The Conference on Human Development celebrates its 20th biennial meeting this year. Originally started by Hayne W. Reese and a small group of developmental researchers located primarily in the Southeastern region of the United States as a regional "off-year" meeting of scholars interested in gathering together to share their work. In recent years the conference has been held in Louisville KY, Washington D.C., Charlotte NC, Memphis, TN, Mobile AL, Birmingham, AL, Pittsburgh PA, and Atlanta GA,

The Conference on Human Development provides a warm and inviting opportunity for lively interchange among scholars, students, practitioners, child advocates, policy makers, and others interested in human development, broadly defined. The conference invites contributions from multiple disciplines (psychology, education, human development and family studies, counseling, social work, child welfare, cognitive science, neuroscience, anthropology, and others), relating to multiple domains of typical and atypical human development (cognitive, social, emotional, biological, language, motor), within multiple contexts for development (cultural, school, family, genetic/biological, economic, clinical, neighborhood), and pertaining to multiple periods of development (prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, life-span).