Psychology as Social Science public lecture series
Date: Thursday 21 May 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Fathali M Moghaddam
Chair: Dr Sandra Jovchelovitch
Update, Thursday 21 May: Due to an electricity outage, this event has been moved to the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.
The two traditional policies for managing cultural diversity, multiculturalism and assimilation, are based on incorrect psychological assumptions, resulting in collective identity threats for both minority and majority groups, destructive intergroup conflicts, and the marginalisation of minorities. Omniculturalism represents a constructive third path.
Fathali M Moghaddam is professor of psychology and director of the Conflict Resolution Program in the Departments of Psychology and Government at Georgetown University, USA.
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