Archive for April, 2008
Summer course on political psychology at Stanford
Understanding the political behavior of individuals through the study of their cognitive processes is the objective of political psychology. For three weeks (from July 13 to August 1, 2008) the Department of Communication at Stanford University (California, USA) is organizing a workshop complete with presentations, discussions and workshops on research methods in political psychology. The course, with a limit of 60 seats, is aimed at graduate students and professionals, in addition to students in the last year of graduation .
Information on how to join the seminar is Available on the website of the Summer Institute in Political Psychology. Here is a step forward with the names of the main speakers and the title of his speeches:
- Martha Crenshaw , Stanford University : Terrorism
- Faye Crosby , UC Santa Cruz: Social Justice and Affirmative Action
- Christopher Federico , University of Minnesota: Ideology as a Topic of Psychological Inquiry, Information, Motivation, and the Use of Ideology
- Robert Huckfeldt , UC Davis: Unanimity, disagree, and Endogeneity in Political Communication
- Shanta Iyengar < >, Stanford University: Psychological Perspectives on Political
- Roderick Kramer , Stanford University: Conflict and Dispute Resolution
- < > Jon Krosnick , Stanford University: Attitudes, Voting, Elections
- Douglas McAdam , Stanford University: A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective on the Study of Social Movements; Toward a Viable Social Psychology of Social Movements
- Deborah Larson , UCLA: < > Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy Decision Making; Cognitive Biase and the Cold War: The Commitment to West Berlin
- Tom Pettigrew , UC Santa Cruz: Intergroup Contact; Authoritarianism; Who Opposed Immigration ?
- Jim Sidanius , Harvard: The Interactive Nature of Patriarchy and Arbitrary-set Hierarchy : The Dynamics of Sexism and Racism from An Evolutionary and Social Dominance Perspective; Under Color of Authority: Terror, Intergroup Violence and the Law: A Social Dominance Perspective
- Claude Steele , Stanford University: Stereotypes and the Psychology of Diversity
- Laura Stoker , UC Berkeley: Political socialization
- Mike Tomz , Stanford University: International Cooperation and Credibility
- Jeremy Weinstein , Stanford University: Application of Experiments to Comparative Politics T
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Michael Gurevitch dies
Michael Gurevitch, a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, died in London last March 29, 2008 at 77 years of age, a victim of pneumonia. I visited the British capital to see their children and not returned to the United States. Gurevitch is the author of famous texts on political communication, among which The Crisis of Public Communication (1995), co-written with his colleague Jay Blumler, professor emeritus at the University of Leeds The International .
Communication Association (ICA) will pay him a tribute next May 23, 2008 in Montreal (Canada), which will place the annual conference of the association .
More information in the obituary published by the University of Maryland.
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9M’s elections, a debate in Segovia
Scholars of political communication, marketing consultants and those responsible for political campaign of the two major parties (PP and PSOE) will meet next on April 9, 2008 in Segovia (Castilla y Leon, Spain) to contrast their analysis on the past general election.
We reproduce below the agenda of the conference, organized by the University of Valladolid.
PROGRAM
9:30 to 10:00. Opening of the meeting
- Jesus Nieto, Vice-campus Segovia of the UVa Pedro Arahuetes, Mayor of Segovia
10:00 to 12:00. Table 1: “ The image of parties and candidates through the tools of political communication “
- Jose Maria Canel, Professor of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Guillermo Lopez, Dr. professor of the University of Valencia
- Moderator: Miguel Vicente Mariño. Dpto. Sociology and Social Work
12:00 to 14:00. Table 2: “ Communications and Strategic Planning election campaigns “
- Gabriel Elorriaga, Secretary of Communication of the Partido Popular (PP)
- Oscar Lopez, Executive Coordinator of the election campaign of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)
- Modera : Agustin Garcia Matilla. Professor at the University of Valladolid
17:00 to 19:00. Table 3: “ The politics of emotion. New techniques to capture the vote “
- Ureña Daniel, managing partner of MAS Consulting Group Spain. Communications Adviser
- Julio Cesar Herrero, a journalist and expert in political marketing
- Moderator: Ignacio Martín Granados. Dpt. Of Modern History, Contemporary American , Journalism and Audiovisual Communication and Advertising
19:00-19:15. Closure of days
- Juan Jose Garcilla, Dean of the Faculty of CC. Social, Legal and of Communication (UVa ).
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