Program

REGISTRATION

CONFERENCE OPENING and WELCOMES

Aleksey B. Mazurov
Rector, Moscow Regional State Institute of Humanities and Social Studies (MGOSGI),
Kolomna City, Russia

Philip Zimbardo
(a childhood friend, a classmate of Stanley Milgram)
Professor, Stanford University, USA
(video address to the conference participants)

Alan Kraut
Executive Director, The Association of Psychological Science (APS)
[co-sponsor of the conference], USA
“Psychological Science Is Important” –
the screening of the 13-minute video, 2012, with the Russian subtitles of Aram Fomichyov (master-psychologist of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow), uploaded by him at https://db.tt/Gyujqc4E

Alexander Y. Voronov
(сonference co-convener),
Associate professor, State Academic University of the Humanities, Moscow

Regina V. Yershova
(сonference co-convener),
Professor, MGOSGI, Kolomna City

Alexander Y. Voronov
Associate professor, State Academic University of the Humanities, Moscow
“Stanley Milgram’s paradigm in the USSR and Russia”

Regina V. Yershova
Professor, MGOSGI, Kolomna City
«“Obedience” in education: the experimental research»

Alexander E. Voiskounsky
Leading researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University
“The use of virtual reality systems in psychology:
Virtual reconstruction of Stanley Milgram’s experiments”

“Revisiting the Banality of Evil:
Contemporary Political Violence and the Milgram Experiments”
PLENARY LECTURE
(videoconference session)
Paul Hollander
(keynote speaker),
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst and
Associate, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA

Discussion of Paul Hollander’s plenary lecture
(videoconference session)

“THE GAME OF DEATH/Le Jeu de la Mort, France (2010)”
the full version of the film (with documentary footage)
in French with English subtitles
about the replication of the Milgram’s obedience experiments
in the television game show on the French TV (2010):
the gift of Professor Didier Courbet (France)
as a supplementary illustration to his report at the conference
(abridged 15-minute version of the film – December 10, during his report)

To the conference opening
CONCERT OF PIANO MUSIC
Liszt, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Chopin
Performer: pianist and composer, graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and
The Gnessin Moscow high special music school (college)
NIKOLAY VORONOV
Arts centre “Dom Ozerova”: Krasnogvardeiskaya Street, 2
http://www.russianmuseums.info/M809 http://www.domozerova.ru/

Didier Courbet
(videoconference session),
Professor, Aix-Marseille University, France
“A transposition of Milgram’s obedience paradigm to the context of TV game show:
Effect of the power of television and
Study of the personality of the obedient and disobedient participants”
(with demonstration of the 15-minute version of the film “Game of Death”)

Eugen Tarnow
PhD, Independent Researcher, USA
“Solving the Murder in the Milgram Obedience Experiments:
A Call for Action”

Olga V. Mitina
(presenter),
Leading researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Elena I. Rasskazova
Researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Veronica Sorokina
Senior researcher, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
“Conformity in the structure of personal values and a comparative analysis of its intensity in different social and cultural groups”

Edward Erdos
(videoconference session),
PhD, Adjunct Professor at New York Institute of Technology, USA
“The Milgram trap revisited”

STANLEY MILGRAM, THE MAN
4th Russian-American Skype psychology videoconference
(2nd video bridge between Kolomna City, and New York City):
Room 19, New building, 30 Zelenaya Street, Kolomna City, Moscow Region –
Room 305 of Fordham University, 113 West 60 Street Manhattan, New York City
Program:
Professor Stanley Milgram’s Colleague (Florence Denmark) and
his alumni (Carla Lewis, Henry Solomon, Harold Takooshian, Jeffrey Shaw)
will share their memories of the Maestro.
Program conveners:
Henry Solomon
Professor, President of the Manhattan Psychological Association
profsolom@aol.com
Regina V. Yershova
Professor, MGOSGI, Kolomna
erchovareg@mail.ru

David Mantell
(videoconference session),
PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
“The Milgram Paradigm as a Measure of Pro-Social Behavior:
Deciding To and Not To Inflict Pain”

Alexander N. Poddiakov
(videoconference session),
Professor, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE), Moscow
“Comparison of the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments”

Olga V. Mitina
(presenter),
Leading researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Victor F. Petrenko
Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University
«Image of the ideal political leader or to whom Russians are ready to obey»

Sergey S. Stepanov
(videoconference session),
Associate Professor, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
The topic of the report will be declared later
(about harm of popularization in psychology on the example of a situation with Milgram’s paradigm)

Sergey S. Stepanov’s report may not take place, and in this case it will be replaced by:
Alexander Y. Voronov
Associate Professor, State Academic University of the Humanities, Moscow
MASTER CLASS for teachers and students
“Remake of the Solomon Asch’s classic experiment”

SPECIALIST PANEL
EXPERIMENTAL OBEDIENCE PARADIGM: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
Labeling and mislabeling of the discovery
Possibilities of the applications
Ethical problems
Assessment of current situation around obedience-experiments
Prospects of the further research
Moderator:
Olga V. Mitina
Panelists:
Regina V. Ershova, Alexander N. Poddiakov (videoconference session), Sergey S. Stepanov (videoconference session), Alexander E. Voiskunsky, Alexander Y. Voronov

Stuart Levine
(videoconference session),
Professor of Social Psychology, Emeritus Dean,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
«“The (continuing) development of the seminar
“Milgram – Obedience to Authority” at Bard College and
a partial array of topics considered in the obedience domain»

Ira Chaleff
(videoconference session),
Adjunct faculty, Georgetown University, USA
“Stanley Milgram and Intelligent Disobedience”

INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS
and
CONFERENCE CLOSING

DAY OF EXCURSIONS THROUGH THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN CITY OF KOLOMNA