SAVE THE DATES: 2009 SRIF Conference February 26-March 1

Please join us at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Center (http://www.visitasilomar.com), an intimate setting on the Pacific Ocean near Monterey, California, for an exciting and innovative program on various aspects of identity. The program will include current research, interactive discussions, integrative sessions and an outstanding keynote speaker: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Society for Research on Identity Formation
Sixteenth Annual Conference
February 26-March 1
Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA

Conference Information

The Program Committee invites submissions for the sixteenth annual meeting of the Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF). The conference will be held at the Asilomar Conference Center (http://www.visitasilomar.com/) Monterey, California from 6:00 p.m., Thursday, February 26 to 1:00 p.m., Sunday, March 1, 2009. Membership in SRIF is not required to submit a presentation for consideration. Click here for SRIF Conference Registration.

 Conference Theme 

 Identity formation from multiple perspectives:

Personal, group, and cultural identities.

The program committee encourages proposals that address the theme of the conference

SRIF is an interdisciplinary organization and strongly encourages submissions from a diversity of fields such as psychology, sociology, family studies, and anthropology. The committee is particularly receptive to proposals for sessions that are integrative regarding a particular aspect of identity and that encourage discussion. In terms of format, interactive sessions with short introductory statements followed by audience participation are especially welcomed. Posters are the best vehicle for the presentation of purely empirical studies, but well-integrated empirical paper sessions will also be considered.

Click here for Call for Papers and Instructions for Preparing Submissions 

Keynote Speaker:

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 

Housing and Meals

Housing and all meals (for three days) are provided by the Asilomar Conference Center. Click here for Conference Housing Information and a conference reservation form. All room reservations must be made through the Asilomar Center, which will make roommate arrangements if you desire. Click here for SRIF Conference Registration

The room reservation form must be sent to Asilomar by December 24, 2008.

For each biennial conference students are encouraged to submit their original, individual research for consideration for a SRIF Student Research Award for high quality accomplishments.  An award may be granted for a doctoral dissertation, a master’s thesis, an individual’s graduate level project, and/or an undergraduate honors/independent thesis.  Each student category:  doctoral, masters and undergraduate will be considered separately.  It is expected that doctoral and master’s level projects are the work of the individual and not a study primarily designed by their faculty sponsor.  Undergraduates may submit work in which they have been the primary investigator.  The project should have been completed since the previous SRIF Biennial Conference, in this case March, 2007.  Students need not be members of SRIF in order to apply.

Students should e-mail their intent to submit a summary of their project to Dr. Sally Archer, Chair of the Awards Committee, at sarcher@tcnj.edu by November 1, 2008 for the 2009 Conference.  Please include a working title, author, school affiliation, author’s e-mail, and the faculty sponsor’s name and e-mail.

The project submission date is January 2, 2009.  You will receive feedback regarding the rewards by email by February 2, 2009.  You may submit your project by e-mail to sarcher@tcnj.edu as an attachment or by snail mail, to Dr. Sally Archer, P.O. Box 105, Roxbury, VT  05669, USA. 

Criteria:

Students are encouraged to submit papers that are theoretical, empirical or an integrative synthesis.  For reports of empirical studies, it is essential that the author specify the purpose of the project, specific hypotheses, a clear methodology, the primary findings, and the significance of the project.  Similar clarity is required for other types of papers.   

The summary, itself, has a 2,000 word maximum.  It must be double spaced, 12-point font, 1 inch margins, no headers/footers.  Tables, graphs, and references may be in addition to the 2,000 word text.  A cover page should provide the following information:  name, title, contact information, student level (doctoral, masters, undergraduate) and the name, email, and address of the faculty sponsor.      

A letter from the student’s faculty sponsor is required.  It should be a brief statement directly focused on the student’s primary role in the scholarly project and sent to Dr. Archer not later than January 2, 2009.

 Award:

Students who are chosen for research awards will be invited to submit a paper for publication considerations in Identity: An international journal of theory and research.  As well they will be given a two year membership in SRIF that includes receipt of the society’s journal. 

The SRIF Student Research Awards Committee Members are Dr. Sally Archer, (Professor Emeritus), The College of New Jersey, Dr. Joe Pittman, Auburn University, and Dr. Sheila Marshall, The University of British Columbia.

Student Travel Scholarship

Once again, SRIF will be offering a Student Travel Scholarship in the

amount of $100 to be awarded to a student presenter at the biennial

conference. To qualify for a SRIF student travel scholarship, you must

be a SRIF student member, and the first and presenting author on an

accepted paper or poster submission. Please note that this includes

first authorship on a paper presented within a symposium. Both graduate

and undergraduate students are eligible. The travel scholarship will be

awarded on a lottery basis. In the case of a student who is first author

on more than one presentation, that person will have his/her name

entered into the lottery only once. The SRIF Program Committee will

randomly select the recipient from the pool of eligible candidates.

Should the winner for some reason be unable to attend the conference,

the award will be forfeited and a new lottery conducted from the

remaining applications. To be considered for the lottery, please include

a note at the bottom of the cover page for your submission requesting

that you be considered. Proof of student status (a copy of a current

student id or a note from the faculty advisor on letterhead certifying

student status) is required to be entered into the lottery. This can

be sent via e-mail (whiteas@kenyon.edu) or fax (740-427-5737, attn

Andrea White).