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23 October 2006, 5.30pm, Jose Alberto Fogaça de Medeiros, Mayor of Porto Alegre, Brazil In this lecture Mr Fogaça de Medeiros will discuss the participatory experience in the city of Porto Alegre and the concept of local governance as a social network for promoting cooperation between government and civil society. He will introduce the notion of solidarity in governance (governança solidária) and argue that encouraging partnerships and developing autonomy and co-responsibility are key to the construction and consolidation of local development and social inclusion. José Alberto Fogaça de Medeiros is the Mayor of the city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, known for its experience of participatory budgeting and hosting the World Social Forum. Before becoming mayor, Mr Fogaça de Medeiros was a member of the Brazilian National Congress, having been an active parliamentarian for 24 years, occupying positions both in the Senate and House of Representatives. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. If you are planning to attend this event and would like details on how to get here and what time to arrive, please click here. 9 November 2006, 6.30pm, Professor Michael Billig , Professor of Social Science, Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University, Chair: Dr Sandra Jovchelovitch, Institute of Social Psychology, LSE, title: The Dark Side of Humour, venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Ground Floor, Clement House. This lecture looks at the social functions of humour. It is suggested that humour has a dark side that we often overlook. However, ridicule lies at the heart of humour and this points to the essential role of humour in social life. Michael Billig is professor of social psychology at Loughborough University and founder of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group. His eight books, including Laughter and Ridicule (SAGE, 2005) and Banal Nationalism (SAGE, 1995), have established his reputation as one of the most original of contemporary social psychologists in Britain 5 February 2007, 6.30pm, Professor Nik Rose ,Department of Sociology, LSE, Chair: Dr Derek Hook, Institute of Social Psychology, LSE, title: Psychology as a Social Science, venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Ground Floor, Clement House. This talk considers what it means to approach psychology as a 'social' science in a specific sense - that is to say it sketches out an approach to the analysis of the part that psychology - its languages, techniques, forms of expertise, self-technologies - played across the twentieth century in the development of social-welfare rationalities and technologies of government. 16 May 2007, 6.30pm, Professor Michael Cole, Professor of Psychology University of California San Diego, Chair: Dr Sandra Jovchelovitch, Institute of Social Psychology, LSE, title: Re-searching the Potential of Cultural-historical Psychology, venue: Old Theatre, Old Building. From its founding as an academic discipline, Psychology has been divided in its understanding of itself. Experimental, "physiological" psychology would follow the path of the natural sciences seeking causal laws relating basic psychological phenomena to their biological foundations. Ethnographic, cultural-historical psyochology (Völkerpsychologie) would follow the path of the humane sciences in seeking an account of higher psychological functions to their cultural and historical foundations. I will assess the current state of the project to create a psychology that unifies the "two psychology" solutions of their predecessors and argue that a unification cannot be carried out in psychology alone. Rather it requires a reconfiguration of the disciplinary landscape of the late 19th century that, from our current perspective, appears "inter-disciplinary," including as it does scholarship from anthropology, sociology, discourse analysis, as well as the neurosciences and evolutionary biology. 21 June 2007, 6.30pm, Professor Axel Honneth, Professor at the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Chair: Dr Sandra Jovchelovitch, title: to be announced, venue: Old Theatre, Old Building. 10 October 2006, Mr Bill Nielsen, former Corporate VP Public Affairs, Johnson and Johnson, title: Corporate Values and Sustainable Trust Overview: The need to restore public trust in business is a concern of most business leaders, but for most ceos, the worry is how to keep their own organizations from becoming targets of media and public scorn. In an era when it seems the media doesn’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good story, or tell any story in an appropriate context, how should leaders of well-managed organizations think about the issue of reputation management? And, can one really “manage” a reputation? This session is not about all of the problems facing business on the reputation front. It is about building “sustainable trust” – a level of trustworthiness that may help an organization withstand occasional missteps or bad press. 17 October 2006, Professor Rene Bouwen, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, title: Relational Practices as Generative Interventions in Emergent Contexts Overview: To introduce, document and discuss the metaphorical concept ‘relational practices’ as a generative way of intervening in emergent contexts such as organizational development, change, collaboration, innovation episodes and similar interactive contexts-in-the-making. By using this ‘relational practice’ lens the speaker will focus on the generative quality of the interaction episodes, different actors engage in, to enact their substantial contribution while positioning and acknowledging each other also relationally. 