Venue: Spot-B01 (Copland Theatre), Copland Theatre
Presenters: Dr Roderick Buchanan
After a number of fitful starts, psychological science fully arrived at the University of Melbourne immediately after World War II. With it, came Oscar Oeser as foundation Professor. Oeser’s vision for the discipline at Melbourne was shaped by his remarkable past. Oeser was an exceptionally bright academic polymath. By age 21, he had degrees in mathematics and physics, and went on to earn a D.Phil. in experimental psychology in Marburg, Germany, and a Ph.D. at Cambridge. Oeser was appointed Lecturer in psychology at St. Andrews in the mid-1930s and found his true calling – applied social psychology. When war broke out, Oeser volunteered for military service and was soon head-hunted for intelligence work. The extraordinary things he did during the war can only now be fully revealed. In the aftermath of hostilities, Oeser headed the German Personnel Research Section tasked with “de-Nazifying” German society.
Dr Roderick Buchanan is an honorary member of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies with a research speciality in the history of psychology, psychiatry, and evolutionary biology and presents the MSPS 70th Anniversary Public Lecture.
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7416-oscar-oeser-and-psychological-science-at-the-university-of-melbourne
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