Speaker Series: Past
Featuring Leaders in the Research on Violence and Aggression
The International Society for Research on Aggression hosts an online speaker series each academic year that features five scholars in the field of aggression and violence. One of the five scholars is from the New Investigators Program. Pre-registration is required and is completely free. Each event begins at 13:00 (1 PM) Eastern Time.
Past Presentations
2026
March 18, 2026
Cécile Rousseau
Professor and Chair, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Canada Research Chair in the Prevention of Violent Radicalization, McGill University
Ideological and Nihilistic Violence in Youth: Understanding and Intervening
February 18, 2026
Muniba Saleem
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
How Media Representations Foster Majority Hostility and Minority Exclusion in Multicultural Societies
January 21, 2026
Matt DeLisi
Distinguished Professor and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor, Iowa State University
Extreme Aggression: Insights from Forensic Criminology
2025
April 2, 2025
ISRA New Investigators’ Symposium
Travis Harries
Ph.D., Lecturer
Sophie L. Kjærvik
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
Evelyn Schapansky
Ph.D. Candidate
March 5, 2025
John Horgan
Distinguished Professor, Georgia State University, USA
February 5, 2025
Ann Farrell
Assistant Professor, Brock University, Canada
January 8, 2025
Kelly Davis
Professor, Arizona State University, USA
2024
December 4, 2024
Brad Bushman
Professor, The Ohio State University, USA
April 3, 2024
ISRA New Investigators’ Symposium
Four New Investigators from the 2022 cohort present on recent research within their respective research programs
Elizabeth Summerell, University of New South Wales, Australia
Regulating Brain Systems Involved in Alcohol-Related AggressionAlisson Pinto de Almeida, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Neural and Behavioral Effects of Social Stress in Mice: A Focus in Social Defensive BehaviorAna Bravo Castillo, University of Córdoba, Spain
Social Structure of Participation and Defending TrajectoriesKarolina Dyduch-Hazar, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Germany
Schadenfreude at the Suffering of Enemy
Moderators: Tom Gumpel and Dominic Parrott
March 6, 2024
Irene Vitoroulis
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bias-Based Bullying Victimization
February 7, 2024
Noni Gaylord-Harden
Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Research on Community Violence Exposure Among Black Adolescents: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Ahead
January 10, 2024
Katja Bertsch
Professor, Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Reactive Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder: From Neural Correlates to Therapeutic Interventions
2023
December 6, 2023
Enrique Chaux
Professor, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia
Restorative Justice to Manage Bullying? Results From a Pilot Protocol
April 12, 2023
John Knutson, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Iowa (USA); Past-President, ISRA
Enduring Measurement Problems in Aggression Research: Examples From Child Maltreatment Work
March 8, 2023
Barbara Krahé, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, University of Potsdam (Germany); Past-President, ISRA
Blaming the Victim: How Rape Myths and Stereotypes Shape Responses to Sexual Assault
February 8, 2023
Sarah Coyne, Ph.D.
Professor, Brigham Young University (USA)
Who Is Most at Risk for Aggressive Behavior After Playing Violent Video Games? A Differential Susceptibility Approach
2022
December 7, 2022
Kaj Björkqvist, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Åbo Akademi University (Finland); Past-President, ISRA
Sex Differences in Aggression: A Review
November 9, 2022
Michael Potegal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor ad Honorem, University of Minnesota (USA); Past-President, ISRA
Some Phenomena and Physiology of Two Aggression Motivation Systems: Anger and Non-angry Aggressive Arousal (Angriffsbereitschaft in Other Animals)
March 9, 2022
Rebecca Bondü, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychologsche Hochschule Berlin (Germany)
Leaking as a Starting Point of the Prevention of School Shootings and Terrorism
February 9, 2022
Dominic Parrott, Ph.D.
Professor, Georgia State University (USA)
Determinants of Violence Toward Sexual and Gender Minorities: A Critical Review and Call to Action
2021
December 8, 2021
Tracy Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Ottawa (Canada); President, ISRA
The Long-Term Outcomes of Childhood Bullying
November 10, 2021
Amarnath Amarasingam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Queen’s University (Canada)
ISIS and the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon: What Happened? And What Now?
