Beyond Moscovici

Welcome: Professor Martin W. Bauer   

Keynote: Professor Wolfgang Wagner. Fake history and social influence: Representing history in teaching.

Keynote: Professor Ivana Marková. Rethinking social representations and minority/majority influence.   

Chair: Professor Martin Bauer. Discussant: Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch  

• Dr. Christian Staerkle: Spiral of silence and right-wing populism.

• Dr. Gordon Sammut: The cycle of normative common sense.

• Professor Ahmet Suerdam: Semantic networks maps and social networks. 

• Professor Saadi Lahlou: The social representation and the Moebius strip

Chair: Dr. Caroline Howarth. Discussant: Dr. Helene Joffe

• Prof Paula Castro: Persuading by legal means? Re-opening Antigone for revisiting the tensions between the legal and the legitimate in the biodiversity debate.

• Dr. Eva Green: Ideological climates and immigration attitudes.

• Dr. Juliet Foster: Researching social representation: moving beyond what people say.

Chair: Dr Alex Gillespie. Discussant: Professor Ivana Marková

Imagining a way forward: 6 x 10 min presentations by recent Post docs and PhD students followed by discussion

• Dr. Jane Roberts (LSE): Paediatric bipolar disorder in the United States and England: Social influence and the emergence of a contested diagnosis.

• Dr. Sophie Zadeh (Cambs): (The dialogical approach in) social representations.

• Dr. Cathy Nicholson (LSE):Themata as a mediating dialogical construct.  

• Claire Coultas (LSE): A Relational Social Psychological Analysis of Behaviour Change Interventions: Implementation Process as Communicative Acts of [Representational] Engagement.

• Luke Buhagiar (Malta): Going full circle: Minority reactions to majority alternative representations.

• Brett Heasman (LSE): Using virtual experiences to explore representations.

Reception for Ivana Marková on the publication of her recent book - The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics (2016); NAB adjacent to Wolfson Theatre