The Winter Roundtable—sponsored by Teachers College—is the longest-running professional education program devoted to studying the psychological and educational implications of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. With over 600 expected to attend, this is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on multiculturalism, counseling, social work, stigma and trauma, education, literacy and psychology to leaders in the field.

Founded in 1971, SCCR is a multi-disciplinary organization whose members share a common devotion to the conduct of cross-cultural research. A distinguishing characteristic of the Society is that it is fundamentally inter-disciplinary. Members are professionals and students in Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, and related fields including Education, Family Studies, Social Work, Human Development, Psychiatry, Communications, Ethnic Studies, Business, etc. Their annual conference, held in a relaxed atmosphere that fosters support and collaboration among participants, is the best opportunity of the year to promote titles on all aspects of cross- and multi-cultural research.

Founded in 1990, ASDP’s network of scholars and teachers are dedicated to enhancing undergraduate teaching and learning about Asian cultures and societies. ASDP promotes a comparative approach, integrating Asian Studies in core humanities, social science, business and science courses. Presentations will explore connections with and within Asia—among peoples, cultures, ideas and ideals—through both wide-angle historical lenses and tightly-focused analyses of contemporary issues. With faculty members from over 560 universities worldwide, ASDP is one of the leading organizations investigating Asian cultures, economies, politics and identities, making this one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles in all areas of Asian Studies.

PES is an international forum that promotes the study of educational practice, policy and research, providing philosophers of education a high-visibility platform from which to speak to current pedagogical issues. Their exciting annual conference explores education as a societal institution—and more broadly as the process of existential growth. Presentations at the 2017 conference will examine the blurred boundary between the human and non-human, given advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and radical shifts in scientific, social, legal and political thought. Topics include AI and concepts of mind, free will, intelligence and moral agency; how human flourishing must consider the non-human world; and educational implications of the “crisis in the humanities.” This is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on education from a sociological, anthropological, psychological or religious perspective to leaders in the field.

Advocating for the worth, dignity and honor of every human being, SHP (APA Division 32) members seek to create comprehensive, integrative approaches to humane care in contemporary psychology. Their work builds on Rogerian, transpersonal and existential theories as well as on constructivist, feminist and postmodern psychologies. This year's conference will address theoretical and practical applications of agape love—the unconditional commitment to the good of others, and self-sacrifice for the sake of others. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on all aspects of humanistic, positive, transpersonal and existential psychology, including spirituality and mysticism, education and phenomenology, cultural and social responsibility, neuroscience and psychotherapy methods.

Founded in 1936, MSS is a professional organization of scholars, students and practicing sociologists. Their annual meetings—known for their collegiality and sense of purpose—bring together members from around the world. SSSI is an international professional organization of scholars studying a wide range of social issues with an emphasis on identity, everyday practice, and language. This year's combined meeting will examine globalization in all its aspects, and how it impacts interactions. Speakers will present research in all realms of Sociology, ranging from the sociology of emotions to criminology, communications theory and semiotics, to mass media, organizations, economics and politics. This exciting joint meeting is one of the best opportunities for publishers to promote their full range of Sociology titles to leading scholars.

Founded in 1954, SWPA prides itself on serving the psychological community by providing access to scientific advances and professional development within a collegial atmosphere. With an international membership, SWPA’s exciting annual conference brings together nearly 1500 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and students. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your books on the theory and practice of psychology, myth-making, and related topics ranging from trauma, forensic psychology and child and adolescent development to sexual identity, multicultural psychology and neurological and genetic influences on mental health.

The annual PSA meeting is one of the largest and most popular sociological conferences, with well over 1,000 people expected to attend. This year’s meeting— “part conference, part movement”—will examine various forms of betrayal in academia, touching on sexual assault and its prosecution, equal opportunities questions, non-normative sexual identity, gender, race and ethnicity, and hostile work environments. Papers will range across all sociological disciplines, representing the diversity of research questions, topics and methodologies. These prominent scholars are avid book buyers look for titles on the full range of Sociology topics. Publishers wishing to promote their Sociology titles cannot afford to miss this exciting event.

ASIANetwork is the primary organization devoted to strengthening the role of Asian Studies within liberal arts education, encouraging the study of Asian languages, societies and cultures to deepen intercultural understanding. Focusing on the economic, social, political and environmental changes Asian societies are encountering today, this year’s conference highlights the wide range of lenses used to depict and understand these changes and their impacts on Asian culture—from traditional academic disciplines to new digital technologies—providing new ways of analyzing and constructing Asia. Given the ever more prominent role Asian societies play today, this is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles to a prime market of teachers and researchers seeking monographs and texts for research and course use on all aspects of Asian Studies, including history, anthropology, sociology, religion, politics and economics, literature, culture, media and human rights.

SEPI promotes theoretical diversity and encourages critical engagement among different psychotherapeutic orientations. Providing both a community for clinicians, researchers and theorists who explore the limitations of single-school perspectives—and a forum for alternative ways of working with clinical issues—SEPI traverses the shifting ground between theory and practice. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all schools of psychotherapy theory and practice: cognitive, emotional, biological and behavioral factors affecting psychological change; community mental health and cultural competency; psychotherapy with marginalized populations; the role of spirituality and religion in therapy; and the bio-psycho-social model.

HBES is the leading professional association for scholars, scientists and researchers working at the frontiers of evolutionary psychology. This fast-growing, influential discipline is revolutionizing our understanding of human preferences, motives and reasoning procedures. Their annual conference explores the latest breakthroughs on topics such as group behavior in humans and animals, political participation, cooperation, sexuality, violence, stress, emotions, race, social stratification, prejudice, consumer behavior and aesthetics. This exciting four-day conference is the most important of 2017 on evolutionary approaches to human behavior.

Founded in 1972, ISHE focuses on fundamental and universal human behaviors such as infant attachment, emotion, dominance and other social relationships, nonverbal communication, courtship and ritual. Its members are drawn from 26 countries and a wide range of disciplines: psychology, anthropology, biology, primatology, psychiatry, and public health. This diversity means members use multiple methodologies in their work: longitudinal naturalistic observations and cross-cultural fieldwork, technological methods borrowed from medicine, neurophysiology, behavior genetics and computer science. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on all aspects of human behavior: evolutionary, comparative and developmental psychology; linguistics; behavioral ecology and physical and cultural anthropology.

Established in 1970, JPS is an international, interdisciplinary organization exploring the development and construction of human knowledge. Their 2017 conference will discuss how technologies impact human development as an interactive process. Presentations will focus on digital media, their uses and their impacts in human culture, development and education. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on developmental psychology, neuroscience, intelligence and cognition, learning and education, disability, cultural analysis and epistemology.

The annual CDS meeting offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners—from the US and over 30 other countries—to share innovative strategies for sustainable development supporting positive, inclusive community change. This year's meeting will be held jointly with the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP)— an organization dedicated to improving the professional status and resource base of community development Extension programs. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on regional and community development, economics and education, public services, IT, health and housing, migration and civic engagement.

NEEPS started as a regional sister organization of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in 2007. The Society is dedicated to advancing knowledge regarding human behavior based on the application of evolutionary principles, such as natural, sexual and cultural selection. Cultivating scholarship and inquiry into the evolutionary roots of behavior, the Society welcomes researchers and students from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, biology, literary studies, psychology, sociology) with a diversity of research and theoretical interests. NEEPS’ annual conference—which draws participants from around the world—is designed to facilitate interactions among scholars and to cultivate the next generation of scholars in the evolutionary behavioral sciences. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on evolution, psychology and human behavior.

SHCY is the premier organization supporting research about childhood, youth cultures and the experience of young people across diverse times and places. SHCY fosters cross-disciplinary studies of how cultural and national differences have shaped conceptions about children and their lived experiences. The 2017 conference will examine how children and youth have helped transform the world around them. Presenters discuss the connection between childhood/youth and the many instances of “trans- “entering public and academic conversations: transnational and trans-colonial exchanges; transient refugees and migrants; and transactional spaces of the market and popular culture. This exciting biennial meeting is the best opportunity of the year to promote titles on children—from the perspectives of psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, and education.

IAIR seeks to promote and encourage intercultural relations through research, theory and practice to promote world peace and prosperity. IAIR’s members come from over a dozen social science disciplines, including Education, Anthropology, Management, Communication, Psychology, Sociology and Politics. Presentations at this year’s congress will bring new theoretical conceptualizations, innovative methodologies, challenging evidence and broader perspectives addressing questions facing our multiethnic world. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on the social, economic, political and psychological aspects of intercultural relations.

