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The 2nd Intercultural Symposium of the teachers and students 2010 will take place soon (14th – 18th of May 2012)! For this we are happy to welcome the Chilean group in Heidelberg. We are very much looking forward to discussing our individual and our joint projects. In addition to the project discussions the symposium will comprise a presentation of the results of the first German-Chilean doctoral projects (Phd students 2007) as well as two workshops. The program will start with a workshop on Methods in cross-cultural psychology and global mental health research held by Andrew Ryder, PhD (Concordia University, Montreal). It will end with a workshop guided by Johannes Zimmermann, Phd (University of Kassel), which will provide the opportunity to elaborate the joint research project of the Chilean and German doctoral students.

A workshop on “Methodological challenges of cross-cultural research” will take place on May 4th in Heidelberg. Dr. Bettina Lamm, who is part of the research group “Development and Culture” (University of Osnabrück, headed by Prof. Dr. Heidi Keller), will be chairing the workshop. In her dissertation study Dr. Bettina Lamm realized a cross-cultural comparison of rural Nso children from Cameroon and German children and is therefore experienced regarding the field of cross-cultural research. We are pleased to have the possibility to benefit from her expertise.

We are very happy to announce that Birgit Koopmann-Holm from Stanford University will come to Heidelberg in May 2012 for a lectureship at the Psychology Department.

Today, Prof. Kämmerer and two of the PhD students, Alice Eger and Felicia Schröck, visited the research team of the Culture and Emotion Lab at Stanford University, which is guided by Jeanne Tsai.

While the PhD students presented the joint group project of the Chilean and German doctoral students on emotion expression as well as their individual dissertation projects at the culture colaboratory meeting, Prof. Kämmerer presented the main results of the first group of doctoral students (2007) at the affective science area meeting.

We are very grateful for the warm welcome, the stimulating discussion and scientific exchange.

Please have a look at our photo gallery.

Finally the new group of Chilean and German doctoral students will come together for the first time!
The 1st Intercultural Symposium of the teachers and students 2010 will take place in Santiago de Chile from 31 March 2011 – 03 April 2011. We are all looking forward to this special encounter.

We would like to thank all speakers and participants for contributing to the conference on “Intercultural aspects of mental disorders”. Various presentations and workshops emphasized the importance of intercultural aspects in clinical research and practice. We had many fruitful discussions and inspiring encounters with attendees from all over the world. Thanks to you, all in all the conference has been a great success!
Please have a look at our gallery, where you can find some
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Group picture of the German doctoral students 2010.

Group picture with Mónica Jiménez de la Jara (Minister of Education) after the fourth Intercultural Symposium at Universidad de Chile.

Summerschool of the German HKFB task force at Schluchsee (Schwarzwald).

Group picture in the garden of Heidelberg Center in Santiago de Chile.

Symposium of the German group in Switzerland. Our topic is: Chile and its culture, geography, politics, history.