13 February 2007, Professor Dario Paez, Professor of Social Psychology and Methodology at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, title: Emotions and culture at work: Links to organisational social psychology. MSc Social and Cultural Psychology Critical Dialogues Seminar Series 2006/7, venue S314, 3rd Floor, St Clement's Building, 4.30pm: 24 October 2006, Dr Diana Rose, Co-director Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), title: Social representations developed by mental health service users (patients) that oppose dominant discourses Abstract: For twenty years now there have existed movements of users/survivors/patients in the field of mental health that seek to fight stigma and discrimination. This development has taken place across Europe and in other parts of the world. It can be argued that these movements have developed their own social representations about their distress and the treatments and services they receive. These contest dominant social representations and seek to change them to enable greater social inclusion. This paper will outline the work of the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. The aim of this team is to conduct user-focused research. Most of the researchers have themselves experienced mental health problems and treatments by psychiatric services. This includes the presenter of this paper. Two examples of our research will be presented. In the first case, social representations developed by users contest the dominant representations of psychiatry but not necessarily of the public in general. This is the case of shock therapy. In the second case, representations developed by users contest both psychiatric discourse and that of lay persons. This is the case of compulsory detention and treatment. The paper will also look beyond research at how these two issues have been taken up by the user movement in general across Europe. 21 November 2006, Dr Derek Hook, LSE, title: The psychology of dreaming: Social and analytical applications Summary: A milestone text in the history of psychological theory, Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams offers not only an interpretative methodology, but also a framework of important concepts that have subsequently been utilized by a variety of social, cultural and critical theorists. This talk reviews the fundamental components of Freud’s dream theory, before going on to ask how such concepts – along with the method to which they are associated - might provide valuable lessons for critical social and psychological modes of analysis. 5 December 2006, Nathan Geffen, Policy Co-ordinator of the Treatment Action Campaign [TAC] of South Africa, title: AIDS Denialism in the South African Media and its Negative Effect on Individual Treatment Decisions 23 January 2006, Dr Ola Ogunyemi, Lincoln School of Journalism, title: Black African Youths and Mobile Phones in the UK: an exploration of appeal, gender and subculture 20 February 2007, Fakhry Davids, Trustee of The African Psychotherapy Resource Centre, title: Internal Racism 27 February 2007, Professor Michel Rouquette, Université Paris 8, title: Theory of Rumours 13 March 2007, Dr John Cromby, Department of Human Sciences University of Loughborough, title: Embodying Social Psychology 27 September 2006, Dr Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen, Assistant Professor, The Steno Institute, University of Aarhus Ny Munkegade, title: In quest for publicity: the science-media partnership of the Galathea Deep Sea Expedition from 1950 to 1952. Overview: The Galathea Deep Sea Expedition from 1950 to 1952 combined field science with clearly defined strategies for public communication of science and intensive media coverage aboard. In effect, the expedition turned in to a science-media partnership. Science and the media cooperated closely in fulfilling the main, non-scientific objective of the expedition: rebuilding national feelings and the international reputation of Denmark after the war. A deviant situation in terms of science communication (cf. Bucchi 1998), the science-media partnership of the Galathea Expedition was based on different kinds of boundary-work and used boundary objects to mediate between scientific and media interests. It also resulted in critical exposure to the public of the back region of the public performances of deep sea exploration. Today, science-media partnerships seem to be more ordinary, and this paper concludes discussing important lessons learned from the pioneering efforts of the Galathea Deep Sea Expedition. 25 October 2006, Dr Ralph Desmarais, Imperial College, title: Wheat into Rye: George Orwell and the Politics of Science 1940-1950. Please note this event will take place in A318. Abstract: There is a mistaken historical impression that George Orwell's involvement with Science was confined to brief skirmishes in print with the British radical scientific left. This paper will instead argue that Orwell regarded science and scientific discourse as central to mid-twentieth century culture. It examines Orwell's polemical essays concerning the place of science in British literature and politics, and traces his simultaneous involvement with scientific intellectuals. A crucial conclusion is that his final dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) drew direct inspiration from these science-related concerns. 29 November 2006, Professor Baudouin Jurdant, Paris VII, title: Popular science: Ideology or culture? Abstract: In this talk to the London PUS seminar he will revisit two classical papers of his, the one of 1969 ‘Popular science as ideology’ (in French and circulated) and the other of 1993 ‘Popularization of science as the autobiography of science [Public Understanding of Science, Oct 1993; 2: 365 – 373]. In doing so he will trace the changing social scientific conceptions of popular science as a ‘phenomenon’ at the inter-linkages of science and society.
