The conference represents anpsycho-societal approach to research, whichfocuses on the dialectic between inner experience and the social conditions of people's lives, paying attention to the conflictual and dynamic nature of both psychological and social processes and their mutual effects on social action and change. Member’s works of a range of social sciences including sociology, social psychology, psychoanalysis, criminology, cultural studies, education, social work and social policy will be discussed.

This years’s theme is “Democracy, authoritarianism – and populism?”