Thursday, September 28, 2017

Southeast ECO comes to Miami - October 28th

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Hello SCRA community! 

Our Southeast ECO conference team is ready to rock on October 28th now that we have confirmation our camping area and cabins have survived Hurricane Irma. Due to the storm and the delay it caused we have extended our call for proposals and early bird registration until October 5th. 

This years conference is being hosted by The Engagement Power and Social Action Research Team out of the University of Miami along with our Community Well-Being PhD program, Community and Social Change MA program and our undergraduate program in Human and Social Development. This year’s ECO will be some fun in the sun, with a camping kind of ECO vibe, that will celebrate and highlight the many ‘Community Psychologies’ found in the Southeast and beyond. With our conference theme CP Rising: Multiple Community Psychologies for Social Change, this conference will comprise traditional conference presentations for you to share your research, an engaged skill share methodology session, and of course a few sprinkles of Miami magic.

Find our Call for Proposals here (Deadline extended until October 5th) 

And don’t forget to register Here! (Early bird registration has been extended until October 5th). **Housing options for the weekend include free tent camping, a 10$ charge for cabin camping or the option to stay in nearby hotels (group rates will be posted online in the coming days)**. 

We invite you all to join us in Miami for this day full of co-learning and creating as we continue the long history of ECO with our fellow Southeast family. All are welcome! 

***A little note about this years theme***

Community Psychology has deep and diverse theoretical, paradigmatic and historical roots that inform the ways we craft our research questions, build new theory, engage with participants and communities, and where and how we can and ought to step into the fray of social change work. This years ECO conference aims to highlight this multiplicity in our field - critical community psychology, ecological and cultural community psychology, prevention and community science, feminist community psychology, and many more as yet unnamed threads of our field that together have the potential to weave a transformative fabric towards racial, economic, environmental and gender justice in our communities and society.

Will you stand with us? In each of our proposal formats (posters, skillshares and roundtables) you are being asked to reflect on YOUR community psychology and to find a way to creatively share with other conference attendees how this framing, theory, paradigm and/or methodology shapes your work. Let’s learn and teach across our different and complementary (or perhaps contradictory?!) ways of understanding and doing Community Psychology.


All the best, 

Natalie Kivell and Susie Paterson (conference co-organizers)

Natalie Kivell
PhD Candidate, Community Well-Being 

Host of RadioActive on wvum.org
University of Miami
(519) 270-1864
n.kivell@umiami.edu

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