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Register Now                       Conference Details Jay Van Bavel is an Associate Professor of Psychology & Neural Science at New York University, an affiliate at the Stern School of Business in Management and Organizations, and Director of the Social Identity & Morality Lab. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship at The Ohio State University before joining the faculty at NYU in 2010. He received the NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Aw...

In 1989, the rapper known as Professor Griff made anti-Jewish comments that derailed his career. More than 30 years later, when Griff appeared on the actor Nick Cannon’s podcast in July, their conversation about that moment nearly derailed The divergent paths these two men traveled offer a kind of test case of celebrity teshuvah, or repentance — the broad theme of the Jewish High Holidays, which begin this weekend — and show the role that Jewish leaders can play in legitimizing, or not,...

Trump no inventó ni la xenofobia ni el populismo, mucho menos el anti-intelectualismo en la cultura estadounidense; pero los cosechó, los empaquetó y los marqueteó, sostiene la columna. A partir de una reflexión sobre el reciente ataque al Capitolio por parte de un grupo de seguidores, el autor analiza los orígenes del trumpismo y aporta elementos novedosos para entender por qué el tipo de política que Trump representa y las bases socioculturales en las que se basa están lejos de acaba...

Howie Giles, Distinguished Research Professor of Communication, has been awarded UC Santa Barbara’s prestigious Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-21. The award provides $15,000 in funding for research-related activities. A specialist in interpersonal and intergroup communication processes in intergenerational, police-citizen and other intergroup settings, Giles has conducted research on communications and attitudes toward law enforcement spanning more than a dozen countries, in...