Department of Psychology

ORALS (Humphrey Hall, Room 228 - Conference Room)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 10:00a.m. Stephanie Boyer M.Sc. Oral. The Relationship Between Pain Sensitivity and Vasocongestion due to Sexual Arousal in Women with Provoked Vestibulodynia.Supervisor: Dr. Caroline Pukall. External Examiner: Dr. Catherine Cahill, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Queen's University.

Friday, September 11, 2009 at 2:00p.m. Anne Claire LaRochette M.Sc. Oral. Bullying in a Multicultural Context: The Influences of Race, Immigrant Status and School Climate.Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Craig. External Examiner: Dr. Shehla Burney, Faculty of Education, Queen's University.

Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. Ashley Murphy. M.Sc. Oral. Electronic Bullying and Aggression in Adolescents. Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Craig. External Examiner: Dr. Arthur Cockfield, Faculty of Law, Queen's University.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. Danuta Rajska. Ph.D. Oral. Prediction of Social Competence and Social Integration in Children with or at-Risk for Intellectural Disability.  Supervisors: Dr. Patricia Minnes and Dr. Maurice Feldman.  External Examiner: Dr. Jim Bebko, York University.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. Annie Li. M.Sc. Oral. Exploring the ability to deceive in children with autism spectrum disorders. Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Kelley. External Examiner: Dr. Dianne Groll, Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University.

Friday, September 25, 2009 at 11:00a.m. Jessica Flynn M.Sc. Oral. The Relations Between Emotional Acceptance and Emotion Regulation in Adolescent Girls.Supervisor: Dr. Tom Hollenstein. External Examiner: Dr. Kyra Pyke, Kinesiology, Queen's University.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. Natalie Kalmet. M.Sc. Oral. Multiple Lineup Identification Procedure: Utility with Face-Only Lineups. Supervisor: Dr. Rod Lindsay. External Examiner: Dr. Lisa Dufraimont, Faculty of Law, Queen's University.

UPCOMING MEETINGS (all meetings are held in H228 CONFERENCE ROOM unless otherwise noted)

2010-2011 OGS COMPETITION
The Departmental deadline is  **WEDNESDAY, September 30, 2009** (4:00 p.m.).  Attached please find the guidelines and instructions for the 2010/11 OGS Competition.

CLINICAL BROWN BAG (Tess Clifford)
The first meeting of the Clinical Brown Bag will be held on on Monday, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2009   in Humphrey Hall Room 228 (Conference Room) at 12 noon - 1 p.m.  Clinical student reps (Sylvia, Vicki and Tess) will be presenting on "Milestones of the Clinical Program".

FALL TERM DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SPEAKERS (all lectures begin at 2:30 p.m. in BioSciences Room 1103 unless otherwise noted)
Friday, September 25:  Professor Marc Hauser (Harvard University). The universal grammar of our moral judgments.
Friday, October 2: Professor Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan.  The Social Self and the Social Brain: A Perspective of Cultural Neuroscience.
Friday, October 23:Professor Katherine Burdick - TBA
Friday, November 6: Professor Steve Spencer
Friday, November 27: Professor Xinyin Chen

CIHR, NSERC AND SSHRC's Summer Program in Japan provides graduate students in Health Research, Social Sciences/Humanities, Natural Sciences and/or Engineering with a two-month research experience in a university, national laboratory or institute in Japan. The application deadline for this program is November 3, 2009. For more information on the program, please see  http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html , under "Find funding" - "View current opportunities" - "Other: Summer Program in Japan". See Attachment  for details.

CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM & SEMINAR SERIES, 2009-2010 (All events take place from 6:30-8:30p.m. in Chernoff 213)

• Tuesday, September 15: Cultural Studies at Queen's: A Symposium. Speakers: Dia Da Costa, Global Development Studies; James Miller, Religious Studies; Frank Burke, Film; and Laura Murray, English. Afterparty: Merchant Tap House (6 Princess Street).
• Tuesday, September 22: "Producing a Colonial Archive of the Modern State: Reflections on History and Theory".Speakers: Radhika Mongia, Department of Sociology, York University.
• Tuesday, November 24: "Holding one's own: considering the affective grounds of property".Speaker: Eleanor MacDonald, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University.
• Tuesday, March 16: "The Muslims of Christendom: Race and Religion in the Euro-Mediterranean Zone".Speaker: Adnan Husain, Department of History, Queen's University.

For more information contact: Samantha King, kingsj@queensu.ca

CONFERENCES
4th Annual Educational Conference. Cultural Diversity & Mental Illness: From Fear of Exclusion to Freedom of Integration.Thursday, October 29, 2009. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.  Website: http://www.careconferences.com/for further details.