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1998 Conference: Families in a Global Context: Media, Environment, and Peace

1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 The theme chosen by Judith Myers Walls for the 1998 Annual Conference was “Families in a Global Context: Media, Environment, and Peace.” It was held November 14-17 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee, WI. Jacqueline Haessly of Peacemaking Associates was the local arrangements chair. Attendance was approximately 1,100.

2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Plenary speakers included Charlotte Cole and Anna Guenina of the Children’s TV Workshop, New York, and Moscow, Russia, who spoke on “A World of Sesame Street Families”; Barbara Adams, UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service, New York, who discussed “Sustainable Development: A Peace Plan for the21st Century”; Atie Dyregrov, Center for Crisis Psychology, Bergen, Norway, who spoke on “The Worst Memory In My Head: Families and War”; and John Red Horse, University of Minnesota—Duluth, who spoke on “Eyes in the World: The Relationship Between Governments and Families.”

3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 President Greer Litton Fox‘s Presidential Address was titled “Families in the Media: Thoughts on the Public Scrutiny of Private Lives.”

4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 There were four Research Updates for Practitioners, and Vern Bengston delivered the Burgess Award Address: “Families and Aging at the Turn of the Century.

5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 1998 conference programRead the conference program

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