The program will feature keynote and state of the art presentations and workshops from the following acclaimed speakers:

IACCP Presidential Address

• Professor Heidi Keller

Keynote speakers

• Professor Alan Fiske, USA
• Professor Steven Heine, USA
• Professor David Matsumoto, USA
• Professor Daphna Oyserman, Canada

State of the art speaker

• Professor Shihui Han, China

Invited speakers

• Mr Jeremy Jones AM
• Professor Marcia Langton, Australia
• Associate Professor Harry Minas, Australia

Professor Heidi Keller

Faculty of Human Sciences
University of Osnabrueck
Germany

Presidential address title: Future perspectives for cross cultural psychology: Some considerations of a developmental psychologist 

Heidi Keller is a professor of psychology at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. She is also the director of the Department of Culture, Learning and Development at the Lower Saxonian Institute of early childhood development and education. Her research program analyses cultural solutions of universal developmental tasks over the first six years of life. She has been the president of IACCP from 2008 - 2010.

Professor Alan Fiske

Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
USA

Keynote address title: What's universal and what's culturally specific in the constitution of social relationships?

Alan Fiske is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He received his BA in Social Relations from Harvard and his PhD in Human Development from the University of Chicago. He worked in tuberculosis control, smallpox eradication, and development in Malawi, Congo, Bangladesh, and Burkina Faso. He devoted two years to fieldwork in a small Moose village in Burkina Faso, working in the Moore language, studying patterns of social relations. His research focuses on how social relationships are informed by phylogeny, natural selection, culture, ontogeny, neurobiology and psychology. His work also encompasses the semiotics and psychopathologies of social relationships. He developed relational models theory (rmt.ucla.edu) based on a synthesis of classical social theory, ethnology, social psychology, and ethnographic fieldwork. RMT posits that people coordinate socially using just four relational models: Communal Sharing, Authority Ranking, Equality Matching, and Market Pricing. He is currently writing a book on the distinctive media in which people constitute, communicate, cognize, culturally transmit, and ontogenetically orient these four forms of social relationships. Fiske is the son of the personality psychologist and epistemologist Donald Fiske, and the sister of the cognitive social psychologist Susan Fiske.

Professor Steven Heine

Department of Psychology
University of British Columbia
Canada

Keynote address title: The weirdest people in the world: The inductive challenge for psychology

After receiving his BA in psychology and Japanese from the University of Alberta, Steven J. Heine spent two years teaching English in rural Japan in a small town curiously named "Obama." He was inspired there to study cultural psychology when he realized that much of what he had learned about supposedly universal psychological principles didn't seem to generalize well to his new Japanese friends. Heine later received his PhD from the University of British Columbia, and worked at Kyoto University, Tokyo University, and the University of Pennsylvania, prior to returning to UBC, where he is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar of social and cultural psychology. His research targets questions regarding genetic essentialism, meaning maintenance, and identifying what is universal and what is culturally-variable in a variety of psychological processes - most particularly self-enhancing motivations. He is the recipient of the Early Career Award from the International Society of Self and Identity, and the Distinguished Scientist Early Career Award for Social Psychology from the American Psychological Association. He has published more than 60 articles and chapters that have appeared in such outlets as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Science, and Psychological Review, and has written a textbook entitled Cultural Psychology.

Professor David Matsumoto

Department of Psychology
San Francisco State University
USA

Keynote address title: Culture, Emotion, and Expression: New Empirical Findings and Theoretical Advances

David Matsumoto is an internationally acclaimed author and psychologist. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1981 with High Honors in Psychology and Japanese. He subsequently earned his M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Psychology and Director of the Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory at San Francisco State University, where he has been since 1989. He has studied culture, emotion, social interaction and communication for 25 years. His books include well-known titles such as Culture and Psychology and the Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology. He is the recipient of many awards and honors in the field of psychology, including being named a G. Stanley Hall lecturer by the American Psychological Association. He is the series editor for Cambridge University Press' series on Culture and Psychology. He is also Editor for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and the Culture and Diversity Section of Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

Professor Daphna Oyserman

Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
USA

Keynote address title: Culture as Situated Cognition

Daphna Oyserman is the Edwin J. Thomas Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, where she holds appointments in the Department of Psychology, School of Social Work, and Institute for Social Research. Oyserman received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Social Work from the University of Michigan and served on the faculty of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the Merrill Palmer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1996. From 2002-2007, she directed the interdisciplinary NIMH-funded Michigan Prevention Research Training Program. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (2009-2010), a former W.T. Grant Faculty Scholar (1995-2000), and recipient of the Humbolt Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany. She received the Society for Social Work Research's Best Scholarly Contribution Award for her research on racial identity (2004) and for her research on identity-based motivation (2009). Her 2002 synthesis of research in cultural psychology was named a citation classic by the ISI Web of Science. She served as Consulting Editor for various journals, including Developmental Psychology and Social Work Research.

