INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, HUMANIZATION AND RELIGIO-CULTURES (ICCPHR) 2019
Yogyakarta- 
This conference will be held on 6-7 February 2019 in Yogyakarta- Indonesia, representing a gathering of leading scholars, community workers and activists from across the Asian, African and other regions of theworld, is the first such conference to be hosted in Indonesia. The legacies of colonialism and the contemporary exclusionary structural arrangements continue to deny the world’s majority a sense of dignity and respect, as well as the material and psychological conditions necessary for individual and collective well-being. Work within community psychology committed to social justice and psycho-social liberation has assumed multiple manifestations in teaching,research and applied practices across different regions of the world. The conference is therefore planned as a forum to converse and dialogue about the multiple manifestations of community psychology that are alert to the influences of affirming religio-cultures on community life and that may draw on critical and decolonial thought to produce humanising community practices. The conference welcomes contributions that talk to the challenges and ambiguities involved in producing community psychologies that resist the persistent disempowering psychological influences of colonial legacies and exclusionary socio-economic arrangements on community life and, conversely, support the humanization of those constructed as the ‘Other’. The conference invites contributions that examine critically the theories, methodologies and practices that support collective well-being, empowerment, liberation and the making of compassionate and humanizing communities in the context of power differentials and socio-economic disparities.
Theme : “CommunityPsychology, Humanization and Religo-Cultures : Critical and Decolonial Voices”
The following are among the key themes that the conference will include:
- Religio-cultural Community Interventions and Critical Compassionate Mental Health Practices: religio-cultural and critical approaches to priority health and social concerns, including disaster mitigation and post-disaster development. Intervention engagements with groups that are politically, economically and socially marginalised, and family and other sytems strengthening interventions.
- Decolonising Psychology’s Contributions in Organisational and Industrial Contexts: foundational and problematic practices of industrial and organisational psychology that highlight the discipline’s complicity with exploitation and social injustice; and humanising interventions that support the mental health, and collective well-being and rights of the workers and labourers in workplace communities.
- Psychology, Peace and Policy: psychology’s contributions to peacebuilding and peacemaking, and interventions addressing priority issues such as poverty, inequality, discrimination and matters of social justice. Religio-cultural and social justice based interventions that promote dialogue and psycho-material transformation as peace promotion work.
The conference programme will consist ofkeynote addresses; oral and poster presentations; parallel thematic sessions;student roundtable discussions; social events; cultural activities; and theopportunity to interact with community-engaged researchers and workers fromdifferent parts of the country and regions of the world. The programme willprovide a balance of presentations, dialogue, and networking opportunities.
Keynotes:
Prof. Hussein A. Bulhan (Franz Fanon University)
Prof. Hussein A. Bulhan is a graduate of Harvard University, Wesleyan University, Boston University.s He is the author of several major publications and numerous articles including Frantz Fanon and Psychology of Oppression; Politics of Cain – One Hundred Years Crisis in Somali Politics and Society. He initiated the Peace Commitee that kick-started mediated of the 1994 – 1997 armed conflict in Somalian. Prof. Bulhan is a former tenured professor at Boston University and the President of Hargeisa University. He is now the President and Professor of Frantz Fanon University which he founded. He is a specialist in the treatment of PTSD and other psychological problems, his primary residence is in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Horn of Africa.
Dr. Herlina Siwi (Universitas Ahmad Dahlan)
Dr. Herlina Siwi is a Lecturer of psychology Universitas Ahmad Dahlan. Her research interest mainly focus on issues related to mental illness, clinical health psychology, psychological testing and others. Her is author of publications include: cultural expression of depression and the development of indonesia depression checklist; How confidence are Indonesian teachers in teaching mathematics (researchgate website).
Dr. Leigh Coombes (Massey University)
Dr. Leigh Coombes is a Lecturer in critical psychology at Massey University, Turitea Campus, Palmerston, New Zealand. She is on the editorial board of the Women’s Studies Journal. Dr. Leigh Coombes has long history of working as narrative practitioner in community agencies and continues to practices as a Youth Justice Consultant in her community and alongside institutions where bicultural practice is previleged. She is author of several pulication including: resituating masculinity power in preventing child sexual abuse; Protective mothers: Women’s understanding of protecting children in context of legal intervention into intimate partner violence. Her research interests mainly focus on issues related to violence – violence against women, including intimate partner violence, and violence by women. Theoritically, Dr. Leigh is interested in understanding the epistimological relationship between language, power and social justice (massey.ac.nz).
Prof. Shahnaaz Suffla (South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa)
Prof. Shanaaz Suffla is a specialist scientist professor of UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences. Prof. Shanaaz research interest draw from the intersections of critical community and peace psychologies, and are located within liberatory pshilosophies and epistimologies. Her nirche areas are conflics, violence and peace, and participatory methodologies. Specifically, her research interest include a focus of peace promotion interventions in engagement as a site of activism, resistance and social change; and Africa-centered approach to violence and peace research (samrc website).
Contact:
ICCPHR 2019 Secretariat
Faculty of Psychology – Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
Kampus 1 (Kantor Pusat) Jl. Kapas 9, Semaki, Umbulharjo, Yogyakarta 55166, Indonesia
Contact person: Melati (+6287868654863) / Luhung (+62895386915161)
Website: iccphr.org
Email: iccphr2019@uad.ac.id
