Programme for honorary seminar for professor Floyd Rudmin,
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic
University of Norway
Introducing The Nordlys Lecture 2014
Professor Russel Belk, Schulich School of Business, York
University, Canada
"Ownership and the Identities of People and Things"
Professor Floyd Rudmin has been a valued colleague at Institute of psychology
since 1995, and is retiring Summer 2014. His scientific interest and research
covers a wide field, from audiology, via political psychology, through cultural
psychology to peace studies and the history of psychology. He is highly
appreciated by his students, and was rewarded the lecturer award of the
Faculty of Health Sciences in 2013.
To celebrate Floyd Rudmin and his career, we hereby invite you to an open
seminar Tuesday, May 27th from 09.15 until 12.00 in TEO-Hus 6 Aud 3
Programme
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome: Ingunn Skre, Head of Institute of Psychology, UiT
09:15 – 09:45 My voyage in psychology, Professor Floyd Rudmin
09:45 – 10:15 Teaching peace, Associate professor Vidar Vambheim, UiT
10:15 -10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 The Nordlys Lecture "Ownership and the Identities of People and
Things", Professor Russell Belk, Schulich School of Business, York
University, Toronto, Canada
Russell Belk , Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada
is a renowned scholar in consumer psychology, both for his prolific
contributions and his innovative uses of qualitative methods.
He received his PhD in marketing from the University of Minnesota in
1972.
He is past president of the Association for Consumer Research and the
International Association of Marketing and Development, and
is a fellow in the Association for Consumer Research and the American
Psychological Association.
He has received the Paul D. Converse Award, two Fulbright Fellowships,
and honorary professorships on four continents.
Besides York University, he has also taught at the University of Utah,
University of Illinois, Temple University, Claremont Graduate University,
and universities in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, New
Zealand, and Australia.
His research involves the meanings of possessions, collecting, gift-giving,
and materialism and his work is often cultural, visual, qualitative, and
interpretive.