Keynote Speakers

Molly Andrews

University of East London, UK

Global Crisis and the Failure of the Narrative Imagination

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Kathya Araujo

Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

Is There Anything New Under the Sun? Crisis, Individuals and the Social Bond. A Reflection From Latin America.

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Babette Babich

Fordham University, USA

Pseudo-Science and ‘Fake’ News: 'Inventing' Epidemics and the Police State

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Michael Bamberg

Clark University, USA

Uncertainty - Stress - Anxiety — Have we ever been Certain?

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Hatem Bazian

University of California, Berkley, USA

Islamophobia in the Age of Covid-19 Pandemic: Xenophobia, Racism and Shifting the Blame

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David Becker

Sigmund Freud University Berlin, Germany

War, Conflict and Human Rights: Responding to Psychosocial Issues Arising from Covid-19

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Keith Berry

University of South Florida, USA

Communicating Crisis: The Potent Symbols of Covid-19

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Marie-Cécile Bertau

University of West Georgia, USA

Time, the Other, and the Collective Voice. Discernments from a Language Psychological Perspective

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Sunil Bhatia

Connecticut College, USA

The Pandemic is a Mirror: Race, Poverty and Radical Care in Times of Crisis

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Ignacio Brescó de Luna

Aalborg University, Denmark

The Imaginative Co-construction of Past and Future in Pandemic Times

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Jens Brockmeier

The American University of Paris, France

The Self and Its Crises

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Erica Burman

The University of Manchester, UK

Lockdown Vistas: Time, Space, Solidarity, Action

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Clint Burnham

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Does the Coronavirus Have an Unconscious?

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Nandita Chaudhary

University of Delhi, India

The Sense of a Pandemic: Tests, Trials and Turbulence in the Indian Subcontinent

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Paula Dagnino

Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile

From Social Outburst to COVID: Chile's Crises Impact on Mental Health

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Alessandra Fasulo

University of Portsmouth, UK

The Apocalypse and the Children. A Mediatic Journey Around the Space/Time Crisis in Family Homes

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Michel Ferrari

University of Toronto, Canada

Coping Wisely to World Crises Personally and Politically: Can it be done, and who can tell?

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Michelle Fine

City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA

Critical Inquiry on Gendered Violence in the Global North and South: A Conversation Between Puleng Segalo, UNISA and Michelle Fine

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Mark Freeman

College of the Holy Cross, USA

The (Al)lure of Narrative: Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation in the Time of Coronavirus

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Roger Frie

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Living with Vulnerability: Fear and Resilience in the Age of Coronavirus and Social Trauma

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David Fryer

The University of Queensland, Australia

Critical Reflections on Global Unemployment in the Wake of the Global Pandemic: Psychological Crisis Upon Health Crisis?

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Kenneth Gergen

Swarthmore College, USA

Crisis and Consequence: The Relational Imperative

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Danilo Silva Guimarães

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Amerindian Paths Through Recurrent Sociocultural Crises

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Raquel Guzzo

PUC Campinas, Brazil

Pandemic, Fatalism and Psychology Paralysis: How to Promote the Strengthening of People and Groups in Brazil?

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Cathrine Hasse

Aarhus University, Denmark

How do Robots Change Everyday Lives?

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Hani Henry

The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Sexual Harassment in the Egyptian Streets as a Continuing Crisis: A Cultural Perspective

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Diane Hiebert-Murphy

University of Manitoba, Canada

COVID-19 and Intimate Partner Violence: Is the Response Creating a Crisis?

