Dignity Letter — September 2020 |
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Sending you courage in connection!
Dear Friend,
Everything has changed ... and keeps on changing!
In the midst of these turbulent and troubling times, we hope this edition of the Dignity Letter reminds you that the HumanDHS community stands with you in efforts to generate greater health, safety, and dignity for all people and the planet.
Contents
- Welcome to Our Annual Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
- Ideas for Inspiration and Action
- Please Save These Dates: New Plans for Upcoming Conferences
- Dignity Press Publications — New and Upcoming Books
- More Ways to Connect: #Digniworld
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Dignity Studies: Advanced Degree Program with WISR and HumanDHS
- Dignifunding: Thanks to All Sharegivers!
Please note: Rather than sending numerous Dignity Letters throughout the year, HumanDHS sends fewer longer letters. We warmly welcome your feedback about this approach.
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Welcome to Our Annual HumanDHS Workshop Online |
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Please Join Us on Zoom...
The 17th Annual Workshop on
Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
"From a Virus Pandemic to a Pandemic of Dignity:
How Can We Escape Complicity with Institutionalized Humiliation?"
New Schedule!
Thursday – Saturday, December 10 – 12, 2020, 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM (New York time)
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Welcome to Our First Zoom Workshop!
Thanks to a wonderful team of HumanDHS collaborators and careholders, we are diligently reformatting our annual workshop for "DigniZooming." This opens up many exciting possibilities, including welcoming many returning and many new friends from around the world!
Our theme this year is "From a Virus Pandemic to a Pandemic of Dignity: How Can We Escape Complicity with Institutionalized Humiliation?" Our dialogues will focus on examining timely topics, including social justice and policing, dignity education, dignity and spiritual diversity, and ongoing collaborations. Please see our meeting agenda as it evolves on our workshop webpage.
We are hosting the workshop on the Zoom platform over three short days, Thursday – Saturday, December 10 – 12th, from 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM (New York time). We hope this will make it convenient for local and global friends to join us.
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Many Ways to Participate
Supporters: Everyone is warmly welcome to be a supporter throughout the workshop by sharing your presence and active listening. This is the most important way to participate. Your presence is a present to all of us!
Careholders: We welcome all who would like to be part of our Careholder Team to help with logistics, including welcoming participants, overseeing our electronic bulletin boards, photography, gathering participant information, overseeing chat messages, and more. We warmly welcome returning and new friends to help with these vital leadership roles that make this workshop possible.
Pre-Planned Dignilogue Host, Co-Host, and Contributors: Again this year, we are inviting Pre-Planned Dignilogues that will act as portals to thoughtful conversations about urgent topics of interest. Dignilogue Hosts will organize their Dignilogue Session in advance, meeting with their contributors prior to the workshop. Also, because we never have enough time to say all that needs to be said, we are inviting all groups to continue their conversations by coming together after the workshop, which may lead to ongoing dignlogue conversations.
Hosted Connection and Reflection Groups: We welcome everyone to participate in small groups throughout the workshop to help deepen the dialogue in response to the Dignilogue topics.
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Moments of Music, Movement, Poetry, and Other Forms of Creativity: Every year we look forward to having special music, movement, poetry, and other forms of creativity. If you would like to share your talent, we would love to hear from you. We encourage pre-recorded music, readings, or activities (2 – 3 minutes) that we can share with everyone.
Special Invitation!
Afternoon Co-Creativity Bonus Sessions: If you have your own Zoom account and would like to organize and lead an afternoon "Co-Creativity Group," we warmly welcome your proposal. These groups will convene immediately following the workshop days on Thursday and Friday at 3:45 – 4:30 PM (New York time). Please send us your proposal for a shared activity or a hosted conversation. We look forward to including your creative ideas.
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Registration: There is no registration fee; if you wish to participate, please email your inquiry, name, contact information, and brief introduction to: workshops@humiliationstudies.org. You will be sent an electronic registration form prior to the workshop. Space is limited so we encourage you to register by October 15th, 2020. |
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We look forward to welcoming you!
