2019
Social and Community Psychology Conference 2021
Time and place: Nov. 25, 2021 8:45 AM – Nov. 26, 2021 3:30 PM, Hybrid: Zoom and University of Oslo
This year, the 22nd Conference on Social and Community Psychology will be organized by the MAKS section of the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo.
We invite researchers and Master level students of psychology to attend and present their work at the Social and Community Psychology conference on 25 and 26 November 2021. It is also possible to attend without presenting. Participation in the conference is free.
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the conference will be organized as an online event, combined with meetings at local universities.
Aims of the Conference
- To promote the opportunity for psychology students to gain experience with presenting scientific papers as well as to get feedback on their work by experienced researchers in social and community psychology
- To give experienced researchers in these fields the possibility of an annual professional and social meeting, and to present their research
- To advance the communication between social and community psychology and other areas of research within psychology and the social sciences, as well as between researchers and practitioners
The conference will be organized in thematic sessions of oral presentations (15 minutes per presentation). Due to the online nature of the conference, there will be no poster session. We will schedule two parallel sessions except during the lunch events.
Previous conferences took place 2020 at UiB, 2019 at UiT, 2018 at NTNU
Organizer: MAKS section of the Department of Psychology
2016
Conflict, Extremism and Migration
Time and place: Oct. 25, 2016 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM, PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3
The current international political climate with an increased attention to refugee and migrant flows, extremist movements, as well as tightened security measures within and between, states calls for considerable psychological and political reflection. New questions emerge with great urgency. For instance; how do different transitional measures following armed conflict, social upheaval and serious human rights violations influence reconstruction and peacebuilding? What is the meaning of justice in a context of post-conflict, and how can cycles of violence be broken? What are the social and psychological elements that form the backdrop of decision-making in extreme situations? How are men and women, boys and girls, recruited to extremist groups? What does it take for the same men and women, boys and girls, to leave? On what basis do refugees and migrants decide to flee or move and where to go? And what do new security measures within and between states do to the perception of wellbeing for old and new citizens?
In order to better understand and respond to these and other challenges there is a need for an integrated political psychological scholarship. While political challenges need political responses there is a need to better grasp what the implications are on group and individual levels. Further, there is a need within psychological scholarship to better integrate the political parameters in people’s lives and what these mean for identity development, perceptions, belonging and wellbeing.
This one day conference has an exploratory aim; to discuss what a scholarly agenda for an interdisciplinary political and psychological could look like in a Nordic setting. What would be the core questions, methodologies and implications and how to build networks and collaborations for future research?
This conference is a collaboration between the Department of Psychology (PSI), Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
Programme
- 08:30–09:00: Registration and morning coffee
- 09:00–09:10: Welcoming remarks: Torkel Brekke, Deputy Director, PRIO
- 09:10–09:20: Introductory remarks
- Nora Sveaass, Associate Professor in Culture and Community Psychology and at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), UiO
- Inger Skjelsbæk, Research Professor II at PRIO and Associate Professor in Culture and Community Psychology and at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo (UiO)
- 09:20–09:50: Key Note Address: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Gunnar Stålsett, Bishop Emeritus, President of Religions for Peace; Special Advisor, Peace and Reconciliation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 09:50–10:30: Examples of Political Psychological Research at the Psychology Department at UiO
- Lotte Thomsen, Associate Professor in Psychology and C-REX
- Jonas Kunst, Post doc in Psychology and C-REX
- Sigrun Marie Moss, Associate Professor in Psychology
- Nora Sveaass, Associate Professor in Psychology and C-REX
- 10:30–10:45: Coffee break
- 10:45–11:05: Cultural psychology looks at political psychology: Intellectual twins reared apart? Professor Jaan Vaalsiner, Director of the Centre for Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Professor II at the Psychology Department, UiO
- 11:05–12:20: Panel discussion: Conflict, Extremism and Migration – Can political psychological scholarship improve understanding and policies
- Torkel Brekke, Deputy Director, PRIO
- Trine Waaktaar, Professor/Head of education, Psychology Department, UiO
- Siri Erika Gullestad, Professor, Psychology Department, UiO
- Anne Julie Semb, Institute Director, Political Science Department, UiO
- Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Research Director, PRIO
- Chairs: Nora Sveaass and Inger Skjelsbæk
- 12:20–13:20: Lunch
- 13:20–14:20: Publication trends in relevant journals
- Reflections by Orla Muldoon, Professor, University of Limerick, and co-editor of "Political Psychology"
- Reflections by Christopher Cohrs, Professor, Jacobs University Bremen, and co-editor of "Journal of Social and Political Psychology"
- 14:20–15:00: What are the research gaps in political psychology?
- Karen Brounéus, Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Department, Uppsala University
- Laura Taylor, Associate Professor School of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast
2012
Livelihoods in transition and the quest for human well-being
Time and place: Dec. 6, 2012 9:00 AM – Dec. 7, 2012 4:00 PM, Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus
The conference presents research on Livelihoods in developing countries and discuss the tensions in the multidiciplinary approaches to protect and promote human well-being.
One of the most striking characteristics of the current global scenery is substantial inequalities in people’s access to resources for survival.
Protection and promotion of human well-being are increasingly recognized as cross-sectorial matters, and need to be located within a field of such tensions.
The conference Livelihoods in transition and the quest for human well-being focuses on how current transitions affect livelihoods, and how we are to understand the multidisciplinary nature of these issues.
Organizer: LEVE - Livelihoods in developing countries.
2011
Agency and Addiction Conference
Time and place: Nov. 10, 2011 9:30 AM – Nov. 11, 2011 4:00 PM, Seminarrom 454, P.A.Munchs hus
Addictions to smoking, alcohol, gambling and illegal drugs cause much suffering. Large resources and strong interventions are used every year to discourage and punish these behaviors, as well as treat the underlying addiction.
The topic of this workshop is the conceptual challenges raised by addiction. Why do addicts seemingly act self-destructively and contrary to their own expressed will? How does their motivational structure differ from that of the non-addicted? What difference does this make to addicts’ responsibility for behavior stemming from addiction and how should we as society respond to addictive behaviours? The speakers will address these questions from different perspectives, ranging from psychology, philosophy, economics and law.
Organizer: Edmund Henden, Hans-Olav Melberg and Ole Røgeberg
Programme
Thursday 10 November 2011
- 09.25: Opening by Olav Gjelsvik (CSMN)
- 09.30-10.45: Gene M. Heyman (Boston College and Harvard Medical School): “Addiction: An emergent pathology”.
- 10.45-11.00: Coffee
- 11.00-12.15: Richard Holton (MIT): “Making space for an addict's self-control”.
- 12.15-13.15: Lunch
- 13.15-14.30: Stephen Morse (University of Pennsylvania): "A good enough reason: Self-regulation in disorders of desire."
- 14.30-14.45: Coffee
- 14.45- 16.00: Hans-Olav Melberg, Edmund Henden and Jostein Rise (CSMN/SIRUS): “Addiction and responsibility: How do laypersons assess the responsibility of addicts?”
Friday 11 November 2011
- 09.30-10.45: George Ainslie (Coatsville VA Medical Centre): “Grasping the impalpable: The role of endogenous reward in process addictions”.
- 10.45-12.00: Jeannett Kennett (Macquarie University): TBA
- 12.00-13.00: Lunch
- 13.00-14.15: Ayna Johansen (Norwegian Centre for Addiction Research): “Addiction as culture or disorder: multicultural identity theory applied to experiences of self and addiction”.
- 14.15-14.30: Coffee
- 14.30- 15.45: Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia): “To whom should welfare economics be addressed? Mutual advantage and the problem of addiction”.