The SPSSI / EASP Partnership

Each year, SPSSI partners with the European Association for Social Psychology  (EASP) to sponsor a scholarly conference, held alternately in a European and a North American venue.    

• The 2012 conference is organized by Todd Pittinsky, Birte Siem and Stefan Sturmer on "Proactive Behaviour across Group Boundaries: Seeking and Maintaining Positive Interactions with Outgroup Members". This conference will be held in November 2012 in Stony Brook, USA. 
   
• The 2011 conference was organized by Travis Proulx and Kees van de Bos on "Meaning and Existential Psychology". This conference was held in Tilburg, the Netherlands in November, 2011.
   
• The 2010 conference was organized by Michelle Fine, Susan Opotow, Xenia Chryssochoou and Dario Spini, on "Forgotten Alternatives: Denaturalizing Injustice and Exclusion". This conference was held in New York in March 2010.  
   
• The 2009 conference on "Uncertainty and Extremism"was organized by Michael Hogg, Kees van den Bos and Arie Kruglanski, and held at Claremont Graduate University in California in November 2009. 
   
• The 2008 joint SPSSI/EAESP conference was held in Marburg, Germany. The conference theme was "Intergroup Contact: Recent Advancements in Basic and Applied Research".  
   
• The 2007 Conference was held in Toronto.

SPSSI and EASP invite proposals for future conferences.