Detailed schedule

Be aware that the schedule can change!

09:30-10:15 Welcome and tea/coffee

10:15-11:15 Invited talks: Dehumanization

• Jeroen Vaes (University of Trento)  - Dehumanization and objectification: From trait-based measures to the fading of the human-object divide

• Lasana Harris (University College London) - The Utility of Dehumanisation

11:15-12:15 Data blitz: Dehumanization
(7 minutes each and 25 minutes discussion)

• Katarina Fincher (The New School for Social Research) - “Re-examining Perceptual Dehumanization:Configural Processing Humanizes via Mentalization”

• Alexander Landry (Stanford University) - “Integrating Conceptualizations and Measures of Dehumanization” 

• Magdalena Formanowicz (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities) - “The Role of Agency and Communion in Dehumanization – an Integrative Perspective” 

• Islam Borinca (University of Groningen) - “Can meta-humanization help people who experience high levels of traumatic intrusion reconcile with their former adversaries?“

• Gian Antonio di Bernardo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) - “No Hard Feelings: The Role of Self-Objectification and Self-Dehumanization in Understanding other’s Emotions”

12.15-13.15 Lunch break

13.15-14.15 Invited talks: Objectification and sexualization

• Xijing Wang (The City University of Hong Kong) - Succumbing to one's environment:  Social and physical environment predictors of objectification

• Emily Courtney (University of South Florida) - The Body in Parts: Objectification as Adaptive in Health Contexts

14:15-15:15 - Data blitz: Objectification and sexualization
(7 minutes each + 25 minutes discussion)

• Ariel Mosley (University of California Davis) -  “Shifting Standards of Sexuality: An Intersectional Account of Men’s objectification of Black and White Women”

• Maayan Dvir (Reichman University) - “Introducing Creepy Ben: Manipulating sexual objectification and ostracism online”

• Philippe Bernard (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - “The effect of dark triad traits on objectifying behaviors: The mediating role of sociosexual orientation”

• Gemma Sáez Díaz (University of Extremadura) -” When and How Men Objectify Women? An Evaluative Process Model of Objectification”

• Alessandra Sacino (University of Bologna, University of Genoa) - “Am I in danger? The internalisation of sexualisation and self-objectification as antecedents of young women's risk perception” 

15:15-15:40 Comfort break/coffee & tea

15:40-16:50 Panel Discussion

Contemporary challenges in research on sexualization, objectification, and dehumanization  

Panelists: 

• Afroditi Pina (University of Kent, UK) 

• Nurit Shnabel (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 

• Steve Loughnan (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

• Anna Kende (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

16.50-17:00 Close and farewell