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