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    • 18 MAY 2023

    Ineffable education: new article by the ISRS members

    We are happy to inform, that the President and Vice-President of ISRS – Julian Stern and Małgorzata Wałejko – co-published an article entitled Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated in the British Journal of Religious Education. This is a philosophical and theological exploration of the role of the ineffable as one of the central

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    • 21 APRIL 2023
    The problem with the loneliness epidemic. Seminar with Professor Olivia Sagan

    The problem with the loneliness epidemic. Seminar with Professor Olivia Sagan

    We are pleased to invite you to the next ISRS Seminar entitled “The Problem with The Loneliness Epidemic”. Our guest will be Professor Olivia Sagan from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Professor Olivia Sagan (MA, PhD, MBACP, CPsychol, AFBPsS, PFHEA) is the Centre Director for the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, a Principal Fellow of

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    • 7 MARCH 2023
    Silence in English Language Pedagogy by Dat Bao

    Silence in English Language Pedagogy by Dat Bao

    We recommend a book by Dat Bao entitled Silence in English Language Pedagogy From Research to Practice. Silence in language learning is commonly viewed negatively, with language teachers often struggling to interpret learner silence and identify whether it is part of communication, mental processing or low engagement. This book addresses silence in language pedagogy from

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    • 30 JANUARY 2023
    ISRS Seminar – The Lonely Patient – Marie Stern (Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, UK)

    ISRS Seminar – The Lonely Patient – Marie Stern (Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, UK)

    The seminar will take place on Thursday 9th February 2023 at 4 pm of UK time /11.00 US EST time /5pm Polish time / 5pm Malta /6pm Israeli time / 6pm Turkish time / 11pm Hong Kong / 1am next day Melbourne. The seminar will be held in the MS Teams application. If you want to join,

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    • 7 DECEMBER 2022

    ISRS Seminar – Dr. Anne Pirrie

    There is already a video from the last ISRS seminar on our YT channel. Our guest was Dr. Anne Pirrie. She talked about finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity. We highly recommend!

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    • 23 NOVEMBER 2022
    JSSE – Solitude Together With Education

    JSSE – Solitude Together With Education

    Wonderful news from Australia! A special issue of the ‘Journal of Silence Studies in Education’ entitled ‘Solitude Together With Education’ edited guestly by dr Małgorzata Wałejko (University of Szczecin, Poland) and prof. Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) has just been published. We will find there articles by our Colleagues from the UK, Canada, Norway

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    • 19 OCTOBER 2022
    Seminar – dr Anne Pirrie – Finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity

    Seminar – dr Anne Pirrie – Finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity

    The seminar will take place on Thursday 27th October at 4 pm of UK time /11.00 US EST time /5pm Polish time / 5pm Malta /6pm Israeli time / 6pm Turkish time / 11pm Hong Kong / 1am next day Melbourne. The seminar will be held in the MS Teams application. If you want to join, click

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    • 16 SEPTEMBER 2022
    ISRS 2022/2023 seminars

    ISRS 2022/2023 seminars

    We invite you to the next seminars (on-line) organized by ISRS. The first will be on 27th October 2022. Dr Anne Pirrie (University of West of Scotland, UK) will talk about finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity.  This contribution takes its inspiration from Edward Jabès’ observation that ‘thought has no ties: it lives by

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    • 10 MAY 2022
    Call for papers: Silence and Solitude. Special issue of the Journal of Silent Studies in Education

    Call for papers: Silence and Solitude. Special issue of the Journal of Silent Studies in Education

    Dear ISRS Members   We are excited to invite you to contribute to a special edition of Journal of Silence Studies in Education, entitled Silence and Solitude (December 2022). Dat Bao, the journal’s editor-in-chief and our Australian friend, asked us to edit a special issue building on the work of the Alone Together conference which took place at the end of

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    • 20 APRIL 2022
    International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community  Alone Together: 3 – Report

    International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community Alone Together: 3 – Report

    The third International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community Alone Together took place online on the 31st of March and 1st of April 2022.  The event was organized by the ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude together with the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Szczecin (Poland) and Bishop Grosseteste University (UK) under auspices of  The Reverend Canon Professor Peter

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