The Source of All Happiness

"What God gives us is the opportunity to connect directly with Him, to taste the Eternal, to become a vessel for Divine Love, to literally know God, to experience the indescribable bliss of connecting with the very Being, the very Light, the very Love that created us. . . It is this eternal, omnipresent, formless, all-merciful Being of Pure Love we are really seeking. It is the source of all of our happiness and every moment of inner peace we have ever experienced."

John E. Welshons, When Prayers Aren't Answered. Navato, CA: New World Library, 2007, p.30.

Contemplative Photography

Dr. Xavia Karner, Ph.D.

Thu, 04/12/2012 - 5:00pm

Dr Xavia Karner Ph.D. "Contemplative Photography"
5:00 - 6:30pm

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Tracy Xavia Karner is the chair of the Department of Sociology and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. A widely published sociologist and award winning teacher, Professor Karner previously held the position of director of the University of Houston 's ground-breaking interdisciplinary Visual Studies program and is a leading authority on the construction of the self: the process through which individuals and groups explore, define, express, and transform their identities.

An avid photography enthusiast, Professor Karner uses visual technologies and resources to study the social construction and transformation of self and identity. She has explored these processes on the individual, social-cultural, organizational, and community levels in a variety of contexts, including hospitals, community service agencies, nationalist movements, and the mass media. Her interest in self-construction, self-delineation, and self-disclosure has led her to explore such diverse topics as how veterans use television and cinematic images to understand their experience and how artists' gender influences the reception and interpretation of their art. A nationally-known expert in the field of medical sociology, Professor Karner has written widely on how individuals experience illness and strategies by which care can be delivered in more culturally accessible and appropriate ways.

The recipient of an award from the American Sociological Association, numerous teaching awards and of more than $2.7 million in grants to support her collaborative research projects, Professor Karner is the co-author of a popular sociology textbook with Carol Warren, Discovering Qualitative Research: Field Methods, Interviews, and Analysis, 2nd Edition, (Oxford University Press, 2010), and the author of more than 30 articles in such professional journals as The American Sociologist, The American Studies Journal, Clinical Sociology Review, Communication and Cognition, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Journal of Aging and Mental Health, The Journal of Aging and Social Policy, The Journal of Aging Studies, The Journal of Applied Gerontology, masculinities, Qualitative Health Research, and Symbolic Interactionism.

Cost:

$10.00