Conferences

18th International Conference on Social Stress Research
June 8th - June 10th, 2024

Portland, OR

Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland – Downtown
319 SW Pine Street
Portland, OR 97204

Registration for the Conference will open in the Fall of 2023

The 18th International Conference on Social Stress Research will be held on June 8-10, 2024 in Portland, OR at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland – Downtown.

The International Conference on Social Stress has become an important conference for scholars working in the area of stress and health and a major forum for sharing new research that incorporates components of the stress process. The conferences, sponsored by the University of New Hampshire, are held approximately every two years and attract the leading scholars in the field. Previous conferences have been held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Savannah, Georgia; Honolulu, Hawaii; Santa Fe, New Mexico; San Diego, California; London, England; Venice, Italy; Paris, France; Budapest, Hungary; Athens, Greece, and Montreal and Vancouver, Canada. The conference is organized and directed by Professors Heather Turner, Catherine Moran, and Karen Van Gundy in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire.

The 2024 conference promises to be stimulating, engaging, and exciting – both professionally and socially. Portland, OR offers something for everyone: city parks and green spaces, nearby mountains, open-air markets, books stores, coffee shops, and dozens of local breweries

CALL FOR PAPERS - Coming Fall 2023

The final program will be based on the content of the submissions. Sessions involving the following themes are common: childhood/adolescent stress and adversity; work and unemployment-related stressors; stress in family contexts; gender and stress processes; race, ethnicity, culture and discrimination stress; intersections of physical and mental health; catastrophic and traumatic stress; LGBTQ stressors, and neighborhood contexts of stress.
 

 

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