The Rural Sociological Society is the largest and most important North American organization devoted to generating and disseminating knowledge about rural communities, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life and the environment. This year’s conference will attract scholars and researchers from around the world—avid book-buyers seeking the latest titles on the full range of sociological topics—to focus on the ways rural peoples cope with a wide range of disruptive events, including economic downturns, severe storms and droughts, the arrival of outside investors or wars. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on rural sociology, agriculture and industry, elites and class, climate change and politics and civil society.

Psychology and the Other is an international, interdisciplinary consortium studying the “Other” through philosophical, psychological and theological conversations. Its members include psychologists, psychiatrists and analysts, social workers, sociologists and anthropologists, philosophers, theologians and clergy—all furthering rich discourses around the “Other” within and between their own intellectual traditions. Conference presentations engage topics from existential psychoanalysis to narrative theory, feminism to multiculturalism and sociopolitical trends, and thinkers as diverse as Levinas, Lacan and Cavell, Girard, Ricoeur and Bakhtin. This year's plenary invited speakers include Nancy McWilliams, Fanny Howe, George Yancy, Roger Frie, Ken Corbett and Robert Bernasconi.

ASMEA promotes the highest standards of academic research and teaching in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies and related disciplines. Their annual conference attracts prominent scholars and high-level policy-makers. Among the topics discussed at this exciting, well-attended meeting: the history of religious and communal conflict and coexistence; how current strategic, political and economic concerns are reshaping old regional rivalries; and issues related to genocide, terrorism and democratization. This is the best conference of the year to promote your titles on Middle Eastern, African and Islamic studies.

APCS is an international, interdisciplinary organization of clinicians and academics dedicated to understanding social phenomena—and to developing applications of clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis to cultural issues and social change. Members research topics ranging from psychological factors behind drug abuse, irresponsible sexuality, and ethnic, racial and sexual intolerance; to psychoanalysis and literature; to the theories of Freud and Lacan—in order to understand culture’s role in motivating serious social problems. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies, society and politics, gender studies, history, religion, economics, philosophy and the arts.

Founded in 1947, TPA’s purpose is to advance psychology as a science, profession and means of promoting human welfare. Their members are drawn from all specialties of psychology, with a concentration in clinical and counseling psychology. The annual TPA convention brings together over 600 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and social workers. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. Speakers and presenters explore topics ranging from applied and school psychology, forensic psychology, child and adolescent development, sexual identity, and aging to psychopharmacology, disability, treatment of trauma, and multicultural psychology.

ISPS champions the application of psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral and related individual, family and group therapies, in contrast to the current reliance on medication to treat psychotic disorders. Their rich conference brings together mental health professionals—psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses—as well as service users and their families. Topics discussed include all schools and methods of psychotherapy; drama, art and music therapy; psychotherapy’s interaction with genetics and neurology; the realities of those who have experienced psychosis; and phenomenology and society. This promises to be the most exciting psychology-and psychotherapy-related conference of the year—one publishers cannot afford to miss!

The Winter Roundtable—sponsored by Teachers College—is the longest-running professional education program devoted to studying the psychological and educational implications of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. With over 600 expected to attend, this is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on multiculturalism, counseling, social work, education and psychology to leaders in the field.

ASIANetwork is the primary organization devoted to strengthening the role of Asian Studies within liberal arts education, encouraging the study of Asian languages, societies and cultures to deepen intercultural understanding. Given the ever more prominent role Asian societies play today, this is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles to a prime market of teachers and researchers seeking monographs and texts for research and course use on all aspects of Asian Studies, including history, anthropology, sociology, religion, politics and economics, literature, culture, media and human rights.

Founded in 1990, ASDP’s network of scholars and teachers are dedicated to enhancing undergraduate teaching and learning—about Asian cultures and societies. ASDP promotes a comparative approach, integrating Asian Studies in core humanities, social science, business and science courses. With faculty members from over 560 universities worldwide, ASDP is one of the leading organizations investigating Asian cultures, economies, politics and identities. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles in all areas of Asian Studies.

ESS was founded in 1930 and today is one of the largest sociological societies in the US. Their popular annual meeting draws over 1800 participants, making it an excellent promotional opportunity for publishers. In addition to the latest research findings, this year’s meeting will discuss the current state of higher education: what is happening at universities and colleges, how they are becoming corporatized, how teaching is more and more being outsourced, and how students are increasingly seen as “customers” with faculty responsible for “product.” The prominent scholars attending ESS are avid book buyers looking for titles on the full range of Sociology topics. Publishers wishing to promote Sociology titles cannot afford to miss this exciting event.

PES is an international forum that promotes the study of educational practice, policy and research, providing philosophers of education a high-visibility platform from which to speak to current pedagogical issues. Their exciting annual conference explores education as a societal institution—and more broadly as the process of existential growth. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books and journals on education from a sociological, anthropological, psychological or religious perspective to leaders in the field.

Founded in 1936, MSS is a professional organization of scholars, students and practicing sociologists. Their annual meetings—known for their collegiality and sense of purpose—bring together members from around the world. Founded in 1925, NCSA’s annual meeting is a collegial venue for presenting the latest research across all sociology disciplines. This year's combined, collaborative meeting will examine the foundations and consequences of inequalities and injustices and how they influence sociologists' actions in the community. Presenters will investigate, interrogate, and confront the social causes, content, and consequences of inequality and injustice using a diversity of perspectives and methods. Papers will explore related concepts such as growing and pervasive income inequalities, social injustice, economic exploitation, downward mobility, and intersecting systems of power and privilege. This exciting joint meeting is one of the best opportunities for publishers to promote their full range of Sociology titles to leading scholars.

The annual PSA meeting is one of the largest and most popular sociological conferences, with well over 1,000 people expected to attend. This year’s conference will discuss the fundamental links between theory and practice in Sociology. Implementing an open, diverse and creative framework, presenters will explore how an understanding of underlying causes of social issues, informed by practical applied research, can lead to sound policy intervention. Papers will range across all sociological disciplines, representing the diversity of research questions, topics and methodologies. These prominent scholars are avid book buyers look for titles on the full range of Sociology topics. Publishers wishing to promote their Sociology titles cannot afford to miss this exciting event.

Founded in 1954, SWPA prides itself on serving the psychological community by providing access to scientific advances and professional development within a collegial atmosphere. With an international membership, SWPA’s exciting annual conference brings together over 1400 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and students. These influential academics and clinicians seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. Invited Speakers include Robert Kurzban (University of Pennsylvania), David Buss (University of Texas—Austin), Daniel Fessler (UCLA), Martie Haselton (UCLA) and Aaron Lukaszewski (Oklahoma State University). This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles and textbooks on the full range of Psychology topics: evolutionary psychology, forensic psychology, developmental studies, myth-making, trauma, sexual identity and multicultural psychology.

The Western Psychological Association was founded in 1921 to stimulate the exchange of scientific and professional ideas and, in so doing, to enhance interest in research and scholarship in the behavioral sciences. Nearly a century on, the WPA welcomes professionals and students in Psychology and related fields to present their latest research and findings at their annual convention. Beside a full program of cutting-edge research, the 2016 convention will feature the following distinguished speakers: Elizabeth Loftus, Michael Shermer, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Roxane Cohen-Silver, Dacher Keltner, Howard Friedman, Nancy Segal, Jean Twenge, Phillip Zimbardo, Terry Cronan, Allen Gottfried, Peter Ditto, Leslie Martin, Sara Mednick, Ron Riggio, Jason Holland, and Joyce Chu. With over 2,300 expected to attend, this is an excellent opportunity to promote your titles on all Psychology topics.

With over 2,500 members, MPA is one of the largest regional psychological associations in the country. Members—drawn from across the US—work in universities and colleges, hospitals and clinics, school systems, business and industry and government and private practice. They teach; conduct research in laboratory, field, and industrial settings; do diagnosis, therapy, and counseling; and serve as administrators and consultants. Their diverse interests range from the physiology of vision to social stereotyping, from political psychology to medical psychology, from organizational behavior to children's language development, from memory to depression, from sex roles to drug addiction. Their annual meeting is an outstanding opportunity for publishers to present titles and textbooks, testing and research materials, and digital resources relevant to clinical and business practice. Invited Speakers include Traci Mann, William Graziano, Delroy Paulhus, Linda Smith, Douglas Kenrick, Michele Gelfand, Kathleen Vohs and Dana Dunn.

