Conferences

Crossing Boundaries: Public & Private Roles in Assuring Child Well-Being

April 27-28, 2012

Chicago, IL

The 2012 Council on Contemporary Families Annual Conference, co-sponsored by the University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium, will focus on the public and private roles in assuring child well-being. The Council on Contemporary Families is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. Our members include demographers, economists, family therapists, historians, political scientists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, as well as other family social scientists and practitioners. Click here for more information.

2012 International Women’s Fifth Meeting and Conference

June 8, 2012

Palm Springs, California

Women, Substance Abuse, Context & Treatment: Global Issues

In conjunction with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Forum and the 74th Annual Scientific Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) and co-sponsored by NIDA, CPDD, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, RTI International, Danya International, and Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc. This conference will bring together expert researchers and clinical providers passionate about and committed to improving the lives of women and children. Click here for more information.

NOFSW Annual Conference

April 15-18, 2012

Baltimore, MA

The National Organization of Forensic Social Work (NOFSW) annual conference is actually two conferences in one: the first is the actual conference composed of the scheduled workshops and sessions. the second is the chance conversations you have with fellow attendees from across the United States and abroad, before and after sessions and during meals and drinks. There hasn’t been a technology invented yet that can replicate the informal networking among forensic professionals at the annual NOFSW conference! Click here for conference schedule and information.

2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction

April 3-5, 2012

College Park, MD

The SBP conference is the result of merging two successful international conferences on closely related subjects:

*International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP)

*International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD)

The combined conference retains the acronym SBP, with “Behavioral” replaced by “Behavioral-Cultural”. Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior within a social context. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario planning. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and cross disparate disciplines. Click here for more information.