[Discussion] CFP: Making Sense Of: Humour and Healing (Hungary) (1/28/05; 5/12/05-5/14/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

1st Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Humour and Healing

Thursday 12th May - Saturday 14th May 2005
Budapest, Hungary

Call for Papers
(please cross-post where appropriate)

This inaugural inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims
to explore the creative relationships between humour and healing and
examine the implications for clinicians, healers, patients and caregivers.

We warmly welcome papers from a variety of disciplines, professions,
vocations and other backgrounds which use humour in relation to healing.
In particular papers, practical workshops, reports, and presentations
are invited on any of the following themes;

     * Using humour to promote wellness, healing, quality of life
     * Nursing and humour
     * Humour, care and caregivers
     * Humour, compassion, laughter, tragedy and crisis situations
     * Hostility, anger and humour
     * The healing power of humour
     * Humour and its integration in the health professions
     * Clowns, comics and other artists as part of healthcare teams
     * Training models for use of humour in healthcare
     * Humour as a therapy; humour as a treatment
     * Humour and psychotherapy
     * Humour, depression and stress
     * Humour, pain management and palliative care
     * Humour and spirituality
     * The limits of humour in healing

Papers will also be accepted on related themes and issues.

Papers are also solicited for special sessions which will be held in
common with a second research project running at the same time entitled
Making Sense Of: Depression, Stress and Anxiety. Papers dealing with
these cross subject themes are encouraged.

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 28th January 2005. If your paper is
accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper
should be submitted by Friday 15th April 2005.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.

Dr Bernie Warren
Clown Doctor and Professor
Drama in Education and Community
University of Windsor
Canada
Email: bernie_warren@hotmail.com

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: rf@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences
entitled Probing the Boundaries. It aims to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.

All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be
published as an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented
at this conference will be published in a hard copy themed volume. Two
eBooks and four themed volumes are available and/or in press from other
meetings of the Making Sense Of: projects.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/hh/hh.htm

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/hh/hh1/cfp1.htm


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