Association of Psychosocial Studies Online Conference

The last 12 months have been a blur for many of us. Plans have had to be put on hold and life as we knew it has completely changed. We have spent more time in virtual worlds, causing us to re-imagine how we interact with one another. The importance of physical connection and its prohibition has also been a cause for collective reflection.

Conference dates 

The conference will be virtual and take place over four days:

1. Thursday 1 July
2. Friday 2 July
3. Friday 9 July
4. Saturday 10 July

Conference content

Delivery of the conference will be through a combination of keynote speakers, presentations, workshops and online interactive events. The theme PSYCHOSOCIAL BODIES intends to cover psychosocial months have been a blur for many of us. Plans have had to be put on hold and life as we knew it has thinking about identity and the body, the body politic, as well as bodies of knowledge.

Relevant topics might include:

• bodies under COVID-19
• bodies betrayed
• bodies as sites of resistance
• breath
• cyborg life
• decolonizing bodies of knowledge
• disability studies
• disruptive, non-conforming bodies
• embodiment & embodied knowledge
• grief and unmournable bodies
• identity, mind and body
• psychosomatics
• socially-situated bodies of knowledge
• skin and skin studies
• technologically modified bodies
• touch and forbidden touch
• virtual bodies.