Resource：http://en.shisu.edu.cn/resources/events/lecture/intercultural-contact-intergroup-relations
Speaker: Yanbing Zhang (University of Kansas, U.S.A.)
Date: May 27, 2015-Wednesday
Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus
Language: English
Summary: The first hour will be devoted to the discussion of social identity, identity processes, stereotypes, and intergroup communication to demonstrate the manner in which communication both affects and reflects our social group memberships. For the second hour, a research project on direct and mediated intergroup contact - Koreans’ attitudes toward Americans – will be presented.
Speaker Biography: Yanbing Zhang has been a member of the University of Kansas (KU) faculty since 2003. She taught at the University of San Francisco before she joined KU. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2002. She has been working actively with a number of graduate students (doctoral and masters) and received a William T. Kemper Fellowship for teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas in 2007.From a broad perspective, Dr. Zhang studies communication, culture and intergroup relations. She is interested in the ways in which our cognitive processes and communicative practices are influenced by our cultural values and group memberships in the East Asian and Western cultural contexts. One specific area of Dr. Zhang's research has focused on cultural values, communication, and the aging process, in which she examines ways in which cultural values, attitudes and stereotypes of age groups are associated with interpersonal communication between age groups. Another closely related area of her research has focused on mass communication, cultural values, and aging, in which she studies the influence that mass media have on individuals’ value systems and mass media portrayals of cultural values and aging.
