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Convention program overview and call for submissions

Division 47 would like to encourage you to submit a presentation for the upcoming APA Annual Convention. Please note that although dates change, the deadline for submissions to the annual convention is generally sometime in early December, and the convention is generally held in August of the following year.

The Division 47 program continues to grow in terms of diversity of presenters and topics, as well as numbers of submissions and accepted proposals. We hope to continue this growth by encouraging as many people to submit presentations as possible. It is important to note that Division 47 is a diverse division with many possible topics areas. Please look upon this division as one that supports both research and practice based presentations from an exercise or performance perspective. As such, presentations accepted for the program in the past have dealt with the areas of sport, exercise, performing arts, business and the military. We encourage our submitters to be creative in their definition of performance.

Invited keynotes

Division 47 has two honorary keynote lectures that are given at the APA Annual Convention: the Kate F. Hays Memorial Keynote and the Steven R. Heyman Memorial Keynote. Invitations for each keynote are offered by the program chairs after discussion and selection by the Executive Committee following the Division 47 Midwinter Meeting.

Last updated: May 2026Date created: 2011
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