Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society for HoP

The annual meeting of the Spanish Society for the History of Psychology, Sociedad Española de Historia de la Psicología (SEHP), will be held May 13-15 in Donostia – San Sebastián. The meeting has been organized by José Maria Gondra Rezola, Manuel Sanchez de Miguel, Angel González Alonso, Michaels Dry Malen, and Luis Maria Iturbide Luquín, and will feature two invited addresses. Alexandra Rutherford of York University will deliver the keynote address on “Feminism and American Psychology: The History of a Relationship,” while Wade Pickren of Ryerson University will deliver the closing address entitled “Traveling Miles: ‘Circulation and Psychological Transformation of Knowledge.'”

Additional talks at the meeting fall largely under the following themes:

  • William James in memory: one hundred years after his death. Legacy and influence of his work in the history of psychology.
  • History of applied psychology.
  • History of Spanish psychology.
  • History of developmental psychology.
  • Women in the history of psychology.
  • Psychology and pacifism: the story of psychologists for peace.
  • Roots of schools and psychological systems.
  • The role of the History of Psychology in the development of psychology and the training of psychologists.
  • Bologna: teaching applied aspects of the History of Psychology and adaptation of the subject to the new curriculum.

The full conference program can be found here.

About Jacy Young

Jacy Young is a professor at Quest University Canada. A critical feminist psychologist and historian of psychology, she is committed to critical pedagogy and public engagement with feminist psychology and the history of the discipline.