So.Re.Com.THE.NET.  @-­‐NEWS    n°  14  –  December  2009  The  integrated  Newsle;er  of  the  European  PhD  on  Social  RepresentaBons  and  CommunicaBon      

and  of  the    So.Re.Com.  THEmaBc  NETwork  

VI JIRS – III JNRS Perspectivas en Representaciones Sociales: Dialogos y Debates

Editorial News

We are delighted to announce the publication of the book “La Educacion en busca de nuevos sentidos: Discursos y procesos de aprendizaje”. (Eds.)Gustavo Chiachio, Nestor Pievi, José A. Gomez Di Vincenzo and Emilio P. Echaverry Marino. Jorge Baudino Ediciones (Buenos Aires). [ISBN: 9789879020906]

This book is destined to persons working in the educational universe. Transversal issues as speech, social transformation, historical and cultural processes, social memory, and cultural mediation remind us that individual and group learning processes are complex to be empirically investigated, as they are deeply rooted in their contexts. The authors faced the challenge of describing such complexity and contextualization.

In the spirit of regional integration and promotion of cultural and academic interchange spaces, Argentina was the host of the VI Jornadas Internacionales de Representaciones Sociales and the III Jornadas Nacionales de Representaciones Sociales , held at Buenos Aires city on the 28-30 November 2009.

The National Quilmes University, Department of Social Sciences and the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Psychology, both organising institutions of this event, had already a common experience in the performing of the II National Journey on Social Representations (2007), in continuity with the first pioneer encounters carried out at the Common Basic Cycle of the University of Buenos Aires (2003). Entitled “Perspectives in Social Representations: dialogues and debates” this conference has stimulated a wide participation of researchers and scholars especially from Latin America countries, but also from other continents (Europe and Asia). Serge Moscovici was the Honorary President and Denise Jodelet the VI JIRS President.

Among other programmed activities, the key conferences were: •  Denise Jodelet (France) : “Representaciones Sociales del Miedo“ •  Michel Morin (France):“ When Health Psychology copes with Social Representations: Old and New Challenges in a Crisis Time“ •  Annamaria de Rosa (Italy): “Economics, Finance and Social Representations: the rhetorical opposition between good “real” Economics versus bad “virtual” Finance in the Media, Web Communities and Expert Discourse“ •  Jorge Jesuino Correia (Portugal): “The New Look of Social Representations“ •  Clarilza Prado de Souza (Brazil): “Representaciones Sociales y Educacion“ •  Antonio Castorina (Argentina): “Psicologia del Desarollo y Teoria de las Representaciones Sociales: un Espacio Controversial?”

Newsle4er  N.14   December  2009  

European  PhD  on  S.R.  &  C.  EVENTS  

16th  INTERNATIONAL  SUMMER  SCHOOL  18th-­‐29th  JULY  2010  

”Social  Representa0ons  and  Sciences”  

The  2010  Edi;on  of  the  Interna;onal  Summer  Schools  will  be  held  in  July,  organized  as  usual  by  the  Scien;fic  Co-­‐ordinator  of  the  European  Ph.D  on  Social  Representa;ons  &  Communica;on.  It  is  en;tled  “Social  Representa/ons  and  Sciences”  .  The  invited  professors  will  hold  1-­‐2  hours  key  lectures,  followed  by  1-­‐hour  interac;ve  sessions.  Besides  Key  lectures  given  by  world-­‐class  scholars  in  Social  Representa;ons  from  partner  Universi;es  belonging  to  the  SoReCom  THEma;c  NETwork  and  professors  from  the  European  PhD  on  S.R.  &  C.,  there  will  be  an  intensive  session   focussed   on   a   dialogue   between   Social,   Natural   and   Physical   Sciences,   led   by   the   Directors   of   the  European/Interna;onal   Doctorates   in   Neursociences   (prof.   Salvatore   AglioX)   and   in   Astrophysics   (prof.   Remo  Ruffini).  This  session  will  be  open  to  the  par;cipa;on  of  young  research  trainees  enrolled  in  other  interna;onal  doctorates  by  Sapienza  Coordina;on  program  for  Joint  European  Interna;onal  Doctorates  

