Detail about the forthcoming 15th biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) has just been released. The conference will be held in Santiago, Chile, from 3-7 May 2013. The organisers have chosen dialogue and debate as the overarching (but not exclusive) conference theme: ‘This conference aims at promoting dialogue and debate as a practice within the theoretical work in psychology and related fields, and also may draw attention to the role that dialogue and debate play in psychological and social life.’ The conference will be hosted by two Chilean universities, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Alberto Hurtado. The deadline for submission for paper proposals is 30 November 2012.
Santiago de Chile
To quote the conference website: ‘ISTP conferences are the premier opportunity for theoretical psychologists and graduate students interested in theoretical issues in psychology and related fields to present, discuss, and reflect on theoretical research in the human sciences. Generating collaborations and dialogues with colleagues from all over the world will be encouraged throughout the conference, designed as an atmosphere of thoughtful debate, enabling further development of ideas. In this international context, Latin American perspectives are of special importance in this 2013 conference.’
In the earlier years of the ISTP’s existence conferences tended to rotate between Europe and North America. In recent years, however, conferences had been held in Turkey (2003), South Africa (2005), Canada (2007), China (2009) and Greece (2011). What this reveals is a deliberate attempt to internationalise the society’s perspective and membership, and to open theoretical psychology as a field of inquiry to significant dialogues and debates taking place outside of Europe and North America as well. Since this will be the first time an ISTP conference is held in Latin America, it certainly is an event to look forward to. Besides meeting up with colleagues and friends from earlier conferences, I hope to establish new links in Chile and Latin America; and to learn from the rich traditions of thinking psychology, subjectivity and politics there. There certainly are, from a southern African perspective at least, a lot of important dialogues and debates to pursue with Latin American colleagues!
Southern Psychologies 
Hi, could you perhaps advise me on where to go when I am unaffiliated but helped my professor organize the first Dutch symposium on Theoretical Psychology? He must be in his 90s now and other professors working for him back then have disappeared from stage or turned left after a left turn, having been left back then anyway. I have always been TP’s greatest fan and tried to develop my own theory, separately, since it had occurred to me that only independent confirmation or the seeking of it, could lead to Truth, as opposed to Postmodernism and beyond. Thank you.