The International Scientific Program Committee (ISPC)

The functions of the International Program Committee are to advise
the Local Organising Committee on the following matters:

(1)        selection of persons to be invited

            to deliver keynote or other invited lectures or to convene invited symposia

(2)       themes to be represented in the announcements of invitations

            to submit proposals for papers, posters and symposia, and

(3)        criteria to guide the subcommittee charged with approval of such proposals

(4)        any other aspects of the content and form of the meeting

             on which members of the Programme Committee may see fit to offer advice.

Details of the context within which these functions have been defined can be found in the constitution and byelaws of the ISSBD, which are posted on the Society's website at www.issbd.org. The affairs of
the Committee will be conducted primarily through the medium of e-mail starting in 2008 and ending in 2010.

The membership of the ISPC is as follows:

 

Toni Antonucci  (U. Michigan, USA),

Lewis Aptekar (San Jose State University, USA),

Hiroshi Azuma (U. Tokyo, Japan),

Avshalom Caspi (Duke U., USA),

Xinyin Chen (U.Western Ontario, Canada),

Michael Cole (U.California, San Diego, USA),

Catherine Cooper (U. California, Santa Cruz, USA),

Serdar Degirmencioglu  (Istanbul Arel University, Istanbul, Turkey),

Malt Joshi (Texas A & M U., USA), 

Cigdem Kagitcibasi, Koc U., Turkey),

Heidi Keller (U.Osnabrueck, Germany),

Frank Kessel (University of New Mexico, USA),

Silvia Koller (U.Fed. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil),

Dan Li (Shanghai Normal U., P.R.China),

Heikki Lyytinen (U.Jyvaskyla, Finland),

Naomi Miyake (Chukyo University, Japan),

Terrie Moffitt (Duke U., USA),

Elias Mpofu (U.Sydney, Australia),

Mary Ngoma (U. Zambia)

Bame Nsamenang (U.Yaounde, Bamenda, Cameroon),

Anne Petersen (Stanford U., USA),                                          (Co-chair)

Colette Sabatier (U.V.Segalen, Bordeaux, France),

Arnold Sameroff (U. Michigan, USA),

Ann Sanson (U.Melbourne, Australia),

Wolfgang Schneider (U.Wuerzburg, Germany),

Ingrid Schoon (U.London Inst of Education, UK),

Robert Serpell (U.Zambia, Zambia),                                         (Chair)

Peter K Smith (U. London Goldsmiths College, UK),

Jaan Valsiner (Clark U.,Worcester MA,USA),

Marcel van Aken (Utrecht U., Netherlands),

Suman Verma (GHS College, Chandigarh, India).

 

In addition to their global distribution, the expertise of this distinguished group of developmental scientists encompasses the periods of early and middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age; genetic, biobehavioral, social, and cultural dimensions; and applications to the fields of education, health and public policy. With their creative collaboration we hope to generate a broad, multidisciplinary program for the 2010 congress with both a global scope and distinctive regional themes.

Robert Serpell

Conference Chair

October 2008