Specific Historical Time Research Articles

On the Question of the Concept of “Historical Time” in the Psychology

The article examines the theoretical and methodological problems of historical psychology. The problem of forming one’s own conceptual and categorical apparatus of historical psychology is substantiated, and a scheme for highlighting the essential characteristics of the concept of “historical time” is proposed on the basis of V.I. Razumov’s categorical-system methodology and theory of dynamic information systems. The primary categorical triad allowed us to identify three main characteristics that are essential, necessary and sufficient to describe the content of a particular historical time. It is shown that “historical time” in psychological research can be considered taking into account the entire time context: historical events, historical personalities, worldview, lifestyle. The article identifies another significant aspect of the manifestation and reflection of “historical time” — material material history. The task of considering material history in a specific historical time is set.

Youth as an Object of Social Work

Young people, their problems as a large and specific socio-demographic group, directions of socialization and processes of self-realization in society study various sciences and scientific disciplines, therefore, the most voluminous, generalizing “portrait” of a young person, a young generation (generation), above all in a specific historical time and in a particular society, can be to present only at the interdisciplinary level, that is, taking into account the data of many sciences. So, in the complex, the phenomenon of “youth” can only be considered by the sociology of youth.

Evaluating Tropical Cyclone-Induced Flood and Surge Risks for Vanuatu by Assessing Location Hazard Susceptibility

Tropical cyclones (TCs) can be devastating events for vulnerable countries like Vanuatu, impacting their population, livelihoods, and infrastructure, leaving the country in need of aid and recovery. Despite this, comprehensive risk information on the nuanced impacts of each region is not well understood. Every TC event is different, and understanding the potential for impact at each location empowers decision makers in the lead-up to an event or during off-season planning to make more informed decisions to direct disaster risk reduction efforts. TC hazard model data typically describe intensity and likelihood, which can be fed into risk assessment frameworks to describe probabilistic risk. This study instead uses freely available remote sensing data to create proxies for the TC hazards of storm surge and flooding and to describe only the intensity of the hazard if the event occurs at the location. This hazard susceptibility index is fed into a risk assessment framework with Vanuatu exposure and vulnerability data for domains of populations, housing, and roads. These methods allow for the risk to be estimated for each month, as well as during specific historical time periods of TC Pam, TC Harold, and the TCs Judy and Kevin, enabling future impact validation. The results show households to have the highest risk, followed by roads and population domains, while a TC-induced surge risk is overall higher than TC-induced flooding, particularly in the road domain. The results, however, show a likely underestimation of event hazards and an overestimation of Port Vila’s resistance to impacts, which is a subject of future investigation and validation.

Discuss: Several Problems in the Chinese Ancient History Textbook of Zhu Shaohou Version

The textbook Ancient History of China edited by Zhu Shaohou and others is the most widely used textbook for the course "Chinese ancient history" of history majors in Chinese universities. This textbook has been revised multiple times in the past 40 years, but there are still many problems, such as contradictory expressions of the same problem, lack of pronunciation and meaning labeling of rare characters in ancient literature, omission of legal and diplomatic aspects in the history of Song and Yuan , inaccurate use of historical materials, and obvious untrue statements; Part of the content is outdated, neglecting the important role of maps, schematics, datasheets, and physical photos in students' construction of specific historical time and space and understanding of relevant content. These issues reveal that there is room for improvement at all stages of the compilation process of undergraduate history textbooks in Chinese universities, and it is urgent to attract the attention of the historical community and management departments.

КОГНИТИВНАЯ КАРТИНА МИРА В ИДЕОЛОГИЧЕСКОМ РАКУРСЕ СТАТЕЙ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКОГО СЛОВАРЯ (на материале первого издания энциклопедии «Русский язык»)

The authors analyze the conceptual apparatus of the first edition of the encyclopedia “The Russian language” in cognitive aspect. The aim of the work is to reveal the role of ideology in the formation of the official portrait of linguistic science in the 1970s and to determine its influence on presentation and description of scientific terms. The study uses the method of contextual analysis, logical-semantic, historical-linguistic, cognitive modeling methods. The most important articles-ideologems from the point of view of the cognitive world view are considered: “History of the Russian literary language”, “Culture of language”, “Journalistic style”, “Russian language”, “Language and society”, etc. They allow to recreate the metacultural connections of a specific historical time and to identify ways of forming an ideologized context. The study showed that the transformation of the cognitive world view in Soviet science can be carried out without nominatively expressed references to ideological attitudes. And, conversely, not every reference to ideological formulas distorts the scientific model of reality. The results obtained can be used in the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries of terminological units and sociolinguistic dictionaries, in studying cognitive problems of modern scientific discourse. The authors come to the conclusion that the articles of the encyclopedic dictionary form a specific model of ideas about the Russian language, based on the evaluativeness of linguistic facts, the opposition of ideas and the deliberate distortion of reality in the direction of manipulation of concepts.

