Guest Presenters

Colloquium Speaker
Jon Hubbard, PhD
Integrating Research and Practice to Serve the Psychosocial Needs of Torture Survivors
Tue 7:30 – 9pm

Diversity Presentation
Hating What You Don’t Know: Dissolving Prejudice Through Cultural Understanding
Wed 6 – 9pm

6:00-6:30 MSA meeting
6:30-7:30 Brief introduction and video: Skin Deep
7:30-8:45 Small and large group discussion
8:45-9:00 Wrap-up

KA CREDIT for the Multicultural Student Association Event. SAY WHAT? This is no typo. One of the purposes of MSA is to create an environment where our differences, similarities and concerns can be heard. We are going to do just that. Here is how: This event is going to be led by three MSA members. You will be briefed about a mini film, called Skin Deep. The film was designed to help students talk about issues surrounding diversity. It was also designed to encourage students to come up with solutions about conflicting concerns between and among racial and diversity issues.

We will break up into smaller groups and faculty members will lead small group discussions after the film has been shown. The participants will gather back into one large group for the MSA students to facilitate a discussion based on what has been discovered in the smaller groups. This discussion will be open to many diversity issues and prejudicial concerns including: Racial, Religious, Physical Impairments, Mental Health Diagnosis and even Prejudices between Professionals with different theoretical orientations, if this topic is of concern.

So what about KA credit? Our one and only Dr. Agee Greene is offering credit based on the content of this seminar for KA712: Multicultural Psychology or KA740: Advanced Topics in Multicultural Psychology. Additional scholarly work will be required after the session for KA credit. All are encouraged to attend this great event regardless if they need KA credit or not. Food and beverages will be available.

Film Screening
Eyewitness to Valkyrie
Wed 5 – 6:30pm

"Eyewitness to Valkyrie" is a feature-length documentary on the Stauffenberg Circle, the group of conspirators in the German Wehrmacht who executed the attempt on Hitler's life on July 20, 1944. The aim of the film is to provide a painstakingly researched reconstruction of the psychological forces that motivated the conspirators, and the factors that caused their attempt to fail.

The film is based on a number of exclusive interviews with survivors of the Stauffenberg Kreis and their immediate family members, as well as noted German, British and American scholars including Prof. Ian Kershaw, Prof. James Koch, Dr. Johannes Tuchel and author Roger Moorhouse. It features extensive dramatizations and CG animation, as well as rare color and black & white archival footage.

The film is partly based on research conducted by Media Psychology students under supervision of the film's director, Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts. "

Guest Presenter
Gene D. Cohen
The Mature Mind: Creative Potential and Psychological Growth in the Second Half of Life
Thu 7 – 9pm

This years speaker, Gene D. Cohen, MD, PhD is the first Director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities(established 1994) at George Washington University (GW), where he also holds the positions of Professor of Health Care Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He has launched a new public education program on aging targeting the young, referred to as SEAChange—an acronym for Societal Education about Aging for Change. He also co-founded the Creativity Discovery Corps whose mission is to identify and preserve the creative accomplishments and rich histories of under-recognized talented older adults. In addition, he is the founding Director of a think tank on aging-the Washington, DC Center On Aging (established 1994) and Past-President (1996-1997) of the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Cohen is the author of more than 150 publications in the field of aging, including his new book, The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain.

Dr. Cohen will speak on how research on aging has identified a number of positive brain and behavioral changes in the second half of life that set the stage for psychological growth and creative expression. As a result, we now recognize positive developments among middle age and older adults that occur not despite aging, but because of aging. These positive changes will be delineated and the underlying mechanisms that enable them to happen will be elaborated. The New Senior Moment—a creative one—will be described, and aging will be discussed as perhaps the best example of a phenomenon where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Be prepared to witness the dismantling of a number of long held negative myths and stereotypes about aging.

Guest Presenter
Glen P. Aylward, Phd, ABPP
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of High Risk Infants
Fri 5:30 – 7pm

Dr. Aylward is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, IL. He is also Chief, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics/Psychology. Dr. Aylward is boarded in Clinical Psychology and also Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Aylward has authored more than 100 papers, chapters, abstracts and reviews, and is the author of the Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener, and the books, Practitioner’s Guide to Developmental and Psychological Testing, Infant and Early Childhood Neuropsychology, and Practitioner’s Guide to Behavioral Problems in Children. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Aylward has served on numerous committees and executive boards in the American Psychological Association, the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (Board of Directors). He was President of the Society of Pediatric Psychology (Div. 54, APA) and is currently President of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. His research and clinical interests include neurodevelopmental assessment, developmental screening, prediction of outcome in high- risk infants, and the diagnosis and differentiation of attention deficit disorders, executive dysfunction and learning/memory disabilities.

Fielding Faculty Panel
Can Love Last? Relational Approaches to the Fate of Intimacy
Fri 7:30 – 9pm
This will be a panel discussion centering around the work of Stephen Mitchell from a variety of perspectives.