Conferences & Invited Lectures
Assistant Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., is presenting the talk “Whose Health Guidance Can I Trust? Context, Culture, and Identity-Based Motivation” at the COVID-19 and Policy Conference: Looking Backward & Looking Forward. In the talk, Neil will share lessons learned from a federal COVID-19 vaccination uptake behavioral science task force to illustrate how the broader social contextual and cultural dynamics of the United States affects people’s responses to health interventions. He will then discuss the implications of these lessons for future research, as well as our collective readiness to respond to future pandemics.
Neil is also delivering an invited lecture at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. In the talk, entitled “What We Learn from Where We Live,” he will share recent findings from his program of research that has been using the United States as a context to examine how patterns of segregation and other forms of social stratification seep into the mind and affect how people perceive and make meaning of the world around them. He will also discuss the consequences of those meaning-making processes for people’s judgments, motivations, and decisions across multiple domains.
Cornell Comm had a strong presence at the April 2023 conference on Public Communication of Science & Technology, which took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dominique Brossard Ph.D. ‘02 (chair, Life Sciences Communication Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison) delivered the keynote, "Finding Common Ground from the Science of Science Communication"; among the commentators was Hepeng Jia Ph.D. ‘19 (professor, Soochow University). In another panel, Professor Bruce Lewenstein debated John Besley Ph.D. ‘06 (Brandt Professor, Michigan State University) on which is more important: audience or goals?
