SPRING CONFERENCE 2009: April 18-19, 2009
Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections
Please note: Conference DVDs are sold as either a complete set or in two disk sets. Each two disk set is a recording of a panel section of the conference.
Sponsored by the Georgetown University Department of Sociology and the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, this two-day conference gathers together presenters from a broad spectrum of disciplines to examine how human societies organize themselves and what happens as increasing societal complexity, population density, and depletion of resources create new challenges in the relationship between the human and the Earth. Divided into four half-day panels, the conference will examine the contribution of Bowen’s concept of societal emotional process to understanding the reciprocal interrelationships among individuals, families, and societies and the deep biological link between human emotional functioning and the human’s relationship with the Earth.
SPEAKERS
C. Margaret Hall, PhD is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. She has studied Bowen family theory since 1971, and is the author of The Bowen Family Theory and Its Uses. Dr. Hall specializes in theory construction in clinical sociology, with particular attention to social intelligence. She has a strong research interest in the emotional bases of social intelligence in individual and social behavior.
Patricia A. Comella, JD is a faculty member at the Bowen Center. She is a member of the editorial board and contributor to the journal, Family Systems. In the private sector she has done legal, regulatory and management consulting in the practice of law.
Joanne Bowen, PhD is a Curator of Zooarchaeology at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and a research professor in Anthropology at The College of William and Mary. Her current research is on how the family economic unit functioned, and was altered in the developing economy of colonial America.
Daniel Hillel, PhD is a senior research scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies at Columbia University and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Massachusetts. Born in California, Dr. Hillel grew up in Palestine and acquired a lifelong fascination with the environment and the region’s cultural history. Educated in the earth sciences in the U.S. and Israel, Dr. Hillel serves as professor of pedology and hydrology at leading universities, and conducts research on the sustainable management of land and water resources. He has published over 300 scientific publications and twenty-three books.
Alice Outwater, MS is an environmental engineer, who holds an MS in Civil Engineering from MIT. She managed biosolids on the 6 billion dollar cleanup of Boston Harbor. She is the author of Water: A Natural History, which traces the history of water degradation in America since the arrival of the Europeans, and writes a daily blog at www.besidethestream.com.
Laurie Lassiter, PhD, MSW has a chapter, "Towards A Scientific Social Science, From Microbes To Men" on Bowen theory in the forthcoming book Chimera and Consciousness: Evolution of the Sensory Self which is edited by Lynn Margulis, with whom she has studied over the past decade. Dr. Lassiter is a board member of the New England Seminar on Bowen Theory.
Lynne A. Isbell, PhD is a Professor of Anthropology and Animal Behavior, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. She has conducted fieldwork on primate behavior and ecology in East Africa since 1980 which is detailed in her new book, The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well.
Daniel V. Papero, PhD, LCSW is on the faculty of the Bowen Center. He has written and presented extensively on Bowen theory as it relates to family systems leadership, the evolution of behavior, and neuroscience. He is the author of Bowen Family Systems Theory.
Igor Krupnik, PhD is a cultural anthropologist and curator of Arctic and Northern Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. His research is focused upon the effects of climate change on polar communities, preservation of cultural heritage, and ecological knowledge of Arctic indigenous people.
Louise Rauseo, MS, RN is on the faculty of the Bowen Center. Her interest in societal issues and the study of emotional cutoff led her to move to El Paso, Texas for five years, where she studied the challenges of families adapting to immigration and dramatic social change. She has developed educational and clinical programs in El Paso, Texas and Cd. Juarez, Mexico.
Stephanie Ferrera, MSW
Edward W. Beal, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and on the faculty of the Bowen Center. He is the author of Adult Children of Divorce.
Randall T. Frost, MDiv is Director of Training and Research, Living Systems, in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a long-standing interest in human functioning in the face of severe environmental challenges.
CONFERENCE
PANEL 1— Murray Bowen’s Concept of Emotional Process In Society
During periods of chronic sustained stress, societies, like families, regress in functioning. In the post-World War II era, humankind is experiencing a prolonged period of polarization, disorganization, conflict, and upheaval, which Bowen postulated may be linked to the human population, and the loss of space to migrate.
Bowen Theory’s Concept of Societal Emotional Process - Michael E. Kerr, MD
Human Subsistence Systems: Family Households as Emotional and Economic Units of Society - Joanne Bowen, PhD
Influence of the Physical Environment on the Development of the Peoples and Societies of the Middle East - Daniel Hillel, PhD
Panel Discussion
PANEL 2 — Living in Groups: Organizing Societies for Success in Procuring and Distributing Resources
Human societies and non-human species alike organize themselves to solve basic problems of living together and procuring and distributing the resources each social group needs for survival and well-being in the physical and social environments in which they live. They do this as interdependent members of the particular ecological system in which
they live and mutually influence each other's functioning and the overall health of the system.
The Interconnectivity of Humans and Non-Humans in the Health of Water - Alice Outwater, MS
Are There Basic Characteristics of Social
Groups Exposed to Prolonged Environmetal
Stress? - Laurie Lassiter, PhD, MSW
Evolution of Kin Groups in Non-Human Primates - Lynne A. Isbell, PhD
Panel Discussion
PANEL 3 — Social, Economic and Ecological Disturbances to Societal Functioning
What happens to human behavior and functioning when the human's relationship with Earth is disrupted? What happens when populations explode, resources become depleted, environments supporting life become increasingly fouled, and there are no longer places to migrate?
The Contributions of Jack Calhoun to Understanding Threats and Challenges to Living in Groups - Daniel V. Papero, PhD
Riding the Tiger of Climate Change: Arctic People Experience and Interpret Their Changing Environment - Igor Krupnik, PhD
The Nature of Migration- Louise Rauseo, MS, RN
Panel Discussion
PANEL 4 — Responding to Societal Threats and Challenges
Applying Bowen's concept of emotional process in society, panelists will explore societal response to threats across
a spectrum of topics, including ethnic conflict, governance and environmental degradation, and will consider the question
of what change that the human is not yet able to contemplate may be necessary to correct the disharmony between humans and the environment.
Presentation of The Caskie Research Award - Michael E. Kerr, MD and Ruth Riley Sagar, MA
Emotional Neutrality and the Quest for Peace: Northern Ireland as a Case Study - Stephanie Ferrera, MSW
Did Marbury v. Madison or Bush v. Gore Make the Iraq War Possible?: The Functioning of the Separation of Powers Triangle - Edward W. Beal, MD
Variation among Nations in the Management of Threatened Fisheries - Randall T. Frost, MDiv
Panel Discussion
Adjournment
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SC 09 - D-Set
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Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections (Eight DVD Set)
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$300.00
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SC 09 - A-Set
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Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections (Audiotape Set)
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$150.00
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SC 09 - MP3-Set
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Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections (MP3 Audio Set on One Disk)
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$200.00
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SC 09 - D-Panel 1 (1 and 2)
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Panel 1 - Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections
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$100.00
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SC 09 - D-Panel 2 (Disks 3 and 4)
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Panel 2 - Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections
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$100.00
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SC 09 - D-Panel 3 (Disks 5 and 6)
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Panel 3 - Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections
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SC 09 - D-Panel 4 (Disks 7 and 8)
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Panel 4 - Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections
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