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Ideas for Inspiration and Action! |
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Humiliation to Dignity:
A Future of Global Solidarity
with Evelin Lindner
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HumanDHS Founding President Evelin Lindner was invited to share her global efforts with more than 2,000 students at an E-Conclave hosted by one of the leading schools in India, the Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar in Indore. The mission of the school is "creating an environment and culture of selfless love conducive to the emergence of universal human values" (presented live on YouTube, July 12th, 2020).
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Op-Ed: Humiliation and Conflict
By Mustafa Kirişçi and Ibrahim Kocaman
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Political Violence, an award-winning online magazine that focuses on improving policies and practices to reduce conflict and build lasting peace, recently published an op-ed, "Humiliation is the Key to Understanding Widespread Rebellion," by Mustafa Kirişçi and Ibrahim Kocaman. The article examines how humiliation triggers large-scale rebellion.
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Music for Healing and Dignity |
We are grateful to Jingyi Dong for sharing her healing music channel: “ Dragvoll Music.” It is a curated collection of music to restore and replenish all who work for dignity in the world (3-hour tracks).
Jingyi received her Ph.D. degree in 2015 from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
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International Dialogues on Gandhi,
Peace, and Nonviolence
Janet Gerson is Building Relational Bridges
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Congratulations to HumanDHS Board Director Janet Gerson for her recent international e-dialogues:
- "Gandhi's Influence in U.S. Nonviolence Movements: From Protest to Rethinking Democracy," hosted by Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Dist. Garhwal, India, July 23, 2020.
- "Building a Just and Peaceful Future," the 4th International E-Dialogue hosted by the International Center of Gandhian Studies and Peace Research, New Delhi, India, August 13, 2020.
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Kim Stafford
(photo by Brook Herbert)
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Poems for the Pandemic
By Kim Stafford
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Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford shared seven works inspired by the coronavirus crisis, which were published in the Oregonian newspaper (Portland, Oregon, March 2020). Brooke Herbert and Beth Nakamura created photographs and audio recordings to accompany these compelling poems.
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In the News:
Evelin Lindner and the Work of HumanDHS
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COVID-19 Deepening Income Inequality, Depression Psychologist Evelin Lindner
Noble Prize Nominee Evelin G. Lindner Graces the First Edition of E-Conclave "SRIJAN"
Dignity Now — Forum Contribution to "After the Pandemic: Which Future?
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New Article:
Critiques on the Tribunal and The Hague Court
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Congratulations to Bishnu Pathak whose "Critiques on the Tribunals and The Hague Court" was published by Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, Volume 7, No. 7, on July 26, 2020, in London. This article was also published as a Featured Research Paper by one of the world’s largest networks, TRANSCEND Media Service (July 27, 2020).
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HumanDHS Dignity Dialogues on Line!
Conversations About Current Issues via WhatsApp
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The present coronavirus pandemic appears to be intimately connected to human activity, robbing wild animals of their habitat, and bringing them into overly close contact with humans, a problem that indigenous peoples have been aware of for a long time.
The HumanDHS WhatsApp group is a space for sharing vital ideas to help move humanity toward healthier relations with people and the planet. If you would like to join in the conversation, please send us a message: humanDHS@humiliationstudies.org
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Do You Have Dignity News? |
We love sharing news that grows out of the global efforts of our HumanDHS community!
If you would like to share your dignity news, including "good news," "positive progress," or "promising practices," you are warmly invited to send it to our attention: humandhs@humiliationstudies.org.
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Please Note: Due to the coronavirus pandemic,
we have rescheduled this conference to 2021.
Welcome to Our 36th Annual
Dignity Conference
"Global Vulnerabilities – From Humiliation to Dignity and Solidarity"
September 21 – 24th, 2021, in Madrid, Spain
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We thank Saulo Fernández and José Francisco Morales Domínguez for inviting us! If you would like to participate, please send us a message and follow the program as it evolves on our conference webpage.
