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The Fifth International Luria Memorial Congress. 13-16 October 2017 in Yekaterinburg, capital of Ural

The Fifth International Luria Memorial Congress. 13-16 October 2017 in Yekaterinburg, capital of Ural

02.11.2016
The Fifth International Luria Memorial Congress. 13-16 October 2017 in Yekaterinburg, capital of Ural

The year 2017 marks 115 years from the birth of Alexander Luria (1902-1977) and 40 years from his death. To commemorate the life and scientific achievements of this world-renowned psychologist Yeltsyn Ural Federal University, Moscow Lomonosov State University in collaboration with the Russian Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, Tomsk State University, Kemerovo Federal University, International Society of Applied neuropsychology (ISAN), International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research (ISCAR), Institute of Vygotsky in Portugal, Center for Integrating Neuropsychology and Psychology (CINAPSI) in San Paulo and Moscow Research Center of Developmental Neuropsyсhology are pleased to announce

The Fifth International Luria Memorial Congress.

The congress will be held on 13-16 October 2017 in Yekaterinburg, capital of Ural.

The Ural is the place where Alexander Luria (1902-1977) started his excellent career as a neuropsychologist. During the World War II he was the head of a rehabilitation hospital in Kisegach – a small Ural town. Here he has developed with his colleagues the world known methods of neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of soldiers after traumatic brain injury. The social program of the congress will include a visit to this historical place, as well as to the beautiful memorial at the place of the last Russian tsar execution, to the frontier of Europe and Asia and to many famous museums.

The congress will include plenary and thematic sessions (oral and poster presentations), round table discussions and evening lectures of the leading specialists in psychology and neuroscience from Russia and other countries. A competition will be organized between the papers of students, postgraduate students (Ph.D. fellows) and young researchers (under 33 years old).

The working languages of the conferences are English and Russian. There will be simultaneous translation during the congress.

International Presidency of the Congress

Chair: Janna Glozman (Russia). Members: Tatyana Akhutina – Chair of the Program Committee (Russia), Carla Anauate (Brazil), Alfredo Ardila (USA), Mike Cole (USA), Bozydar Kaczmarek (Poland), Sergey Kiselev – Co-chair of the Organizing Committee (Russia), Victor Koksharov - Co-chair of the Organizing Committee (Russia), Bella Kotik-Friedgut (Israel), Lucciano Mecacci (Italy), Jordi Pena Casanova (Spain), Antonio Puente (USA), Joaquim Quintino - Aires (Portugal), Yulia Solovieva (Mexique), Nicolay Veresov (Australia), Yuri Zinchenko (Russia).

Program Committee

Chair: Tatyana Akhutina (Russia). Members: Boris Bratus’, Maria Falikman, Islam Ilyasov, Olga Karabanova, Olga Krotkova, Anna Leonova, Regina Machinskaya, Valentina Nikolaeva, Anatoly Skvortsov, Olga Tikhomadritskaya, Rosa Vlasova.

Organizing Committee

Co-chairs: Victor Koksharov and Sergey Kiselev. Members: B.Yu. Berzin, A.A. Kiselnikov, М.V. Кlimenskih, V.V. Knazev, О.А. L’vova, А.А. Pecherkina, I.G. Polyakova, E.E. Symanuk, О.S. Vindeker.

Secretary: Svetlana Pavlova

Topic Category List

  1. A.R. Luria life and work
  2. A.R. Luria and cultural-historical psychology
  3. Neuropsychology in XXI century: new branches and methods
  4. A.R. Luria and developmental neuropsychology
  5. Development of Luria’s ideas in neurolinguistics
  6. Brain and mental processes and states: Lurian approaches in psychophysiology and neurophysiology
  7. Interhemispheric asymmetry and interaction
  8. A.R. Luria and general psychology
  9. A.R. Luria and social psychology
  10.  A.R. Luria and developmental psychology
  11. A.R. Luria and teaching psychology
  12. A.R. Luria and industrial and organizational psychology
  13. Lurian approaches in assessment and rehabilitation of mental and psychosomatic patients
  14. Psychology of health
  15. Neuropsychological rehabilitation and remediation
  16. Neuropsychology of individual differences

The conference fee is 60 euro. For students, ISAN and ISCAR members 40 euro. For accompanying persons and coauthors 30 euro. The conference fee includes: congress-package, social program, equipment for simultaneous translation, publication of the abstract (one payment for all coauthors of each abstract), and expenses of the Organizing Committee, including correspondence and invitation letters with visa support.

A special issue of “Psychology in Russia” (indexed in Scopus and Web of Science) will be issued.

Abstract requirements

Length limit – 250 words (output data: title, name(s) of author(s), country, city and e-mail - are included). References to the grants should be issued in the form of footnote. Application form is mandatory together with the abstract. Each author can submit maximum 3 abstracts with maximum 2 abstracts as the first presenter. Please underline the presenter’s name.

Abstract submission started the 1 November 2016 and continues until May 25 2017. Please send the abstract together with the application form to the Congress Secretary Svetlana Pavlova by e-mail:   Luria.ural2017@gmail.com 

Application Form (download).

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