Founded in 1921, NYSPA is the oldest state psychological association in the US. The Division of Psychoanalysis was formed in 2004 to develop a supportive, collegial community for the advancement of psychoanalytic theories, treatment approaches, and research. The Division fosters exploration of therapeutic, scholarly, educational, research, public service and diversity issues from psychoanalytic perspectives. This year’s conference features Mark Solms (University of Cape Town) as the primary speaker. The author of more than 250 articles and five books, Solms is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming and for his integration of psychoanalytic theories and methods with those of neuroscience. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on all schools of psychoanalytical theory and practice, psychotherapy integration, cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic interventions, family therapy and the bio-psycho-social model.

Established in 1970, JPS is an international, interdisciplinary organization exploring the development and construction of human knowledge. Their 2016 conference focuses on children’s interactions with their environments: how the environment influences development, and how children interact with, understand and impact their environments. Speakers will examine how environment and experience shape the brain—and how environments can be designed to promote education, conservation and a sustainable lifestyle. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on developmental psychology, neuroscience, intelligence and cognition, learning and education, disability, cultural analysis and epistemology.

Founded in 1989, SASE is an inter-disciplinary organization whose members include academics, business people and policy-makers from over 50 countries. SASE’s purpose is to advance research about economic behavior, and its policy implications, within societal, institutional and ethical contexts. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on socio-economics, capitalism, finance and globalization to leading scholars in economics, sociology, political science, management, psychology, law, history and philosophy.

HBES is the leading professional association for scholars, scientists and researchers working at the frontiers of evolutionary psychology. This fast-growing, influential discipline is revolutionizing our understanding of human preferences, motives and reasoning procedures. Their annual conference explores the latest breakthroughs on topics such as group behavior in humans and animals, political participation, cooperation, sexuality, violence, stress, emotions, race, social stratification, prejudice, consumer behavior and aesthetics. This exciting four-day conference is the most important of 2016 on evolutionary approaches to human behavior.

NPSA was founded in 2000 to promote inter-disciplinary work between the fields of psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Providing resources for clinicians, researchers and students, the Society integrates the study of brain and mind, leading to enriched contributions to clinical and experimental literature. Their annual congress furthers their mission as a forum where clinicians and scientists can meet and share their latest findings. The 2016 congress raises dynamic questions of how brain activity can be linked to a psychoanalytic model of the mind. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on neurobiology, psychoanalysis, ethology, theory of mind, developmental psychology, psychopharmacology, empathy, group psychology, social neuroscience and non-human and artificial intelligence.

The annual CDS meeting offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners—from the US and over 30 other countries—to share innovative strategies for sustainable development supporting positive, inclusive community change. This year's joint meeting will be held with the International Association for Community Development (IACD)—the only global network for professional community development practitioners. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on regional and community development, economics and education, public services, IT, health and housing, migration and civic engagement.

The Rural Sociological Society is the largest and most important North American organization devoted to generating and disseminating knowledge about rural communities, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life and the environment. This year’s conference will attract scholars and researchers from around the world—avid book-buyers seeking the latest titles on the full range of sociological topics—to explore how the myriad definitions of “rural” specify features of the lived experience of rural populations. Attendees will examine issues of rising inequalities, resource concentration, climate change, loss of diversity—and how rural populations respond to changing social, economic and political factors.

IRSA’s 2016 World Congress encourages interdisciplinary dialogue, exchange and collaboration in order to enhance the contributions of sociological inquiry for understanding and improving the lives of people located in and concerned about rural places and communities worldwide. Topics examined include migration, environmental change, resource scarcity and social inequality; commodification, industrialization, neoliberalization and globalization. Seeking paths toward more sustainable and just rural futures, attendees will analyze and assess the diverse aspirations and experiences of rural people and places. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on all aspects of rural sociology, economics, labor and ecology—and all sociological topics.

Founded in 1921, NYSPA is the oldest state psychological association in the US. The Division of Forensic Psychology was founded to promote standards of service, training, competency and ethical conduct among its members. The Division seeks to educate and empower forensic psychologists and to increase the appreciation, usefulness and influence of psychology within the legal system. This year’s conference is your best opportunity to promote books on trauma, immigrants and immigration, legal responsibility, veterans and PTSD (assessment, care, etc.) and trauma in prison populations.

NLPA’s mission is to advance psychological education and training to enhance the well-being of Hispanic and Latina/o populations. Their biennial conference brings together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners, policy-makers and students to explore issues of diversity inclusion in Latina/o psychology. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on Latina/o psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, social issues impacting the Hispanic/Latino community, ethnicity, race and social policy.

APCS is an international, interdisciplinary organization of clinicians and academics dedicated to understanding social phenomena—and to developing applications of clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis to cultural issues and social change. Members research topics ranging from psychological factors behind drug abuse, irresponsible sexuality, and ethnic, racial and sexual intolerance; to psychoanalysis and literature; to the theories of Freud and Lacan—in order to understand culture’s role in motivating serious social problems. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies, society and politics, gender studies, history, religion, economics, philosophy and the arts.

S-USIH fosters the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary ideas, institutions and significant thinkers—and their impact on American political, scientific and cultural life. The Society’s exciting annual conference discusses intellectuals’ work, reception and influence—and how thinkers shape, and are shaped by, the communities in which they live. This conference is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all facets of intellectual history and traditions, historiography, politics, publishing media, social movements and social criticism.

ASMEA promotes the highest standards of academic research and teaching in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies and related disciplines. Their annual conference attracts prominent scholars and high-level policy-makers. Among the topics discussed at this exciting, well-attended meeting: the history of religious and communal conflict and coexistence; how current strategic, political and economic concerns are reshaping old regional rivalries; and issues related to genocide, terrorism and democratization. This is the best conference of the year to promote your titles on Middle Eastern, African and Islamic studies.

ISPS champions the application of psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral and related individual, family and group therapies, in contrast to the current reliance on medication to treat psychotic disorders. Their rich conference brings together mental health professionals—psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses—as well as service users and their families. Topics discussed include all schools and methods of psychotherapy; drama, art and music therapy; psychotherapy’s interaction with genetics and neurology; the realities of those who have experienced psychosis; and phenomenology and society. This promises to be the most exciting psychology-and psychotherapy-related conference of the year—one publishers cannot afford to miss!

The Winter Roundtable—sponsored by Teachers College—is the longest-running professional education program devoted to studying the psychological and educational implications of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. This year’s conference celebrates 32 years of accomplishments, while examining social justice’s future promise in individual, family, school and community settings. Topics covered include language and literacy, access and wellness, cultural values and experiences of oppression and discrimination. With over 600 expected to attend, this is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on multiculturalism, counseling, social work, education and psychology to leaders in the field.

Founded in 1980, AAPCSW has gained recognition for its educational programs and advocacy on behalf of social workers practicing from a psychoanalytic perspective. The Association promotes the advancement of psychoanalytic theory, including within a broader socio-cultural context. This year’s conference focuses on the “art of listening”—once the central pillar to healing psychic pain—as an antidote to current approaches that offer a superficial quick fix. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on psychoanalytic theory and practice; self psychology, relational theory, attachment theory; themes of diversity; trauma work; child/adolescent/adult/older adult treatment; couples therapy; neuropsychoanalysis; personality disorders, and more.

PES is an international forum that promotes the study of educational practice, policy and research, providing philosophers of education a high-visibility platform from which to speak to current pedagogical issues. Their exciting annual conference explores education as a societal institution—and more broadly as the process of existential growth. This year’s conference examines how philosophy of education is made through theory, concepts and discourse, and the varying ways questions and figures are approached. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books and journals on education from a sociological, anthropological, psychological or religious perspective to leaders in the field.

This year, New York hosts ISPS’ biennial International Conference—the first in the US in 21 years—drawing over 500 attendees from around the world. ISPS champions the application of psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral and related individual, family and group therapies, in contrast to the current reliance on medication to treat psychotic disorders. Their rich conference brings together mental health professionals—psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses—as well as service users and their families. Topics discussed include all schools and methods of psychotherapy; drama, art and music therapy; psychotherapy’s interaction with genetics and neurology; the realities of those who have experienced psychosis; and phenomenology and society. Co-sponsored by the World Psychiatric Association and World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation, this promises to be the most exciting psychology-and psychotherapy-related conference of the year—one publishers cannot afford to miss! Please see the conference website for additional information.

Founded in 1990, ASDP’s network of scholars and teachers are dedicated to enhancing undergraduate teaching and learning—about Asian cultures and societies. ASDP promotes a comparative approach, integrating Asian Studies in core humanities, social science, business and science courses. With faculty members from over 560 universities worldwide, ASDP is one of the leading organizations investigating Asian cultures, economies, politics and identities. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles in all areas of Asian Studies.

