MONDAY, 11th of June
LLC Commons Room
13:00 – 14:00 Art exhibition, works by Paul March, exhibition curated by Dr. Julianna Sandholm-Bark.
14:00 – 16:00 Workshop ‘Improvised comedy: Creativity at play’ by Dr. Samuel Lagier, Switzerland
17:00 – 17:15 Welcome by Dr. Clementina Acedo, Director of Webster University Geneva and Dr. Vlad Glaveanu, Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation (WCCI)
17:15 – 18:15 Expert panel ‘Innovation in Switzerland’. Participants: Rania Al-Baroudi, Director of the Geneva Creativity Center; Dr. James H. Miners, Fongit; Anne Hornung-Soukup, Chair of the TPG Board; and Dr. Vlad Glaveanu, Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation (WCCI)
18:15 – 19:00 Keynote ‘Why Creativity Matters’ by Prof. James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut, USA
19:00 – 19:30 Networking reception
TUESDAY, 12th of June
LLC Commons Room
10:00 – 11:50 Paper presentations
Symposium: Sociological and social psychological perspectives on creativity
10:00 – 10:20 Monika Reuter (The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, USA) – A different model for understanding creativity
10:20 – 10:40 Richard Randell (Webster University Geneva, Switzerland) – Creativity,corporate power and the state: The construction of a utopian sociotechnical imaginary of autonomous vehicles
10:40 – 11:00 Hana Hawlina (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) – Investigating the relationship between diversity and creativity through the lens of perspective taking
Symposium: How creativity meets innovation
11:00 – 11:50 Christian H. Werner (Chair), Min Tang, Joel Schmid (University of Applied Management,Germany) – How creativity meets innovation? The approach of the Institute for Creativity & Innovation (ICI), University of Applied Management, Germany
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 Workshop ‘Putting creativity theory to work’ by Prof. James C. Kaufman, Connecticut University, USA, and Dr. Vlad Glaveanu, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland
14:00 – 15:00 Spotlight Special: Photography exhibition, Rendering the Invisible Visible: Photographs of Italian Cultural Identity in 21st-Century Switzerland, Francesco Arese Visconti, MA, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland (curated by Dr. Julianna Sandholm-Bark, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland; an exhibition in collaboration with ARI@CH – Associazione Italiana Ricercatori in Svizzera). Location: Cedar Cafe on campus.
15:00 – 16:30 Workshop ‘Innovation in the humanitarian sector: Challenges and opportunities’ by Markus Søbstad Bensnes, TINKR, Norway
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:15 – 18:15 Expert panel ‘Technology Creation: From East to West’. Participants: Dr. Dominique Jolly, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland; Rakshit Metha, Chairman and Managing Director, Euro Alliance SA; and Dr. Joseph Marques, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland
18:15 – 19:00 Keynote ‘Work Environments for Creativity and Innovation’ by Prof. Jan Dul, Erasmus University, the Netherlands
19:00 – 19:30 Networking reception
WEDNESDAY, 13th of June
LLC Commons Room
10:00 – 11:50 Paper presentations
Symposium: Creativity beyond cognition: New and old topics in creativity research
10:00 – 10:20 Izabela Lebuda (University of Wrocław, Poland) – Emotion in a creative process based on the linguistic analysis of semi-structured interviews with well-known Polish directors
10:20 – 10:40 Klara Łucznik (Plymouth University, UK), Jon May (Plymouth University, UK), Emma Redding (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK) – Creative flow in dance improvisation
10:40 – 11:00 Sabine Chatelain (HEP Vaud, Switzerland), John Didier (HEP Vaud, Switzerland), Vlad Glaveanu (Webster University Geneva, Switzerland) – Creativity and democracy, new perspectives in teacher training
11:00 – 11:20 Aleksandra Gajda (Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland) – In search of creative common points: Understandings of creativity in Poland and Japan
11:20 – 11:40 Alice Chirico, Andrea Gaggioli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy) – The diversifying experience of awe promotes creative thinking: An experimental study
11:40 – 12:00 Panu Forsman, Soila Lemmetty & Kaija Collin (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) – Creativity and ethical human resource management in personnel’s speech in information technology start-up organizations
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Workshop ‘Having fun in creativity research’ by Dr. Maciej Karwowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 Workshop ‘The role of dramatic play for creativity’ by Prof. Zayda Sierra, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:15 – 18:15 Expert panel ‘Creativity in the Visual Arts Now in Geneva’. Participants: Dr. Julianna Sandholm-Bark, Webster University Geneva, Switzerland; Joseph Farine, the Andata Ritorno association in Geneva; and Nina Rodin, artist
18:15 – 19:00 Keynote ‘Arts Education as a Laboratory for Leadership and Innovation’ by James Robey, MFA, Webster University, USA
19:00 – 19:30 Networking reception
THURSDAY, 14th of June
LLC Commons Room
10:00 – 11:50 Paper presentations
Symposium: Educational and cognitive perspectives on creativity
10:00 – 10:20 Marta Czerwonka, Maciej Karwowski, Izabela Lebuda, Dorota Maria Jankowska, Aleksandra Gajda (Maria Grzegorzewska University & University of Wrocław, Poland) – Does thinking about Einstein make people entity theorists?
