Contact Colloquium
The Contact Colloquium will run monthly for an hour and will feature a presentation, a discussant, and the opportunity for Q&A and broader discussion. The colloquium is open to all and will be held on Teams. If you are an ICRN member, you will receive the Teams calendar invite automatically. If you are not an ICRN member and would like to join the Contact Colloquium, please register for individual sessions below.
Themes:
● Methodology ● Basic Research ● Applied Research
| Date | Speaker | Title | Discussant | Interested? | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 18 Oct | ● | 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 |
| Monday, 25 Nov | ● | 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 | |
| Monday, 27 Jan | ● | Dr. Sarina Schäfer FernUniversität Hagen | Using video-games to disentangle intergroup interactions and intergroup contact | Cassandra Cone, Macquarie University Sydney | Watch on YouTube |
| Friday, 28 Feb | ● | Dr. Tinghua Yu Birkbeck University | Moral communalism, ingroup favoritism, and conditional altruism | Dr. Lukas Wallrich, Birkbeck University | Sign up here |
| Friday, 28 Mar | ● | Dr. Julia Rohrer University of Leipzig | Using causal graphs to reason more clearly about correlation and causation | Dr. Maria-Therese Friehs, FernUniversität Hagen | Sign up here |
| Monday, 14 April | ● | 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 | Sign up here |
| TBC May | ● | Prof. Stefania Paolini Durham University | A temporally integrated model of contact effects (keynote at the Annual Contact Research Summit) | Contact us to join. | |
| Friday, 27 June | ● | 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 | Sign up here |
Interested in joining the International Contact Research Network as a member, speaker or discussant? Please get in touch!