Founded in 1936, MSS is a professional organization of scholars, students and practicing sociologists. Their annual meetings—known for their collegiality and sense of purpose—bring together members from around the world. This year’s meeting examines how Sociology engages with the public sphere, and the questions this raises: What is this discipline? Why and for whom do we do Sociology? How can we do it better? Attendees will explore how sociological practice relates to different audiences and publics through issues including new media, politics and transformations in higher education. This is one of the best opportunities for publishers to promote their full range of Sociology titles to leading scholars—and avid book buyers.

Advocating for the worth, dignity and honor of every human being, SHP (APA Division 32) members seek to create comprehensive, integrative approaches to humane care in contemporary psychology. Their work builds on Rogerian, transpersonal and existential theories as well as on constructivist, feminist and postmodern psychologies. This year's conference will examine how innovative and relevant care practices can best answer today’s complex challenges: political oppression and dehumanization, economic inequalities, the loss of connection and changes in healthcare delivery. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on all aspects of humanistic, positive, transpersonal and existential psychology, including spirituality and mysticism, education and phenomenology, cultural and social responsibility, neuroscience and psychotherapy methods.

The annual PSA meeting is one of the largest and most popular sociological conferences, with well over 1,000 people expected to attend. This year’s conference will discuss demographic, spatial and power challenges—and how changes of “people, place and power” affect communities. Examining a variety of questions, from ethnic diversity, industrial change and tourism, to globalization, healthy sustainable communities and responsible development, attendees will discuss how the intersection of people, place and power within the context of neoliberal globalization shapes the possibilities for a more just and humane world. These prominent scholars are avid book buyers look for titles on the full range of Sociology topics. Publishers wishing to promote Sociology titles cannot afford to miss this exciting event.

ASIANetwork is the primary organization devoted to strengthening the role of Asian Studies within liberal arts education, encouraging the study of Asian languages, societies and cultures to deepen intercultural understanding. Their 2015 conference examines how spiritual issues affect physical life, and how the embodied nature of society influences the production of cultures, politics, economics and the environment. Given the ever more prominent role Asian societies play today, this is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles to a prime market of teachers and researchers seeking monographs and texts for research and course use on all aspects of Asian Studies, including history, anthropology, sociology, religion, politics and economics, literature, culture, media and human rights.

Founded in 1954, SWPA prides itself on serving the psychological community by providing access to scientific advances and professional development within a collegial atmosphere. With an international membership, SWPA’s exciting annual conference brings together nearly 1500 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and students. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your books on the theory and practice of psychology, myth-making, and related topics ranging from trauma, forensic psychology and child and adolescent development to sexual identity, multicultural psychology and neurological and genetic influences on mental health.

HBES is the leading professional association for scholars, scientists and researchers working at the frontiers of evolutionary psychology. This fast-growing, influential discipline is revolutionizing our understanding of human preferences, motives and reasoning procedures. Their annual conference explores the latest breakthroughs on topics such as group behavior in humans and animals, political participation, cooperation, sexuality, violence, stress, emotions, race, social stratification, prejudice, consumer behavior and aesthetics. This exciting four-day conference is the most important of 2015 on evolutionary approaches to human behavior.

Established in 1970, JPS is an international, interdisciplinary organization exploring the development and construction of human knowledge. Their 2015 conference focuses on neural plasticity: how learning and individual experiences play a central role in creating mental representations—a central theme of Piaget’s theory. Speakers will examine how biology and experience interact to shape the brain—and how this approach can lead to a broader understanding of child development. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on human development, neuroscience, brain development and cognition, learning and education, disability, cultural analysis and epistemology.

SAWH is one of the fastest-growing and most prominent organizations providing a forum for women historians and the study of Southern and women’s history. Their exciting TRIENNIAL conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for leading researchers to present the best in recent scholarship from diverse fields. Presentations explore all aspects of women’s and gender history, public history, tourism, memory, historic commemoration and marketing history. This is the best meeting of the year to promote books and journals on Southern and women’s history to an influential audience of scholars and educators.

Cheiron, founded in 1968, is the international society for scholars working on the history, methodology and development of the human sciences. Members’ research examines the scientific, technical, institutional and cultural history of the social and behavioral sciences, focusing on the core disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, economics, linguistics and communications, political science and the neurosciences—along with the history of science and medicine, historical theory and historiography. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books across the full spectrum of human and social sciences to an international gathering of prominent scholars.

SEPI promotes theoretical diversity and encourages critical engagement among different psychotherapeutic orientations. Providing both a community for clinicians, researchers and theorists who explore the limitations of single-school perspectives—and a forum for alternative ways of working with clinical issues—SEPI traverses the shifting ground between theory and practice. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all schools of psychotherapy theory and practice: cognitive, emotional, biological and behavioral factors affecting psychological change; community mental health and cultural competency; psychotherapy with marginalized and disenfranchised populations; the role of spirituality and religion in therapy; and the bio-psycho-social perspective and model.

SHCY is the premier organization supporting research about childhood, youth cultures and the experience of young people across diverse times and places. SHCY fosters cross-disciplinary studies of how cultural and national differences have shaped conceptions about children, and their lived experiences. The 2015 conference will examine the myriad relations children and youth have: familial and domestic, relationships with peers and adult professionals, virtual relationships—and how these relationships are shaped by race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and (dis)ability. Presenters will examine the impact of large and small scale social change on young people’s relationships. This exciting biennial meeting is the best opportunity of the year to promote titles on children—from the perspectives of psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, and education.

SPR is an international, multidisciplinary association devoted to scientific research on psychotherapy, and enhancing its social value. Their exciting, collegial conference draws the most important researchers in the field—enthusiastic scholars, students and clinicians. This year’s meeting will discuss how and under what circumstances psychotherapy helps relieve emotional suffering by allowing individuals to adapt more effectively to sources of distress. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on all aspects of psychotherapy: research, practice and training; individual, couple and family therapy; and cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal and psychodynamic therapies.

Why the Humanities will bring together experts in the humanities, cognitive sciences and neurosciences to explain the unique ways humanities study can enhance personal and social well-being by promoting the development of cognitive and emotional capabilities, and habits crucial for personal flourishing and responsible citizenship. The major focus of the conference will be social cognition: our perception and judgment of others. Presenters will discuss how flaws in social cognition lead to social ills—and how these flaws can be corrected, especially through study of the humanities. In addition to plenary and panel sessions by researchers and scholars, the conference will include special workshops for humanities teachers on maximizing these benefits in the classroom. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on the humanities, literature, philosophy, history, the cognitive sciences, interpersonal and intergroup relations and social justice.

The annual CDS meeting offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners—from the US and over 30 other countries—to share innovative strategies for sustainable development supporting positive, inclusive community change. CDS members represent a wide range of fields, including education, health care, social services, sociology, economics and government. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on regional and community development, economics and education, public services, IT, health and housing, migration and civic engagement.

The Rural Sociological Society is the largest and most important North American organization devoted to generating and disseminating knowledge about rural communities, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life and the environment. This year’s conference will attract scholars and researchers from around the world—avid book-buyers seeking the latest titles on the full range of sociological topics—to explore how the myriad definitions of “rural” specify features of the lived experience of rural populations. Attendees will examine issues of rising inequalities, resource concentration, climate change, loss of diversity—and how rural populations respond to changing social, economic and political factors.

Psychology and the Other is an international, interdisciplinary consortium studying the “Other” through philosophical, psychological and theological conversations. Its members include psychologists, psychiatrists and analysts, social workers, sociologists and anthropologists, philosophers, theologians and clergy—all furthering rich discourses around the “Other” within and between their own intellectual traditions. Conference presentations engage topics from existential psychoanalysis to narrative theory, feminism to multiculturalism and sociopolitical trends, and thinkers as diverse as Levinas, Lacan and Cavell, Girard, Ricoeur and Bakhtin. This year’s Plenary and Invited Speakers include Judith Butler, Sue Grand, Lewis Aron and Mari Ruti.

S-USIH fosters the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary ideas, institutions and significant thinkers—and their impact on American political, scientific and cultural life. The Society’s exciting annual conference discusses intellectuals’ work, reception and influence—and how thinkers shape, and are shaped by, the communities in which they live. The Society is home to the leading scholars in the fast-growing field of Intellectual History—and their conference is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all facets of intellectual history and traditions, historiography, politics, publishing media, social movements and social criticism.

