We are glad to invite you to the V International Conference of Cultural Psychology, that will take place March 26 and 27 2020 at the Federal University of Bahia. Continuing two decades of theoretical and empirical elaboration in Cultural Psychology and in dialogue with other disciplines, the conference will gather scholars to discuss the current and emerging ideas that can expand our understanding of the human beings.

The conference is organized as part of the project “Under the sign of poverty: psychosocial and educational dynamics of people in economical disadvantaged social groups in the perspective of cultural semiotic psychology”, with financial support by CNPq and PAEP/CAPES, and coordinated by professor Maria Virginia Dazzani at the Post-graduate Program in Psychology (PPGPSI), Federal University of Bahia. The conference is organized in collaboration with visiting professors Pina Marsico and Luca Tateo, with the International Kitchen Seminar Network and with the International Network Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future (IBEF).

The main events of the program will be the lectures of professor Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University; professor Nandita Chaudary, Lady Irwin College New Delhi; professor Paul Rhodes, University of Sydney; professor Tatsuya Sato, Ritsumeikan University, Japan; professor Ana Cecilia Bastos and Marilena Ristum, Federal University of Bahia.

The conference will accept both theoretical and empirical contributions that present a substantial advancement in the field. Some non-exhaustive examples of the topic of interest for the conference are:

· Psycho-social and developmental dynamics of marginalized people, with special focus on people in disadvantaged social groups

· Theory, methodology and epistemology of cultural psychology

· Decolonizing studies in cultural psychology

· Innovative theories and methodologies for the study of educational contexts

· Transdisciplinary dialogues with psychology as science of human beings

· Developmental dynamics in the arenas of human activity: borders, transitions, life-course, liminality

Participation fees, to be paid at the conference registration, are:

· R$ 20 (US$ 5) for undergraduate students

· R$ 50 (US$ 12) for doctoral students

· R$ 200 (US$ 43) for professors

Participants are requested to send an abstract of a single contribution (including all names, affiliation, contact, and contribution titles with 5 keywords) or a thematic session (5 presenters + 1 discussant, including all names, affiliation, contact, and contribution titles with 5 keywords) by no later than December 30, 2019 to vconferenceculturalpsychology@gmail.com, with the subject “Submission to VCCP”. Proposals will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be notified by January 20. Proposals should be between 250 and 700 words. The conference official transcultural language will be English, but presentations can be in any of the Latin American languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Guaraní, Quechua, etc.), provided that presenters can give English translation.

For further information, please visit: https://vconferenceculturalpsychology.blogspot.com/