Free Public Lectures
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:30:00 GMT
This is your opportunity to attend two free public lectures organised by the Institute for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human Sciences (IRCAHS).
About the Speaker
Professor Shaul Kimhi has been Head of the Psychology Department at Tel Hai College since 2009. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP), and the International Political Science Association (IPSA). His main areas of research are resilience and coping with stress, political psychology, psychology of terrorism, and army psychology.
Psychology of Terror: Thursday 12 November 2015
West Building ground floor room 54 (WG/54)
6.15pm to 7.45pm
This lecture focuses on some of the salient psychological aspects of terror and will cover some of the following:
- The problem of an agreed definition for terror and the origin of this concept
- The various explanations for the question of motives of people in becoming a terrorist
- Psychological, religious, sociological and political approaches
- The salient motives of the perpetrators of terrorism
- Ideology/religious, nationalist, retribution and exploited
Please book via Eventbrite to reserve your place. For more information email s.m.hanson@hud.ac.uk or call 01484 473213
Resilience: Friday 13 November 2015
West Building ground floor, room 59 (WG/59)
10.15am to 11.45am
In recent years, the concept of resilience has often been used in discussing people's ability to withstand stress. Resilience is a positive trajectory of adaptation after a disturbance, distress, or adversity. The planned lecture will focus on the following main issues:
- The meaning of resilience in social science and alternative definitions of resilience
- Levels of resilience
- Individual, community and national, and associations among levels of resilience
- The concept of SVR: balance between strength and vulnerability as a better indicator of resilience
Please book via Eventbrite to reserve your place.
To find out more about the two lectures please contact Sue Hanson by email at s.m.hanson@hud.ac.uk or call 01484 473213.