APCS is an international, interdisciplinary organization of clinicians and academics dedicated to understanding social phenomena—and to developing applications of clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis to cultural issues and social change. Members research topics ranging from psychological factors behind drug abuse, irresponsible sexuality, and ethnic, racial and sexual intolerance; to psychoanalysis and literature; to the theories of Freud and Lacan—in order to understand culture’s role in motivating serious social problems. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies, society and politics, gender studies, history, religion, economics, philosophy and the arts.

ASMEA promotes the highest standards of academic research and teaching in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies and related disciplines. Their annual conference attracts prominent scholars and high-level policy-makers. Among the topics discussed at this exciting, well-attended meeting: the history of religious and communal conflict and coexistence; how current strategic, political and economic concerns are reshaping old regional rivalries; and issues related to genocide, terrorism and democratization. This is the best conference of the year to promote your titles on Middle Eastern, African and Islamic studies.

Founded in 1947, TPA’s purpose is to advance psychology as a science, profession and means of promoting human welfare. Their members are drawn from all specialties of psychology, with a concentration in clinical and counseling psychology. The annual TPA convention brings together over 600 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and social workers. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. Speakers and presenters explore topics ranging from applied and school psychology, forensic psychology, child and adolescent development, sexual identity, and aging to psychopharmacology, disability, treatment of trauma, and multicultural psychology.

The Winter Roundtable—sponsored by Teachers College—is the longest-running professional education program devoted to studying the psychological and educational implications of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. This year’s conference celebrates 31 years of accomplishments, while examining social justice’s future promise in individual, family, school and community settings. Topics covered include language and literacy, access and wellness, cultural values and experiences of oppression and discrimination. With over 600 expected to attend, this is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on multiculturalism, counseling, social work, education and psychology to leaders in the field.

Founded in 1990, ASDP’s network of scholars and teachers are dedicated to enhancing undergraduate teaching and learning—about Asian cultures and societies. ASDP promotes a comparative approach, integrating Asian Studies in core humanities, social science, business and science courses. With faculty members from over 560 universities worldwide, ASDP is one of the leading organizations investigating Asian cultures, economies, politics and identities. Their 2014 conference will feature panels as wide-ranging as art and politics, Confucian ethics, contemporary Japan, Asian cinema, Asian music, comparative philosophy and art and identity in South Asia. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles in all areas of Asian Studies.

PES is an international forum that promotes the study of educational practice, policy and research, providing philosophers of education a high-visibility platform from which to speak to current pedagogical issues. Their exciting annual conference explores education as a societal institution—and more broadly as the process of existential growth. This year’s conference examines “non-ideal” educational situations, and how they can be addressed by using different pedagogical approaches. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books and journals on education from a sociological, anthropological, psychological or religious perspective to leaders in the field.

The Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32) seeks to develop a comprehensive and integrative approach to contemporary psychology, building on Rogerian, transpersonal and existential theories as well as on constructivist, feminist and postmodern psychologies. This year's conference will examine how fostering dignity can help a world troubled by social, economic and community problems. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on all aspects of humanistic, positive, transpersonal and existential psychology, including spirituality and mysticism, education and phenomenology, hermeneutics, neuroscience and psychotherapy methods.

Founded in 1970, CES produces and supports outstanding, multi-disciplinary research in European Studies and how lessons from European history and integration can be applied to contemporary issues of global security, prosperity and democracy. Their members—over 1000 policy professionals, researchers, faculty members and students—are engaged in innovative and influential research on a wide range of subjects, including transatlantic relations, cultural studies, nationalism and regionalism, environmental studies, social exclusion and Islamic cultures in Europe. This year’s conference will explore how—in the wake of recent European crises—historical figures, ideologies, myths and symbols, and political and economic institutions are being resurrected as a means of understanding the present and imagining the future. What is the process through which these concepts are revived? How are they transformed as they are combined with new elements? What is the relationship between nostalgia and change? CES continues to grow in size and prominence—and is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all aspects of European studies, including history, politics, migration, multiculturalism, and colonial/post-colonial and minority studies.

The annual PSA meeting is one of the largest and most popular sociological conferences, with well over 1,000 people expected to attend. This year’s conference will discuss how economic uncertainty and unemployment affect the pace, prospects and pathways for change in work, family and gender. Questions of redefining work and family—and the pace of progress toward gender equality—will be discussed from multiple points of view. These prominent scholars are avid book buyers look for titles on the full range of sociology topics. Publishers wishing to promote sociology titles cannot afford to miss this exciting event.

Founded in 1954, SWPA prides itself on serving the psychological community by providing access to scientific advances and professional development within a collegial atmosphere. With an international membership, SWPA’s exciting annual conference brings together nearly 1500 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and students. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your books on the theory and practice of psychology and related topics ranging from the impact and treatment of trauma, forensic psychology, child and adolescent development and sexual identity to animal research, community health, disability, multicultural psychology and neurological and genetic influences on mental health.

Founded in 1842, AES is the oldest and most important professional anthropological organization in the United States. AES focuses on socio-cultural topics: ecology, ethnicity, ideology, cognition, ritual, symbolism and social organization. SVA, founded in 1984, promotes the use of images—photography, film/video, art, architecture and material artifacts—for the description, analysis, communication and interpretation of human behavior. This year's Spring Conference will relate questions of visibility and concealment to politics, economics, religion, media and social inequality. Among the topics covered will be political and security “dark sites,” shadow economies, surveillance techniques and their evasion, and emerging imaging technologies. With AES alone having 4,000 members, this is the best opportunity of the year to reach prominent educators seeking books in all fields of anthropology, ethnography, film and art studies, linguistics and archaeology.

Founded in 1925, NCSA’s annual meeting is a collegial venue for presenting the latest research across all sociology disciplines. This year’s meeting is an exciting departure from other sociology conferences: rather than examining the negatives of human experience (poverty, inequality, etc.), attendees will highlight the beneficial, pleasurable and good aspects of life, such as healthy relationships, strong communities, altruism and the joy of engagement. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles to an enthusiastic audience of sociologists on a wide range of topics, including a theory of positive sociology, social solidarity, policies and programs that enhance well-being, conflict resolution, citizen education, inter-group understanding and civil engagement.

SEPI promotes theoretical diversity and encourages critical engagement among different psychotherapeutic orientations. Providing both a community for clinicians, researchers and theorists who explore the limitations of single-school perspectives—and a forum for alternative ways of working with clinical issues—SEPI traverses the shifting ground between theory and practice. Their 2014 conference will focus on work “in the trenches” to promote innovative, cutting-edge applications of integrative psychotherapy across different contexts and with diverse groups. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all schools of psychotherapy theory and practice: cognitive, emotional, biological and behavioral factors affecting psychological change; community mental health and cultural competency; psychotherapy with marginalized and disenfranchised populations; the role of spirituality and religion in therapy; and the bio-psycho-social perspective and model.

ASIANetwork is the primary organization devoted to strengthening the role of Asian Studies within liberal arts education, encouraging the study of Asian languages, societies and cultures to deepen intercultural understanding. Their 2014 conference examines how the dynamics of diversity have shaped the Asian experience, and how individuals and groups negotiate diversity in the context of social, political and economic change. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, attendees discuss a diverse range of topics, including nationalism, ethnic identity and conflict; pre-modern and modern imperialism; regional integration; the myth of cultural homogeneity; popular culture’s role in mediating the encounter with diversity; and diversity as a theme in the arts. Given the ever more prominent role Asian societies play today, this is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles to a prime market of teachers and researchers seeking monographs and texts for research and course use on all aspects of Asian Studies, including history, anthropology, sociology, religion, politics and economics, literature, culture, media and human rights.

Established in 1970, JPS is an international, interdisciplinary organization exploring the developmental construction of human knowledge. The Society provides a forum for scholarly work on human knowledge and its development, applying Piaget’s concepts to education and other domains. Their 2014 conference focuses on the relationships among language, mind and culture, and the role language and communication play in learning complex concepts. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on human development, neuroscience, epigenetics and evolutionary theory, systems theory, cultural analysis, education and epistemology.

Cheiron, founded in 1968, is the international society for scholars working on the history, methodology and development of the human sciences. Members’ research examines the scientific, technical, institutional and cultural history of the social and behavioral sciences, focusing on the core disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, economics, linguistics and communications, political science and the neurosciences—along with the history of science and medicine, historical theory and historiography. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books across the full spectrum of human and social sciences to an international gathering of prominent scholars.

