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In the end of May (29/30), an inte­res­t­ing con­fe­rence on the rela­ti­on of theo­ry and prac­ti­ce in the Social Sci­en­ces and the Huma­ni­ties will take place at the Depart­ment of Psy­cho­lo­gy and Edu­ca­tio­nal Stu­dies at Ros­kil­de Uni­ver­si­ty. The list of pre­sen­ters includes Jean Lave, Est­rid Søren­sen, Mor­ten Nis­sen, Uffe Juul Jen­sen, Erik Axel, Kris­ti­an Krei­ner,…

wei­ter­le­sen “Theo­ry in Prac­ti­ce ? – May 29–30 2012” »

Gro­wing Une­qual? brings tog­e­ther a ran­ge of ana­ly­ses on the dis­tri­bu­ti­on of eco­no­mic resour­ces in OECD count­ries. The evi­dence on inco­me dis­tri­bu­ti­on and pover­ty covers, for the first time, all 30 OECD count­ries in the mid-2000s, while infor­ma­ti­on on trends exten­ding back to the mid-1980s is pro­vi­ded for around two-thirds of the count­ries. The report…

wei­ter­le­sen “Gro­wing Une­qual? Inco­me Dis­tri­bu­ti­on and Pover­ty in OECD Count­ries” »

Buil­ding and Sus­tai­ning Alter­na­ti­ve Scho­lar­ly Publi­shing Pro­jects Around the World The Public Know­ledge Pro­ject is plea­sed to announ­ce that, in part­ner­ship with the Freie Uni­ver­si­tät Ber­lin, the Third Inter­na­tio­nal PKP Scho­lar­ly Publi­shing Con­fe­rence will be held from Sep­tem­ber 26 – 28, 2011 in Ber­lin, Ger­ma­ny. This is the first time that the PKP Con­fe­rence is…

wei­ter­le­sen “Third Inter­na­tio­nal PKP Scho­lar­ly Publi­shing Con­fe­rence” »

The cur­rent update sum­ma­ri­ses the main fin­dings of this rese­arch, while out­lining deve­lo­p­ments sin­ce the last Bar­ri­er report, issued in July 2009. This year, in con­junc­tion with the World Health Orga­niza­ti­on (WHO), the update focu­ses on the impact of the Bar­ri­er on health, in par­ti­cu­lar pati­ent and staff access to the spe­cia­li­zed medi­cal faci­li­ties only…

wei­ter­le­sen “The Impact of Bar­ri­er on Health” »

The final pro­gram for the con­fe­rence is now available as pdf and at http://discoveryspace.upei.ca/mprg/node/412

The Jour­nal für Psy­cho­lo­gie Issue 1/2010 is now available at http://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/jfp‑1–2010.html

The New Asso­cia­ti­on of Psy­cho­lo­gy (NGfP) is a coali­ti­on of rese­ar­chers and prac­ti­tio­ners in the field of psy­cho­lo­gy as well as rela­ted disci­pli­nes. Our goal is to estab­lish a cri­ti­cal dis­cour­se about psy­cho­lo­gi­cal topics that takes into account the socie­tal and cul­tu­ral dimen­si­ons. The NGfP sup­ports inter- and trans­di­sci­pli­na­ry rese­arch and works on clo­sing the…

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Hind­sight: The Pro­mi­se and Peril of Loo­king Back­ward Alt­hough the idea of hind­sight is fre­quent­ly asso­cia­ted with the bia­ses, dis­tor­ti­ons, and out­right lies of memory–as in the infa­mous “20–20” sce­na­rio or the con­vic­tion that one “knew it all along” – Mark Free­man main­ta­ins that this pro­cess of loo­king back­ward over the ter­rain of the past…

wei­ter­le­sen “New Book by Mark Free­man” »

Call For Papers (Exten­ded Dead­line) Mar­xism and Psy­cho­lo­gy Con­fe­rence The Uni­ver­si­ty of Prin­ce Edward Island August 5–7, 2010 Web­site: http://vre.upei.ca/mprg/ Cont­act: marfken@upei.ca Sub­mis­si­on Dead­line: Febru­ary 1, 2010 (Exten­ded Dead­line) In the histo­ry of social thought, it is dif­fi­cult to find a more divi­si­ve figu­re than Karl Marx. For many, the mere men­ti­on of his name…

wei­ter­le­sen “Mar­xism and Psy­cho­lo­gy Con­fe­rence” »

Ros­kil­de Uni­ver­si­ty, Den­mark, 26 to28 May 2010 This con­fe­rence focu­ses on the ever­y­day prac­ti­ces of per­sons, and the inter­play bet­ween actors and social struc­tures in ever­y­day life. Ever­y­day life in the Nor­dic and Euro­peans socie­ties is cha­rac­te­ri­zed by an unpre­ce­den­ted rup­tu­re of eco­no­mic and poli­ti­cal sys­tems, cul­tu­ral mea­nings and indi­vi­du­al iden­ti­ties. Glo­bal and envi­ron­men­tal chan­ges…

wei­ter­le­sen “Sub­jec­ti­vi­ty and Lear­ning Con­fe­rence” »

Spaw­ned by the lin­gu­i­stic turn, and in psy­cho­lo­gy spe­ci­fi­cal­ly by the nar­ra­ti­ve turn asso­cia­ted with the names of Theo­dor Sar­bin and Jero­me Bru­ner, lan­guage beca­me the cen­tral focus in many are­as of the social sci­en­ces. The spe­cial issue of the Ger­man Jour­nal für Psy­cho­lo­gie aims to look behind the curta­ins of this deve­lo­p­ment to inves­ti­ga­te…

wei­ter­le­sen “The Cri­ti­cal Poten­ti­al of Lan­guage. Call for Papers. Jour­nal für Psy­cho­lo­gie” »