The Fourth Annual Niels Bohr Lecture in Cultural Psychology

Fourth Annual Niels Bohr Lecture

The Road to Actualized Democracy: A Psychological Perspective

The Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology series aims to highlight and develop new ideas in cultural psychology. Each year early to mid career cultural psychologists, who have demonstrated originality and productivity, are selected to give the lecture. Other cultural psychologists from around the world are also invited to attend and comment on it.

This year we are proud to present Fathali Moghaddam as our keynote speaker for our fourth annual Niels Bohr Lecture. His talk is titled The Road to Actualised Democracy: A Psychological Exploration. The paper can be downloaded on the webpage. The keynote will be followed by a number of talks on democracy, dictatorship, media and social movements, approached through the framework of cultural psychology.  

The lectures are an integral part of the activities of the new Centre for Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, which has been established in 2013 by the Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (Danish National Research Foundation). The goal of the Centre is to take on the international leadership role in programmatic research in cultural psychology and its uses in all appropriate domains in our global society.

Convenor: Brady Wagoner

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Monday February 15

09.30-11.00: Niels Bohr Lecture - Fathali Moghaddam

11.00-11.30: Coffee

11.30-12.30: Commentary and Discussion - Cristian Tileagă

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-14.30: Commentary and Discussion - Mario Carretero

14.30-15.00: Coffee

15.00-16.00: Commentary and Discussion - David Carré

16.00-16.15: Coffee

16.15-17.15: Commentary and Discussion - Eric Jensen

Tuesday February 16

10.00-11.00: 'Actualized Democracy and Ideology: How they help and hinder one another' - Sandra Obradovic

11.00-11.30: Coffee

11.30-12.30: 'Alternating dominance: social categorisation, group formation and the problem of borders' - Gordon Sammut

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-14.30: 'Actual Democracy: Austerity and curious case of Irish protesting' - Seamus Power

14.30-15.00: Coffee

15.00-16.00: Commentary and Discussion: 'Approaching Regression: The Ethics of Radical Democracy' - Ivan A. Boldyrev

16.00-16.15: Coffee

16.15-17.15: 'Otherness in the West: Democracy, Political Imagination and the Refugee Crisis'  - Constance de Saint Laurent and Vlad Glaveanu

The lectures will take place at Rendsburggade 14, Room 4.105.