12-06-2006
Rochester, NY will mark the 100th anniversary of William James’ presidential address to the American Philosophical Association with a full day of events, free and open to the public.
11-29-2006
An interview with Robert D. Richardson about his book William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism will be published in early December on bookslut.com. The interview was conducted by writer J.C. Hallman, author of the Jamesian influenced book The Devil is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe.
10-20-2006
A conference on the "interactions, contributions, and continuing resonance" of William James and Josiah Royce is taking place at Harvard University from May 25-27, 2007. Registration and program information is available on the Harvard Divinity School web site.
09-27-2006
The WJS bibliography has been expanded and now includes selected primary and tertiary literature, as well as book reviews and dissertations
08-31-2006
WJS Fellow and artist Randall Albright has submitted some of his James-inspired art for display on the WJS web site.
08-31-2006
The WJS bibliography has been updated and now includes citations spanning the years 2000 to 2006.
08-30-2006
The New York Times review of Deborah Blum's new book Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death is available online.
07-27-2006
Brazil through the Eyes of William James, Diaries, Letters and Drawings, 1865-1866 (ISBN 0674021339), by Maria Helena Machado (University of Sao Paulo), is scheduled to be published in August 2006 by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press. The book is a critical and bilingual (English-Portuguese) edition of William James's diaries, letters, and drawings from the several months he served as a volunteer on Louis Agassiz's research expedition to Brazil.
07-25-2006
The WJS web site now includes a bibliography of published works on William James for the years 2002 to 2006. Other years will be added in time. This is an ongoing project undertaken by WJS Webmaster James Medd.
07-18-2006
Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin, has written a book on William James's involvement in psychical research. The book is titled Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life after Death (ISBN 1594200904) and will be published by Penguin Press in August 2006.
07-10-2006
A new intellectual biography of William James is scheduled for publication in November 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. The book is written by prize-winning biographer Robert D. Richardson and titled William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (ISBN 0618433252).
07-06-2006
The first issue of William James Studies has been published online by the University of Illinois Press. Featured are essays by Randy Friedman, Amy Kittelstrom, Joel Krueger, and Ruth Anna Putnam. Also included are two addresses delivered at annual meetings of the American Philosophical Association by past presidents of the Society.