Founded in 1989, SASE is an inter-disciplinary organization whose members include academics, business people and policy-makers from over 50 countries. SASE’s purpose is to advance research about economic behavior, and its policy implications, within societal, institutional and ethical contexts. This year’s conference—expecting 800 attendees—explores how the social and institutional bases of modern capitalism are established locally, nationally, regionally and globally—and how their constant changes in response to social, cultural and market forces affect political and regulatory stability. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on socio-economics, capitalism, finance and globalization to leading scholars in economics, sociology, political science, management, psychology, law, history and philosophy.

The annual CDS meeting offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners—from the US and over 30 other countries—to share innovative strategies for sustainable development supporting positive, inclusive community change. CDS members represent a wide range of fields, including education, health care, social services, sociology, economics and government. The 2014 conference will focus on effective community development strategies, programs and policies that inspire the idea of renaissance: moving beyond old ways of thinking to create and sustain communities—both rural and urban—as places that both retain and draw residents. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on regional and community development, economics and education, public services, IT, health and housing, migration and civic engagement.

The Rural Sociological Society is the largest and most important North American organization devoted to generating and disseminating knowledge about rural communities, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life and the environment. This year’s conference will attract scholars and researchers from around the world—avid book-buyers seeking the latest titles on the full range of sociological topics—to explore current crises in rural development, which often negatively impacts the community’s most vulnerable populations. Attendees will examine the social relations that underlie issues of rising inequalities, resource concentration, climate change, loss of diversity, hunger and violence—and present solutions to address these concerns.

Founded in 1921, NYSPA is the oldest state psychological association in the US. The Division of Psychoanalysis was formed in 2004 to develop a supportive, collegial community for the advancement of psychoanalytic theories, treatment approaches, and research. The Division fosters exploration of therapeutic, scholarly, educational, research, public service and diversity issues from psychoanalytic perspectives. Their Annual Fall Conference is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on all schools of psychoanalytical theory and practice, psychotherapy integration, cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic interventions, family therapy and the bio-psycho-social model.

S-USIH fosters the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary ideas, institutions and significant thinkers—and their impact on American political, scientific and cultural life. The Society’s exciting annual conference discusses intellectuals’ work, reception and influence—and how thinkers shape, and are shaped by, the communities in which they live. This year’s conference examines how ideas are produced, disseminated and manifested in society. The Society is home to the leading scholars in the fast-growing field of Intellectual History—and their conference is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all facets of intellectual history and traditions, historiography, politics, publishing media, social movements and social criticism.

APCS is an international, interdisciplinary organization of clinicians and academics dedicated to understanding social phenomena—and to developing applications of clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis to cultural issues and social change. Members research topics ranging from psychological factors behind drug abuse, irresponsible sexuality, and ethnic, racial and sexual intolerance; to psychoanalysis and literature; to the theories of Freud and Lacan—in order to understand culture’s role in motivating serious social problems. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies, society and politics, gender studies, history, religion, economics, philosophy and the arts.

NLPA’s mission is to advance psychological education and training to enhance the well-being of Hispanic and Latina/o populations. Their biennial conference brings together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners, policy-makers and students to explore issues of diversity inclusion in Latina/o psychology. This year’s papers and panels will focus on the advancement of a global agenda that explores experiences of immigrants, social justice and policies that affect all Latinas/os. Presenters address issues of Latina/o culture’s intersections with multiple identities of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, able-bodiedness, age and religion/spirituality. The New Mexico Psychological Association conference is Oct. 23, and many NMPA members are expected to attend the NLPA conference—making this the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on Latina/o psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, social issues impacting the Hispanic/Latino community, ethnicity, race and social policy.

ASMEA promotes the highest standards of academic research and teaching in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies and related disciplines. Their annual conference attracts prominent scholars and high-level policy-makers. Among the topics discussed at this exciting, well-attended meeting: the history of religious and communal conflict and coexistence; how current strategic, political and economic concerns are reshaping old regional rivalries; and issues related to genocide, terrorism and democratization. This is the best conference of the year to promote your titles on Middle Eastern, African and Islamic studies.

The Mid-South Sociological Association (MSSA) promotes the study and understanding of sociological issues and problems. Its members—drawn from colleges and universities, and government and social agencies across the US—meet annually to present cutting-edge research on deviance and criminology, gender studies, urban/rural studies, disaster and immigration studies. This year’s conference will offer attendees multidisciplinary presentations on globalization's social, economic, personal and political effects—and how sociological knowledge can inform policy and foster change. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your books across the full range of Sociology topics: immigration, economics, politics, activism and social change, demography and development, education, race and ethnic relations.

Founded in 1947, TPA’s purpose is to advance psychology as a science, profession and means of promoting human welfare. Their members are drawn from all specialties of psychology, with a concentration in clinical and counseling psychology. The annual TPA convention brings together over 600 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and social workers. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. Speakers and presenters explore topics ranging from applied and school psychology, forensic psychology, child and adolescent development, sexual identity, and aging to psychopharmacology, disability, treatment of trauma, and multicultural psychology.

Every two years, the National Multicultural Conference and Summit (NMCS) brings together psychologists, social workers, and other professionals to present and discuss research on multicultural psychology and diversity. Hosted by several Divisions of the American Psychological Association, this is one of the most exciting conferences of 2013.

The Winter Roundtable—sponsored by Teachers College—is a professional education program devoted to studying the psychological and educational implications of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. With over 600 expected to attend, this is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on multiculturalism, counseling, social work, education and psychology to leaders in the field.

The exciting annual PES conference explores education as a societal institution—and more broadly as the process of existential growth. This year’s conference theme will address the increasing interdisciplinarity of humanities inquiry in general, and how philosophy of education’s long tradition of engaging education and social justice through gender and ethnic studies, literature, history and cultural studies can bring new energy to such blended inquiry. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books and journals on education from a sociological, anthropological, psychological or religious perspective to leaders in the field.

The annual PSA meeting is one of the largest and most popular sociological conferences, with well over 1,000 people expected to attend. These prominent scholars are avid book buyers looking for titles on the full range of sociology topics. Publishers wishing to promote sociology titles cannot afford to miss this exciting event.

Founded in 1925, NCSA’s annual meeting is a collegial, exciting venue for presenting the latest research across all sociology disciplines. This year’s meeting will consider the central role theory plays in defining and developing Sociology and how sociological theory contributes to and helps set the field apart from other human sciences. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles to an enthusiastic audience of sociologists on a wide range of topics, including social change, social justice, social power, post-modernism, the narrative turn, sociology of emotions, public sociology, urban politics, and methods of social scientific research.

Psychological anthropology has emerged as one of the most innovative and exciting areas in the social sciences. SPA is a dynamic group of researchers and teachers interested in cultural, psychological and social interrelations at all levels. SPA’s meetings embrace a wide range of fields and topics: medical and linguistic anthropology, child development, cognitive and cultural psychology and mental health. SPA will meet for the first time with the ACYIG, which promotes anthropological scholarship pertaining to childhood, addresses contemporary problems facing children, and develops comparative theoretical models. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles to a prime market of scholars and teachers seeking monographs and texts for research and course use on the anthropology of religion; cultural and cognitive psychology; family, gender and sexuality; childhood and youth; narrative and identity; globalization; and cultural factors in mental health issues.

Founded in 1842, AES is the oldest and most important professional anthropological organization in the United States. AES focuses on socio-cultural topics: ecology, ethnicity, ideology, cognition, ritual, symbolism and social organization. APLA is committed to the ethnographic exploration of politics, law and issues of contemporary importance including nationalism and citizenship, political and legal processes, the state and civil society, colonialism and post-colonial public spheres, multiculturalism, globalism and media politics. This year's Spring Conference will explore how anthropologists, through theory and practice, engage the crucial issues, movements, institutions and debates facing our world. With AES alone having 4,000 members, this is the best opportunity of the year to reach prominent educators seeking books in all fields of anthropology, social movements, ideology and ethnic studies.

SAR’s biennial conference is a vibrant exploration of diverse research and concepts of religion through the lenses of archaeology, philosophy and psychology, sociology, political science and cultural, physical and linguistic anthropology. Their 2013 meeting—bringing together prominent scholars from around the world—focuses on the ethnography of syncretism and how the blending of different belief traditions can lead to both rupture and continuity—and how globalization, new media and migration have influenced the notion of “world religions.” This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your Religious Studies and Anthropology titles to a prime market of scholars, educators and students seeking monographs and texts for research and course use.

ASIANetwork is the primary organization devoted to strengthening the role of Asian Studies within liberal arts education. This exciting conference brings together scholars and educators in history, anthropology, sociology, religion, political science, philosophy and economics. This year’s meeting will discuss what Asia is and what role it plays in an increasingly interconnected world. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles to a prime market of teachers and researchers seeking monographs and texts for research and course use on all aspects of Asian Studies, including literature, culture, language, media and human rights.