Daphna studies culture, identity, and motivation from a situated cognition perspective. Combining laboratory experiments, field methods and randomized interventions, she investigates how culture and identity shape, and are shaped by, individuals' contexts, with a particular emphasis on identity-based motivation and its cognitive and behavioral consequences. Her work shows how cultural mindsets and identities can be usefully engaged to improve important life outcomes, including academic performance and mental and physical health. Translating her experimental work into a NIMH-funded intervention in schools, she showed how brief interventions based on her theory of identity-based motivation can significantly improve academic outcomes and reduce mental health problems among at-risk youth.

Professor Shihui Han

Department of Psychology
Peaking University
China

State of the art address title: Cultural neuroscience approach to the understanding of self

Dr Shihui Han is a professor at the Department of Psychology, Peking University. He is the director of the Cultural and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. He served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Peking University from December 2003 to July 2008. He is an associate editor of Social Neuroscience and Acta Psychologica Sinica, and serves on the editorial board of Cognitive Neurodynamics, International Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis. His recent research focuses on neural substrates of social cognition such as self-referential processing, empathy, and theory-of-mind, and how cultures influence the underlying neural mechanisms. He has published over 100 research papers in journals such as Nature Review Neuroscience, Brain, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Psychological Science, Neuroimage, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, Social Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology, Brain Research, Perception and Psychophysics, Brain Topography, Clinical Neurophysiology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (Section A) and PLoS ONE.

Mr Jeremy Jones AM

Director of International and Community Affairs
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council
Australia

Invited speaker address title: Without vision - the people will perish 

Jeremy Jones AM is Director of International and Community Affairs for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. A former president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, he has written and lectured on antisemitism, racism, interfaith dialogue and human rights for over thirty years. He sits on the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, the Global Forum on Antisemitism and many other international, national and state bodies. He has delivered keynote papers and addressed major human rights conferences in Sweden, UK, Canada, USA, Mexico, South Africa, Hungary, Indonesia and New Zealand. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005 and in 2007, he was named Australian Human Rights medalist.

Professor Marcia Langton

Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies
Centre for Health and Society
University of Melbourne
Australia

Invited speaker address title: Aboriginal difference and living the ‘Australian way of life’  

Marcia Langton holds the inaugural Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne where she teaches and undertakes research on agreements with Indigenous people. She is co-editor of two published collections on agreements with Indigenous people in Australia, New Zealand, north America and South Africa: Honour Among Nations (MUP, 2004) and Settling with Indigenous People (Federation Press, 2006). The online database of agreements with Indigenous people is available at www.atns.net.au. She was a consultant to Rachel Perkins, the award-winning director of the television series, First Australians, broadcast by SBS Television, and also edited, with Rachel Perkins, the illustrated companion book, contributing two chapters. Her essays in Australian indigenous studies have led to more sophisticated understanding of Aboriginal social and cultural life in a number of fields, including Aboriginal art, traditional resource rights and gender issues.

Associate Professor Harry Minas

Centre for International Mental Health
Melbourne School of Population Health
University of Melbourne 
Australia

Invited speaker address title: Mental health services for immigrant communities: How are we doing?

Harry Minas' work is in three broad areas:

1. Mental health system development, particularly in low-resource and post-conflict settings
2. Culture and mental health, with a focus on mental health of immigrant and refugee communities and the development of services for culturally diverse societies
3. Human rights of people with mental illness.

Central to all of these is the issue of leadership for system change.

• Director, Centre for International Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
• Director, Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St Vincent's Health Melbourne
• Director, International Observatory on Mental Health Systems
• Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Research and Training in Mental Health and Substance Abuse
• Member, World Health Organization International Expert Panel on Mental Health and Substance Abuse
• Honorary Lecturer on Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Visiting Professor, Taipei Medical University
• Chairman, Section of Social & Cultural Psychiatry, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
• Member of the Executive, World Association for Cultural Psychiatry
• Member of the Executive, World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation
• Formerly Regional Councilor (Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific), Treasurer and member of the Executive of the World Association for Social Psychiatry
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Mental Health Systems
• Foundation Co-Director (with Professor Byron Good, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School) of the International Mental Health Leadership Program
• Director, Australian Mental Health Leadership Program
• Member, Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) Steering Group, and the MGMH Advocacy Advisory Group
• Chairman, Detention Health Advisory Group, advising the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia)
• Member, International Advisory Council, Toda Institute for Global Policy and Peace Research, Honolulu, Hawaii
• International Advisor to the National Taskforce Mental Health System Development in Indonesia
• International Advisor to the Government of Aceh on the program to free people with mental illness in restraint (pasung) in the community

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