Philosophy Dept.), "Phenomenology of Perception"

Ms. Jeanne Schulte (English Dept.). "In Their Own Voices: Engaged Pedagogy in the Online Classroom"

Ms. Ellen Smith (English Dept.), "The Cata-logic Imagination: Mail-Order Copy, Consumer Culture, and Tender Buttons"

April 19, 2001: Mr. George Yancy, McAnulty Fellow in the Department of Philosophy: "The Meaning of African-American Philosophy Through the Qualitative Modality of Interviewing"

Academic Year 1999-2000

CIQR Proposal

January 15, 2000 - Planning Meeting

February 17, 2000 - Planning Meeting

March 16, 2000 - Planning Meeting

April 13, 2000 - Planning Meeting

May 4, 2000 - Planning Meeting - Professor Jaime Phillip Muñoz, M.S., OTR, FAOTA, of Occupational Therapy: "Occupational Therapists' Perception of Cross Cultural Clinical Encounters."