Conferences

Scientific Conferences

(Over 200 presentations in conferences, symposia, invited lectures, chair and discussant at invited symposia, etc.)

Invited Speaker, keynotes, and special events (Selected list)

  • Holocaust child survivors as parents: A successful challenge, Invited lecture, Tel Aviv University Annual Board of Governors (June 1999).

  • Holocaust child survivors: The challenge of becoming successful parents Invited lecture, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Washington, DC, December 2000).

  • When Quality of child care is poor children suffer: Some insights from Israel, Invited keynote at the Japanese Society of Child Health (Kobe, Japan, October, 2002).

  • When quality of childcare is poor children suffer: Some insights from Israel. Invited keynote at the symposium on International Strategies for Improving Relationship-based Group Care for Young Children, Zero to Three Conference, Sacramento, California, December 2004.

  • From basic child development research to the real world of children and their families. Invited talk, The World Bank Human Development Network, Washington, DC, June 2007.

  • From Context-Unique Research to Conclusions about Universal Developmental Processes, Keynote Address at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Würzburg, Germany, July, 2008.

  • Invited senior mentor in the Millennium Scholars Program, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, March 29-April 2, 2011.

  • Early separation and loss of parents: Vulnerability and resilience across generations. Invited State-of-the-Art talk at the 12th European Congress of Psychology, July 4-8, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

  • What can attachment theory and research tell us about the multiple facets of trauma? From severe vulnerability to promising resilience. Keynote Lecture, 6th International Attachment Conference, Pavia, Italy, 30 August-1 September, 2013.

  • Life in the shadow of the Holocaust: A human development perspective across generations. Keynote Lecture, International conference: Memory, Identity, and Limits of Understanding: Jewish Sources and Resources, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 25-26, 2014

  • New meaning and hope in life as healing systems: The story of Holocaust survivors. Invited lecture at the Charlotte-Buehler-Symposium: New insights into Current Attachment Research. Vienna, Austria, March 29-30, 2015.

  • Shared care and the interplay of multiple attachments in historical Kibbutz. Invited lecture at the symposium "Out of Africa": Early childhood in the rural area around Zomba in Malawi. Vienna, Austria, May 2-3, 2016.

  • Psychology Speaker Series, New School for Social Research, New York, The importance of context: What research in specific settings can tell us about developmental universals?” May, 2016

  • Does trauma transfer? The case of three generations of the Holocaust. Invited lecture at Yad Vashem & United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in a symposium on Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, February 20-21, 2017

  • Training professionals from developing countries: Telling lessons learned from an International MA program in Child Development. Plenary lecture, 2nd International Conference on Early Childhood Development, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, November 7-9, 2017

  • When the Unthinkable Happens: the case of three generations of the Holocaust. Invited lecture, School of Psychology, 10th Anniversary, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, April, 2019

  • Does trauma transfer? The case of three generations of the Holocaust, Plenary Lecture, Nordic Attachment Network, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 4-5, 2019

  • Early Attachment and Culture: Lessons from Around the World, Keynote Lecture, The Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health, May 1, 2020

  • Topic TBA, Keynote Lecture, Ibero-American Attachment Network Congress, Lima, Perú, September 2020 (postponed because of the COVID19 pandemic)

  • Holocaust survivors and their offspring: Vulnerability and resilience, Keynote Lecture and Plenary, 20th anniversary, International Attachment Conference, Ulm, Germany, September 12, 2021