July 2010 world congress on behavioral development - Lusaka ZAMBIA - Deadline extended to 31st December

[Katie Alcock]

I¹m just forwarding this from Robert Serpell, the conference organiser, as
the deadline has been extended.

Dear colleague,
I am writing to encourage you to consider submitting a proposal for
the July 2010 congress of the ISSBD
( the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development ),
which will be hosted in Lusaka by the UNZA
Departments of Psychology, Educational Psyc/Sociology/Special Ed and
Pediatrics & Child Health.


There are several reasons why I think this particular congress will be
special:
1. It is the first time that the ISSBD's International Biennial
Meetings will be held in Africa,
    and the Local Organising Committee plans, with the assistance of
an expert panel of
    African researchers from 8 other African countries to give the
event a truly African flavor.
2. The slate of invited speakers and contributors to invited symposia
is quite outstanding,
    including a number of stars of the field, and representing 25
countries across 6 continents
    (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America)
3. The range of topics and theoretical perspectives covered by the
invited programme is already
    extremely broad, covering the full lifespan and drawing on
multiple disciplines, including:

adolescents in migrant families across nations; advancing early
childhood developmental and
policy research in Africa; an Africentric perspective on human
development; ageing, social relations
and health; cognitive development in chimpanzees; child abuse and
neglect; childhood studies in Africa;
children living in poverty in different nations; cultural differences
in cognitive styles; cyberbullying;
development of political persons on three continents; development of
verbal deception;
epigenetic approaches to development; gendered analyses of youth
development;
HIV, AIDS and behavioural change; individual differences in
developmental plasticity;
intervention with vulnerable children and youth in Latin America;
learning to read Chinese;
mainstream values among Chinese adolescents; memory development in
childhood and adolescence;
mental health of young people with chronic illness; multilingual
socialization;
multinational research on parenting; neurocognitive development of
decision-making; personal storytelling;
reading acquisition in Africa; risk, protection, and well-being among
children on the streets; self-regulation;
shaping the social brain & behavior during development; theory of
mind; a unified theory of development;
and using research to improve child and youth well-being.

4. In addition to the invited programme, we have already received
proposals on line from 28 different
countries, and they expand still further the intellectual scope of the
congress.

We are hoping the congress will be attended by about 800 participants.
Do please seriously consider being
one of them !

Best wishes,

RS
Robert Serpell PhD
Professor of Psychology
University of Zambia
and
ISSBD 2010 Congress Convenor

TAKE A LOOK at our new website:
www.issbd2010.com

UNZA will be hosting the 2010 biennial international meetings of the
ISSBD (International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development)
in Lusaka, Zambia
from 18 to 22 July 2010.

PO Box 32379
Lusaka, Zambia

Phone: (+260) 1 291777
Fax:     (+260) 1 253952
Home  (+260) 1 291001
Cell     (+260) 977 758705
e-mail  robertserpell at gmail.com

Physical address:
Psychology Dept,
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Zambia
Great East Road campus
Lusaka


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