«Эсхатологическое слово» в поэме Николая Заболоцкого «Город в степи»

The article analyzes the poem by Nikolai Zabolotsky A City in the Steppe, which was written by the poet after returning from exile in 1946. The poem unfolds before the reader a grand panorama of the Kazakh city of Karaganda. The city appears as a kind of epic and even mythological City that has replaced the timeworn era. It is shown that there are several metaphysical layers in the plot of the poem: along with the description of the real city of Karaganda, the biblical symbolism of both the Old and New Testaments is present in the text. The poetic word of Nikolai Zabolotsky has a unique feature. This feature can be metaphorically described as “multi-readability”. The word reveals all facets of being, it is able to contain and embody the fullness of the meanings of the controversial era, embedded in a broad historical context, primarily the biblical one. The triumph of socialist labor, which creates the earthly kingdom, turns both into a vision of the fiery hell and the construction of the Antichrist kingdom – the New Babylon. But at the same time, the sufferings of thousands and thousands of people who are called to erect the walls of the New Babylon, in the center of which the idol is Lenin, are building the Heavenly Jerusalem. The “many-read” word acquires a pleroma in the testimony of the eschatological Kingdom of God. The poetic word of Nikolai Zabolotsky becomes “eschatological”. Thus, the poet’s “manyread”, “eschatological” word is always located in two time spaces: in the space of a specific historical time and in the space of the time of biblical revelation. The historical chronos is permeated by Zabolotsky’s eschatological kairos, and it is in kairos that his works acquire and reveal their true, innermost, eminent meaning.

An Attempt to Reconstruct the Generation of Žemininkai: Benediktas Labėnas

Benediktas Labenskas-Labėnas (1919–1949), a little-known literary figure from the Žemininkai generation, was a soldier and partisan, who died in the early post-war guerrilla warfare. The article presents a part of his work written in gymnasium, in military school and on the Eastern Front. It traces author’s evolution, discusses the relationship of his works to literary tradition, and highlights the distinctive nature of his themes and style. The research employs a hermeneutical approach, the perspective of the history of literature, and the socio-cultural aspect, which enable to identify the ideological and cultural reverberations of a specific historical time and their influence in the works of the young author. Labėnas’s oeuvre grows out of the neo-romantic tradition of 20th-century Lithuanian literature, the songs of volunteers and soldiers’ marching, as well as Christian culture. It takes root in social, psychological, and impressionistic prose. Labėnas’s work is characterized by a sense of harmony between the world and a human being, the imperative of the task of life, an ethical approach, and literary sense of genre and style that became increasingly pronounced with the time.On the one hand, Labėnas’s work has very little in common with the creative engagement of his generation, such as the inclination to existential questions and modern poetic language. On the other hand, his works are associated with a strong connection with the earth and reflection on that connection.

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL SPACE OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AS A SPACE OF FORMATION, REALIZATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF A PERSON (PERSONALITY) AND CITIZEN, PROTECTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND PROTECTION

