VOLUME 30 , NUMBER 6 June 1999
CALENDAR
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MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
June
4-5: "Black psychology: dialogues for the next millennium," Newport Beach, Calif., is the first conference of African American Students in Psychology (AASP) sponsored by the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). This conference is designed to provide students and professionals with the opportunity to participate in dialogues with some of the leading African centered psychologists in this country, including Thomas Parham, Na'im Akbar and Linda James Meyers. The conference will focus on three primary themes: clarifying, defining and applying black psychology and African-centered worldviews. Contact: Marcia Moody, AASP Conference Chair, (949) 824-6457 or e-mail: mmoody@uci.edu.
27-July 1: Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) 22nd annual scientific meeting, Santa Barbara, Calif., Contact: Deborah Sharp, 4314 Medical Parkway, Suite 12, Austin TX 78756-3332, (512) 454-0022, e-mail: debbyrsa@bga.com, web site: www.rsa.am.
July
16-17: Paul D. MacLean Festschrift, at Boston BackBay Hilton Hotel. To celebrate the work of this neuroscientist and humanist, The Across-Species Comparisons and Psychopathology (ASCAP) Society has invited 24 speakers to speak on his work and manners related to it: represented are neuroscience, social science, psychiatry, psychology, and political science. Numbering amongst the speakers are C.U.M. Smith, author of two editions of Molecular Neurobiology, Karl Pribram, Ernest Barratt, Daniel Levine, Glenn Weisfeld, James Brody, Neil Greenberg, Roger Masters, Hagop Akiskol, Allen Mirsky, John Price, Vassilis Koliatsos, Seymour Itzkoff, James Newman, and Gerald A. Cory (co-organizer).
Objectives include attendees will, as a result of this symposium, be able to:
- Outline the relevance of MacLean's research and data for psychiatry, child psychiatry, human politics, ethology, and the psychology of emotions.
- Assess MacLean's theory with respect to its philosophical underpinnings, issues of reification, and unfolding information from molecular biology and the genome project.
- Note the arguments of certain critical reviews of MacLean along with the reasons that they are suspect.
- Furnish information on how his perspective augments our understanding of affective disorders, violence, and hyperactivity syndromes.
18-22: Eighth annual computational neuroscience meeting (CNS99), Pittsburgh, sponsored by Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science, National Institute of Mental Health, along with the Center for Neural Basis Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Contact: Dennis Glanzman (NIMH) or James Baltech (Caltech), e-mail: glanzman@heliz.nih.gov or cns99@smaug.bbb.caltech.edu.
18-31: 32nd annual Rudolf Dreikurs summer institute, Boston, sponsored by the International Committee for Alderian Summer Schools and Institutes (ICASSI). Contact: ICASSI, e-mail: ICASSI@btinternet.com, web site: www.btinternet.com/~icassi/index.htm.
21-23: "Prevention and children's mental health at the millennium," Minneapolis, is sponsored by the National Mental Health Association. This three-day conference will examine children at risk for problem behaviors and provide prevention approaches and considerations for use in family, school and community-based prevention efforts. Contact: University of Minnesota, (612) 624-9896, fax: (612) 624-5891, e-mail: mmorgant@mail.cee.umn.edu, web site: www.cee.umn.edu/ pdm/PCMH.shtml.
22-24: Annual conference of the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA), Crystal City, Va. The keynote speaker will be Terry Anderson, former Beirut hostage. Contact: Erin Burnette, AMHCA Headquarters, 801 N. Fairfax St., Suite 304, Alexandria, VA 22314, (703) 548-6002, (800) 326-2042, fax: (703) 548-4775, e-mail: eburnette@amhca.org, web site: www.amhca.org.
28-29: "Psychological assessment of learning disabilities for psychologists," Part I & Part II, Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Lab School of Washington. Contact: (202) 944-3082, e-mail: dianalab@aol.com.
August
2-4: "Health in the new millennium: making choices, measuring impact," National conference on health statistics, Washington, D.C. Contact: web site: www.cdc.gov/nchswww.
6-10: American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting, Chicago. Contact: Tracy Danforth or Janet Astner, (202) 833-3410, ext. 305, web site: www.asanet.org."
