Jesica Siham Fernandez - (re)Imaging Psychology for Liberation: A Decolonial Dialogue Workshop

Jesica Siham Fernández, PhD - Fulbright-Schuman Fellow, European University Institute (EUI, Florence) and Associate Professor, Santa Clara University (USA)

  • Data: 19 maggio 2025 dalle 16:30 alle 18:00

  • Luogo: Dipartimento di Psicologia "Renzo Canestrari"- Aula 2. Viale Berti Pichat 5, Bologna

  • Modalità d'accesso: Ingresso libero

Abstract

Decoloniality, and the process of decolonization, is a political, social and relationally humanizing pursuit. Grounded in this understanding, this interactive multimodal workshop led by Dr. Jesica Siham Fernandez will invite us into a decolonial dialogue where together we will learn about decolonial theory and praxes for (re)imaging psychology in the present moment. Through a facilitated dialogue interwoven with theoretical and praxical examples from workshop participants’ research, practice and activism, we will consider the possibilities of a psychology for liberation rooted in docolonization. Decolonial psychology is a task, indeed a commitment, to build worlds where genuine ethical relationships, ways of knowing and being that are humanizing and liberatory are the norm, rather than the exception.

Jesica Siham Fernández  (Fulbright-Schuman Fellow, Department of Political & Social Sciences, European University Institute EUI, Florence.  Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, Santa Clara University - USA)

completed her PhD in social psychology with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Trained as a social-community psychologist, Jesica’s scholarship is grounded in a decolonial praxis that centers abolitionist, liberatory and relational pluriversal epistemologies. Jesica is the co-editor on the Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology (Springer, 2024). As a recipient of the 2025 Schuman-Fulbright Fellowship, she is currently residing in Florence, as a visiting fellow at the European University Institute.

L’incontro è organizzato da Francesca Esposito e Cinzia Albanesi (Dipartimento di Psicologia «Renzo Canestrari») e Alia Jasim (Medicina Decoloniale). 

Contatti: francesca.esposito34@unibo.it