Constitutional and legal regulation, regulation and legalization of the institution of local democracy in the form of local self-government, that is, self- organization of a set of residents of residents of the respective territories of the state, which was first in the history of national constitutionalism implemented in the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine, contributed to the implementation updating and functional- activity contextualization of the problems of formation, value and role of the legal space of local democracy, more in-depth and fundamental study of its functioning, regulatory regulation, construction of the paradigm of its further development, modification and improvement.
 It is reasonable that in the narrow sense, the legal space of local self-government can be defined as a sphere of regulation of the legal norms of models: a) self-organization of members of the territorial community, b) competence of local self-government bodies, c) powers of its other entities and bodies within the territory of the territorial community functioning and specific historical time (territorial-chronological factor.
 In turn, the legal space of local self -government in the broad sense can be defined as: a) the sphere of regulatory regulation and regulation of the territorial community, b) sphere of normative regulation and regulation of local self - government bodies, other subjects of the local self-government system, formed directly by the territorial community itself (representative bodies of local self- government, institute of community heads) and on its behalf (executive bodies of local self-government), c) for the purpose, existence, functioning and implementation of a system of existential local interests and needs in the respective territory of the state, within the existence of a specific territorial community, g) at the same time, such a system of existential local interests and the needs of the community and its residents- does not contradict the interests and legislation of the state.
 According to the author, this approach to understanding and determining the legal space of local self-government enables the latter as a complex social, political and legal phenomenon-which arises as a result of synergically directed teleologically sound-based activity as a state (state municipal legal policy) and subjects local society (programs of formation and development of territorial communities, including united ones), by forming its regulatory-subject, regulatory-object and regulatory-spatial base (must still be added-regulatory and technological, normative-activity and regulatory- logistics bases), in order to solve the existential issues of existence and functioning of the territorial community. Therefore, that is why the constitutional and legal space of local self-government emerges, is formed, exists and functions as a space of formation, implementation of the constitutional and legal status of a person (personality) and citizen, protection and protection of human rights.

The Modalities of American Whiteness

Philosophers tend to conceive of whiteness as having only one modality, treating it as a single social, political, and historical phenomenon. Philosophers ought to abandon this habit and instead recognize that there are many whitenesses, that whiteness has a plurality of modalities. Drawing upon Charles Mills’ non-ideal theory, Michael James’s political ontology, and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s cultural history, this study develops a non-ideal political ontology of whiteness that demonstrates various modes of whiteness and the roles they play in the different political claims of various groups of Europeans-descended people in the United States. While an exhaustive account of whiteness’ various modalities is beyond the scope of one essay, this article presents a case study of multimodal whiteness the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, tracing out four modalities of American whiteness: Anglo-Saxon whiteness, Plantation whiteness, Frontier whiteness, and Urban whiteness. By freeing philosophy of race from monolithic conceptions of whiteness, we can better understand and diagnose how reigns of white supremacy are passed from one group of whites to another, and we can see how prevailing political ontologies of whiteness at specific historical times and places shape the resulting white supremacist structures.

World Perception of New Trends of the Historical Events and their Implementation in the Music of Contemporary Ukrainian Composers

The aim of the article is to analyze the new trends of historical events that are revealed in the music of contemporary Ukrainian composers. Historical event as a holistic phenomenon, based on music examples of contemporary Ukrainian music, reveals artistic images of heroes in the past and in present, spiritual and cultural heritage. The research methodology is based on the systematic use of materials from the scientific branches of cultural science, art history, psychology, literature, ethnography. The results can be in the practical activities of music art. National music culture is an understanding of the place of the nation in the general process of the music development of the mankind, and for the Ukrainian people a music and historical discovery, which affirms it as a self-sufficient structure in the community of ethnic communities and determines its proper place, role and importance in the historical context, without mythologization, on a dialectical basis. Reviewing the traditional definitions, the author clarifies the novelty of the concept of “historical and music event” and understanding of the specific-historical nature of this phenomenon, which is poorly researched in the history of Ukrainian music culture. The article deals with historical events as a means of creating artistic and stylistic models according to the time, and their implementation in the music of contemporary Ukrainian composers. The issue of historical events in musicology has little experience in studying, so there is a historical need for creative interest and improvement of new trends in the composer’s directions in the modern worldview. Novelty is achieved in combining music and artistic images of the historical events of the present with the past. The practical significance of the research lies in the creation of a new layer of art-shaped models. The materials of this article can be used in the preparation of fundamental works in the history of music culture of Ukraine. Studying historical facts thoroughly, it can be concluded that historical events have been perceived as “yesterday”, and art criticism does not have a sufficiently detailed concept of the historical events. Not all contemporary Ukrainian composers can convincingly portray a striking figure in historical event, create an artistic picture and reproduce a specific historical time.

