International Conference of Community Psychology
ICCP 2020 seeks to celebrate and interrogate the ways solidarities are fostered and sustained within community contexts, across borders and boundaries, digital and non-digital spaces, and through process of knowledge production. The conference seeks to give a critical platform to the ideas and work emerging from coalitions with practitioners, artists, educators, activists, and diverse communities. We are interested in exploring and showcasing scholarship, activism, practice, and critical scholarly engagement, from around the world that seeks to bring about sustainability, inclusivity, and wellbeing for all.
WELCOME
Attendees will participate in the conference online utilising a dynamic virtual conference platform, OnAIR. The platform will provide access to the online event agenda, linking participants to the live and pre-recorded sessions, workshops, networking, exhibitors, ePosters, and more.
Dynamic virtual conference platform
A THREE DAY PROGRAM
Virtually network and meet with colleagues from around the world
Extensive catalogue of open oral presentations on-demand
Morning and afternoon segments to accommodate varied time zones
On-demand access available post-conference
More than 70 hours of scheduled content over three days
York University, Canada
INVITED SPEAKERS
Victoria University, Australia
City University of New York, USA
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
Victoria University is a world-class dual sector University located in Melbourne, Australia.
Victoria University has a moral purpose to transform the lives of any student from any background and to transform our communities, in partnership with our students and communities.
Victoria University acknowledges, recognises and respects the Ancestors, Elders and families of the Boonwurrung, Waddawurrung and Wurundjeri of the Kulin who are the traditional owners of University land in Victoria, and the Gadigal and Guring-gai of the Eora Nation who are the traditional owners of University land in Sydney.
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The organisers of ICCP 2020 express our thanks to all those who helped achieve the conference.
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Professor Tony Birch
Tony Birch is the author of three novels: the bestselling The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin literary prize; Ghost River, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2012. He is also the author of Shadowboxing and three short story collections, Father’s Day, The Promise and Common People. In 2017 he was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award for his contribution to Australian literature. In 2021 he will release two new books, a poetry book, Whisper Songs and a new short story collection, Dark As Last Night. Both books will be published by University of Queensland Press. Tony Birch is also an activist, historian and essayist. His website is: tony-birch.com
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Distinguished Professor Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, American Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Fine taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 – 1991, and then came to the Graduate Center. She has authored many “classics” – books and articles on high school push outs, adolescent sexuality – called the “missing discourse of desire,” the national evaluation of the impact of college in prison, the struggles and strength of the children of incarcerated adults, the wisdom of Muslim American youth. A pioneer in the field of youth Participatory Action Research, and a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project, Fine has been involved with a series of participatory studies with youth and elders, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated college students and youth working at the intersections of movements for educational, immigration and juvenile justice.
SPEAKER BIO
Professor Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, American Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Fine taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 – 1991, and then came to the Graduate Center. She has authored many “classics” – books and articles on high school push outs, adolescent sexuality – called the “missing discourse of desire,” the national evaluation of the impact of college in prison, the struggles and strength of the children of incarcerated adults, the wisdom of Muslim American youth. A pioneer in the field of youth Participatory Action Research, and a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project, Fine has been involved with a series of participatory studies with youth and elders, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated college students and youth working at the intersections of movements for educational, immigration and juvenile justice.
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Professor Thomas Teo
Thomas Teo is a Canadian professor of Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is a leader in the fields of critical psychology and theoretical psychology.
THANKS AND APPRECIATION
We would like to thank our sponsors:
We would like to thank the various organising individuals, committees and groups:
We would like to thank people who wrote initial letters of support for the conference: