The 2008 program for the Council on Contemporary Families Annual Conference! You heard it here first 🙂

April 25 – 26, 2008
Family Issues in Contention
University of Illinois at Chicago

Sessions include:

Young People Hooking Up- Should We Be Worried?
Presider: Waldo Johnson, University of Chicago
Debra Tolman, San Francisco State University
Laura Sessions, Author, Unhooked
Paula England, Stanford University

Is Transracial and Transnational Adoption the Right Policy for Parents? Children? Society?
Presider, Andrae’ Brown, City University of New York
Ruth McRoy, University of Texas at Austin;
Adam Pertman, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Jeanne Howard, Illinois State University;
Pamela Quiroz, University of Illinois in Chicago

Media Workshops:
How to get press coverage of your work
Virginia Rutter, Framingham State College
Joshua Coleman, Psychologist
Adam Pertman, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

Translating academic research into popular books and magazine articles
Kerry Ann Rockquemore, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington

Writing Op Eds
Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College

What you should know about Blogging and Why
Deborah Siegel, Woodhull Institute (aka ME!)

And lots more. For more info and to register, click here.