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The Social Research conference series was initiated in 1988 by Arien Mack, the editor of Social Research and Marrow Professor of Psychology, as a way of amplifying the public voice of Social Research and The New School.
The series is intended to enhance public understanding and influence ongoing debate of current social and political issues, which are explored in their broad historical and cultural contexts. To this end, speakers at these conferences come from a wide range of disciplines with many different perspectives and kinds of expertise: historians, social scientists, natural scientists, and art historians routinely participate alongside legal theorists, policy makers, and journalists.
The following includes a partial list of conference speakers:
Some conferences have been the center of multi-institutional collaborations around the conference themes, which expands their perspectives through exhibits and public programs. Among the institutions that have collaborated with Social Research are:
The conferences routinely draw audiences of 500
to 1,000 people that represent a broad cross-section of the local, national and sometimes the international community. They attract the general public, students, academics, non-profit leaders, government officials, policy makers, activists, and scientists. For information about future conferences, visit www.socres.org/conferences.
To insure maximum exposure, papers delivered at the conferences are published in special issues
of Social Research: An International Quarterly, which reaches about 2,000 readers in more than 50 countries around the world. Issues and articles are regularly used in university classrooms and some conference issues have
become books. For information about the journal and to subscribe and order back issues, visit
www.socres.org. Audio recordings of some conferences from 1997 to the present are available on CD and videos of some keynote addresses are streamed online.
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