Join the Brown School at the Society for Social Work and Social Policy annual conference in San Francisco on January 16-20, 2019. This year’s theme is Ending Gender Based, Family and Community Violence.
The Brown School will be represented in many exciting ways at the 2019 conference:
- Faculty, staff, students and recent alumni will present or moderate over 55 sessions during this year’s meeting.
- Professors Melissa Jonson-Reid and Brett Drake will receive the 2019 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award for “After the Cradle Falls: What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond to It, and What You can Do 17³Ô¹Ï It.” The awards presentation is Saturday, January 19 at 2:00 p.m. during the afternoon plenary session.
- The Brown School will host its annual reception on Friday, January 18 at 8:00 p.m. in Union Square #13, and celebrate the induction of Professors Brett Drake, Michal Grinstein-Weiss and Fred Ssewamala as AASWSW fellows.
In addition to the highlighted presentations listed below, the Brown School will support other notable featured speakers:
- Craig Winston LeCroy will present at the Aaron Rosen Lecture, which was established by SSWR in conjunction with the Brown School at Washington University. LeCroy, communitas professor of social work at Arizona State University in Tucson, focuses his research on home visitation services, social competence in adolescence, and evidence-based practice for social work.
- Noted civil rights activist Angela Davis is the speaker at the Presidential Plenary; the event is co-sponsored by the Brown School. Davis, distinguished professor emerita of history and consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has written nine books on social justice and her work.
The annual Brown School reception will take place Friday, January 18 at 8:00 p.m. in Union Square #13 at the Hilton San Francisco. Contact Marissa Hardwrict at hardwrictm@wustl.edu with any questions.
Please consult the listings below to explore the breadth of ways to connect with Brown School staff, faculty and students. All sessions will be taking place in the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, 333 O’Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94102.
Thursday, January 17
*Asterisks indicate presenting speaker
| 10:15 a.m. | Mary McKay Sean Joe Timothy McBride Gary Parker | Golden Gate 6 Lobby Level | |
| 12:15 p.m. | Melissa Jonson-Reid | Union Square 22 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Thabani Nyoni* Proscovia Nabunya Fred Ssewamala | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Sam Bufe* Olga Kondratjeva Stephen Roll Michal Grinstein-Weiss | Union Square 1 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Manik Ahuja* Renee Cunningham-Williams | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Mathieu Despard | Union Square 1 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Stephen Roll | Union Square 1 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 4:15 p.m. | Mathieu Despard* Stephen Roll Michal Grinstein-Weiss | Union Square 1 Tower 3, 4th Floor |
Friday, January 18
| 8:00 a.m. | Shenyang Guo | Golden Gate 3 Lobby Level | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Tess Thompson | Union Square 1 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Sara Beeler-Stinn* David Patterson Silver Wolf Derek Brown Ned Presnall Richard Grucza | Union Square 25 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 9:45 a.m. | William Byansi* Ozge Sensoy Bahar Apollo Kivumbi James Mugisha Fred Sswemala Mary McKay | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Mary McKay | Continental Parlors, 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 11:15 a.m. | Nancy Morrow-Howell | Continental Parlor 8 Ballroom Level | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Margaret Sherraden | Golden Gate 5 Lobby Level | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Patricia Kohl Melissa Jonson-Reid | Union Square 1 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 1:45 p.m. | Andrew Foell* Jason Purnell Rachel Barth Michelle Witthause Derek Holland | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 1:45 p.m. | Mary McKay | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 2:15 p.m. | Lara Markovitz* Patricia Kohl | Union Square 22 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Brett Drake | Union Square 13 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Stephen Roll* Sam Bufe Olga Kondratjeva Michal Grinstein-Weiss | Union Square 19 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Tonya Edmond | Union Square 15 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Sicong Sun* Stephen Roll Olga Kondratjeva Michal Grinstein-Weiss | Golden Gate 6 Lobby Level | |
| 5:15 p.m. | Michael Sherraden | Golden Gate 4 Lobby Level | |
| 5:15 p.m. | Wendy Auslander Michael Galvin* Donald Gerke Melissa Jonson-Reid | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 5:45 p.m. | Margaret Sherraden | Golden Gate 4 Lobby Level | |
| 6:15 p.m. | Margaret Sherraden | Golden Gate 4 Lobby Level | |
| 6:15 p.m. | David Patterson Silver Wolf | Union Square 15 Tower 3, 4th Floor |
Saturday, January 19
| 8:00 a.m. | Ellie S. Wideman* Renee Cunningham-Williams LaShawnda Fields | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Leo Cabassa | Continental Parlor 8 Ballroom Level | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Shih-Ying Cheng* Melissa Jonson-Reid | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Margaret Sherraden | Golden Gate 4 Lobby Level | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Leo Cabassa | Continental Parlor 8 Ballroom Level | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Leo Cabassa | Continental Parlor 8 Ballroom Level | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Margaret Sherraden | Golden Gate 4 Lobby Level | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Michael Sherraden | Golden Gate 7 Lobby Level | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Margaret Sherraden | Golden Gate 4 Lobby Level | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Leo Cabassa | Continental Parlor 8 Ballroom Level | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Proscovia Nabunya *Byansi William Fred Ssewamala Damulira Christopher | Golden Gate 7 Lobby Level | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Wendy Auslander Autumn Asher Blackdeer Katie Chew Patrick Fowler Peter Hovmand* Zhou Ke | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Mathieu Despard Michal Grinstein-Weiss Olga Kondratjeva* Stephen Roll | Union Square 1 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 12:45 p.m. | Michael Sherraden | Golden Gate 8 Lobby Level | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Von Nebbitt | Golden Gate 5 Lobby Level | |
| ​4:00 p.m. | ​ | ​Takashi Amano | ​Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level |
| 4:00 p.m. | Patrick Fowler | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Maxine Davis* Melissa Jonson-Reid | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Leo Cabassa Enola Proctor | Union Square 3/4 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| ​4:00 p.m. | Chien-jen Chiang | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Von Nebbitt | Golden Gate 5 Lobby Level | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Von Nebbitt | Golden Gate 5 Lobby Level | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Von Nebbitt | Golden Gate 5 Lobby Level |
Sunday, January 20
| 8:00 a.m. | Wendy Auslander | Golden Gate 3 Lobby Level | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Wendy Auslander | Golden Gate 3 Lobby Level | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Tess Thompson | Union Square 16 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Leo Cabassa | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Peter Hovmand | Union Square 18 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Ellie S. Wideman* Cole Hooley Shih-Ying Cheng Katherine Marcal Yiqi Zhu Yi Wang Shenyang Guo Renee Cunningham-Williams | Continental Parlors 1-3 Ballroom Level | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Melissa Jonson-Reid | Union Square 3/4 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| ​11:30 a.m. | ​ | ​Areum Lee* Joomo Kang | ​Golden Gate 1 Lobby Level |
| 11:30 a.m. | Wendy Auslander | Union Square 25 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| ​12:30 p.m. | ​Joomo Kang* Andrew Foell | ​Union Square 17 Tower 3, 4th Floor | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Margaret Sherraden | Golden Gate 4 Lobby Level |