Conference: Returning Dignity

Posted on behalf of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network

23rd Annual Conference, titled “Returning Dignity,” in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 8th-12th March 2014
www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/23.php.

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) is a global transdisciplinary fellowship of academics, practitioners, activists, artists, and others, who collaborate in a spirit of mutual support to understand the complex dynamics of dignity and humiliation (humiliationstudies.org). We wish to stimulate systemic change - globally and locally - to open space for mutual respect and esteem to take root and grow, thus ending humiliating practices and breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world.

We are currently around 1,000 personally invited members from all continents, and our website is being accessed by between 20,000 and 40,000 people from more than 180 countries per year since its inception in 2003. In 2011, we launched our World Dignity University initiative (worldignityuniversity.org) and our publishing house Dignity Press, which has published many books since 2012 (dignitypress.org). We organize two conferences per year. We gather for one conference at a different global location each year, which has led us to Europe (Paris, Berlin, Oslo), Costa Rica, China, Hawai’i, Turkey, New Zealand, and most recently South Africa. Then we come together a second time each December for our Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict at Columbia University in New York City, with Morton Deutsch as our honorary convener. We have held more than 20 conferences all around the world since 2003. See for a list of past and future conferences humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeetings.php.

We would be very happy if you could take a moment to look at our website and work!