Call For Papers: Conference at York St John University

Alone Together

An International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community

10th - 12th April 2019 at York St. John University

We are welcoming applications to contribute to this symposium on solitude in community. we are building on work in the arts, humanities, social sciences, health, education, and beyond.

Abstracts of 300 words, including references if appropriate, are invited for submission by Thursday 28th February to j.stern@yorksj.ac.uk

The symposium will include work from many disciplines, as we currently have abstracts offered from education, theology, business studies, counselling, psychology, philosophy, social care, story-telling, and anthropology.  I hope you find the variety of disciplines and topics as interesting as I do.  Some of the titles already offered, from researchers in Australia, Canada, France, Poland, Romania, Sweden, the UK, the USA, are:

• Alone together: persons in relation
• Anthropology of upbringing: silence as a way of human development
• Aware I am alone: intersections of solitude and mindfulness
• Collective pictures of loneliness – case studies based on youths from China, Japan, and South Korea
• Do therapists ever get lonely?
• Economic loneliness of students of the Kenyan University of Pwani
• Education to loneliness being a consequence of opposition to the purpose of the community’s activities
• Figures on a windswept shore
• Images of creative loneliness of inhabitants of Kenya: analysis of visual messages
• In community, alone, in community: reflections on the Nicene Creed
• Loneliness of family caregivers of dementia patients. educational challenges for public education and support in local communities
• Mediating loneliness: Diaconia in the margins of civil society
• Prisoners of care: predictors of health outcomes and caregiver burden among family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
• Religious education leader connectedness: a study of the lived reality of Catholic education
• Silence, solitude, and social cognition and solitude in adolescence
• Solitude as an executive virtue or the value of wilderness time
• Solitude of the island towards Europe
• The exile’s lament: solitude and togetherness in Ovid’s later works
• The faces of solitude in philosophy, society and politics
• The isolation/loneliness of the parentified child in family
• The paradigmatic conceptualizations of loneliness and communitiveness in a monoseological discourse
• The phenomenon of solitude
• The roles of solitude and loneliness in personality development
• To be is to be related: aloneness, isolation, performance and narcissism

Full details of the conference, including booking information and costs, at: www.yorksj.ac.uk/alonetogether.