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We are pleased to present a preliminary schedule for the 2025?Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Conference, taking place on June 27-29, 2025 in Portland, Oregon. Please note that this schedule is subject to change. If you can no longer present your work, or want to make edits to publicly available session information, please complete this form by May 5, 2025. Unless communicated to us by this deadline, via this form, all session information will be made publicly available online and in print.
You may now access and download the preliminary agenda, the full poster schedule, and session groupings for the 15-minute presentations. While we are unable to accommodate specific requests for changes, we ask that you please review the agenda and make sure there are no scheduling conflicts in your sessions by May 5. If you find any double bookings, please email spssicon@spssi.com as soon as possible.
In an ongoing effort to meet the economic needs of our many constituencies, SPSSI is pleased to continue a special category of rates for the 2025 Summer Conference. SPSSI's Regional rates apply to conference attendees residing in the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Across all rates, further reductions or hardship requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
SPSSI’s Diversity Committee is hosting a Mentoring Event at the 2025 SPSSI Conference in Portland, OR. The event will take place at the conference hotel on Saturday June 28th during the conference lunch break. If you would like to serve as a Mentor at this special event, please follow this link to complete the application by Friday April 4th:
https://mst.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BAx3LRBPMiMkBw
If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Cundiff.
Hilton Portland Downtown
921 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, OR 97204, US
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SPSSI’s Room Block is now open! We have a limited number of rooms available at a discounted group rate of $189. Our room block always fills up, so be sure to book early! Please note, rooms are subject to availability. Questions about reservations? Contact spssicon@spssi.org.
Due to recent events, we understand that some SPSSI members have concerns about traveling to or within the United States. While instances of scholars' detention at the U.S. border still appear to be infrequent and sporadic, they are occurring and need to be considered. SPSSI is not able to assess the risk to individual members. We understand the decision to travel right now is a difficult and personal one. Below are some relevant resources that members may find useful when planning travel to the United States:
The safety and comfort of SPSSI members is our top concern. At this time, SPSSI is not making any recommendation to our international members regarding travel, though we are actively monitoring this issue. We encourage everyone traveling internationally to review and seriously consider any potential advisories issued by their own governments regarding U.S. travel.
María Elena Torre, PhD, is the Founding Director of the Public Science Project and faculty member in Critical Psychology and Urban Education at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies doctoral program at the Pacifica Institute. A queer mama of a very cool teenager, she has been engaged in critical participatory action research nationally and internationally for nearly 30 years with communities in neighborhoods, schools, prisons, and community-based organizations fighting for structural justice. Co-author of the Essentials of Critical Participatory Action Research (APA Press) and co-editor of PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas (Peter Lang), her writing and research looks at how decolonizing methodologies, radical inclusion, and a praxis of solidarity can inform a participatory public science for a just world.
Dr. Heather Bullock is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Economic Justice and Action at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a community-engaged social psychologist, Bullock’s research focuses on women’s experiences of poverty and homelessness, and how classism, racism, and sexism influence policy attitudes and the treatment of low-income women and their families. She served as inaugural chair of the APA’s Committee on Socioeconomic Status and received an APA Presidential Citation for her contributions to the field. Her most recent books include Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty (with Mark Rank and Lawrence Eppard), and The Psychology of Poverty, Wealth, and Economic Inequality (with Deborah Belle). As an APA/AAAS Congressional Fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions – Democratic Office, Bullock worked for Senator Edward M. Kennedy on policies related to poverty, food insecurity, and early childhood education.
Dr. Abigail Stewart is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is past director of the Women’s Studies Program and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, as well as an associate dean in the College of Literature Science and the Arts and the Rackham Graduate School, at the University of Michigan. She was the first director of UM ADVANCE from 2002 to 2016. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in Social Psychology from London School of Economics, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. Her research interests include political activism, lifespan development and change in the context of experience and social history, and institutional change toward greater diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. Author of many academic articles and books, she is coauthor with Virginia Valian of An Inclusive Academy (MIT Press, 2018) and with Sarah Fenstermaker of Gender, considered: Feminist reflections across the US social sciences (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2020).
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Brian D. Smedley is an Equity Scholar and Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, where he conducts research and policy analysis to address structural and institutional forms of racism that impact the health and well-being of people of color. Among the programs he leads at the Urban Institute is “Unequal Treatment at 20,” an effort to accelerate progress toward health care equity by identifying key policy levers and advancing a new research agenda focused on dismantling all forms of racism in health care training and clinical settings. Formerly, Dr. Smedley was Chief of Psychology in the Public Interest at the American Psychological Association (APA), where he led APA’s efforts to apply the science and practice of psychology to the fundamental problems of human welfare and social justice. In this role, Dr. Smedley was deeply involved in APA’s historic apology for psychology’s contributions to scientific racism and plans to correct this history and advance an anti-racist agenda in the discipline. A national thought leader in the field of health equity, Dr. Smedley got his start in Washington, D.C. in 1993 as an APA Congressional Science Fellow, and subsequently served at APA as Director of Public Interest Policy. Click to read Dr. Smedley's full biography.
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Past SPSSI Conferences:
SPSSI presents special programming each year at the APA Convention as well. Find more information here.
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