Symposium Program

4 December 2020, Friday

10.30-10.40      Opening Speech – Symposium Chair Prof. Dr. Ebulfez Süleymanlı, Üsküdar University Head of the Department of Sociology

10.40-12.40      Session I

10.40-11.00       Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan, Üsküdar University Founding Rector – “Family and Loneliness”

 11.00-12.40        Doç. Dr. Gül Eryılmaz, Üsküdar University, NP İstanbul Brain Hospital – “Loneliness in Relationships”

 Doç. Dr. Emel Sarı Gökten, Üsküdar University, NP İstanbul Brain Hospital – “Adolescent Loneliness and K-Pop”

 Uzm. Psikolog Çiğdem Demirsoy, Üsküdar University, NP İstanbul Brain Hospital – “Impacts of the Pandemic on Family”

 Uzm. Psikolog Aslı B. Bhais, Üsküdar University, NP İstanbul Brain Hospital – “Addiction-Loneliness Relationship”

12.40-13.30     Lunch Break

13.30-15.00    Session II

 Prof. Dr. Deniz Ülke Arıboğan, Üsküdar University Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – “Political Psychology of Loneliness”

 Prof. Dr. Mehmet Akif Okur, Yıldız Technical University – “Political Economy of Loneliness and the Turkish House: Where from Pandemic?

 Prof. Dr. Jyldyz Urmanbetova, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University – “Loneliness in the Context of Social Exclusion and Creativity”

15.00-15.30     Break

15.30-17.00     Session III

 Murathan Özbek, Photographer, Screenwriter, Director – “Pandemic, Art, and Loneliness”

 Dr. Floris Van Vugt, Université de Montréal – “Promoting Interpersonal Closeness in Video Conferencing through Moving in Synchrony”

             Özay Şendir, Journalist – “Loneliness during the Pandemic and the Media”

5 December 2020, Saturday

10.00-12.30     Session I

  Prof. Dr. Nesrin Dilbaz, Üsküdar University, NP İstanbul Brain Hospital – “Risks of the Pandemic for the Elderly: Is loneliness a choice or an undesired consequence?”

             Prof. Dr. Erol Göka, University of Health Sciences Faculty of  Medicine– “Loneliness and Longing”

             Dr. Mert Akcanbaş, Üsküdar University – “Global Insecurity and Loneliness”

             Dr. Orhan Aras, Writer – “Europe’s Challenge with the Pandemic and Loneliness”

             Psikolog İdil Arasan Doğan, Üsküdar University – “Loneliness in Old Age and Social Support”

12.30-13.30     Lunch Break

13.30-15.50     Session II

  Prof. Dr. Gönül Bünyatzade, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences – “Loneliness and Creativity”

  Dr. Baver Demircan, Üsküdar University – “Loneliness: Could the Pandemic Be An Opportunity?”

 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kristina İvanenko, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) – “New Loneliness: How the Pandemic Has Altered        the Social Relations?”

  Dr. Cihan Ertan, FHSS Özge Sarıalioğlu , Düzce University – “When the Curtains Fall Down: COVID-19 Pandemic and Performing Arts Actors' Experiences of Solitude”

  Dr. Olga Rubçova Medical Center Bekhterev – “The World in the Pandemic Period: Anxiety Epidemic and Depression”

15.50-16.00     Closing Speech – Symposium Chair Prof. Dr. Ebulfez Süleymanlı, Üsküdar University Head of the Department of Sociology