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Future Dignity Conferences in Early Development |
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Join Us in 2022 for This Conference!
38th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
in Amman, Jordan
We hope that the coronavirus pandemic will be behind us by then and we can meet face-to-face!
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Join Us in 2023 for this Conference!
40th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
in Lahore, Pakistan
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Publications from Dignity Press |
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Women and the Nobel Peace Prize
by Ingunn Norderval — Coming Soon!
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Nobel Peace Prize nominees include some surprising but well-known names, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Maria Montessori, Eva Peron, and Helen Keller. Yet, relatively few women were awarded the Prize.
Ingunn Norderval's groundbreaking research examines the story of the women who were nominated from 1901 to 1960. Her book honors their heroic efforts and offers inspiration for all who work for peace in the world today.
Please visit Dignity Press for additional details when they become available. |
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(Thanks to Lisbeth Vilkan Glad who created the graphic image for this new book.) |
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From Humiliation to Dignity
Evelin Lindner's New Book on
Building Global Solidarity — Also Coming Soon!
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A digital version of this publication, with full endnotes, will soon be downloadable from Evelin Lindner's webpage for the book. |
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Human Dignity: Practices, Discourses, and Transformations
Essays on Dignity Studies
in Honor of Evelin Lindner
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Dignity and humiliation are at the root of countless urgent issues today. This book is a multifaceted discussion of dignity from social, cultural, religious, legal, educational, psychological, and political perspectives. It is written as a tribute to Dr. Evelin Lindner, HumanDHS Founding President and global scholar nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
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Many New Ways to Connect! |
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#Digniworld
We are profoundly thankful to Michael Boyer for creating the following new ways to connect to HumanDHS friends, collaborators, projects, topics of interest, and community gatherings via several popular cyber platforms! We warmly invite you to visit the links below and let us know what you think: humandhs@humiliationstudies.org
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Dignity Studies — Online Learning Opportunities! |
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Partners in Higher Education
The Western Institute for Social Research ( WISR) is a degree-granting institution that partners with HumanDHS's World Dignity University initiative ( WDUi) to offer dignity courses relevant to student research, interests, and professional goals.
WISR’s mission is strongly compatible with the commitments and values of HumanDHS, the organizational home of the WDUi.
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Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Quarterly Dialogue
Marriage and Family Therapy —
an Interdisciplinary Seminar
Saturday, September 26th
10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon (Pacific Time)
Rosa Reinikainen, MFT, WISR Adjunct Faculty, Facilitator
Video/phone conferencing Zoom link:
Phone# 669-900-6833 with ID# 834 5747 4365.
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Disastershock: How to Cope with the Emotional Stress of a Major Disaster
Invitation to Help
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This book is intended to help families and communities cope with disaster-related stress, such as that caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been distributed worldwide for over 30 years and has been recently updated.
Disastershock is a free book, and Brian Gerrard, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer for WISR, welcomes your help distributing it in support of all who are suffering from disasters around the world today.
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DigniFunding: Always a Labor of Love |
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It takes many hands to make light work. |
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All HumanDHS efforts are a labor of love. We strive to operate on a nearly zero budget so we never depend on big donors or corporate sponsors. When we have an unavoidable expense, we invite those who can to contribute according to their ability — Sharegivers!
We call our economic approach "Dignifunding." Over the years this sharing method has helped us ensure that money consistently serves our efforts with integrity and never dictates the direction of our work for dignity.
This spring — just in the nick of time — we were able to raise more than half of the funds needed to buy a new computer for our beloved Founding President Evelin Lindner. Her old computer, our virtual global headquarters, completely broke down.
Thankfully, Board Members David Yamada, Michael Britton, and others, urged us to create an easy, sustainable way for HumanDHS friends to make ongoing or one-time contributions. Now we have two secure Paypal links (below) that can be shared with anyone who wants to be a Sharegiver!
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Courage Grows through Connection! |
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Thank you for joining us in our efforts to support the dignity of all people and the planet!
Uli Spalthoff, PhD, Director of Project Development and Systems Administration
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