10:20 – 10:40 Stanislav Nemeržitski, Eda Heinla (Tallinn University, Estonia) – Teachers creative self-efficacy, its connection to self-esteem, and teaching for creativity in Estonia
10:40 – 11:00 Kerry Chappell (University of Exeter, UK) – From wise humanising creativity to (post-humanising) creativity
11:00 – 11:20 Darya L. Zabelina (University of Arkansas, USA) – Creativity is intelligence having fun: The role of attention and executive processes in creative cognition
11:20 – 11:40 Baptiste Barbot (Pace University, USA) – What diverged in divergent thinking tasks? Reinterpreting the construct of ideational fluency
11:40 – 11:50 General discussion
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Workshop ‘Hands on creativity: Transforming teaching from a frontal to an active-collaborative experience’ by Dr. Adva Margaliot, Achva College of Education, Israel
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 Workshop ‘Measuring creativity: The Evaluation of Potential Creativity (EPoC)’ by Prof. Todd Lubart, Paris Descartes University, France
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:15 – 18:15 Expert panel ‘Creativity in Education’. Participants: Prof. Todd Lubart, Paris Descartes University, France; Dr Kerry Chappell, University of Exeter, UK; Dr. Maciej Karwowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland; and Baptiste Barbot Pace University, USA
18:15 – 19:15 Keynote ‘Inquiry and Invention in Childhood’ by Dr. Susan Engel, Williams College, USA
19:00 – 19:30 Networking reception
FRIDAY, 15th of June
LLC Commons Room
10:00 – 11:50 Paper presentations
Symposium: Cross-cultural and socio-cultural perspectives on creativity
10:00 – 10:20 Agata Groyecka, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Maciej Karwowski, Izabela Lebuda, Dorota Maria Jankowska, Ewa Weremczuk, Marta Galewska-Kustra, Marta Czerwonka, Aleksandra Gajda, Piotr Sorokowski (University of Wroclaw & Maria Grzegorzewska Pedagogical University, Poland; TU Dresden, Germany) – The relationship between conservatism and creativity depends on culture
10:20 – 10:40 Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin (American University of Sharjah, UAE) – The cross-cultural variations in creative perception moderate creative behavior
10:40 – 11:00 Ingunn Johanne Ness, Olga Dysthe (University of Bergen, Norway) – Polyphonic Imagination: Understanding how multidisciplinary groups develop innovative ideas through a multivoiced stimulation of fantasy
11:00 – 11:20 Asdrúbal Borges Formiga Sobrinho (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) – Creative Culture Analysis: A way to understand how an environment is (or isn’t) favorable to creative ideas
11:20 – 11:40 Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau (Kingston University, UK), Paul March (University of Oxford, UK) – Insight out: Creative problem solving beyond folk psychology
11:40 – 12:00 Cassie Karnilowicz (Mizuno) & Lihua Xu (Deakin University, Australia) – Conceptualising creativity: Perspectives on creativity related to the visual arts by Japanese secondary school students
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Workshop ‘Integral movement studies: Applying emergent frameworks to dance and choreography’ by James Robey, MFA, Webster University, USA
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 Workshop ‘The neuro-manager. Enhancing brain processes to improve creative skills at work’ by Prof. Alessandro Antonietti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:15 – 18:15 Expert panel ‘Networked Creativity and Innovation’. Participants: Prof. James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut, USA; Prof. Alessandro Antonietti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy; Dr. Maciej Karwowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland; Ingunn Johanne Ness, Bergen University, Norway; and Vlad Glaveanu, Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation (WCCI)
18:15 – 19:15 Keynote ‘Creativity for Sustainability: Perspectives from the (Global) South’ by Prof. Zayda Sierra, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
19:00 – 19:30 Closing and reception