SRCD Special Events

• 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM | * A Caucus Comes of Age: Two Decades of Voice, Visibility, and Vision in the SRCD Asian Caucus
  • Hosted by the SRCD Asian Caucus
• 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM | * Critically and Community Engaged Scholarship: The SRCD Black Caucus Preconference
  • Hosted by the SRCD Black Caucus
• 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM | * SRCD First Time Attendee Welcome Event & Reception (Pre-Registration Required)
  • Hosted by the SRCD Student & Early Career Council

* Ticketed Events require pre-registration. NO onsite tickets will be available for purchase.

• 7:15 AM - 8:15 AM | President's Welcome Breakfast Social (OPEN to ALL Attendees)
• 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | * SRCD27 Grab n Go Lunch Pick-Up
  • Pre-Registration Required | No Onsite Purchases
• 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | SRCD27 Opening Remarks
  • Student Performance by Still Waters Youth Sinfo-Nia of Metropolitan Atlanta (Sinfo-Nia Youth Orchestra)
    • Learn more about the Sinfo-Nia Youth Orchestra
    • Donate to the Sinfo-Nia Youth Orchestra
• 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | SRCD27 Presidential Address
• 5:00 PM - 5:50 PM | SRCD27 Networking Break (Exhibit Hall)
• 6:00 PM - 7:15PM | SRCD27 Member Meeting & Awards Ceremony

* Ticketed Events require pre-registration. NO onsite tickets will be available for purchase.

• 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | * Chat with Leaders - Roundtables (Pre-Registration Required)
• 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM | * Chat with Leaders - Lunch (Pre-Registration Required)
• 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Academic Freedom, Scholar Safety, and Institutional Responses: What’s at Stake and Strategies for Collective Response
  • Scholars conducting research and engaged in teaching activities that focus on issues of equity (race-based, migration-based, gender-based, etc.) face growing attacks during the current political times. Researchers are increasingly harassed, threatened, and in extreme cases, doxed. These attacks place scholars at risk, threaten academic freedom, and undermine scientific progress. They also come with significant costs to individuals’ physical and psychological health. This invited SRCD panel focuses on these attacks, scholar vulnerability, and collective action to protect scholars, their work, and their academic freedom. Panelists bring scholarly and legal expertise, faculty organizing experience, personal experience with attacks, and institutional knowledge.
    • Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM | * SRCD Asian Caucus 20th Anniversary (Pre-Registration Required)
  • Hosted by the SRCD Asian Caucus
  • Ticket Fees: $85.00 (Student, Early Career, LMIC) | $120.00 (Emeritus, Professional)
    • A Golden Tapestry: 20 Years of the SRCD Asian Caucus
      • For two decades, the SRCD Asian Caucus has brought together scholars devoted to advancing developmental science and elevating Asian voices within the field. Like a tapestry, the Caucus is the work of many hands - each mentor, colleague, and emerging researcher contributing a distinct strand to a larger, richer whole. This anniversary celebration honors that collective achievement and the community it has created across generations.
      • Join us for an evening of reflection and celebration as we recognize the Caucus's history, its impact on developmental scholarship, and the people who have carried it forward, as well as those who will continue to.
      • As we mark this milestone, we look ahead to the threads still to be woven - and to the continued growth of a community rooted in scholarship, mentorship, and belonging.

* Ticketed Events require pre-registration. NO onsite tickets will be available for purchase.