The 2023 APA Convention call for proposals is now open. We encourage you to begin submitting your proposals for skill-building sessions, data blitz, symposia, critical conversations, and posters.
Act quickly—the deadline is January 10.
This year, we are looking, in particular, for submissions to engage with the theme: "Psychology for Humans: Can Psychological Humanities Include Those Psychological Science Neglects?"
The predominant approach to psychology as a positivistic science has, through its processes, methods, content and institutions, systematically neglected and marginalized those outside the statistical and imagined norm. In doing so the field has narrowed our collective conception of who gets to be a psychological subject—who counts as humans are the humans we count. Alternative approaches to knowledge construction with deep roots in the conceptual tools, ethical commitments, and practices of the humanities may serve to broaden and unsettle the field’s conception of the human subject. We invite submissions that both apply and interrogate the methods and literature from the psychological humanities (e.g. history, philosophy, political theory, science and technology studies, feminism, literature, psychoanalysis, critical theory, disability and mad studies) and explore the theoretical and practical implications of this approach.
The call for proposals has opened and can be found on the APA website. The primary deadline to submit is Tuesday, January 10, 2023—but please be aware that the IMPACT Program proposals deadline is Monday, November 21.
Do you have any questions? Email the APA staff.