Purpose of the series: To build a coherent, compelling body of knowledge around the emergence of Design Process as a Strategic Tool for Organisation and Conceptual Development; In other words, the movement from Feelings to Action. The series is an open exploration of practice at the intersection of business, culture, community development, education and health. Each event features a speaker or group presenting projects they are involved in. Questions are taken, and time is spent working in smaller, inter-disciplinary groups, tackling questions raised by the presentation. These are then discussed with the larger group. 16 October 2006, Ed Gillespie, Futerra, title: Social/Organisational and Environmental Sustainability through Creative Multimedia 23 October 2006, Lara Quelch (KPMG), LSE InCaS network, other speakers yet to be confirmed, title: Views of Capital Markets in Intellectual Capital Statements for SME's (round table discussion) Introduction: Information and knowledge are complex, intangible assets that cannot be directly accessed within organisations, but are vital to sustaining high-quality work and innovation for economic success. The existing knowledge of an organisation – intellectual capital- influences the creation of products, services, and employee development. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face the challenge of retaining and reporting knowledge that is valuable and has the potential to strengthen capacity for innovation. Intellectual capital statements are one way enterprises can retain and report knowledge; however whether this is effective is still debatable. Join an interdisciplinary round table discussion on intellectual capital statements for SMEs and share your views! 20th November 2006, title: Exploring Graphic Facilitation and Visualisation Tools. Introduction: Graphic facilitation is a set of techniques and skills that are increasingly being used by large groups to understand complex situations and to chart their positions within the context of ideas both present and in the future. Graphic facilitators respond directly to large group conversations. They create models, illustrations, maps, relationships and visual metaphors that enable groups to make sense of complex discussions and situations. The skill of their craft allows complex ideas to be simply rendered. Their work is often used to communicate ideas beyond the decision-making group. This seminar will be both and exploration of these techniques, led by skilled practitioners, as well as an opportunity for all participants to hone their abilities. Limited places, rsvp: Despina Tsalavoutis, email: Despina@ludicgroup.com Introduction: When it comes to designers and crafts people working closely with people from developing countries to create opportunities and links with international markets, there are many stories of great courage and determination and stories of failure despite the best and most noble of intentions. The seminar will bring together designers,artists and craftspeople, economists, developers and anthropologists - all of whom have been involved in such projects to tell their stories, learn from failures and successes. This seminar is being conducted in conjunction with the Crafts Magazine. The cases include projects in Thailand, Afghanistan, South Africa and Algeria. The guests include Prof Tom Barker (RCA), Ashley Hall (designer), Tom Dixon (designer), Kate Blee (designer), Joanna Gibbons (Architect), Simon Fraser (Central St Martins), Garrick Jones (LSE), Caroline Roux (Editor Craft Magazine). Key contact for this seminar series is: Despina Tsalavoutis, email: Despina@ludicgroup.com Series Blog: http://juiceontheloose.blogspot.com/
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