Research & Publications
Presentations
"The Influence of Faith Socialization Practices on Character Formation & Social Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary Analysis"
Presented by Joshua R. Snyder, Scott Seider, and Elisa Magri at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Assembly on Faith, Justice, and Reconciliation. July 2024.
"The Influence of Parents’ Faith Socialization on Young Adults' Self-Reported Character Strengths"
Poster presented by Scott Seider, Elisa Magri, and Joshua R. Snyder at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. August 2024.
Forthcoming Publications
"Cultivating Civic Virtue and Educating for Peace: Insights from Transitional Justice"
Forthcoming publication by Joshua R. Snyder, Scott Seider, and Elisa Magri in the Journal of Christian Ethics. Expected 2025.
Presentations
"The Mystery of Anxiety and the Anxiety of Mystery"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the biennial conference on Psychology and the Other, Northeastern University, UK, 2024.
"Qualitative Inquiry Through the Psychological Humanities: Opportunities and Challenges"
Moderator and discussant role by Mark Freeman at the Annual Conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), Boston College, MA, 2024.
"Living an Autoethnographic Life: Writing Through/Living Through Illness, Loss, and Trauma"
Participant role by Mark Freeman, alongside Carolyn Ellis, Chris Poulos, and Pat Sikes, at the Conference on Autoethnography’s Calling: The Past, Present, and Future, St. Pete’s Beach, FL, 2024.
"The Anxiety of Psychology"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, Boston College, MA, 2023.
"The Forming and De-forming of Persons in the Culture of Self-Enclosure"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the biennial conference on Psychology and the Other, Boston College, MA, 2023.
"Awakening the Narrative Unconscious: Deferred Action, Historical Memory, and the Return of the Repressed"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at Narrative Matters 2023, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
"Defining and Conceptualizing the Psychological Humanities"
Presentation by Mark Freeman at the Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Boston College, MA, 2023.
Publications
"Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology"
Book by Mark Freeman, published by Routledge, 2024.
"The Promises of Qualitative Research Revisited: 10 Years of Qualitative Psychology"
Article by Kenneth J. Gergen, Mark Freeman, and Ruthellen Josselson, published in Qualitative Psychology, 2023.
"Why “Psychological Humanities”?"
Article by Mark Freeman, published in the Society for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter, November 2023.
"The Urgency of Hope in a Time of Despair"
Article by Mark Freeman, published in Possibility Studies and Society, 2023.
"The Inevitability, and Danger, of Narrative"
Book chapter by Mark Freeman in The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Presentations
"‘Flow’ States? Endurance Sports and the Zen Mind"
Paper presented by Laura Specker at the 12th East-West Philosophers’ Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2024.
Presentations
"Sister Disciplines in Dialogue: The Virtues Necessary for Interdisciplinary Exchange"
Presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2023.
Forthcoming Publications
"Student Anxiety and Aristotelian Existential Crises"
Book chapter by Adam Green, Frederick Ruf, and Kate Withy. Expected 2025.
Presentations
"Presencing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Temporality"
Panel of talks presented at the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Los Angeles, CA, 2024.
"Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Possibilities, Problems, and Priorities"
Roundtable discussion on the challenges of pursuing interdisciplinary scholarly work. Loyola Marymount University, 2024.
"Melancholic Joy and the Care of the Self"
Lecture delivered as part of the Psychological Humanities and Ethics Lecture Series. Boston, MA, 2023.
"Attending to the Particular: Finding God in All Things"
Presentation at Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise conference, Boston College, 2022.
"The Joy of Yes, in the Sadness of the Finite"
Keynote address at the Ricoeur Society conference. CSU Dominguez Hills, CA, 2022.
"The Practice of Silence"
Presentation at the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, CA, 2022.
Publications
"Each Thing Selves: Finding God in All Things"
Essay by Brian Treanor in Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise: The Jesuit Ideal, edited by Jeffrey Bloechl and Pat Byrne. Published by Jesuit Sources, Boston, MA, 2024.
"Homo Viator: Conversion and Community"
Essay by Brian Treanor in Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society, edited by Krijn Pansters and Anton ten Klooster. Published by De Gruyter, Berlin, 2024.
"A Hard and Brutal Mysticism"
Essay by Brian Treanor in Metaphor, Making, Mysticism, edited by Louise Nelstrop and Lydia Shahan. Published by Routledge, London. Forthcoming, 2024.
"Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body"
Co-edited with Brian Treanor, Richard Kearney, and James Taylor. Published by Routledge in the Philosophy and the Other series, 2022.
"Humanities on a Burning Planet"
Essay by Brian Treanor published in Philosopher’s Magazine, 2022.
Presentations
“Can Psychology Improve Lives and Solve the World’s Challenges Without a Grounding in the Humanities?”
Presented by Kathleen Pape during the Critical Conversations Panel at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2024.
“Not Being Fully at Home: Attending and Tending to Haunting”
Presented by Jerome Veith at Psychology & the Other, Boston College, 2023.
“Home Repair: Haunting, Anxiety, and the Unconscious”
Presented by Jerome Veith at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle University, 2023.