Registration
Welcome: Dr. Mike DeGagné, President and Vice-Chancellor of Nipissing University.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Thomas Blass, Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
;The impact of the obedience experiments on contemporary culture and thought’.
Refreshments
Session A
8:30—9:15 Clifford Stott: ‘Replicating Milgram? Ethics, identity and engagement with the historical questions of our time.’
9:15—10:00 Wim Meeus: ‘Administrative Obedience Thirty Years Later: Rethinking the Utrecht Studies.’
Session B
8:30—9:00 Allan Fenigstein: ‘Obedience motives and Nazi perpetrators.’
9:00—9:30 George R. Mastroianni: ‘Toward a more comprehensive psychology of the Holocaust: Obedience in perspective.’
9:30—10:00 Ian Nicholson Title: ‘”What We Do With Our Daily Quota” : Stanley Milgram, Nazi Doctors and the Normalization of Torment.’
Session C
8:30—9:00 Ethan Hoffman, Nicholas Myerberg, and Jill Morawski: ‘Aftershocks: Flows of Affect in Experimenter Subject Systems as Evidenced in Milgram’s Obedience Experiment.’
9:00—9:30 Harry Perlstadt: ‘The Missing Literature Review and Hypotheses in Milgram’s “Behavioral Study of Obedience”’
9:30—10:00 Edward Erdos: ‘The Milgram Trap.’
Morning tea
Specialist panel : ‘Ethics and the obedience research.’
Moderator: Lee Ross
Panelists: Herbert Kelman, Arthur G. Miller, Jill Morawski, Andrew Perlman, and Patricia Werhane
Lunch
Session D
13:30—14:00 Sharon Presley:‘Resistance to Authority in Everyday Life: Practical Applications of the Research on Obedience and Resistance to Authority.’
14:00—14:30 Bidhan Parmar: ‘How individuals disobey immoral orders from authorities: A communication perspective.’
14:30—15:00 David M. Mantell: ‘The Child Forensic Interview As An Authoritative Setting For The Study of Obedience Behavior.’
Session E
13:30—14:00 Stephen Gibson: ‘The last possible resort’: A case study of in situ standardization in the voice-feedback condition.’
14:00—14:30 Alexander Voronov: ‘Some results on the development of Milgram’s experimental obedience paradigm in Russia (1994 – 2013).’
14:30—15:00 Lee Ross: ‘Rationalization, Complicity, Quiet and Not-So-Quiet Heroes; Further reflections on the obedience experiments.’
Session F
13:30—13:55 Laurent Begue: ‘Personality and politics predicts obedience to authority in a French transposition of Milgram experimental obedience paradigm.’
13:55—14:20 Ashton C Southard and Virgil Zeigler-Hill: ‘Neuroticism and Negative Affect Influence the Reluctance to Engage in Destructive Obedience in the Milgram Paradigm.’
14:20—14:45 Stefano Passini and Davide Morselli: ‘Obedience/disobedience dynamics for social change: Introducing and testing prosocial disobedience .’
14:45—15:10 Neil Lutsky and Nestar Russell: ‘Recall the Milgram Experiments! Why “Obedience to Authority” Represents Faulty Labeling.’
Afternoon tea
Specialist panel : ‘Replications and representations of the obedience research.’
Moderator: Stephen Gibson
Panelists: Thomas Blass, David Mark Mantell, Wim Meeus, Allan Fenigstein and Clifford Stott
Film screening : Hannah Arendt (2012) : This bio-pic of Hannah Arendt and her coverage of Eichmann’s trial was an Official Selection at both the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Jewish Film Festival. Screening organised by Taketo Murata.
Presentation of papers
Session G
8:30—9:00 Augustine Brannigan: ‘Beyond the Banality of Evil: From Milgram to Elias to Durkheim.’
9:00—9:30 Stefan Kühl: ‘Obedience experiments as simulated organizations. Reinterpretations from a sociological perspective.’
9:30—10:00 Christopher Powell: ‘Economies of Deference and the Unintuitiveness of Equality.’
Session H
8:30—9:00 Marianne Miserandino, Jessica Leathem, Harrison Stoll, and Adam Levy: ‘Does Milgram’s obedience to authority still apply? Obedience in the context of identity theft in the U.S. and South Africa.’
9:00—9:30 Tom Damen: ‘Agency and obedience to authority: Testing the validity of the agentic state theory.’
9:30—10:00 Johan Lepage: ‘Obedience to Authority, Deviance and Ideology.’
Session I
8:30—9:00 Gina Perry: ‘Subjectivity, self and identity in accounts of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience experiments.’
9:00—9:30 Michelle Ciurria: ‘Revisiting the Situationist Challenge: An Empirically Modest Virtue Ethics.’
9:30—10:00 Michael Yeo and James Ketchen: ‘Milgram on Authority: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Law.’
Morning tea
Specialist panel : ‘Methodological and historical issues in the obedience research.’
Moderator: George Mastroianni
Panelists: Thomas Blass, Stephen Gibson, Ian Nicholson, Nestar Russell and Gina Perry
Lunch
Presentation of papers
Session J
13:30—14:00 Hank Stam: ‘Obedience, cooperation, or staged science: Just what do Milgram’s experiments show?’
14:00—14:30 Anas Karzai: ‘From domination to hegemony: The sociology of moral indifference and the celebration of authority.’
14:30—15:00 Michael Dambrun, Johan Lepage and Stephanie Fayolle: ‘Torture Escalation and Extreme Punishment: Obedience to an Implicit Destructive Authority and the Role of Social Dominance Orientation.’
Session K
13:30—14:00 Kenneth Worthy: ‘The Obedience Experiments and Environmental Crisis.’
14:00—14:30 Yosef Brody: ‘The Experiment Requires That You Continue: Obedience, Disobedience, and Corporate Authority in an Increasingly Dangerous Consumer Society.’
14:30—15:00 Lawrence Sheraton: ‘The Ethical Implications of Obedience to Authority in Business.’
Session L
13:30—14:00 Sarah Winters: ‘Obeying in Narnia, Rebelling at Hogwarts: Stanley Milgram’s Influence on Children’s Fantasy.’
14:00—14:30 Alex Gillespie and Kevin Corti: ‘Milgram’s “Cyranic Illusion”: A phenomenon and a tool.’
14:30—15:00 Maya Oppenheimer: ‘Modelling Behaviour: Stanley Milgram’s Simulated Shock Generator in Context.’
Afternoon tea
Specialist panel : ‘Value and meaning of the obedience research.’
Moderator: Neil Lutsky
Panelists: Augustine Brannigan, Arthur G. Miller, Wim Meeus and Lee Ross
Conference dinner at Inn at the Falls 1 Dominion St. Bracebridge.
Introduction : Dr. Harley d’Entremont, Vice-President Academic and Research, Nipissing University
Keynote speaker: Dr. Arthur G. Miller, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio :
‘The obedience experiments at 50 : why are they (still) so prominent, famous and problematic?’