Dear Colleagues,
We write to invite you to participate in the fifth biennial conference of the Society for the Study of Human Development. Our theme this year is Crossing Boundaries in Human Development. Perhaps the most cutting edge of developmental science is the notion of crossing boundaries -- crossing disciplinary or age boundaries, biopsychosocial, cognitive-social, quantitative-qualitative, or research-policy boundaries.
The conference will be held at Pennsylvania State University’s Conference Center on October 19th – 21st. Details about the program and registration can be found at www.sshdonline.org.
Here are some highlights from the program: An invited lecture by John Nesselroade in honor of K. Warner Schaie, a pillar in the field of human development who is retiring from Penn State this year. An invited address by Lynn Liben with the intriguing title: Life at the Edges: Exploring Spatial Representations across the Lifespan We also will have a memorial symposium organized by Jacque Eccles on Gender over the Life Course in honor of Jan Jacobs, our Penn State colleague whom we lost all too early in her brief but productive life. Other symposia and posters will cover a wide array of topics related to Human Development.
We will be having an innovative poster session called “It takes a village….to create good science” to discuss theoretical, empirical or other types of problems, issues or ideas in a supportive, open environment with interested scholars. We invite poster abstracts which outline the issues that participants wish to discuss. The poster session will then be a forum during which conference participants will be invited to stroll among the posters to discuss these ideas and issues of interest. We hope this will create a novel opportunity for targeted exchange among scientists with similar interests.
We have also been able to arrange a pre-conference workshop on Longitudinal Methods. Please see the SSHD website for further details. Space is limited but we do hope you will pass the word to friends, colleagues and students who might benefit from this workshop.
Travel scholarships are available for students. See the website for more information.
On behalf of the SSHD Steering Committee, we look forward to seeing you in a few weeks!
Sincerely,
Toni C. Antonucci, Program Chair and Susan Whitbourne, President
Visit our website for details: www.sshdonline.org
Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of Massachusetts Amherst
611 Tobin Hall
Amherst MA 01003
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413-545-0996 (F)
