On September 23, the inaugural session of the Master’s Degree in Psychology of Social Intervention at the University of Granada will take place, marking the start of the 2026/27 academic year. The events will be held in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Granada.
We invite doctoral students to attend the Keynote Lecture, which will take place at 10:00 AM. The lecture will be delivered by Colin Wayne Leach, Barbara Silver Horowitz Professor of Psychology & Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
Leach is a renowned researcher in the field of Social and Personality Psychology, with a career focused, among other topics, on the study of status and morality, emotions in intergroup relations, prejudice and stereotypes, as well as protest, resistance and social change.
The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Prejudice & Stereotypes
Abstract: Social psychology has been studying prejudice and stereotypes for over a century. Indeed, there are few topics as central to the field. Thus, I will review the ways we have conceptualized and examined prejudice and stereotypes and what we have learned. I will then reflect on how well our century of work helps us understand prejudice and stereotypes in the present, in the US, Europe and elsewhere. And, how well it helps us understand present (and future?) discrimination, exclusion, conflict, war, inequality, authoritarianism, fascism and other relevant social and political realities.