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UPCOMING EVENTS

Continuing with our Community Awareness and Service lecture series:

Secret Agent L. (Laura Miller) will lecture and inspire on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. in Point Park University's University Center Room 212. Here is more information about the Secret Agent L. event.

Melissa Ferraro, Developmental Director of Sisters Place, Inc. (formerly at The Center for Victims of Violence and Crime) will lecture on Friday, March 16 at 6 p.m. Room to be determined. 

PAST EVENTS 

2011/2010 

  Fourth Annual Confluence Undergraduate Psychology Alliance featuring Point Park University student presentations and keynote speaker Alan Pope, Ph.D., on Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. on the 7th floor of the Student Center.

Community Awareness and Service Lecture Series   was held on Fri. Oct. 14, 2011. It included participation from the organization Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR) and featured speakers: Jessica Burtt, crisis intervention counselor, Leah Vallone, crisis intervention counselor. Also, Autism, Asperger’s and ADHD Support for College Students (AHEADD), and Heather Conroy, LSW, operations manager.

Other presentations:

  • A presentation by Martin Samuels, M.A., Point Park University adjunct sociology professor, was given on "Therapeutic Restraint: The Foundation of a Therapeutic Milieu" on March 25, 2011.
  • A presentation by Adam Flanagan on "Teaching English in Korea" was given on Feb. 18, 2011.
  • Nick Williams, adjunct psychology professor, lectured about psychology and Buddhism on Oct. 8, 2010.
  • Sarah Kass, ABD clinical psychology, graduate student at Saybrook University, lectured on Oct. 28, 2010 on existential therapy and body awareness.
  • Rachael Goss, adjunct sociology professor, lectured on Nov. 5, 2010 on death penalty ethical issues.
  • The Third Annual Confluence Psychology Undergraduate Qualitative Research Conference was held on Dec. 17, 2010 and featured keynote speaker Mary Jo Loughran, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Chatham University.

2009/2010 fall and spring semesters

  • Amanda Lowe, M.A., presented on the topic "Personal AND Professional: Approaches to Integrating Student Psychological Development within Professional Psychology Training" on Oct. 2, 2009.
  • Scott Churchill,Ph.D.,gave a presentation on"Exploring the In-Between: Conversations with a Bonobo" on Nov. 9, 2009.
  • Robert Fessler, Ph.D., Point Park professor of psychology, gave a presentation on "The Homogenization of Experience: living in a Mediated World" on Nov. 13, 2009.
  • Sarah Perrier, Ph.D., Point Park assistant professor of English gave a poetry reading on "Nothing Fatal" on Dec. 4, 2009. 
  • Louis Hoffman, Ph.D., presented on "The Need for Diversity in Existential Psychology" on Jan. 18, 2010.
  • Olga Louchakova, Ph.D., gave a lecture on "Understanding Consciousness and Its Brain: Advances in Neurophenomenology" on Feb. 17, 2010.
  • Susan Gordon, Ph.D., Robert McInerney, Ph.D., Point Park assistant professor of psychology, Brent Dean Robbins, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and Eugene Taylor, PH.D., presented on the topic "Neurophenomenology and the Enactive Approach to Cognition" on Feb. 20, 2010.
  • Carlow University graduate students Brooke Anderson and Erin Connelley and Heather Conroy (AHHEAD) gave an information session on local graduate schools on Feb. 23, 2010.
  • Gordon Nunn presented on "What is Global Music?" on March 26, 2010.
  • John Cuda, lectured on the topic "Nietzsche on Normalcy, Deviance and the Sovereign Individual," on March 12, 2010.
  • Point Park Assistant Professor of Psychology Brent Dean Robbins, Ph.D., lectured on the topic “The Experience of Laughter and the Social Psychology of Humor,” Friday, April 9, 2010
  • Amanda Morris presented on "Conversations in Story(ality): Native American Stand-Up Comedy" on April 16, 2010.
  • As part of the Humanities Symposium, Confluence brought in Lisa Cosgrove, Ph.D., who presented on the topic “Rethinking the Meaning of Evidence Based Medicine in an Industry Dominated Climate” on April 23, 2010.