Apart  the  key  lectures,  the  Summer  School  will  also  include:  -­‐  OFFLINE  SESSION  “Interview  with  the  Protagonist  of  the  Scien;fic  Field:  between  a  personal  biography  and  the  biography  of  the  Social  Representa;ons  Theory”  -­‐ INTENSIVE   GROUP   WORKING   SESSIONS   on   par;cipants’   research   projects,   with   individual   presenta;ons,  monitoring  and  feedback's  given  by  professors  and  discussion;  -­‐    INTERVIEWS  FOR  SELECTING  NEW  CANDIDATES  for  the  European  Ph.D.  on  S.R.  &  C.  reserved  to  the  European  PhD  applicants  for  a.y.  2010-­‐11  (European  PhD  Recruitment  Board).  For  this  ma4er,  please  see  the  following  page  of  this  Newsle4er  which  contains  our  ANNOUNCEMENT  -­‐  THESIS  DEFENCE  SESSION  in  front  of  the  Final  Jury  If  you  wish  to  have  more  structured  and  detailed  view  of  the  event  organisa;on,  please  consult  the  website  here:  

h4p://www.europhd.eu/IntLabMee;ngs  and  h4p://www.europhd.eu/IntSummerSchools  

The  scien;fic  and  didac;c  materials  (such  as  the  text  of  the  lectures  and  the  PowerPoint  presenta;ons  ,  and  the  ar;cles  related  to  the  lecture,  plus  further  reading  lists  prepared  by  the  professors)  will  be    published    in  advance  the  event  and  have  them  ready  to  be  disseminated  via  videoconference  before  the   lecture  starts.  We  will  soon  provide  you  more  detailed  informa;on  as  soon  as  all  the  invited  professors  will  confirm  their  par;cipa;on  with  a  precise  schedule  of  the  two  weeks-­‐long  intensive  programme.  

November  2009  

European PhD on Social Representations and Communications: Announcement for the a.y. 2010‐2011

Newsle4er  N.13  

It is with great pleasure that we inform that the announcement for a.y. 2010‐2011 of the European PhD on Social Representations and Communication is now available on our website. The deadline for submitting the on‐line application (www.europhd.eu/Registration) is 10th May 2010. The So.Re.Com THEmatic NETwork Partners and colleagues interested in the scientific field are kindly invited to disseminate this announcement among the potential applicants and invite their best students to apply.  

The Research Trainees have then access to a large number of academic infrastructures and are followed by 1 national and 2 international tutors in at least 3 of the above mentioned countries. Moreover, at the European PhD Multimedia Lab and Research Centre in Rome they will participate in innovative scientific and didactic activities like the International Lab Meetings and Summer Schools using technologically advanced resources.

So.Re.Com.THE.NET.  @-­‐NEWS  

All  So.Re.Com.THEma;c  NETwork  partners  are  kindly  invited  to  post  informa;on  concerning  editorial  news,  launching  of  new  projects,  call  for  partnerships  and  events  of  general  interest  to  the  par;cipants  in  the  European  Ph.D.  programme  and  the  wider  

So.Re.Com.  THEma;c  NETwork  scien;fic  community.    

So.Re.Com.THE.NET.  @-­‐NEWS  and  online  Event  Agenda    

So.Re.Com.THE.NET.  online  Event  Agenda    

Among  several  new  applica;ons  we  have  installed  on  our  European  Ph.D.  web  server  using  Google  Calendar,  the  on-­‐line  So.Re.Com.THE.NET.  Events  Agenda  will  announce  and  disseminate  

informa;on  concerning  various  types  of  scien;fic  and  training  events  (seminars,  lectures,  research  group  mee;ngs,  methodological  training,  etc.)  organised  in  and  outside  the  European  Ph.D.  on  

Social  Representa;ons  and  Communica;on  Research  Centre  and  Mul;media  Lab    and  at  So.Re.Com.  THEma;c  NETwork  partner  sites.    

Please  send  the  informa;on  you  wish  to  disseminate  via  the    So.Re.Com.THE.NET.  @-­‐NEWS  and  the  on-­‐line  So.Re.Com.THE.NET.  Event  Agenda  to:  

annamaria.derosa@uniroma1.it  European  Ph.D.  on  S.R.  &  C.  Research  Centre  and  Mul;media  Lab  

 Piazza  d’Ara  Coeli,  1  –  00186  Rome  -­‐  ITALY  

The European PhD on Social Representations and Communication represents a progressive educational curriculum for training early stage researchers through research in a scientific and paradigmatic field inspired by the Social Representations Theory and Communication studies. Although having a special focus on Social Psychology and media studies, it draws in a wide scientific community across continents and many disciplines dealing with social sciences and it has created a Thematic Network of Excellence approved by the European Commission (http://www.europhd.eu/SoReComTHEmaticNETwork)

The European PhD, coordinated by Sapienza University of Rome, includes 17 universities in 9 European countries (AT, CH, CZ, ES, FR, IT, PT, RO, UK) 5 universities in North America (Canada), Latin America (Argentine, Brazil) and Asia (China), 1 French National Research Institute, 1 social sciences foundation (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme) and 3 SMEs in 3 EU countries (IE, IT, SE). The joint diploma is issued by Sapienza University with the signature of the rectors/presidents of the six universities which jointly confer the degree: University of Rome Sapienza (IT), University of Aix-en-Provence, the University of Montpellier III “Paul Valéry” and University "Lumière" Lyon 2 (FR), University A I. Cuza of Iasi (RO), and Masaryk University, Brno (CZ).