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William Hirst

The New School for Social Research, USA

Remembering Crises: The Problem of Intergenerational Forgetting

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Darrin Hodgetts

Massey University, New Zealand

Reflections on the Spychological Contract in Everyday Lives Disrupted by Crisis

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Veronica Hopner

Massey University, New Zealand

Reflections on the Spychological Contract in Everyday Lives Disrupted by Crisis

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Tin Tin Htun

Chuo University, Japan

Multiple Inequalities and Global Crisis

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Ruthellen Josselson

Fielding Graduate University, USA

Plotless Stories and Unthought Knowns: Aspects of Psychological Life with Covid-19

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Jamil Khader

Bethlehem University, Palestine

Biopolitics, Reinvented Communism, and Conspiracy Theories: The Covid-19 Pandemic in Pales

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Ines Langemeyer

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Learning in Face of a Crisis

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Amia Lieblich

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Covid-19 and the Person: Big and Small Stories

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Luka Lucić

Pratt Institute, USA

Cognitive Development in Times of Radical Change: Education and Learning

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Athanasios Marvakis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Security as Pacification – the Trap of Psychologizing Social Phenomena

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Dan McAdams

Northwestern University, USA

Stories of Crisis: Denial, Redemption, and Radical Acceptance in the Time of Covid-19

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Maria Medved

The American University of Paris, France

De-Individuation and De-Personalization in the Times of Covid-19

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Hanna Meretoja

University of Turku, Finland & University of Oxford, UK

Narrative Agency, Pandemic Imagination and the Story of War

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Morten Nissen

Aarhus University, Denmark

Crises and Meta-Motives

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Kieran O'Doherty

University of Guelph, Canada

Trust, Trustworthiness, and Governance in Times of COVID

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Lan-sze Pang

Shue Yan University, Hong Kong

Disembodiment of Counselling under Covid-19 Crisis: Challenges that May Change Counselling Forever

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Ian Parker

University of Leicester, UK

Viral Resistance

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Nimisha Patel

University of East London, UK

War, Conflict and Human Rights: Responding to Psychosocial Issues Arising from Covid-19

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Wade Pickren

Independent scholar, USA. 

Psychologies Otherwise: A Decolonial Option for Our Present Crises

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Jeffrey Reber

University of West Georgia, USA

Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Crisis and the Rethinking of Psychological Assumptions about Human Altruism and Agency

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Paul Rhodes

University of Sydney, Australia

Eco-Anxiety and Psycho-Terratic Paradigms of Practice: A View From Australia

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Theodore Richards

Chicago Wisdom Project, USA

The Climate, The Cage, & Coronavirus: Interconnected Crises & the Cosmology of Disconnection

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Gregory Sadler

Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and founder of ReasonIO, USA

Complex Causality in Crises and Solidarity with the Vulnerable

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Brian Schiff

The American University of Paris, France

The Hermeneutics of Crisis and the Crisis of Interpretation

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Ernst Schraube

Roskilde University, Denmark

Learning and the Politics of Digitalization: Rethinking the Practices of Knowing in Times of Crisis

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Puleng Segalo

University of South Africa, South Africa

Critical Inquiry on Gendered Violence in the Global North and South: A Conversation Between Puleng Segalo, UNISA and Michelle Fine

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Brent Slife

Brigham Young University, USA

Have Social Scientists Properly Understood Crisis-Related Human Relationships?

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Corinne Squire

University of East London, UK

Curves and Numbers, Silence and Noise: Counteracting Covid-19 Narratives

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Henderikus Stam

University of Calgary, Canada

Epistemic Injustice and the Recurring Crises of Psychology

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Paul Stenner

Open University, UK

The Social Psychology of Global Crisis Through the Lens of Liminal Experience: Stuck in the Middle with Coronavirus

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Thomas Stodulka

Free University of Berlin, Germany

Tracking Corona - A Transnational Anthropological Detective Story

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Luca Tateo

University of Oslo, Norway

Atmos-Fear and Semiotic Devices: How to Turn the Right to Healthcare Into a War

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Thomas Teo

York University, Canada

Necropolitics, Subhumans and Neoliberal Mentality

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Alberto Toscano

Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Beyond the Plague State

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Michiko Tsuge

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Sexual Minorities in Japan During a Time of Crisis

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Floor van Alphen

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

The Imaginative Co-construction of Past and Future in Pandemic Times

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Fu Wai

Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong

The Mask as the Simulacra: Re-reading Jean Baudrillard at the Time of "the Pandemaic is not Really Taking Place"

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Langdon Winner

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Preparing for the Wrong Emergency: Visions of Generation Changing Events

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