Cfp: "Time, Experience, Practice," Inaugural Canadian Hermeneutic Institute, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 17-19, 2009.

Guest Speaker: Dr. David Jardine (University of Calgary). The Institute will provide an opportunity for those interested in hermeneutics to explore selected papers with a focus on “Time, Experience, Practice”. Participants also will have opportunities to discuss their own work and, during the institute, to write and co-write about ideas and topics that emerge. We hope that you will consider attending. Focus of the Institute: Time, Experience, Practice: These three terms will be the focus of the Institute as they are articulated in the work of H. G. Gadamer and as they appear in light of a hermeneutic understanding of our respective professions. These three terms affect how we understand research, the work of reading and writing (hermeneutically and otherwise), the work of living with others and coming to understand our way in the world. Implicated, here, are memory and its cultivation, composition and composure, knowledge as a gathering, whiling, and returning, and a formulation of understanding as a way of being other-wise. These matters of time, experience and practice, will be considered in light of a particularly alluring idea in Gadamer’s work: unlike the natural sciences, whose goal in understanding is to make the matters under consideration less and less compelling, in hermeneutic work (reading, writing, and the practices of living with others), the goal is to make the matters under consideration more and more compelling. The work from which this idea comes will be one of several primary sources that we’ll be discussing during the institute, along with supplemental material. A reading list will be provided in advance. Cost to attend: $300 (includes breaks) Deadline to Register: April 1, 2009 Contact for registration:

• Pam Colbourne – phone: (902) 473-6020; Administrative Assistant, QEII Cancer Program; Email: pam.colbourne@cdha.nshealth.ca.
• Deborah McLeod RN, PhDQEII cancer Care Program and Dalhousie University; Email: deborahl.mcleod@cdha.nshealth.ca.