Update for the Paper Submission Deadline to the VII. Critical Psychology Symposium

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic has globally emerged, we postponed the deadline for paper submission to May 1, 2020, for the VII Critical Psychology Symposium with the main theme of "Liberation" that planned to organize on the 23-24-25 October 2020. Currently, we are closely following the developments related to the pandemic and consider various options, including running the symposium through online platforms or postponing it to a later date. For now, we have decided to postpone only the deadline for the paper submission to be able to gain more time for the participants. We will reach a decision based on new developments on the most appropriate method and date for the symposium, participants, as well as organizers to be affected by this process as little as possible. And we will communicate with you again in the upcoming days.

Participants, who want to present oral or poster presentations at the VII. Critical Psychology Symposium that focuses on the debate on liberation and its ideals, possibilities and realities, are expected to submit their abstracts of 500-1000 words until May 1, 2020 (format here.) to elestirelpsikolojisempozyum@gmail.com. If you want to send multiple papers, you can make a new application for each paper. You may follow the upcoming news regarding the event on http://elestirelpsikolojisempozyumu.todap.org. Keeping with the responsibility to ensure a ground for critical perspectives, the incoming abstracts will be assessed by the Evaluating and Supporting Boards based on the criteria below:

• Does the abstract include any discriminatory elements (e.g. does it preserve the masculine/heteronormative/militarist status quo?)
• What is the abstract’s position within critical psychology in terms of theory-method-practice?
• What is the abstract’s position in terms of power relations?

When necessary, feedback will be provided for the submitted abstracts. Hence, alongside academics, we particularly encourage the participation of students and practitioners in psychology and other fields.

Organizing Board 

Aslı Aydemir

Ayçe Feride Yılmaz

Aydın Bayad

Can Önalan

Ebru Ergün

Ece Bişirir

Ersin Aslıtürk

Hatice Göz

Olga Selin Hünler

Özgür D. Yurtsever

Sertan Batur

Zeynep Biter

Evaluating and Supporting Board

Aysel Gürel

Baran Gürsel

Büşra Alparslan

Demet İslambay

Doğa Eroğlu

Düzgün Uğur

İdil Atabinen

İlker Özyıldırım

Umut Şah

Yudit Namer