Speaking

Lene Jensen at University of Chicago May 2016

University of Chicago

Dr. Jensen’s invited presentations, workshops, and webinars address topics such as:

  • Moral development
  • Cultural identity
  • Globalization and psychological development
  • Human development in the context of diversity within and across nations
  • Psychological theory for the 21st century

She also consults on how to make research and publications international in scope.

Examples of Webinars:

  • Adolescence and Social Media: Separating Nonsense from Science. With Jeffrey Arnett, Pearson Education, 2024. Watch Here
  • Thinking Culturally About Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood. With Jeffrey Arnett, Pearson Education, 2024. Watch Here
  • Teaching Students to Think Culturally About Developmental Psychology. With Jeffrey Arnett, Pearson Education, 2023. Watch Here

 

Examples of Presentations and Workshops:

  • The Cultural-Developmental Approach to Research and Teaching: Psychology in Today’s Global World
    Distinguished Scholar Lecture for Teaching, Convention of the American Psychological Association, Seattle, 2025.
  • Cultural-Developmental Theory for the 21st Century: Psychology in a Global World.
    Invited Presentation, University of Zürich, Switzerland, 2023. 
  • Cultural-Developmental Theory: Self and Social Science in a Global World
    Invited keynote address, International Adolescence and Youth Research Congress, Turkey, 2023.
  • A Cultural-Developmental Approach: Civic Engagement among Diverse Adolescents.
    Invited Presentation, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (delivered digitally), 2021.
  • Moral Development in a Global World.
    Keynote Address, Preconference on Moral Development, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (delivered digitally), 2021.
  • The Cultural Psychology of Religiosity, Spirituality, and Secularism in Adolescence. Watch Here
    Keynote Address, Preconference on Religious Development, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (delivered digitally), 2020.
  • Cultural-Developmental Theory for the 21stCentury: Self and Social Science in a Global World.
    Presentation, Tufts University, 2019.
  • Moral Identity and Reasoning: A Cultural-Developmental Approach.
    Master Lecture, Conference for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2018.
  • Cultural-Developmental Theory for the 21st Century: Self and Social Science in a Global World.
    Presentation, University of Bordeaux, France, 2018.
  • The Future of the Field of Moral Development: Four New Directions.
    Presentation, Pre-Conference on Moral Development at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, USA, 2016.
  • Cultural-Developmental Theory for the 21st century.
    Presentation, The 20th Anniversary of Garcia Coll and Colleagues (1996): An Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children: Looking Back & Looking Forward, University of Arizona, USA, 2016.
  • Internationalizing Theory and Research.
    Consultation Workshop, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015.
  • Cultural-Developmental Theory for the 21st century: Self and Social Science in a Global World.
    Keynote Address, Society for Research on Identity Development, USA, 2015.
  • Culture and Adolescent Development.
    Presentation, European Association for Research on Adolescence, Turkey, 2015.
  • Dialogical Theory for the 21st century: How to Bridge Universal and Cultural Perspectives on Psychology.
    Keynote Address, International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Netherlands, 2015.
  • Bridging Universal and Cultural Perspectives: Self and Social Science in a Global World.
    Opening Address, Diversity Week, California State University, USA, 2015.