Second Annual
PSYCHOLOGY DAY at the UNITED NATIONS

Psychology and Social Justice Related to the UN Global Agenda

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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PROGRAM OUTLINE

SECOND ANNUAL PSYCHOLOGY DAY at the UNITED NATIONS

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2008

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD AUDITORIUM

UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK

1:00pm – 1:15pm

 OPENING REMARKS and INTRODUCTIONS

Florence Denmark, Ph.D.
(Main Representative of the American Psychological Association and the International Council of Psychologists; Coordinator of the U.N. Psychology Day Planning Committee)

Norman Anderson, Ph.D.
(CEO, American Psychological Association) Invited

 1:15pm – 1:30pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Speaker: Herbert Kelman, Ph.D.
(Emeritus Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University)

TOPIC:  A One-country/Two-state Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

1:30pm – 2:15pm

PANEL #1

Human Behavior and Climate Change: A Social Justice Issue

 Chairperson:  Peter Walker, Ph.D.
(UN/NGO Representative, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Co-Coordinator of the U.N. Psychology Day Planning Committee)

Speakers:

·         David Uzzell, Ph.D.
(Professor of Environmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, School of Human Science, University of Surrey)

Inka Weissbecker, Ph.D.
(NGO Representative of the International Union of Psychological Science to the United Nations; Executive Committee Member of the U.N. Family Committee; MPH candidate, Harvard University, School of Public Health)

Discussant:

Dr. Ani Kalayjian
(Professor of Psychology, Fordham University; President, Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention; AUWA U.N. Representative)

2:15pm – 3:00pm

PANEL #2

Poverty Reduction and Social Justice: The Role of Psychology

Chairperson:  Mary O’Neill Berry, Ph.D. and Walter Reichman, Ed.D.
(UN/NGO Representatives, International Association of Applied Psychology)

Speakers:

·         Anthony Lemieux, Ph.D.
(Assistant Professor of Psychology, Purchase College, State University of New York)

·         Anthony Marsella, Ph.D.
(Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu)

3:00pm – 3:45pm

PANEL #3

Psychological Perspectives on the Abuse of Power

Chairperson: Deanna Chitayat, Ph.D.
(UN/NGO Representative, American Psychological Association)

Speakers:

·         Susan Opotow, Ph.D.  
(Professor, Department of Sociology, John Jay College, City University of New York, and President, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues)

·         Stacey Sinclair, Ph.D.
(Associate Professor of Psychology & African American Studies, Princeton University)

·         Rita Chi-Ying Chung, Ph.D.
(Professor, Graduate School of Education and the Department of Psychology, George Mason University)

3:45pm – 4:00pm

CLOSING REMARKS

 Florence Denmark, Ph.D.
(Main Representative of the American Psychological Association and the International Council of Psychologists; Chair of Planning Committee)