With more than 500 members worldwide, CASCA is Canada’s largest and most prominent organization promoting anthropological research and teaching. This year’s conference brings together anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers, scholars and theorists to present the latest scholarship on how the changing ideas and realities of records are affecting the future of the field. Focusing on socially and politically relevant work, CASCA’s meeting is one of the most exciting anthropological conferences of 2013.

Cheiron is the international society for scholars working on the history, methodology and development of the human sciences, examining the evolution of scientific research and practices in anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis and medicine. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books across the full spectrum of human and social sciences to an international gathering of prominent scholars.

Founded in 1984, IACM develops theory, research and experience useful for understanding and improving conflict management in organizational, societal, family and international settings. Embracing cross-cultural theoretical perspectives and multi-disciplinary research, IACM encourages the relationship between academia and practice through the teaching of negotiation and conflict management skills. Their annual meeting is an inclusive, supportive gathering of practitioners, scholars and students—and is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on conflict, peace studies, negotiation, business, politics and social issues.

COV&R, founded in 1990, is an international association of scholars dedicated to developing Rene Girard's model of the relationship between violence and religion in cultural genesis and maintenance. Scholars from diverse fields-ranging from history and anthropology to religion and literature-participate in their exciting annual conferences. This year's meeting will explore how mimetic theory can illuminate questions surrounding ecological and environmental change, and how these changes impact society at large. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on mimesis and the ethics, theology and philosophy of ecology and the environment.

The Rural Sociological Society (RSS) is the largest and most important North American organization devoted to generating and disseminating knowledge about rural communities, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life and the environment. This year’s conference will attract scholars and researchers from around the world—avid book-buyers seeking the latest titles on the full range of sociological topics—to explore rural solidarity and change: the successes and failures of rural peoples’ past struggles, the construction of local alternatives to revitalize community and social well-being and how Rural Sociology can contribute to public policy and civil society.

The Rural Sociological Society (RSS) is the largest and most important North American organization devoted to generating and disseminating knowledge about rural communities, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life and the environment. This year’s conference will attract scholars and researchers from around the world—avid book-buyers seeking the latest titles on the full range of sociological topics—to explore rural solidarity and change: the successes and failures of rural peoples’ past struggles, the construction of local alternatives to revitalize community and social well-being and how Rural Sociology can contribute to public policy and civil society.

AACS is a vibrant, growing professional organization with a worldwide membership of academics, counselors and social workers dedicated to advancing sociological theory and research—and applying them to address and prevent societal problems. AACS' annual conference explores all aspects of Sociology and how it can be applied to a broad range of social questions, including education, social norms, criminal justice, discrimination and medicine. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on the full range of sociological topics: research and method, social theory and issues, politics, economics, race, gender, age, criminology and policy.

ISPS promotes the humane, in-depth treatment of psychotic disorders through the application of psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral and related approaches. In contrast to the current reliance on medication to treat psychoses and other severe mental disorders, ISPS advances training and promotes research into individual, family and group therapies. Their wide-ranging conference program brings together psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and other mental health professionals interested in a broad psycho-bio-social, interpersonal approach to treating schizophrenia and psychosis.

ICPS’ foundational purpose is the study, research, development and practice of Self Psychology as developed by Heinz Kohut. Their collegial annual conference brings together over 400 leading international psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, therapists and counselors in a dialogue between their fields and the theory of Self Psychology. Topics discussed include education, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, cognitive science and philosophy. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on Self Psychology, psychoanalysis and developmental psychology.

APCS is an international, interdisciplinary organization promoting beneficial applications of clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis to important cultural issues and social change. Attendees at this collegial meeting are interested in a wide range of topics, including cultural studies, feminism, gender studies, political psychology, and film studies. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to society and politics, history, culture, economics, literature, philosophy and the arts.

The Texas Psychological Association (TPA) brings together over 600 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and social workers. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. Speakers and presenters explore topics ranging from forensic psychology, child and adolescent development, sexual identity, and aging to psychopharmacology, disability, treatment of trauma, and multicultural psychology.

USIH fosters the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary ideas, institutions and significant thinkers—and their impact on American political, scientific and cultural life. USIH’s annual conference discusses intellectuals’ work, reception and influence—and how they shape, and been shaped by, the communities in which they live. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on intellectual history and traditions, historiography, politics, social movements and social criticism.

The Winter Roundtable—sponsored by Teachers College—is a professional education program devoted to studying the psychological and educational implications of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. With over 600 expected to attend, this is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on multiculturalism, counseling, social work, education and psychology to leaders in the field.

Relational Psychoanalysis holds that psychic change derives from the individual's relations with other people. Founded in 2001, IARPP is a professional community of clinicians and academics committed to developing relational perspectives—and exploring similarities and differences with other approaches to analysis and psychotherapy. IARPPs 2012 conference will consider founder Stephen Mitchells theoretical and clinical contributions to the field, how his ideas have been applied, what parallel theories have been developed, and how therapists and patients impact one another. This is the best opportunity to reach an international audience of psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, marriage and family counselors and clinical professional counselors looking for the most recent books on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Founded in 1970, CES produces and supports outstanding, multi-disciplinary research in European Studies and how lessons from European history and integration can be applied to contemporary issues of global security, prosperity and democracy. This year’s conference will explore the political, legal, geographic, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and identitarian diversities within Europe. CES continues to grow in size and prominence and—with nearly 1000 members—is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all aspects of European studies, including history, politics, migration, multiculturalism, integration, democratization, and colonial/post-colonial and minority studies.

The exciting annual PES conference explores education as a societal institution—and more broadly as the process of existential growth. This year’s conference theme will discuss the impact of aesthetic education on social change, the role of artists and writers as social critics, the value of the arts in education, and controversies over the use of artistic and literary works in schools. John Caputo (Professor of Humanities, Syracuse University, and author of Feminism, Sexuality & the Return of Religion and St. Paul among the Philosophers) will present this year’s Keynote Address. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books and journals on education from a sociological, anthropological, psychological or religious perspective to leaders in the field.

The annual PSA meeting is one of the largest and most popular sociological conferences, with well over 1,000 people expected to attend. These prominent scholars are avid book buyers looking for titles on the full range of sociology topics. Publishers wishing to promote sociology titles cannot afford to miss this exciting event.

NAES provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars and activists concerned with national and international dimensions of ethnicity, race, intergroup relations and the cultural life of minorities. This lively conference will explore how race and ethnicity are characterized in popular media, education and politics. Among the topics examined: racialized legislation; racism, gender and sexuality; Obama nation; profiling; affirmative action; hate groups, race and sports; medicine, public health and social welfare policy; and post-racial ideology. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books to leading scholars seeking titles on race, ethnicity, community and politics.

WSSA advances research and promotes social science teaching. Among the conference’s core areas are African-American Studies, American Indian Studies, Borderland Studies, Chicano Studies, Criminology, Geography, Public Administration, Urban Studies and Western Studies. This large meeting—over 1,000 presentations are given—is the best opportunity of the year to reach a prime market of educators eager to acquire the latest books in all social science disciplines.

Founded in 1925, NCSA’s annual meeting is a collegial, exciting venue for presenting the latest research across all sociology disciplines. This year’s meeting will examine how new theoretical and methodological approaches revitalize historical ideas, issues and paradigms. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles to an enthusiastic audience of sociologists on a wide range of topics, including social change, social justice, social power, post-modernism, the narrative turn, sociology of emotions, public sociology, urban politics, and methods of social scientific research.

Founded in 1954, SWPA prides itself on serving the psychological community by providing access to scientific advances and professional development within a collegial atmosphere. With an international membership, SWPA’s exciting annual conference brings together 1000 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and students. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your books on the theory and practice of psychology and related topics ranging from the impact and treatment of trauma, forensic psychology, child and adolescent development and sexual identity to animal research, community health, disability, multicultural psychology and neurological and genetic influences on mental health.

Founded in 1842, AES is the oldest and most important professional anthropological organization in the United States. AES focuses on socio-cultural topics: ecology, ethnicity, ideology, cognition, ritual, symbolism and social organization. This year's Spring Conference will explore how anthropologists, through theory and practice, engage the crucial issues, movements, institutions and debates facing our world. With AES having 4,000 members, this is the best opportunity of the year to reach prominent educators seeking books in all fields of anthropology, social movements, ideology and ethnic studies.

