Abstract and Symposia Submissions
Submissions are now closed. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Guidelines
Podium Presentations
Podium presentations will consist of a maximum 15-minute presentation with 5-minutes of questions and answers (Q&A).
Poster Format
Maximum size is 48” x 36”, in portrait.
Symposia Proposals
The ICPA Conference welcomes proposals for symposia that bring together multiple presentations organized around a shared theme, research question, or methodological approach. Symposia are intended to foster in-depth dialogue, interdisciplinary exchange, and critical engagement among presenters and attendees.
Each symposium proposal should present a coherent set of contributions addressing a common topic and clearly articulate the significance of the symposium within the scope of the conference. Proposals may include empirical research, theoretical analyses, methodological discussions, or applied work relevant to ICPA themes.
Symposium proposals must be submitted by a designated organizer and include a symposium title, an overall abstract describing the theme and objectives of the session, and the titles and abstracts of individual presentations, along with presenter information.
All symposium proposals will be reviewed by the conference committee based on scholarly quality, thematic coherence, and relevance to the conference themes.
Symposium proposals are due Feb 15, 2026. Organizers will be notified by Feb 28, 2026.
Book Chapter Contribution Opportunity
After Anti-Representation: Ecological Psychology Enters the Body
Ecological psychology has become highly effective at challenging representational explanations of behavior. The next step is constructive: building non-representational alternatives for the very phenomena representations were meant to explain—especially those typically assigned to “internal mechanisms” in brain and body. If we reject representation, we must also explain—ecologically and bodily—what representations were supposed to do.
Editorial Commitments
To ensure chapters move beyond critique and contribute real explanatory replacements, each submission must:
Name the representational explanation it replaces (e.g., memory storage, internal models, planning), and
Specify the bodily, neural, and/or physiological dynamics that do the explanatory work in explicitly non-representational terms.
We are seeking contributions that take up representation’s “unfinished business” and develop ecological explanations beneath the skin—without backsliding into computational metaphors, relabeled representations, or critique-only rehearsal.
Volume Orientation
Proposed arc for contributors (for orientation, not restriction):
Representation’s Unfinished Business
Ecological Dynamics Beneath the Skin
Learning, History, and Irreversibility
Collective & Cultural Bodies
What Comes After Anti-Representation
Interested in Contributing?
Please email a short abstract or proposal directly to: mmangalam@unomaha.edu