7-8: Eighth annual conference of the International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment, "Creating change: sexual harassment research, training, and advocacy for the 21st century," Chicago. Program includes panels, symposia and workshops. Contact: James Gruber, (313) 593-5611, e-mail: jegruber@umd.umich.edu or Susan Fineran (617) 353-7912, e-mail: sfineran@bu.edu.
20-24: 107th annual convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), Boston. Contact: APA Convention Office, (202) 336-6020, 750 First St., N.E., Washington, DC 20002-4242, web site: www.apa.org.
September
8-10: 1999 Cancer conference, "Meeting the challenges of comprehensive cancer control," Atlanta, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This year's conference will emphasize broad-based public health approaches for implementing effective cancer prevention and control strategies and activities. Contact: (770) 488-4226, web site: www.cdc.gov/cancer.
27-Oct 1: The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 43rd annual meeting, Houston. Technical sessions will address issues including, office ergonomics, carpal tunnel syndrome, aging, aviation/aerospace, biomechanics, forensics, organizational design and management, test and evaluation, and visual performance. Contact: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, P.O. Box 1369, Santa Monica, CA 90406-1369, (310) 394-1811, fax: (310) 394-2410, e-mail: hfes@compuserve.com, web site: hfes.org.
23-26: "The parahippocampal region: basic science and clinical implications," Baltimore, sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Anatomical, biochemical, physiological, behavioral, and pathological studies will be described, and will provide a comprehensive up-to-date review of this important part of the brain. Contact: NYAS, 2 E. 63 rd St., New York, NY 10021, (212) 838-0230 ext. 324, fax: (212) 838-5640.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The American Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (AAPR) invites papers on empirical research, reports on exemplary practice and workshops on program models of psychosocial rehabilitation. Topics may include pharmacologic components, cognitive and behavioral methods, patient and family education, vocational and rehabilitation models, methods of working with specific ethnic and culturally diverse populations, and psychosocial rehabilitation outcome studies in a managed-care environment. Deadline for submissions is July 15. Contact: AAPR, C/O The Bridge, Inc., 248 W. 108th St., New York, NY 10025, fax: (212) 663-3181, e-mail: bridgeinfo@aol.com.
The new Journal of Threat Assessment is accepting manuscripts dealing with all aspects of assessing and managing threats and violence. Submissions should be 30 pages or less. The deadline is open-ended at this time. Contact: Joseph T. McCann, Editor, Journal of Threat Assessment, 31 Beethoven St., Binghamton, NY 13905, e-mail: mccannjt@aol.com.
Entries are invited for the 10th Annual Psychology Department Newsletter contest, sponsored by the Nova Southeastern University Behavioral Sciences Department. Submit a newsletter from the 1998-99 academic year. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 16. Contact: John Malouff, NSU Behavioral Sciences, 3301 College Ave., Ft Lauderdale, FL 33314. (954) 262-7914, e-mail: malouffj@polaris.nova.edu.
The International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) will be holding its 16th biennial meeting in Beijing, China, April 11-14, 2000. The meetings involve a wide range of topics on psychological development and take an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and life-span approach. The deadline for symposium submission is July 1. The deadline for submission of papers is Sept. 1. Contact: Lei Wang, (8610) 6 275 7551, e-mail: leiwang@pku.edu.cn.
The Israel Society for Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Committee of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) invite submissions of 150-word abstracts for its their international seminar "Violence and adolescence," Jerusalem, Israel, November 15-18. The deadline for submissions is July 15. Contact: ISAS International Seminars, P.O. Box 34001, Jerusalem 91340, Israel, 972--2-6520574, fax: 972-2-6520558, e-mail: isas@netvision.net.il.
The Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services in collaboration with Columbia University School of Public Health and the Society for Research in Child Development presents Head Start's 5th national research conference "Developmental and contextual transitions of children and families: implications for research, policy and practice." The conference will be held June 28-July 1, 2000 in Washington, D.C. The call for papers became available at the web site on March 1. Proposals are due on July 15. Contact: Faith Lamb-Parker, Columbia School of Public Health/CPFH, 60 Haven Avenue, B3, New York, NY 10032, (212) 304-5251, fax: (212) 544-1911, e-mail: flp1@columbia.edu, website: www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb.
--Compiled by L. Mattas-Curry
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