With more than 500 members worldwide, CASCA is Canada’s largest and most prominent organization promoting anthropological research and teaching. This year’s conference brings together anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers, scholars and theorists to present the latest scholarship and look to the future of the field. Focusing on socially and politically relevant work, CASCA’s meeting is one of the most exciting anthropological conferences of 2011.

SCA was founded in 1983 to promote rich ethnographic analysis that engages the most current thinking across the arts and sciences. Now with 1500 members, it is one of the premier anthropology organizations in the US. Their biennial 2012 meeting will discuss matters of life and death, as perceived through anthropological and ethnographic inquiry. Attendees will examine how human rights and ecology, the rhetoric of international moralism, and advances in biology and medical technology shape our views of what it means to be alive—and to be human. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on cultural studies, social programs and movements and all aspects of anthropology: politics, ethics, kinship and religion.

SEPI is an interdisciplinary, international organization aimed at integrating diverse theoretical perspectives on psychotherapy. The Society provides a community for clinicians, researchers and theorists who explore the limitations of a single-school perspective and a forum for learning alternative ways of working with difficult clinical issues. Change process research provides insights into effective evidenced-based practice, showing not just if therapy works, but how it works. SEPI’s 2012 conference will look at integrating these insights into psychotherapy practice, and how practitioners’ findings can inform research. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on all schools of psychotherapy theory and practice; cognitive, emotional, biological and behavioral factors affecting psychological change; relationships and trauma.

Division 45 is the major organization researching and applying psychological knowledge and techniques to ethnic minority issues. Founded in 1986, the Society continues to grow and now has more than 1000 members. Their rich biennial conference discusses the entire range of ideas related to ethnic minorities, including psycho-social stress, HIV/AIDS, development of self-identity, psychological assessment, substance abuse and sexuality and sex roles. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your books on ethnicity, race, minority affairs, psychology and social policy.

SAWH is one of the fastest-growing and most prominent organizations providing a forum for women historians and the study of Southern and women’s history. Their exciting TRIENNIAL conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for leading researchers to discuss all aspects of women’s history. This year’s plenary sessions will explore the geographic borders of southern history, LGBT history in the South, and the Native Southwest. This is the best meeting of the year to promote books and journals on Southern and women’s history to an influential audience of scholars and educators.

SPR is an international, multidisciplinary association devoted to scientific research on psychotherapy, and enhancing its social value. Their exciting, collegial conference draws the most important researchers in the field—over 700 attendees from around the world attended in 2011—enthusiastic scholars, students and clinicians. This year’s meeting will discuss change mechanisms and effective practices in psychotherapy from both clinical and empirical perspectives. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on all aspects of psychotherapy: research, practice and training; individual, couple and family therapy; and cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal and psychodynamic therapies.

Founded in 2005, the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) is now one of the largest scholarly associations in the field. Members are drawn from a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, art, history, international relations, law, literature, psychology, political science and sociology. This year’s conference will address why lessons from the past remain ignored and ineffective and how previous conflicts and genocides shape the present. Attendees will examine genocide prevention, genocide and mass culture and genocide in art, literature and film in an attempt to situate the Holocaust in the broader frame of Genocide Studies. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on the Holocaust, genocide and all forms of collective violence.

Cheiron is the international society for scholars working on the history, methodology and development of the human sciences, examining the evolution of scientific research and practices in anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis and medicine. ESHHS supports the cross-disciplinary study of the history and historiography of the human sciences in their broadest sense, including psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, political science, criminology and linguistics, as well as relevant specializations within biology, history and philosophy. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your books across the full spectrum of human and social sciences to an international gathering of prominent scholars.

The annual CDS meeting offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners—from the US and over 30 other countries—to share innovative strategies for sustainable development supporting positive, inclusive community change. CDS members represent a wide range of fields, including education, health care, social services, sociology, economics, and government. The 2012 conference will focus on finding entrepreneurial and innovative approaches to rebuilding and revitalizing communities. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on community development and civic engagement.

The Rural Sociological Society (RSS) is the largest and most important North American organization devoted to generating and disseminating knowledge about rural communities, seeking to enhance the quality of rural life and the environment. This year’s conference will attract scholars and researchers from around the world—avid book-buyers seeking the latest titles on the full range of sociological topics—to explore the potential that localism has to create vibrant economies and alternative values.

AACS is a vibrant, growing professional organization dedicated to advancing sociological theory and research—and applying it to address and prevent societal problems. With a worldwide membership of academics, counselors and social workers, AACS' annual conference explores all aspects of Sociology—and how it can be applied to a broad range of social questions, including education, social norms, criminal justice, discrimination and medicine—to improve living conditions for all. Keynote speaker is William Julius Wilson, University Professor at Harvard University and author of More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Norton). This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on the full range of sociological topics: sociological research and method, social theory and issues, politics, economics, race, gender, age, criminology and policy.

ASMEA promotes the highest standards of academic research and teaching in the fields of Middle Eastern studies, African studies and related disciplines. This conference attracts prominent scholars and high-level policy-makers. Among the topics discussed at this exciting, well-attended meeting: the history of religious and communal conflict and coexistence; how current strategic, political and economic concerns are reshaping old regional rivalries; and issues related to genocide, terrorism and democratization. This is the best conference of the year to promote your titles on Middle Eastern, African and Islamic studies.

NLPA’s mission is to advance psychological education and training to enhance the well-being of Hispanic and Latina/o populations. Their biennial conference brings together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners, policy-makers and students to explore issues of diversity inclusion in Latina/o psychology. This year’s papers and panels will focus on Latina/o culture’s intersections with multiple identities of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, able-bodiedness, age and religion/spirituality. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on Latina/o psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, social issues impacting the Hispanic/Latino community, ethnicity, race and social policy.

ICPS’s foundational purpose is the study, research, development and practice of Self Psychology as developed by Heinz Kohut. Their collegial Annual Conference brings together over 400 leading international psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, therapists and counselors in a dialogue between their fields and the theory of Self Psychology. Topics discussed include education, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, cognitive science and philosophy. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your books on Self Psychology, psychoanalysis and developmental psychology.

APCS is an international, interdisciplinary organization promoting beneficial applications of clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis to important cultural issues and social change. Attendees at this collegial meeting are interested in a wide range of topics, including cultural studies, feminism, gender studies, political psychology, and film studies. This is one of the best opportunities of the year to promote your titles on psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to society and politics, history, culture, economics, literature, philosophy and the arts.

ISPS promotes the humane, in-depth treatment of psychotic disorders through the application of psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral and related approaches. In contrast to the current reliance on medication to treat psychoses and other severe mental disorders, ISPS advances training and promotes research into individual, family and group therapies. Their wide-ranging conference program brings together psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and other mental health professionals interested in a broad psycho-bio-social, interpersonal approach to treating schizophrenia and psychosis.

USIH fosters the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary ideas, institutions and significant thinkers—and their impact on American political, scientific and cultural life. USIH’s annual conference discusses intellectuals’ work, reception and influence—and how they shape, and been shaped by, the communities in which they live. This is the best opportunity of the year to promote your titles on intellectual history and traditions, historiography, politics, social movements and social criticism.

The Texas Psychological Association (TPA) brings together over 600 scholars, psychologists, therapists, counselors and social workers. These influential clinicians and therapists seek the latest titles on the full range of psychology and mental health topics. Speakers and presenters explore topics ranging from forensic psychology, child and adolescent development, sexual identity, and aging to psychopharmacology, disability, treatment of trauma, and multicultural psychology.

ISEPP is a research and education network focusing on the critical study of the mental health movement. Members include psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical counselors, researchers, educators and other mental health professionals. Their main purpose is to examine and disseminate information on the impact of modern drug-based psychiatric theory and practice on personal freedom, liberty and a moral/spiritual conception of humanity. Their annual conferences are a major outlet for cutting-edge information in mental health. This year, they are meeting in conjunction with MindFreedom International and The Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. This is the best meeting of the year to promote your titles on a wide range of psychology and psychiatry topics, including psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology, various treatment methods, law, social theory and public policy.

AHS was founded in 1976 in response to a growing disenchantment with mainstream sociological organizations and a belief that sociological practice should reflect humanist values. Their annual meeting brings together a community of sociologists, educators, scholars and activists who share a commitment to using sociology to promote peace, equality and social justice. Criminal court judge Monte Watkins is this year’s Keynote Speaker, and Amiri al-Hadid (Tennessee State University, emeritus; The Cross & the Crescent) and Tim Wise (The Rise of Post-Racial Politics & the Retreat from Racial Equity) are speakers at the activist luncheons.