ISPPNews February 2019

ISPPNews vol. 30.1

February 2019

ISPP's Executive Director's Corner

Conference notifications were sent out earlier this month and the ISPP Central Office has been working hard to open the conference registration site this week!

Click here to read Sev Bennet's column with more updates about the conference and the upcoming ISPP elections.

Review Proposed Changes to the ISPP Constitution

ISPP has undergone a number of changes over the past several years and these changes have necessitated alterations to our ISPP Constitution that were made along the way.

We have reached a point where the Governing Council determined that the ISPP Constitution needed significant rewriting and restructuring, to reflect the current governance of ISPP, and to allow more readily for future adjustments as we continue to build and internationalize.

We have posted several documents, including an explanatory statement about the proposed changes on https://www.ispp.org/about/constitution for your review and consideration.

Apply Now for the 2019 ISPP Early Career Scholars Travel Awards

The International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) Early Career Committee is pleased to announce the 2019 Early Career Scholar Travel Award Competition. Up to fifteen (15) awards of a maximum of $500 USD each will be awarded to Early Career Scholars for travel to the ISPP annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal July 12th – 15th, 2019.

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ISPP's Scholars under Threat Fund

ISPP is committed to keeping colleagues in Turkey connected to the international community of political psychologists. You can help by donating to the ISPP Scholars under Threat fund through this link.

Several sister organizations generously offered support by sharing ISPP's call for donations among their membership.

It is now possible to request funds for immediate emergency support for personal living needs. Some funds may also be available for supporting scholars under threat to continue scholarly activities. More information

Observing trials against academics in Turkey

Earlier this month three international observers went to Istanbul on behalf of ISPP to speak with our colleagues in Turkey and attend two trials against academics who signed the Peace petition in 2016 and were charged with spreading terrorist propaganda. A report about their observations and experiences can be found here.

Here you can find more information on ISPP's initiatives to support our colleagues in Turkey.

Colleagues in Turkey as well as their case lawyers have stressed the impact of international observers on the court process. Observers also serve in boosting morale. For ISPP sending observers to Turkey is an opportunity to get first-hand information about the current situation and to jointly plan support actions. Colleagues in Turkey have therefore asked us to send observers for other trials of ISPP members. The trials have up to now been held in IstanbulIf you are interested in joining the pool of observers get in touch with us via info@ispp.org.

Upcoming trial dates:
March 1, 2019
March 7, 2019
March 13, 2019
April 4, 2019

See our Scholars under Threat webpage for an overview of our initiatives and information on how YOU can help.

Donation letters for 2018 Tax Filings in the U.S.A.

If you file taxes in the U.S.A. and made a donation to ISPP during 2018: Please contact ISPP's Central Office if you need a letter regarding your donation to ISPP in addition to the e-mail receipt that was provided.

Save the dates!
ISPP's upcoming meetings

Our 2019 Annual Meeting will be held in Lisbon, Portugal | July 12-15, 2019 | Registration is now open!

Our 2020 Annual Meeting will be held in Berlin, Germany | July 14-17, 2020

Our 2021 Annual Meeting will be held in Montreal, Canada | July 14-17, 2021

If you are interested in hosting a future conference of ISPP, please contact the Central Office to obtain the necessary guidelines and materials.

Visit the ISPP website:
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The next ISPPNews will be published in March 2019.
To submit your contributions for ISPPNews please send an email to Jolanda van der Noll (ISPPNews Editor).

Table of Contents of the February 2019 issue of Political Psychology is now available! Click here.

Accepted articles are available ahead of print in Early View!

Political Psychology is also on Facebook and Twitter!

New book publications

The book The Psychology of Globalization: Identity, Ideology, and Action, authored by Gerhard Reese, Amir Rosenmann, and James E. Cameron has just been published. In this book relevant to many aspects of political psychology, the authors have compiled and summarized how globalization affects our social identities, our consumer choices and our responses to global challenges such as climate change and migration. They devote a lot of space to social identity and collective action approaches vis-á-vis these global challenges, together with relevant views on political ideologies and the role of internet communication.

Call for Applications

Two Postdoctoral Research Positions
COES - Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies, Chile
Deadline: March 19, 2019
More information

Requests for literature & data

Meta-Analysis on Terrorism and Socio-Political Attitudes
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Meta-Analysis on Collective Action
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Summer Institute in Political Psychology

Stanford University is pleased to announce that it will again be hosting the Summer Institute in Political Psychology during the first three weeks of August, 2019.

August 4 to 24, 2019 | More information

Conferences, Workshops and Summer schools

3rd World Conference on Personality
April 2-6, 2019, Hanoi Vietnam | More information

77th Annual MPSA Conference
April 4-7, 2019, Chicago, IL. | More information

Hellenic conference of political science: New Challenges, New Answers (HEPO2019)
April 17-20, 2019, Athens Greece | More information

SASP-SPSSI Group Meeting on Intergroup Contact
April 29 - May 1, 2019, Newcastle, Australia | More information

The evolution, emergence, development, and maintenance of stereotypes
Submission deadline: February 28, 2019
June 27-30, 2019, Eyba/Saalfeld, Germany | More information

Prague Summer Schools 2019
June 30- July 6, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic | More information

ISPP Summer Academy 2019
July 9-11, 2019, Lisbon Portugal | More information

ISPP 2019: Empowering Citizens in Illiberal Times: The Political Psychology of Oppression and Resistance
July 12-15, 2019, Lisbon Portugal More information

Participate in a satellite two-day CICA International Conference on Conflict and Political Psychology just after the ISPP conference!

The event will start with an informal porto and cheese on the evening of July 15th, to give opportunity to the participants to know one another. It will conclude on the 19, after breakfast.

Besides any specific topic on how to deal with conflicts from the perspective of political psychology, any other topic related to Conflict and Aggression or to the main aims of CICA are welcome: deepening our knowledge about consciousness, the achievement of peace, the resolution of conflicts and the analysis of aggression and violence at all levels.

CICA International Conference on Conflict and Political Psychology
July 16-18, 2019, Lisbon Portugal | More information

Summer Institute in Political Psychology
August 4 - 24, 2019 | More information

Consult our calendar of events in the field of Political Psychology around the globe.

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