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