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Theme – Accessibility, Belonging, & Justice: Emerging Perspectives in the Science of Unitary Human Beings
The dates for the 2024 SRS Annual Conference are October 4, 5 and 6. October 4th 3:00 to 5:00 PM is our MER Scholars Fund lectureship. October 5th will be a full day of presentations and includes the SRS Annual Business Meeting. On October 6th we conclude our conference around noon.
Day 1: Friday, October 4, 2024 (EDT)
2:15 PM Sign-in and Gathering
2:45 PM Welcome; Land and Diversity Acknowledgment; Disclaimer; President’s Welcome
3:00-5:00 PM Martha E. Rogers Scholars Fund Lectureship Session – Discovering Inspiration in the Pandimensional
Shirley Conrad, RN; PhD; CCRN; AHN-BC; HWNC-BC, Mary Joseph, RN; PhD, AHN-BC; APP; SGAHN
5:00 PM Adjourn for the Day
Day 2: Saturday, October 5, 2024 (EDT)
9:00 AM Sign-in and Gathering
9:15 AM Welcome; Land and Diversity Acknowledgment; Disclaimer
9:30-10:30AM Keynote “Power-as-Control” and Belonging as “Power-as-Freedom”: Recasting Caste Through Knowing Participation in Change – Howard Butcher, RN; PhD, FAAN
10:30-10:45AM Break
10:45- 11:30AM MER Scholars Fund Lecture – Traditional Filipino Healing Practices as Health Patterning Modality – Rudolf Martinez, PhD, RN, CGNC, SGAHN, FFNMRCSI
11:30AM-12:00PM Podium Session #1 – A Hermeneutic Alchemical Journey Towards a Deepening Ethic of Care – Megan Burt,
12:00 -1PM Lunch Break
1:00- 1:30PM Podium Session #2 Accessibility, Belonging, and Justice: A Unitary Human Betterment Perspective – Richard Cowling, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, SGAHN, ANEF, FAAN
1:30-2:30PM Invited Speaker Presentation – Maria Smilios, Author, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
2:30-3:15PM Relevance to Rogerian Science and Audience Discussion – Anne Marie Berthe Leveille-Tulce, RN; PhD; MS/MPH; Jane Hopkins Walsh, PhD, PNP-BC ; Darcel Reyes, PhD, ANP-BC
3:15-3:30PM Break
3:30-5:00PM SRS General Assembly and Business Meeting – Marlaine C. Smith, President, Presiding
Day 3: Sunday, October 6, 2024 (EDT)
9:00-9:15AM Sign-in and Gathering; Welcome; Land and Diversity Acknowledgment; Disclaimer
9:15-9:45AM Podium Session #3 – Power as Knowing Participation in Change: Lessons in Social Justice Advocacy for Undergraduate STEM Students – Darcel Reyes, PhD, ANP-BC
9:45-10:15AM Podium Session #4 – Advancing Nursing Leadership through SUHB Theory Development – Sharon Stout-Shaffer, PhD, RN, SGHAN; Phyllis Waters, RN, PhD
10:15-10:45AM Podium Session #5 – Through a Window: A Unitary Appreciative Dialogue – Richard Cowling, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, SGAHN, ANEF, FAAN; Leslie H Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
10:45-11:15AM Break
11:15-11:45AM Podium Session #6 – Human Belonging in the Natural World: Facilitating Nature and Wildlife Accessibility for Veterans with PTSD – Donna Perry, PhD, RN
11:45-12:15PM Podium Session #7 – The Interdependent Relationship between Philosophical and Practical Knowing in Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings – Martha Alligood, PhD, RN, ANEF; Jacqueline Fawcett, RN, PhD, ScD (hon), ANEF, FAAN
12:15PM Closing Summary and Evaluations
Grant Opportunities to Support Scholarship
The SRS Martha E. Rogers Scholars Fund Grant and the Elizabeth Ann Manhart Barrett Power as Knowing Participation in Change Grant are opportunities to support scholarship and advance the Science of Unitary Human Beings. Please see the description of the grants below, links below each grant can be used to make contributions. Thank you for your consideration!
About the SRS Martha E. Rogers Scholars Fund, Inc. (The Fund)
The Martha E. Rogers Scholars Fund, Inc. raises financial resources to support its educational and grant activities. The Fund, created in 1994, invites you to make a contribution (note: this is not the same as the registration fee) to advance the Science of Unitary Human Beings. Donations help support the Annual SRS Martha E. Rogers Grant and the Lectureship.
The grant is awarded by the Society of Rogerian Scholars (SRS) Martha E. Rogers Scholars Fund in memory of Martha E. Rogers, RN; ScD; FAAN, scientist, theorist, educator, proliferative author, and public health nurse. Rodgers developed the Science of Unitary Human Beings and several derived theories, as well as cofounding the Society of Rogerian Scholars. The MER Scholars Fund seeks proposals for the Martha E. Rogers Grant to support research, evidence-based practice projects, or clinical projects based upon Rogers’ Science and projects that address continued testing, application, development, and impact of the Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings.
For further information about the SRS Martha E. Rogers Scholars Fund, Inc., email Dr. Arlene Farren, President, SRS Martha E. Rogers Scholars Fund at:arlene.farren@csi.cuny.edu