2026/27 Schedule
This schedule is automatically updated by the colloquium coordinators.
Past Sessions
2025/26 Sessions
| Date | Speaker | Title | Discussant | Recording | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 29 May 2026 | ● | Dr. Lukas Wallrich Birkbeck, University of London | From contact associations to contact effects: Conceptual puzzles in a maturing field | Dr Nikhil Sengupta, University of Kent | |
| Friday, 24 Apr 2026 | ● | Prof. Oliver Christ FernUniversität in Hagen | The role of tolerance in intergroup relations | Dr Maria-Therese Friehs, FernUniversität in Hagen | |
| Monday, 23 Mar 2026 | ● | Dr. Chloe Bracegirdle University of Oxford | Social network insights into intergroup contact in schools | Prof. Olivia Spiegler, University of Oxford | |
| Friday, 27 Feb 2026 | ● | Dr. Fiona Kazarovytska University of Mainz Max Primbs Radboud University | Contact as Collective Action: Positive and Negative Contact Experiences of Disadvantaged Group Members A big data approach to intergroup contact | Dr Maria-Therese Friehs, FernUniversität in Hagen | |
| Friday, 30 Jan 2026 | ● | Prof. Rose Meleady University of East Anglia | Stable people, stable contexts, stable attitudes? Contact effects reconsidered | Prof. Shelley McKeown Jones, University of Oxford | |
| Monday, 24 Nov 2025 | ● | Dr. Negusu Aklilu Destiny Ethiopia Initiative | Building peace before the polls: Political party dialogues to prevent electoral violence in Ethiopia | Julia Schreiber, University of Sussex | |
| Friday, 31 Oct 2025 | ● | Prof. Jake Harwood University of Arizona | The rhythm is gonna get you: What people do during contact matters | Prof. Stefania Paolini, Durham University |  Watch on YouTube |
2024/25 Sessions
| Date | Speaker | Title | Discussant | Recording | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postponed | ● | Dr. Lukas Wallrich Birkbeck University | Digging deeper into the link between contact and attitudes by aggregating large-scale datasets: an intergroup contact mega-analysis | Dr Nikhil Sengupta, University of Kent | To be scheduled for autumn 2025 |
| Monday, 2 June 2025 | ● | Prof. Stefania Paolini Durham University | A temporally integrated model of contact effects (keynote at the Annual Contact Research Summit) | Sign up here | |
| Monday, 14 April 2025 | ● | Prof. John Dixon The Open University | The human geography of contact and desegregation and why social psychologists should cultivate a spatial imagination | Prof. Shelley McKeown-Jones, University of Oxford | |
| Friday, 28 Mar 2025 | ● | Dr. Julia Rohrer University of Leipzig | Using causal graphs to reason more clearly about correlation and causation | Dr. Maria-Therese Friehs, FernUniversität Hagen | Watch on YouTube |
| Friday, 28 Feb 2025 | ● | Dr. Tinghua Yu Birkbeck University | Moral communalism, ingroup favoritism, and conditional altruism | Dr. Lukas Wallrich, Birkbeck University | |
| Monday, 27 Jan 2025 | ● | Dr. Sarina Schäfer FernUniversität Hagen | Using video-games to disentangle intergroup interactions and intergroup contact | Cassandra Cone, Macquarie University Sydney | Watch on YouTube |
| Monday, 25 Nov 2024 | ● | Dr. Danielle Blaylock Queen’s University Belfast | The impact of large-scale contact interventions in post-conflict societies: Bridging applied research, evaluation, and policy | Dr. Lindsey Cameron, University of Kent | |
| Friday, 18 Oct 2024 | ● | Dr. Maria-Therese Friehs FernUniversität Hagen | Longitudinal intergroup contact effects in naturalistic settings - what we know and where to go from here | Dr. Patrick Kotzur, Durham University | Watch on YouTube View Slides |
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