Friday 10/09/2004 (Bydgoszcz)

12:00-18:30                Registration in the Hotel “Pod Orlem”

16:00-16:20                Opening ceremony

16:20-16:50                Opening address (Stanisław Mika, chair)

                                Ryszard Stachowski: Kurt Lewin - Life and work in biographical perspective

16:50-17:10                Coffee break

17:10-19:00                Plenary session 0. INFORMAL MEMORIAL MEETING (Bertram Raven, chair)

      17:10-17:30    Thomas Lewin: Kurt Lewin from the perspective of a member of his family

      17:30-17:50      Beatrice Wright: Kurt Lewin in Iowa

      17:50-18:20    Albert Pepitone: Kurt Lewin,  MIT, and Michigan Migration  

      18:20-18:40    Dorwin Cartwright’s Address and his Statements on significance of Kurt Lewin theories and research read by

                             Bertram Raven

      18:40-19:00    Kay Deaux: Kurt Lewin, SPSSI, and winners of Kurt Lewin Award

19:30                            Welcome reception

Saturday 11/09/2004  (Mogilno)

08:00-18:30                Registration in the Hotel “Pod Orlem”

08:45                      Buses to Mogilno

10:00-12:30                Official ceremonies:

·          OPENING CEREMONY (Mogilno Cinema)

Jacek Krasny, Mayor of the City of Mogilno: Opening address

Miriam Lewin and Thomas Lewin: Addresses

Jan Strelau, Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Address

Government Representative: Welcome statement

Other Addresses

·          UNVEILING of the KURT LEWIN COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE (Lewin’s house)

·          OPENING of the KURT LEWIN and HIS FAMILY’S EXHIBITION (Museum)

13:00-14:00                Conference Dinner

14:30-18:00                Plenary session 1. FOLLOWERS OF KURT LEWIN (Zbigniew Zaleski, chair)

     14:30-15:15                Albert Pepitone: Lewin and social science – roadmaps toward integration

     15:15-16:00                Bertram Raven: Interpersonal influence and social power – Lewinian perspective

16:00-16:30                Coffee break

    16:30-17:15                Robert Kleiner:  The myths about Kurt Lewin that obscure his contribution to science and psychology

    17:15-18:00                Wolfgang Schoenpflug: Science in context: Lewin in Europe – Lewin in the United States of America 

18:30                      Conference concert and banquet

20:45 & 21:15                Buses to Bydgoszcz

Sunday 12/09/2004 (Bydgoszcz)

08:00-15:00                Registration in the Hotel “Pod Orlem”

08:30-09:50                Plenary session 2. ADMIRERS OF KURT LEWIN  (Włodzimierz Zeidler, chair)

      08:30-09:00    Stanisław Mika: Action research as living Lewinian tradition

      09:00-09:40    Helmut Lueck: Kurt Lewin and his film: The child and the world

09:40-10:10                Coffee  break

10:10-12:00     Symposium 1. KURT LEWIN’S CONTRIBUTION AND THE PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES  (Daniel Cervone, chair)

·          Daniel Cervone: Personality dynamics in context: Lewinian themes in contemporary personality science

·          Renato Foschi and Giovani P. Lombardo: Lewinian contribution to the study of personality as the alternative to the mainstream of personality psychology in the 20^th century

·          Sander L. Koole and Julius Kuhl: Some unfinished business: Lewin’s legacy to motivational science

Symposium 2. KURT LEWIN’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COOPERATIVE 

LEARNING (Lawrence Sherman, chair)

·          Lawrence Sherman: Satiation, classrooms management and cooperative learning (addressing Jacob Kounin)

·          Patricia Schmuck: Peer tutoring science project (addressing Ronald Lippitt)

·          Richard Schmuck: Democratic/autocratic leadership, group processes in classroom and action research (addressing Ronald Lippitt)

12:00-12:20         Coffee break

12:20-14:10     Symposium 3. MIGRATION, SOCIAL MOBILITY, SOCIAL CHANGE AND MENTAL DISORDERS: THE FIELD THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE (Robert Kleiner, chair)

·          Robert Kleiner, Tom Sorensen and Barnabas Okeke: Changing character of migration research. New theoretical models and the relevance of experimental and cross-cultural orientations to psychological problems.

·          Barnabas Okeke and Robert Kleiner: Function of temporally defined dynamic contexts

·          Tom Sorensen, Robert Kleiner, Arne Mastekaasa, Inger Sandanger, Nils Boe and Olav Klepp: The impact of  community integration on mental health of immigrants and local natives

·          Olav Klepp: The role of local community action and integration in enhancing mental health: The case of migrants and natives

·          Ira Glazer: discussant

Symposium 4. KURT LEWIN’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY AND RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

(Bogdan Wojciszke, chair)

·          David Bargal: Kurt Lewin’s field theory of social change

·          Maria Lewicka: Towards a molar approach to human social behavior: Lewinian roots of environmental psychology

·          Erika Spiess: Lewin’s contribution to the economic psychology

·          Michael Mark and Julian Hehl: Kurt Lewin and the idea of basic dynamic laws in psychology

09:00-14:00                Poster session

14:30-15:30                Farewell reception