About the Division 35/AWP Suite
The
Division 35/AWP suite serves as a place to hold meetings, network,
share, and as a place for suite volunteers
from both organizations to stay at a reduced rate. Click
here for information about staying in the suite. The
suite set up consists of a larger main room for meetings,
a smaller side room for the book exhibit, and sleeping quarters.
Division 35 and AWP currently share the financial support
of
the suite equally and each has access to half of the target
of 17-20 programming hours. Because it is meant to be a “hospitality
suite,” the two organizations decided that the remainder of
the hours should be designated as “open time” for members
to talk, network, relax, and get to know people in the organization.
They also decided that the events held in the suite should
be primarily conversation hours and meetings of task forces
and organizations rather than formal presentations. These
are
all open sessions - mental health professionals and students
are welcome to attend.
To see a copy of the Suite
Schedule for the 2004 APA
Convention
in
Honolulu, please
click here. This year the suite is the beautiful
Royal Suite on the 33rd floor of the Hawaiian Prince Waikiki
Hotel.
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Acrobat to do this.
Meet the Authors!
The “Meet
the Authors” Reception will
be held in the AWP/SPW Suite at APA in Honolulu, Thursday,
July 29th, 2004, 5:00 - 6:30 PM.
This
year AWP and SPW will hold the second "Meet the Authors" event
in the AWP/Division 35 Suite during the APA Convention in Honolulu,
Hawaii. This event allows people, especially aspiring authors,
to meet and interact with the authors whom they admire. It provides
a wonderful mentoring opportunity through which students and
professionals can learn more about writing and publishing. Authors
who have written or edited books related to the psychology of
women and feminist psychology that were published in 2002, 2003,
2004, and forthcoming in 2005 will be featured. To
see a list of authors, please CLICK HERE.
Mentoring
Events in the Suite
Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35) and the
Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) are holding several
student-friendly events, including conversation hours, committee
meetings and task force meetings.
Moreover, we will be sponsoring a series of student mentoring
events, including:
How to succeed in academe.
Topics include getting an academic job, research and publishing,
qualitative research, reviewing articles for journals, overcoming
barriers in academe, and a "meet the authors" event
during which students can talk with successful authors.
Developing your private practice.
Topics include getting licensed, planning your practice, marketing
your practice and issues facing women in private practice.
Leadership and activism.
Topics include community involvement, international activism
and getting involved in AWP, Div. 35 and APA governance.
For details and times, please CLICK
HERE for the suite schedule.
Staying and Volunteering in
the Suite
Going to the APA convention
this year? If so, please
join us at the feminist/womanist hospitality suite co-hosted
by the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) and APA Div35,
Society for the Psychology of Women!
What does
VOLUNTEERING and STAYING at the Suite during 
the convention involve? If you've not volunteered at the Suite
before, it involves a couple things: Each volunteer staffs
the suite (making people feel at home, watching over things,
etc) for a total of 5 hours. In
return, besides the camaraderie, the volunteer stays in
one of the rooms that AWP/Div35 subsidize (4 people per
room, $40 per night probably) or on the floor of the suite
($20 per night probably). Its important work since we want the suite to be inviting and well
organized, and its also enjoyable -- a great way to meet
people!
This opportunity
is open to EVERYONE ... students and non-students, professionals
and non-professionals, locally, nationally, AWP, Div 35, etc.,
etc. The only requirements
are that you will be at APA for at least 4 of the 5 nights
and are willing to help out and welcome people coming to the
suite.
If you want more information,
or to reserve your space (we fill up!) please call or email
Nikolai Houston. Her e-mail address is annnikolai@earthlink.net and
she can be reached by phone at 718-851-6057. We hope to see
you at the suite!
Help Division 35 Increase
Programming Hours At APA Next Year!
Did
you know that you can help us increase the number of hours
of programming time allotted to Division 35 at the APA 
convention
(i.e., the number of convention submissions that Division 35
can accept)? All you have to do is list Division 35 as
your primary division on the convention registration form! It
is important that you let APA know the kinds
of sessions that attract your interest. It is an easy way
to get better representation of the feminist perspective on
the psychology of women at APA next year!
