INVITED LECTURES

Angela Branco
Emeritus Professor, Institute of Psychology, University of Brasília, Brazil
The Dialogical Self: Contributions from a Semiotic Cultural Perspective

Luis Medina
University Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
Towards a Dialogical Architecture for AI Agents: Recognising and Refining the “Society of Mind” in Pedagogical Expert Systems

Rens van Loon
Professor of Dialogical Leadership, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Looking to the Mountain

Piotr Oles
Professor, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Dialogical Identity: Concept and Method of Investigation

Jaan Valsiner
Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
The Axiomatic Shift in the Study of the Self: Thirty Years of Theoretical Innovation 

INVITED PANEL DISCUSSION


Chaired by Jaan Valsiner, Denmark
New Directions in Dialogical Process Analyses in Psychotherapy?

INVITED PAPERS

Reinekke Lengelle
Athabasca University, Canada
The Many Voices of Grief: DST and Writing the Self

João Salgado
Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, ISMAI, Porto, Portugal
Self-Criticism as a Dialogical Process: Matching Emotion-Focused Therapy and the Dialogical Self

Liang Zhao
Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
Dietary Practices as Dialogical Arenas: Identity Construction among Youth from Han-Hui Intermarried Families

Peter Zomer
Zomer and Cornelissen Consultancy, The Netherlands
Edgar Morin’s Complexity Thinking: Its Added Value for Dialogical Self Theory


 


INVITED WORKSHOPS

Reinekke Lengelle
Athabasca University, Canada
Writing the Self: Dialogical Transformations for Research and Life

Dina Nir
Head of the Executive MBA, Ono Academic College, Israel
Consciousness and the Dialogical Self: A Zen–Taoist Reframing of I-Positions and the Witnessing Awareness

Polina Roussou
Psychotherapist, ‘Logo Psychis’ – Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Greece
Parts, Voices and Positions: A Dialogue Between Dialogical Self Theory and Internal Family Systems Theory

Jaan Valsiner
Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Process Analysis

Thanos Verdis
Associate Professor of Educational Research and Evaluation, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dialogical Sonic Self-Portraits: Voice as Common Ground in Dialogical Self Theory

Joanne Zhang
Leadership Consultant and Dialogical Self Theory Practitioner, China
Polyphonic Selves: From Image to Voice in Arts-Based Dialogical Practice

 

INVITED SYMPOSIA

Tsabika Bafiti
Clinical Psychologist &; Psychotherapist, Co-founder and Co-director of ‘Logo Psychis’, Greece
Dialogues of Becoming: The Self in Psychotherapy, Training, and Life Transitions

Kiyomi Banda
Professor, Faculty of Psychological Sciences, University of Human Environments, Japan
The Dialogical Self in Flux Within Culture — Exploring Contradictions

Or Burstein
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Innovations in Assessing Dialogical Qualities: Novel Instruments and Validations

Sandra Ferraz
Professor in developmental and educational psychology, Brazil
Social Construction of Gender by School Children: Navigating Self Dynamics Mediated by Avatars

Anna Gabińska
Assistant Professor, SWPS University, Poland
Navigating the Future: Internal Dialogues in Decision-Making, Wisdom, and Self-Continuity

Mahtab Janfada
Senior Lecturer, Language and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
Navigating Contradictions and Responsibilities in the Poly-Crisis Climate: Transnational Narratives of Dialogical Selves

Katrin Kullasepp
Associate Professor, Tallinn University, Estonia
The Dialogical Process of Becoming a Psychologist

Manuel L. de la Mata Benítez
Professor, University of Seville, Spain
Identity and Migration from a Dialogical Perspective: Obstacles and Resources

Crista Weise
Serra Húnter Lecturer, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Identity and Agency Under Tension in Educational Trajectories

Teguh Wijaya Mulya
Professor, Faculty of Psychology, University of Surabaya, Indonesia
Dialogical Self Theory in Environmental Meaning-Making in Indonesia: Religion, Land, Youth, and the Voice of Nature