Seminars


2023


Evolving Dialogues in Multiculturalism and Education: International Challenges and Opportunities
Martedì 14 Marzo 2023 Ore 9.00 - 11.00 Aula “Ezio Ponzo”
Multiculturalism still matters as an idea and a concept, despite its political demise and its perceived conceptual depth (Joppke, 2017). This seminar will show that the idea of multiculturalism is very much alive and the aim of this seminar is to increase understanding of the opportunities and challenges of the application of multicultural education to teaching and learning. A transformative pedagogy is the objective but the challenge of this is complicated. A 'national' curriculum is monocultural rather than multicultural. Wales provides an interesting comparison with England, having introduced an anti-racist policy across the nation with the intention of having an anti-racist policy by 2030. Alongside this, the Welsh have also introduced a new national curriculum in September 2022. Within an Italian context, the idea of meritocracy will also be examined by looking how the idea and policies evolved in post-war Britain. How monocultural or multicultural is the idea of meritocracy? Ultimately, we will look at how decolonising curricula in classrooms and lecture theatres can lead to a transformative pedagogy (Race, 2022a; 2022b; Race, submitted; Race, in production).
Dott.ssa Corine Stella KANA KENFACK PhD - “The impact of virtual reality on prejudice towards immigrants through a positive contact and perspective taking”
Giovedì 09 marzo 2023 ore 09:30 - Aula 9
La teoria del contatto (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006) rappresenta una delle strategie migliore di riduzione del pregiudizio in particolare verso i gruppi minoritari. Attraverso continue interazioni, si accresce la conoscenza reciproca e di conseguenza si riduce il pregiudizio. Tuttavia, anche se c’è un ampio consenso sulla necessità di accrescere le interazioni intergruppo positive, vi rimane da indagare le condizioni ottimali entro le quali le interazioni con membri dell’outgroup hanno maggior successo nella riduzione del pregiudizio. Una soluzione per studiare più a fondo questo aspetto viene dato dalle nuove tecnologie, in particolare la realtà virtuale. I sistemi di realtà virtuale, attraverso esperienze immersive consentono di ricreare in laboratorio esperienze sensoriali simili a interazioni faccia a faccia. Inoltre, la possibilità di utilizzo di avatar all’interno dell’ambiente virtuale consente l’assunzione di prospettiva altrui. In questo seminario si descriverà come la realtà virtuale è stata utilizzata in due esperienze di contatto intergruppo con lo scopo di indagare la riduzione del pregiudizio verso gli immigrati. Nel primo esperimento si è ipotizzato che il contatto positivo mediante l’esposizione a situazioni che protraggono gli immigrati in comportamenti prosociali sia più efficace nel ridurre il pregiudizio rispetto al semplice contatto. Nel secondo esperimento si è indagato quanto l’assunzione della prospettiva degli immigrati, in particolare dei rifugiati, possa portare alla riduzione del pregiudizio.
Prof. William D. CRANO, PhD - Persuading the Unpersuadable. Understanding Resistance to Unexpected Positions of Fellow Political Partisans
1 marzo 2023 ore 11.00 - Aula “Ezio Ponzo”
Although social psychologists have developed a powerful arsenal of persuasive methods, we often are completely ineffective in converting people on the extreme ends of the political spectrum. We can influence those near the middle point of our well-crafted measures, but our analytic models are either untested with extreme groups, or these groups are included in overall analyses, and the lack of movement by the extremes is hidden by the general analyses we conduct. However, sensitivity analyses often reveal the impotence of our persuasive methods of those most in need of moderating their attitudes. We are left with the possibility that most of our successful persuasion research is based on changes induced among those who hover around the indifference point on the focal attitude. The failure of extreme contending groups represents a threat to democratic government. The present research is an initial attempt to find ways to open the door to more open-minded communication between extreme groups. In this presentation, I will demonstrate an initially heartbreaking and unexpected failure of a beautiful study. Serendipity (along with necessity) being one of many mothers of invention, forced us to consider a data pattern commonly misinterpreted by users of common crowd-sourcing models (e.g., MTurk). This led to an investigation of factors underlying resistance to the pairing of a message source with an unexpected statement. Some follow-on research has helped us understand our originally anomalous (i.e., un-hypothesized) finding, and have led us on a search for other factors that may allow us to pontificate bravely (or at least with straight faces) on tactics that may prove useful in persuading the unpersuadable.