Change – social and personal: Thomas and Znaniecki’s The Polish Peasant for the study of present-day change in global higher education

The present work represents an extrapolation of W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki’s study, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, on behalf of the development of sociological theory. The article focuses on careers and institutions in higher education. The curriculum vitae serves as the novel human document by which to investigate both social and personal change. Academic careers are studied by virtue of their objective and subjective dimensions. Objectively, the institution of education is revealed through the shifting expectations that govern work in academia in specific historical times (indicated by the cohort in which academics earned their Ph.D.s) and in specific socially bound places (indicated by the type of university in which academics work). Major social change in education is likely to spell personal change for the way in which people subjectively experience the contemporary academic career. The data come from U.S.-based academics; parallel transformational changes are observable globally. The global change discussed in the work centres on the diffusion and institutionalization of the research role. The sources and consequences of this change are problematic. Akin to Thomas and Znaniecki’s larger analytic aims, patterns of change are used inductively to formulate theory: the paper culminates by postulating a theory of increasing tendencies in the way knowledge is produced in higher education institutions throughout the world.

Family policies and family life course complexity across 20th-century Europe

The family policy landscape changed dramatically across and within European societies during the 20th century. At the same time, family life courses have become more complex, unstable and unpredictable. However, there are no empirical studies that attempt to link changes in family policies with increasing family life course complexity. In this study, I address two research questions: (1) What is the association between family policies and family life course complexity? and (2) Do these associations vary by the life course stage at which individuals experience family policies? Retrospective data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe are used to construct the family life courses of individuals from the age of 15 to 50, born between 1924 and 1956, from 15 European countries. I use metrics developed in sequence analysis that incorporate life course transitions and unpredictability to measure the complexity of family formation. Annual policy information from 1924 to 2008 for each country are combined to generate cohort indices for three policy dimensions: familization, individualization and liberalization. These cohort metrics express the policy experiences of individuals over the course of their lives, rather than at a specific historical time point. I find that while familization is associated with less complex life courses, individualization is related to higher levels of complexity. Furthermore, my results indicate that the levels individualization experienced early and later in the life course are linked most strongly with complexity. I conclude that family policy reforms may partially account for increasing life course instability and unpredictability across Europe.

Mapping McCarthy in the Age of Neoconservatism, or the Politics of Affect in The Road

Abstract This article suggests that in a reading environment weighted down by the neoconservative hegemony of the time, when considered at the level of affect—as politics enacted at the level of feeling, or as ideology experienced at a level that is prior to articulation in language—the act of reading The Road might well have worked for some readers as a powerful affirmation of post-9/11 neoconservatism. This suggestion that McCarthy's prose in The Road might embody, disseminate, and assist in the naturalizing of neoconservative structures of feeling is not, then, a claim about authorial intent. Rather, this article is interested in the reception of McCarthy's work, or at least the range of possible receptions by readers—the political uses, conscious or otherwise, to which contemporary readers might put McCarthy's prose—in a specific historical time and place as a metabolizing of historical experience, or lived ideology, in the form of literary fiction.

Лінгвостилістична рецепція роману-колажу Д. Кешелі «Родаки»

The article deals with the linguostylistycal reception of Dmitry Keshelʼs work “Rodaky”; formation of signs of syncretic idiostyle, reproduction by means of local speech of the everyday culture of Transcarpathian village, individualization of linguistic and artistic portraits of characters, detection of depicted scenes, realities of signs of a specific historical time are traced. The attention is focused on the linguistic means of creating the comic of the authorʼs narrative, on the combination of the comic and informative in the artistically holistic author’s narrative, the real-earth, the conversationally-reduced and the lyrically-poetic, high-spirited. The stylistic variations of the authorʼs narrative are based on the structural-linguistic and communicative-pragmatic possibilities of the Ukrainian language as a means of reproducing artistic reality, in which the real is combined with the imaginary grotesque, with the deep psychological, which the author addresses. The stylization of local speech aims not only at individualizing the language of the characters, but also at marking the socio-territorial specificity of the Ukrainian language in its temporal dimension.

