PSYCHE Talk #3: Social Constructionist Psychology - An Interview with Kenneth Gergen

Name: PSYCHE Talk #3: Social Constructionist Psychology - An Interview with Kenneth Gergen
Start: 2024-11-08T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-11-08T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Nordkraft (Aalborg)

Schedule

Fri Nov 08 2024 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Nordkraft (Aalborg) | Aalborg, NJ

The research section PSYCHE at The Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University is proud to present the third round of PSYCHE Talks. Kenneth J. Gergen, emeritus Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, will be interviewed by Carolin Demuth, Associate Professor of Cultural and Developmental Psychology at Aalborg University.
Kenneth J. Gergen is a major figure in the development of social constructionist theory and its applications to practices of social change. He also lectures widely on contemporary issues in cultural life, including the self, technology, postmodernism, the civil society, organizational change, developments in psychotherapy, educational practices, aging, and political conflict. He is also a founding member and President of the Taos Institute. Gergen has published over 300 articles in journals, magazines and books, and his major award winning books include Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge, The Saturated Self, Realities and Relationships, and An Invitation to Social Construction. Based on the high impact of his publications, their outstanding quality, and their quantity, Kenneth Gergen has been ranked in the top .o5% of all scholars in the world and has been named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Living Psychologists in the World. Gergen has served as the President of two divisions of the American Psychological Association, the Division on Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and on Psychology and the Arts. He has served on the editorial board of 35 journals, and as the Associate Editor of The American Psychologist and Theory and Psychology.
Carolin Demuth’s work is located in the field of Discursive Psychology, Narrative Psychology and Language socialization and addresses the interplay of language, social interaction and human development. Some of her recent publications are the Cambridge Handbook of Identity (co-edited with Michael Bamberg and Meike Watzlawik) and the The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research (co-edited with Eleftheria Tseliou, Genie Georgaca, and Brendan Gough). She has also published on various topics related to qualitative research in psychology. She is associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology: Cultural Psychology and serves on various editorial boards (e.g., Qualitative Research in Psychology). She is founding member and current president (2021-2024) of the Association for European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP). She is also co-director of the Centre for Cultural Psychology and head of the research group Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University.
In this interview, they will discuss the contributions of Social Constructionism to the field of psychology, its relation to Cultural Psychology, as well as the future of qualitative research in psychology.
The event will be hybrid - open for AAU staff and students in person and livestreamed through Zoom for a wider audience. Zoom-link will be posted here before the event and more information can be found here: https://www.communication.aau.dk/psyche-talk-3-social-constructionist-psychology-e112780.