2022


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14 December, 2022
Mass media have become an inevitable part of political communication. Politicians use modern information technologies to promote ideas, views, spread propaganda, manipulation and hate speech. In online communication, we are interested in written speech (texts, messages), because they are freely available online and allow us to analyse the peculiarities of hate speech in specific periods of times. The research trends that will be presented focus on media communication analysis and the influence of the mass media on people’s consciousness and behaviour. The study investigates written speech from a psycholinguistic point of view: we have identified the methods and techniques used by journalists or politicians to influence the audience. The seminar presents applications of psycholinguistic texts analysis on Russian mass media to study indirect and manipulative hate speech and its consequences. The method was also adapted for analysing the messages of politicians in the social network Twitter. The psycholinguistic analysis of the content was based on the analysis of the linguistic means used in the messages to influence the auditory worldview.
Pride of Place in Europe and in Africa
14 December 2022
The hybrid seminar aims to present and discuss the results of “PoP – Pride of Place” framework research on the field of people-place bonds in European and African continents. Conducted through different lines of investigation (a doctoral thesis, a European project, and an international cooperation project), the framework research seeks to identify the antecedents and consequences of pride and shame of place comparing data collected in Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Kenya. A particular focus will be dedicated to the intercultural dimension of the project, valued by the presence of Professors coming from universities in Kenya and Tanzania.
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5 dicembre 2022

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3 novembre 2022
As virtual reality (VR) technology is increasing in sophistication and accessibility, new research is emerging in multiple disciplines addressing the influence of avatar communication, immersive visual information, and self-perception on social behaviours in VR. For social research, VR systems not only provide rich sensorial experiences, often resembling face-to-face interactions, but they also afford the necessary level of control for lab experimentation. This specific characteristic is of high relevance when creating virtual interventions aiming to reduce prejudice and improve relations among different social groups. In this seminar I describe how VR technology is used for intergroup contact among different social groups in different contexts, highlighting the relevance of the native features of VR systems and the social psychological aspects of users for the contact outcomes, and also pointing out some socio-technical challenges for social research in VR.
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21 Ottobre 2022 -
In this talk, I will examine major findings and concepts in psychological research on hostile aggression and offer an integrative conception whereby violence or the threat of violence is a primordial means for establishing one’s sense of significance and mattering, thus addressing a fundamental social-psychological need. Our functional portrayal of aggression as a means to significance yields four testable hypotheses: (1) frustration will elicit hostile aggression proportionately to the extent that the frustrated goal served the individual’s need for significance, (2) the impulse to aggress in response to significance loss will be enhanced in conditions that limit the individual’s ability to reflect and engage in extensive information processing (that may bring up alternative, socially-condoned means to significance), (3) significancereducing frustration will elicit hostile aggression unless the impulse to aggress is substituted by a non-aggressive means of significance restoration, (4) apart from significance loss, an opportunity for significance gain should increase the impulse to aggress. These hypotheses are supported by extant data as well as novel research findings in real-life contexts. They have important implications for understanding human aggression and the conditions under which it is likely to be manifested and reduced.
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20 Ottobre 2022
In this lecture Dr. Joyce Endendijk delves into the social phenomenon of the (hetero)sexual double standard (SDS) in which the same sexual behaviors are evaluated differently in men and women. Traditionally, men/boys are expected to be sexually active, dominant, and the initiator of (hetero)sexual activity, whereas women/girls are expected to be sexually reactive, submissive, and passive. Men are also granted more sexual freedom than women. Dr. Endendijk will discuss her own and others’ research on the consequences of the SDS for adolescents sexual development. Additionally, she will focus on the developmental origins of sexual double standard endorsement. She has studied the influence of several socializing agents: mothers, fathers, peers, and the media, to explain development of adolescent’s sexual double standard endorsement and enactment.
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Giovedì 13 ottobre

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21 settembre

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19 settembre 2022

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30 giugno 2022

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16 giugno 2022
Over the past decades, the most increase of subcultural populations have involved Asains and Latinos of which the majority of are not borned in the United States, the latter has surpassed the Black population as the number one minority. The fact calls for more studies on their social determinants in relation to wellbeing. The primary part of this presentation will include two studies focusing on the similar and differential roles of their cultural strength factors in outcomes. Both studies are based on the national household representative sample, the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). Todate, the NLAAS remains the only such survey on the mental health in these two rapid growing populations. Despite numerous publications from this data resource, a cultural strengh perspective remains underinvestigated in the literature. The secondary part of this presentation will address a newly developed cross-cultural assessment, the first of its kind: A three-dimensional Connection of Soul (COS) scale that are aligned with three dominant spiritual worldviews, conceptualizing life after death: secular, Godcentered, and cosmic-spiritual perspectives, rooted in the three origins of the seven dominant cultural in the world today. This development is a part of a crosscontinental effort by over 40 interdisciplinary scholars on a tool book: Assessing Spirituality in a Diversified World. Springer: Cham, Switzerland (2021).
Crafting papers for publication: novelty and convention in academic writing
23/05/2022
Despite the conventions about what constitutes a strong/original theoretical contribution, publishing academic research inevitably takes the shape of a craft that authors frequently (and quite often painfully) learn by doing. In this session, we will look at some techniques that authors can use for developing effective arguments, leveraging academic conventions in a constructive fashion, and communicating clear contributions to their audiences (editors, reviewers, and readers at large).
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10 Maggio 2022

