International Human Science Research Conference Network

The 36th International Human Science Research Conference
“Between Necessity and Choice:
Existential Dilemmas in the Human Life-World”,
Jelenia Góra, Poland, July 11 (Tuesday)–14 (Friday), 2017

Organized by the Karkonosze College in Jelenia Góra,
the City Museum “Gerhart Hauptmann House” in Jelenia Góra,
the Faculty of English of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland,
and the International Communicology Institute, Washington, DC, USA

On the campus of the Karkonosze College in Jelenia Góra, Poland
(Karkonoska Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa w Jeleniej Górze,
ul. Lwówecka 18, 58-503 Jelenia Góra 5)
http://www.kpswjg.pl/en/about-kpsw

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Steen Halling
Scott D. Churchill
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
Richard L. Lanigan
Daina Teters
Marian Ursel
L**h Witkowski
Zdzisław Wąsik (President)

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE
Józef Zaprucki (Director)
Julita Zaprucka
Kamila Binek (Rector’s Plenipotentiary for International Cooperation)
+ 1 representative designated by the Chancellor of the Karkonosze College in

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jelenia Góra Rebecca Lloyd (Counsellor)
Monika Jaworska-Witkowska
Piotr Czajka
Katarzyna Gęborys
Dorota Juźwin
Ewa Tomaszewicz
Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik (Coordinator)

The leitmotif of this conference inscribes itself into the borderlines of the applicative research domains of biological psychology, existential and mundane phenomenology as well as anthropological linguistics. Departing from the distinction between the environment of living organisms determined by their subjective expressions of realized needs (Umwelt) and the life-world of man created on the basis of communicated contents of needs, values and ideologies (Lebenswelt), it alludes to three orders of biological-natural, linguistic and cultural modelling of the real world by human subjects who possess the quality of self-awareness. The primary model of reality is localized on the level of animals that act through physiological centers of effectors and receptors in the domain of instinctive indicators and appealing signals. The secondary model is referred to the extralinguistic reality of everyday life construed by the use of verbal means of meaning- creation and communication which occurs as such only in the realm of the human selves. The tertiary model, including the secondary one is specified as the totality of the meaningful sphere of language and culture and civilization where the representations of imagined and communicated reality are shaped by artistic creativity in accordance with value- and action-oriented principles. Special emphasis is put on the purposive nature of choice in opposition to the determinative nature of necessity. In a global measure, the questions will be posed how the necessity and choice relate to environmental conditionings resultant, for example, from social limitations, obligations or requirements as well as from the individual sense of freedom, compulsion or responsibility in the actions of the participants of human communication. And in a local measure, the topics of a detailed elaboration may be such attributes of necessity and choice as: causality, compulsiveness, consequentiality, determinism, efficacy, facultativeness, favorability, freedom, hardship, intentionality, naturalness, responsibility, predictability, preferentiality, reversibility, etc.
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