The Pandemic Seminars series are organized by Luca Tateo, Pina Marsico and Falu Rami from the Subgroup Research of the DIV 52 COVID-19 Taskforce.
The recently constituted Div 52 taskforce on Covid-19 has become a productive arena of discussion about the role of international psychology in the major global crisis that affect mankind, such as the SARS COVID-19 pandemic, and that are likely to occur in the future, due for instance to the environmental crisis. In this context, a need for a space of reflection and debate, beyond contingency, has emerged. For this reason, we have created a new cycle of webinars, called “The pandemic series”, where invited lecturers, from all the continents, will propose innovative theoretical understandings of the psychological aspects of global critical events. Psychological sciences have been dramatically challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic and by its psycho-social consequences, revealing the effects of social, racial and economic inequalities.We need a serious theoretical and epistemological reflection, seeking advancements in the way psychology understands human psychic experience outside the Western-centric way of life.
The webinars will take place every month, starting June 26, 2020, and will be free and open also to non-members, in order to foster the dialogue with scholars and professionals worldwide expanding the Div 52 community. The complete list of webinars is available at https://div52.net/webinars/