18th International Conference on Social Stress Research
June 8th - June 10th, 2024
Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland – Downtown
319 SW Pine Street
Portland, OR 97204
Registration for the Conference is open now REGISTER HERE
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. To make your reservations at the Conference rate, please visit this site HILTON RESERVATIONS
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
Conference Program
If you have program questions, please email: Catherine.Moran@unh.edu
Our 2024 Keynote Speakers
Elaine Wethington
Elaine Wethington is Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Sociology at Cornell University and adjunct Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1987. She is currently Co-Director and Director of the Pilot Study Core for the Cornell Edward R. Roybal Center for Translation of the Behavioral and Social Sciences of Aging where she has engaged in research projects to improve the experience and treatment of pain in older adults. Dr. Wethington’s research interests and projects include work and family stress in young families, the impact of life events and stress on lifestyle and health behaviors, social relationships and support among older adults, stress measure development, and multi-level intervention designs to improve health.
Blair Wheaton
Blair Wheaton is currently the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and taught at Yale University and McGill University before moving to the University of Toronto in 1989. He was the first recipient of the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of' Mental Health in 2000 and was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 2010. Dr. Wheaton’s research focuses on both the life course and social contextual approaches to understanding mental health over multiple life stages. Currently, he is following up the children from the Toronto Family Study thirty years later to investigate the long-term consequences of growing up in gender-egalitarian households on work, family, and health outcomes, he is investigating historical changes in the stress process over time, and he is beginning a book project on the social causation of mental health disparities.
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You can stay in the conference loop and reconnect with other “stress folks” via our Facebook page. Just search for “International Conference on Social Stress Research” and add the group.
