Invited lectures

The future begins with debate

 Martin W. Bauer

Professor of Social Psychology & Research Methodology

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Martin W Bauer investigates ‘common sense’ in relation to science and emerging technologies in the international MACAS network [mapping the cultural authority of science]. He is a Fellow of the German Academy of Technical Sciences [acatech]. Recent publications include  AI and Common Sense - Ambitions and Frictions (Routledge, 2024, with B Schiele); The Psychology of Social Influence – Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense, Cambridge, (CUP, 2021, with G Sammut); Atom, Bytes & Genes – Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses (Routledge, 2015). 

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Paula Castro

Full Professor of Psychology

ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon

Integrated researcher, CIS-iscte

Paula Castro develops a socio-political psychology focused on change instigated by institutional forces—i.e., by new legislation and public policies. Looking at Battles of ideas happening in the relations between the institutional/reified sphere and the public/everyday sphere, her research studies processes of meaning-making, interpretation and communication and how they manifest, contest and transform social representations and views of citizenship. She has namely examined how communities respond to new legislation/policies, how activists call for/contest rights&obligations in climate policy, how laws/bills are debated in Parliaments, how the media presents them or how they are transformed in implementation. She is interested in the consequences of these processes for social and personal change, in particular around climate action, biodiversity protection, public participation, or the regulation of urban space, and health.

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Valérie Haas

Professor of Social Psychology

Researcher, GRePS (Groupe de Recherche en Psychologie Sociétale)

Université Lumière Lyon 2

Valérie Haas trained in EHESS (Paris) where she completed her doctoral thesis under the direction of Denise Jodelet and she obtained her habilitation in Paris Cité University. She’s Professor on social psychology since 2012. She has been Vice president of her university, working on programs of education and students’ living conditions between 2016 and 2020. Her research work is framed in the field of collective memory and forgetfulness, social representations through qualitative methodologies (observations, interviews and focus groups). Her research focused on groups transmission (collective and institutional), the lack of transmission (silences, absences), the space as “place of memory” and the rumors. She also works on different contractual research with her colleagues in Lyon.