Program Schedule and Themes
The initial At-A-Glance Schedule of the CPA2024 Scientific Program is Now Available!
Note that this schedule is accurate as of April 10, 2024, and may still be subject to change.
Highlights
June 20th, 2024
June 21st, 2024
8:00 am Opening Ceremonies with Elder Blessings
9:00 am Indigenous Keynote Address by Dr. Leroy Little Bear
1:00 pm CPA Presidential Address by Dr. Eleanor Gittens
*5:00 pm Indigenous Round Dance
9:00 am Indigenous Keynote Address by Dr. Leroy Little Bear
1:00 pm CPA Presidential Address by Dr. Eleanor Gittens
*5:00 pm Indigenous Round Dance
June 22, 2024
12:00 pm CPA Awards Ceremony & Luncheon
1:00 pm CPA Annual General Meeting
*4:30 pm CPA Honourary President Address by The Honourable Jean Augustine, P.C., C.M., O.Ont, C.B.E.
*5:00 pm Movie Screening – Steadfast: The Jean Augustine Story
*6:00 pm Fireside Chat with The Honourable Jean Augustine and Panel Discussion
6:30 pm CPA Presidential Reception
1:00 pm CPA Annual General Meeting
*4:30 pm CPA Honourary President Address by The Honourable Jean Augustine, P.C., C.M., O.Ont, C.B.E.
*5:00 pm Movie Screening – Steadfast: The Jean Augustine Story
*6:00 pm Fireside Chat with The Honourable Jean Augustine and Panel Discussion
6:30 pm CPA Presidential Reception
June 23, 2024
10:00 am Keynote Address by Dr. Jiaying Zhao
*3:00 pm Closing Ceremonies
*3:00 pm Closing Ceremonies
*Times to be confirmed
*Note that all times for scheduled sessions are in Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-5).
Program Themes
Theme Description | Section Programming | Theme |
Examining our discipline and various psychological constructs from a theoretical, historical and/or philosophical lens | History & Philosophy of Psychology |
Exploring intellectual roots |
Working to change human behavior to restore our environment | Environmental Psychology |
Creating a healthy(ier) planet |
Helping people make healthy lifestyle choices, facilitating peak human performance, and improving the treatment of complex human problems | Clinical Psychology Addiction Psychology Counselling Psychology Health Psychology & Behavioural Medicine Traumatic Stress Psychopharmacology |
Improving and promoting health |
Strengthening communities by seeking to understand and address the specific needs of a given community | Community Psychology Rural & Northern Psychology Criminal Justice Psychology Indigenous Peoples’ Psychology |
Serving communities |
Understanding what contributes to a successful workplace; what impact the workplace has on our lives and well-being | Industrial & Organizational Psychology Psychologists in Hospitals & Health Centres Psychology in the Military |
Understanding and improving the workplace |
Highlights the ways in which psychological research – methods, analyses, design – can be improved and better used to inform the science, practice and education of psychology | Quantitative Methods |
Improving psychological research |
Helping people understand the world and improve our interactions within society and the people in our lives | Family Psychology Social & Personality Psychology Extremism & Terrorism International & Cross-Cultural Psychology |
Understanding society and the world around us |
Understanding what contributes to how the mind and brain works – or doesn’t work | Brain & Cognitive Science Clinical Neuropsychology Quantitative Electrophysiology |
Understanding the mind and the brain |
Exploring the ways in which psychology – from the lenses of practice, science and education – can, does or should promote equity, diversity and inclusivity | Black Psychology Section Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Women and Psychology |
Promoting Human Rights and Social Justice |
Exploring development across the lifespan from infancy, childhood, adolescence, adults, older adults and through to retirement | Developmental Psychology Adult Development & Aging Psychologists and Retirement |
Exploring life stages |
Highlighting the ways in which psychology can and does inform public policy | CPA Corporate Sessions |
Informing public policy |
Examining issues related to our discipline as a profession including accreditation, ethics, funding, training | Psychology Careers Section Accreditation Ethics Internship Fair |
Professional and training issues |
Examining how people learn and helping facilitate peak performance in the classroom, on the playing field, and in other situations that require physical and mental execution | Teaching of Psychology Educational &School Psychology Sport & Exercise Psychology Students |
Examining what, where, when, why and how we learn and perform |