ESSO-group had a workshop at the 16th ETMU Conference 2019: Solidarity, Participation, and Politics. The 16th ETMU Conference was held November 14-15, 2019, at Tampere University and it addressed different meanings and concrete practices of solidarity, participation, and politics and their effects in the context of global mobility and ethnic relations. Read more about the 16th ETMU Conference from the official site.
Social psychological perspectives on interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup solidarity (Thu 14.11.2019 at 12.30-14.00)
Chair: Tuuli Anna Renvik
Adolescents’ gratitude and indebtedness toward parents: Interpreting intergenerational conflicts and solidarity after migration, Elina Turjanmaa (University of Helsinki)
Intergroup relations of mothers of young children in multiethnic neighborhoods, Eerika Finell, Paula Paajanen & Tuija Seppälä
Exclusionary definitions of citizenship in political and lay discourse, Emma Nortio & Katarina Pettersson
Testing a school-based vicarious contact intervention in three countries: Does it matter how the students perceive the facilitator’s engagement?, Viivi Mäkinen & Tuuli Anna Renvik
The Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) is a multidisciplinary scientific association that promotes research in this field in Finland. Read more about ETMU from the official site.
Professor Jolanda Jetten from University of Queensland visited us at the unit of Social Psychology and gave two lectures. The first lecture, The wealth paradox: Economic prosperity, populism and opposition to immigration, was on Monday, April 15th, 2019. The second lecture, Unlocking the social cure: How group memberships are key to health and well-being, was on Tuesday, April 16th, 2019.
Jolanda Jetten (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1997) is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Queensland. She was employed as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, a UQ Development Fellow and she will commence an Australian Research Council Laureate fellowship in May 2019. Her research is concerned with group processes, social identity and intergroup relations. She has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles, over 35 chapters and 5 books. Jolanda currently serves as co Chief Editor of Social Issues and Policy Review and as an associate editor with CRSP. She was awarded the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal in 2004 and the Kurt Lewin Medal from the European Association of Social Psychology in 2014. Jolanda is the former President of the Society of Australasian Social Psychology (SASP) and served on the ARC College of Experts. She was elected as fellow of the Association of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) in 2015.
Teemu Pauha defended his doctoral dissertation on September 15, 2018. The dissertation is titled “Religious and national identities among young Muslims in Finland: A view from the social constructionist social psychology of religion” and it can be accessed here.
Professor Jonas Otterbeck from University of Lund served as the opponent, and Professor Teemu Taira as the custos.
Members of the research group presented their current research in the EASP General Meeting. You can find our contributions to the conference below.
Katarina Pettersson defended her doctoral dissertation on June 9th. The dissertation is titled “Save the nation! A social psychological study of political blogs as a medium for nationalist communication and persuasion” and it can be accessed here.
Prof. Nick Hopkins from University of Dundee acted as an opponent.
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