Dear all,
Kind reminder that Dr. Marina Doucerain from UQAM Psychology will be speaking at today's CRAM session, from 12-1 PM in room 735 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Please see below for additional information - looking forward to seeing you there!
Warmly, Mehrgol
________________________________ From: Mehrgol Tiv Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 11:19 AM To: faculty@psych.mcgill.ca; postdoc@psych.mcgill.ca; grad@psych.mcgill.ca; CRBLM Cc: Marina M. Doucerain Subject: CRAM - Oct 26
Dear all,
I am happy to announce the first invited CRAM {Cognitive Research at McGill} speaker this term. On Friday, October 26, Dr. Marina Doucerain from UQAM Psychology will be speaking about the contextual factors involved with acculturation amongst immigrants (title & abstract below). As usual, the talk will span from 12-1 PM in room 735 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Everyone is welcome.
For a full schedule of talks this term, please visit https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series, or see attached.
To be added to the cognitive list serve and get day-of updates & information about additional talks, please visit http://mx0.psych.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/coggroup.
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Dr. Marina Doucerain
Immigrating and negotiating one’s cultural engagement: The role of context and social relationships
When people settle in a new country, they face a host of challenges and changes, including for example learning a new language, learning new ways of doing things, or renegotiating their cultural identities. A lot of research has focused on intra-individual factors at play in this process of acculturation. In contrast, this presentation takes the idea that acculturation does not take place in a vacuum as a starting point, and emphasizes the role of contextual factors in acculturation. People are embedded in a range of contexts, ranging from biological dispositions to the cultural composition of their neighbourhood, that strongly influence how they can or decide to handle acculturative changes. This presentation focuses in particular on social aspects of people’s contexts (social interactions, relationships, and networks).
-Mehrgol