Fighting for the Tribal Bible: Mohican Politics of Self-Representation in Public History

Fighting for the Tribal Bible:Mohican Politics of Self-Representation in Public History Rose Miron (bio) in 1951 Jim and Grace Davids traveled from Wisconsin to the East Coast of the United States to see the homelands of their ancestors. Jim was an enrolled member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans,1 while Grace was from the nearby Oneida reservation.2 On their trip, they stopped in Stock-bridge, Massachusetts, where Jim's ancestors, the Mohicans, lived for twenty-five years in the eighteenth century as a part of the Stockbridge mission settlement, led by the Reverend John Sergeant.3 Today, the Mission House, where Sergeant and his family lived from 1734 to 1749, still stands and is open daily for tours. While visiting the museum, Jim and Grace were surprised to recognize a two-hundred-year-old two-volume Bible set and a four-piece pewter Communion set that had previously been held on the Mohican reservation in Wisconsin.4 Although it had been a while since Jim and Grace had seen the objects in person, it was not until they traveled to Stockbridge that they even realized the objects were missing from the reservation. Most tribal members had heard about the Bible and Communion set from elders, but few had seen them in person. Most assumed they were in a safe place on or near the reservation but would not have guessed that they had been taken from central Wisconsin. Beyond their initial shock that the Bible and Communion set were no longer on the reservation, tribal members still wondered: How had the items ended up in Stockbridge, and what could the Mohicans do to get them back?5 In the fifty-five years following Jim and Grace's discovery of the items, the Mohicans began to strategize and then formally asked the Mission House Museum to return the Bible and Communion set to the Mohican people. What started as a request, however, would become nothing short of an all-out battle for possession and control. While a word like "battle" may seem extreme in regard to retrieving objects, I use this and similar terms because the immense struggle the Mohicans engaged in was multipronged, required extensive labor and resources, and took more than three decades [End Page 91] following their formal request. What follows is the story of the Mohicans' fight to retrieve their Bible and Communion set, make these items accessible to tribal members, and represent themselves and their histories on their own terms and in their own space. While a Bible and Communion set may not immediately be conceived as sacred or cultural Indian objects, these items and their place on the Mohican reservation were and continue to be a critical issue for the Mohican people. Material culture theory suggests that groups of people can have myriad attachments to objects based on the groups' cultural background, status, and education.6 In that sense, different individual Mohicans perceive the Bible and Communion set as important for different reasons. While some find their importance chiefly related to Christianity, for others, they are important because they connect the Mohicans to a specific historical time period. As tribal leader Dorothy Davids noted, "The Bible links the old people to us today. … A lot of sweat and spirit is there. … The Bible is a chance to bring us together."7 Given the sacredness of these items, the desire to return them to the Mohican reservation and represent their history in the Mohican tribal museum was paramount. As Amy Lonetree argues, "Objects in museums are living entities. … Every engagement with objects in museum cases or collection rooms should begin with this core recognition. We are not just looking at interesting pieces. In the presence of objects from the past, we are privileged to stand as witnesses to living entities."8 The importance of living entities such as these mandates that American Indian nations should have the right not only to possess these objects but also to choose how and if they are displayed in museums. Since European American settlers arrived in North America, the rights of Indigenous nations to possess and represent their own sacred items has been mired in...

Shifting memories and forced migrations: the Somali Zigula migration to Tanzania

AbstractForced migrations, both now and in the past, imply a process of constructing and modifying accounts of past events, which become codified in memories. Memories are constructed to negotiate and reshape identity in the country of arrival. A number of factors interact in this process, some aspects are silenced and others emphasized, and new events may be invented. One of the arguments I make elsewhere is that, along the way, memories of the past, especially if gathered and codified through writing, may lose meanings that are unknown to the people who codify them. Yet, in times of forced migration, certain aspects of the memories re-emerge from the background and gain new relevance. This was the case, for instance, with matriliny and matrilineal names, which were not recognized or emphasized by those who codified certain oral traditions of migrations at specific historical times in written form in Somalia. Yet, in the process of seeking integration in Tanzania after the forced migration caused by the 1992 war in Somalia, these aspects regained their importance in Somali Zigula memories and helped to achieve inclusion in the country of migration. Zigula memories of the past have undergone some changes. The way in which these changes have occurred is not unique: the process of modelling memories of the past that are based on idioms of kinship follows specific patterns that are part of a specific culture of mobility. Based on fieldwork carried out with refugees forced to migrate from southern Somalia to Tanzania in the early 1990s, I show how their collective memories of past events took on newly gendered features when circumstances changed and the main spoken language progressively shifted from Kizigula to Kiswahili.