Migration and national identity in Latin America. Historical and contemporary overview
20/04/2022
Through a historical analysis, the seminar aims to identify some characteristics of the problem of Atlantic migration, from and to Latin America. In particular, the issues of migration and national identity in the region will be explored. In this context, the "case study" of migration and identity processes in Argentina will also be presented. The "case study" incorporates the question of the reception of psychoanalysis, during the 20th century, especially in Buenos Aires, as a tool that contributed to the strengthening of a certain exclusionary collective identity that persists to this day in the country's culture.
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20 aprile 2022 - ore 15.00 Aula Ponzo Dipartimento di Psicologia dei processi di sviluppo e socializzazione Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia Via dei Marsi 78 - 00185 Roma Link a Zoom: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/85982967240?pwd=M1pvL3RZVFhwOG9ZYmNiWms1dElHZz09

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Lunedì 4 aprile 2022 10.00 - 17.00 “Introduzione alla SNA e applicazioni” - Martedì 5 aprile 2022 10.00 - 17.00 “Introduzione alla SNA per dati testuali con applicazioni” - Link al seminario on-line: https://meet.google.com/ntd-oshu-czg

2021


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10th February 2022 h. 14.15 Link a Zoom: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/83143437796?pwd=VjhFd2lYUytSWVp3NGFTMS9Mc0pvZz09

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15 novembre 2021 - ore 10.00 Aula 9 Dipartimento di Psicologia dei processi di sviluppo e socializzazione Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia Via dei Marsi 78 - 00185 Roma Link a Meet: https://meet.google.com/zjv-ffxs-hbx

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7 ottobre 2021 ore 11.00 Aula 3 Dipartimento di Psicologia dei processi di sviluppo e socializzazione Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia Via dei Marsi 78 - 00185 Roma Link a Meet: https://meet.google.com/jif-tona-ori

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23 settembre 2021 ore 13.00 - 14.00 “The process of othering as representational naturalization: refugees and Covid-19 in Canadian media discourse” Link a Zoom https://uottawaca. zoom.us/j/92945824265?pwd=MFFHVDY5aURoVjN3ZS9yODZ4NW 1Tdz09 ore 15.00 - 18.00 “The study of social representations through the qualitative data analysis software NVivo. The example of migration in Canadian political discourse” Link a Zoom https://uottawaca. zoom.us/j/96401448038?pwd=d0UrbjRsNmhDUWcyQzhNZnZEcFlK Zz09

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27 settembre 2021 - ore 14.00 Link alla videoconferenza: https://meet.google.com/mfu-nppm-buy

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13 settembre 2021 - ore 14.00 Aula 11 - 14 settembre 2021 - ore 14.00 Aula 5

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10 settembre 2021 ore 14.00 Link Google Meet: Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mmh-mych-dai

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16 febbraio 2021, Ore 10.00 Indirizzo video-conferenza: meet.google.com/gzj-fnri-jfy

2020


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14 dicembre 2020, alle ore 10.00, in modalità telematica attraverso "Meet"

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14 dicembre 2020, alle ore 10,30, in via telematica attraverso "Meet"

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08/10/2020

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24 luglio 2020 ore 09.30

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Giovedì 9 Luglio 2020 Ore 9.00

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9 luglio 2020 ore 10.00

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9 luglio 2020 ore 09.30

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10 giugno 2020 ore 09.30

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18 maggio 2020 ore 09.30

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18 maggio 2020 ore 10.00

“Compiti di sviluppo per adolescenti e giovani adulti appartenenti a minoranze sessuali: identità positiva e coming-out” Dott.ssa Jessica PISTELLA
24 febbraio 2020 ore 10.00

Bambini immigrati e contesti d'apprendimento nella scuola dell’Infanzia e nella scuola primaria: esperienze realizzate in Israele
Mercoledi 12 Febbraio 2020 h.15.00-17.00 Aula XIV - terzo piano

SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION FROM LIMBO CLASS TO TRANSNATIONAL
Venerdì 14 Febbraio 2020 ore 9:00 - Aula “Ezio Ponzo” Lunedì 17 Febbraio 2020 ore 9:00 - Aula “Ezio Ponzo” Venerdì 21 Febbraio 2020 ore 9:00 - Aula 14
The seminar cycle is devoted to the sociology of migration in the large temporary perspective (XX and XXI centuries). The first part will start with chosen sociological “classics” describing European emigration to the US. American model of “assimilation” will be discussed with the support of more resent works by contemporary sociologists. The case of the USA will be enlarged to the other geographical spaces and other traditions of academic investigations. The second part of the cycle will be based on the results of ethnographical projects and the concepts of the transnational professional will guide the reflection about internationalized careers and the process of transmobility. The focus on international culture of work, ethnic discriminations and so called “cosmopolitan universe of science and arts” will be critically approached. Finally, the last part of the cycle will be devoted to the refugee recent “crisis”. ‘Limbo class’ is a new concept that is focusing on the place of the asylum seekers and persons passing by camps for refugees in our occidental societies.

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