General Information

The EAESP and SPSSI (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) funds one conference per year that is attractive to members of both societies alternating between North America and Europe (the already funded 2007 conference will be held in North America, which means that applications for the 2008 conference should be made for a conference to be held in Europe. Per conference the amount of financial support is equivalent to $ 3500 from each organisation for a total amount of $ 7000.

Criteria

At least 80% of persons attending the small conferences, co-sponsored by SPSSI and EAESP, should be members of either or both societies.

No more than 2/3 of the participants should be invited by one of the societies.

The total number of participants should fall between 15 and 30.

There must be two organizers, a member of SPSSI and a member of EAESP. Preferably one organizer should be based in Europe, the other one in North America.

The themes of meetings should generally be social issues related, and these issues should be relevant internationally (i.e. not focused purely on intra-national questions).

There should be sufficient advance notice for meetings to be advertised to the membership through the pages of the official news bulletins of each society (thereby allowing members to submit abstracts, apply for travel money, etc.). This is why there are deadlines for applying for financial support (see below).

EAESP will publish a report of the meeting in the EAESP Bulletin.

Conference organizers will be encouraged to submit articles or an edited book, based on contributions to the conference, for consideration as an issue of the Journal of Social Issues or to one of SPSSI's other publication outlets. Regardless of the outlet, any conference related publication must acknowledge the financial support from EAESP and SPSSI.

Deadlines

EAESP and SPSSI have separate deadlines. See the SPSSI website for information on the SPSSI deadlines. Both organizations must receive a copy of the application (see instructions below).

EAESP procedure: Applications for conferences to be held in the first half of a calendar year must be received by February 1st of the preceding year. Applications for meetings in the second half of a calendar year must be received by August 1st of the preceding year. Please send your application to the Executive Officer.
Please send one copy of the application to SPSSI's Central Office (see SPSSI website for instructions)

The next deadline will be August 1, 2008 for a meeting to be held 2009. The meetings in 2009 and 2010 should be held in the US, switching back to Europe in 2011.

Previously funded conferences:

2008 Intergroup contact: Recent advancements in basic and applied research
Organizers: Oliver Christ, Miles Hewstone, Linda Tropp, Ulrich Wagner.
Date: August 28-30, 2008
Place: Marburg, Germany.

2007 International Perspectives on Immigration. Immigrants and Hosts: Perceptions, Interactions, and Transformations. A Small Group Meeting in Honor of Kenneth Dion.
Organizers: Kay Deaux, Victoria Esses, Ulrich Wagner, Rupert Brown, and Richard Lalonde.
Date: May 31-June 2, 2007
Place: Toronto, Canada.

2006 Multiple Perspectives on Real World Helping and Social Action.
Organizers: Allen Omoto, Elena Marta, Debra Mashek, Maura Pozzi, Mark Snyder, and Stefan Stürmer.
Date: June 22, 2006
Place: Long Beach, California, USA.

2003 The Social Psychological Analysis of Social Inclusion and Exclusion.
Organizers: Victoria Esses, Dominic Abrams, and Miles Hewstone.
Date: Sept 11-14, 2003
Place: Canterbury, United Kingdom.

2001 Prejudice and Racism.
Organizers: Miguel Moya, Armando Rodriguez, Jacques-Philippe Leyens, and Jack Dovidio.
Date: May 22-27, 2001
Place: Granada, Spain.

Questions

Please contact SPSSI Central Office or EAESP's executive officer.