A life course approach to the field and fieldwork

Life course scholars have theorised the relationship between individual life trajectories and geographic phenomena such as migration, partnering, reproduction and locational choice. They have engaged less frequently with the politics of fieldwork or the interrelationship of the life course and the field. Feminist geographers, in contrast, have made significant interventions into the social dynamics of fieldwork (e.g. relationships between researchers and participants), but less so on the life trajectories that precede and follow the fieldwork encounter. This special section thus contributes to both life course geographies and ongoing feminist interventions into the fieldwork process. In understanding fieldwork experiences through a life course approach, the contributors to this special section simultaneously deepen and systematise much of feminist geographic research on fieldwork. Their work highlights how life events and turning points, including those before, during and beyond fieldwork, can profoundly change – or be changed by – research experiences and outcomes. They also reveal how the trajectories of researchers, participants and the field itself become interconnected within specific historical times and contexts.

The origins of hate-crime laws

Hate crimes were first recognised as a specific category of criminal conduct in the United States of America. Evidence of such recognition is supported by a number of state level and federal hate-crime laws that were enacted in the United States between the early 1980s and 1990s. There is a tendency in some American literature, however, to trace the recognition of hate crime as a specific category of criminal conduct to two specific historical time periods. The first historical period that is usually considered, is the nineteenth-century post-American Civil War period when federal civil-rights statutes were passed by the American Congress to protect vulnerable groups of people who were victimised because of their race and prior status as slaves. The second time period that is considered is the mid-twentieth century, post-Second World War era up to the period of the Civil-Rights Movement. Irrespective of the origins of hate crime as a category of criminal conduct, their recognition has spawned a new category of crime and criminal laws in the United States of America and internationally. Contemporary hate-crime laws recognise a wide spectrum of prejudices and biases. Despite the international trend, particularly in democratic Western nations towards the recognition of hate crimes and the enactment of hate-crime laws, the Republic of South Africa has yet to enact a hate-crime law.

<b>Desfiles cívicos escolares no Estado Novo: uma interpretação pelas fotografias

Based on photographic sources of a school parade during Getulio Vargas´s New State period, current historiographic essay shows how, within a specific historical place and time, the photographic records identify the relationships between civic school parades and the primary school and the period´s political ideology and environment. The article is divided into two parts. The first part provides brief considerations on the nature of the photographic image as evidence for historians and defines the manner it will be examined. The second part deals with the analysis and interpretation of photographs of the parade involving students of the Elementary School Dr. Manoel Pedro in the town of Lapa, Parana State, Brazil, in 1941.

The Transcultural Psychiatry Reading Group: a Learner-Led Approach to Cultural Psychiatry.

A number of North American psychiatry residency training programs have developed cross-cultural curricula with the hope of producing psychiatrists who are self-reflective, sensitive to cross-cultural issues, and respectful of divergent perspectives. Many programs have introduced this challenging subject matter either as part of the mandatory curriculum [1] or as electives [2]. Some curricula have focused on a particular aspect of culture, such as religion or spirituality [3]. Other curricula have adopted a broad definition of culture in attempts to examine psychiatry’s own professional culture with the view to better understand how we as psychiatrists interact with diverse populations [4]. This article will examine one particular approach to fostering cross-cultural competency, sensitivity, and critical mindedness: an extracurricular residents’ transcultural psychiatry reading group. In 2008, psychiatry residents from the University of Toronto established the Transcultural Psychiatry Reading Group with the aim of fulfilling a need for interdisciplinary discourse on psychiatry and culture. The residency already had a largely didactic, longitudinal cultural psychiatry curriculum. Our group was formed to offer a more discussion-based opportunity for cultural learning. The residents shared a desire to reflect on the assumptions, philosophy, and practice of psychiatry. By creating a group that was also open to clinicians and scholars outside of psychiatry and medicine, members hoped to create a dedicated time and space to engage fully, freely, and collaboratively in critical readings and discussions. In this context, current diagnostic classification systems and treatment approaches could be openly discussed as culturally informed practices that reflect societal ideals, values, and norms within a specific historical time and place. The analysis here, drawing on our insights as members, as well as information from participant surveys, will describe the group process and provide an illustrative case in order to demonstrate one model of a learner-led initiative that may be adapted by psychiatry residents in other locations.