A conversation with Israeli activist/scholar Daniel Bar-Tal
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 1:00 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational • Hastings Room • 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
A light lunch will be served; donation $5 requested. A Peace Action Lunchtime Seminar
Daniel Bar-Tal is Branco Weiss Professor of Research in Child Development and Education at the School of Education and past director of the Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education, Tel Aviv University. Also he serves as a Coeditor in Chief of the Palestine Israel Journal, Director of the Walter Lebach Research Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education, Tel Aviv University and Co-director of the European Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Bar-Tal received his graduate training in social psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and completed his doctoral thesis in 1974. Since the early eighties his interest has shifted to political psychology, in which he has directed most of his attention to the beliefs shared by collectives, studying acquisition of these beliefs, their meaning, functions and the way they influence emotions and behaviours. Specifically, he studied beliefs about conflict, stereotyping, delegitimisation, siege mentality, security, patriotism and reconciliation, as well as collective emotional orientations of fear and hope.
Recent articles:
“Socio-psychological implications for an occupying society: The case of Israel”
“Jews of the World – Be Part of our Debates: See Also the Half Empty Glass“