Call for Papers
AFF (American Family Foundation) will conduct its 2004 annual conference, Cults and New Religious Movements, June 11-12 in Edmonton , Alberta at the University of Alberta Conference Center. The theme of the conference is The Violation of Innocence: How Cults Abuse Children, although other topics will be addressed. Attendees are diverse, including researchers, helping professionals, former group members, current group members, families, clergy, educators, and others.
Individual presenters will have up to 45-minutes for paper delivery and discussion. Session organizers have 90 minutes; it is recommended that no more than four people speak at a session.
Papers and session proposals will be considered in all areas of cultic studies. Of special interest, however, are papers and sessions related to the conference theme. Also of interest, among other possible subjects: the relationship of cults to families, women, men, sexual abuse, physical harm, psychological harm, emotional manipulation, trauma, adults raised in groups, violence, spiritual abuse, survival mechanisms in and out of the group, recovery, treatment, research needs and advances, academic disputes, and theoretical advances.
Session organizers : send session title, plus participants' names, affiliations, paper titles and abstracts. Individual presenters: send affiliation, paper title and abstract. Send to AFF's Executive Director, Dr. Michael Langone , at the address or e-mail below by September 15, 2003 .
Edmonton is about three to four and one-half hours drive to Jasper and Banff National Parks . Conference organizers hope to arrange for optional post-conference tours of the mountains.
Hyperlinks to information on AFF's 2003 conferences can be found in the signature below. To get an idea about the backgrounds of presenters see this year's California conference as an example: http://www.cultinfobooks.com/infoserv_events/2003/aff_conference_2003_06ca_presenters.htm
AFF (American Family Foundation)
P.O. Box 2265
Bonita Springs , FL 34133
Phone: 239-514-3081 (new area code)
Fax: 732-352-6818
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site : www.culticstudies.org (also, www.csj.org )
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Conferences and Workshop
Southern California (June 13-14) http://www.cultinfobooks.com/infoserv_events/2003/aff_conference_2003_06ca_events.htm
Ex-member Workshop at Estes Park, Colorado (July 11-13) http://www.cultinfobooks.com/infoserv_events/2003/aff_workshop_2003_07co_events.htm
Hartford, Connecticut (October 17-18) http://www.cultinfobooks.com/infoserv_events/2003/aff_conference_2003_10ct_events.htm