the ISSBD 2010 congress 18TH-22ND july 2010
Since its foundation in 1969, the ISSBD has held its biennial congresses on five continents. It is a truly international organisation with more than 1,100 members in 60 countries. Its main objective is to promote systematic research on human development throughout the life-span. The University of Zambia is greatly honoured by this opportunity to host a world-wide gathering of developmental researchers, and we hope to make your experience an intellectually enriching and socially agreeable one.
Background:
The combined participation of these invited speakers and the many other contributors whose proposals are accepted over the course of the next few months will make for an exciting academic forum for established researchers and students. We expect it also to attract the interest of a wide range of service professionals and policymakers within Zambia. With the assistance of the African Research Advisory Panel set up last year for the congress, we hope this will also apply to other countries in Africa.
For those of you coming to Africa from further abroad the congress will offer an exciting opportunity to interact with scholars from all around the world, to share your own research findings, and to learn at first hand about the circumstances of human development in this region, some of which are universal to our species, while others are unique to the region. In addition to scientific deliberations, the Lusaka congress will offer an introduction to various aspects of Zambian society, through social interaction with academics and students in the leisure periods, informal exploration of the city of Lusaka, organized visits to Zambia’s many tourist destinations, small group, familiarisation visits to sites of special interest to specialists in various fields of behavioural development research, and various manifestations of traditional and modern culture at the congress venue and the gala dinner. Details of these various opportunities are presented on the relevant pages of the Issbd 2010 congress website.
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