Highlights

Kick off your 2008 APA Convention experience by listening to what best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has to say. The New Yorker staff writer, who wrote The Tipping Point and Blink, will be the keynote speaker at the Opening Session.

Another Opening Session highlight will be the presentation of APA’s highest honor—the APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology—to Edward Zigler, PhD. Dr. Zigler was central in the movement that established universal preschool education.

Don’t miss the Plenary Sessions. Explore the mind and brain of the voter with Drew Westen, PhD. Find out what Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, thinks about changing the nation’s diet. Hear an interview with Robert J. Sternberg, PhD. And much more.

The Convention’s Presidential Programming features five topics dear to APA President Alan E. Kazdin, PhD: interpersonal violence, PTSD and trauma in children and adolescents, grand challenges of society, clinical practice and science integration and hate crimes.

Meet with APA leaders at a Town Hall Meeting on membership and early-career psychologist issues.

Details

There are two levels of programming: sessions sponsored by APA’s governance and programs developed by APA’s divisions. Convention programs include symposia, paper and poster sessions, invited addresses, discussions, workshops and more.

You’ll also have a chance to earn continuing education credits.

The searchable online program will be available in mid-June.

Most of the Convention programming will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm over the event’s four days. Other events will take place at the Boston Marriott Copley Palace Hotel, Sheraton Boston Hotel, Westin Copley Place Boston Hotel and Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel.

APA will provide shuttle bus service between the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and Convention hotels.