Every October, SESP holds an annual conference open to its members and their sponsored guests. Each annual conference is hosted by one or more academic institutions within the same geographic area, and the meeting site varies from year to year depending upon where the host institutions are located.

The 2011 meeting will be hosted by the Social, Decisional, and Organizational Sciences area at the University of Maryland. SESP members from the area are Michele Gelfand, Arie Kruglanski, Hal Sigall, and Chuck Stangor.

The meeting will take place on October 13-15 at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel located in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC. Some of you will remember the hotel as the site of the 1995 joint meeting between SESP and the European Association of Social Psychology. The hotel is as lovely as the surrounding Georgetown area, and it's an easy walk to museums, galleries, and a large number of restaurants.

An outstanding conference program has been prepared by the SESP Program Committee, chaired by Paul van Lange. For details, please see:

• 2011 Conference Program

Three SESP preconferences will be held on Thursday, October 13th. More information about the preconferences will be posted soon.

• Attraction and Relationships Preconference

• Groups Preconference

• Person Memory Interest Group Preconference [Note: The PMIG meeting will take place on October 11-13 and is open to those interested in social cognition (broadly defined), regardless of whether they also attend the SESP conference. For details and registration forms, click here.]

For questions regarding the conference, contact info@sesp.org.

Hotel Information

SESP 2011 will be held at:
Fairmont Washington DC Hotel
2401 M. Street NW
Washington, DC, 20037

Single and double rooms have been held for us at the rate of $229/night

Please register at the hotel, before September 21st, 2011, by calling:

Globetrotter Travel
800-322-7032
9:00-5:30 EDT, Mon-Fri
Press 2 for housing and mention that you are with SESP

Washington Dining Options

SESP will provide a reception with full dinner on Saturday night, but on Friday night you are on your own. The Fairmont is conveniently located between Georgetown and Dupont Circle in DC. Please see this Restaurant Guide for a list of about 100 local restaurants, organized by dining style. Starred restaurants are within walking distance of the hotel.

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