Ottawa (Sept 20-22)
The CSRF is holding its 2012 conference in Canada's capital city, Ottawa, from Thursday September 20 to Saturday, Sept 22. Please mark these dates on your calendar! Ottawa is an amazing city. The conference hotel is the Courtyard Marriott.
Remember that we typically start Thursday at around 3pm with oral presentations, and conclude on Saturday around 6pm. The program committee is hard at work developing another great experience. We look forward to seeing you at the conference this coming year!
** 2012 Call for Proposals **
2012 Plenary Speakers:
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Dr. Chivers is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the department of Psychology at Queen's University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, in 2003 and completed her clinical residency at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada. Between 2003 and 2007, Dr. Chivers completed post-doctoral fellowships at CAMH, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a Women's Health Scholar Award from the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Chivers joined the Psychology faculty at Queen's University in the spring of 2009 as a Queen's National Scholar, an award aimed at recruiting exceptional young scholars who demonstrate outstanding achievement and promise in research. She serves on the editorial boards for the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Sex Research, and the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Her research program focuses on basic and applied questions addressing gender differences in sexual psychophysiology, sexual attraction, and sexual functioning, with a focus on women's sexuality.
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Michael Seto is the Director of Forensic Rehabilitation Research at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, with cross-appointments to the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. He secretly aspires to eventually be affiliated with all 21 universities in the province of Ontario. Michael received his PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1997, from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has published extensively on pedophilia, child pornography, sexual offending, and risk assessment, and regularly presents at scientific meetings and professional workshops on these topics. He recently authored a wellreviewed book on pedophilia and sexual offending against children, "Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention", published by the American Psychological Association in 2008, and is currently working on a second book, on internet-facilitated sexual offending, for the same publisher.
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