I live very close to Boise.  I might like to go.  It would be helpful if you posted the agendas.  In the more recent past, I have found that the conference topics had "fallen away" or somehow have been very strange or specialized.  Would be happy to see good stuff I can recognize.  (Of course, you could direct me/us to a web site showing the agendas.)

Dear Colin A Hendrie et al

If you really want to revitalized ISHE (human ethology), you should fully explore the "Human Ethology and Development" Project here on researchgate.net .  Read all the Updates in the Log, all the questions-and-answers of the author, all the Comments you can find (author's Timeline, under Profile), and the read the papers, especially the 2 big ones: "A Human Ethogram ..." (160 pages) and "Information-Processing Theories ..." (40 pages).  (There is also a 5 page short summary paper -- but that doesn't get to all the details.)

This is a full-blow theory with ALL the good characteristics of a theory and is a major part (real outline) of an overall theory of behavior.  The MAJOR HYPOTHESES in the Ethogram Theory have just recently become totally testable using the new eye-tracking technology.  It may be the best cognitive-development theory PERIOD and answers major issues of debate.  It is an outline for an ethogram, which has behavior as biological AND  is pure human ethology (using ALL the terms of classical ethology for understanding patterns and change).

See: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Human-Ethology-and-Development

This could really make ISHE seem a lot less esoteric and marginal and specialized and a LOT more central and vital (not to mention: interesting).

P.S. Please let let your fellow officers and colleagues know (forward a copy of this note somehow to them). Thanks. Regards, Brad Jesness

Article A Human Ethogram: Its Scientific Acceptability and Importanc...

 Dear Brad - thank you for the information - I,  and I am sure others too,  will look forward to discussing these ideas with you if you should decide to come to the meeting - Best wishes

Dear Colin A Hendrie

I would like people to do their "homework" and be ready to discuss it.  I do not talk much (and my voice irritates some people more than fingernails on a chalk board and some even find my voice hard-to-understand). So, one could never expect me to operate like any sort of sales person for the Ethogram Theory. See: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Human-Ethology-and-Development

I will come to ISHE if I can see the agendas and if I find them adequately intelligible and interesting (and not all tremendously specialized).  The more information along these lines you could provide me, the better.

Regards, Brad Jesness