Organized by Melanie Killen and Audun Dahl
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Questions about whether and how to define morality provoked interest at the last SDT preconference in Salt Lake City. To give the questions the time and attention they deserve, we held an SDTIC meeting to address them. To start the conversation, the organizers presented their perspectives on whether and how to define morality. The crux of the meeting was to provide time for everyone to join the conversation with questions, comments, and additional arguments, with the aim of reflecting together on what makes it important to define morality.

Organized by Amanda Burkholder, Matthew Gingo, and Seçil Gönültaş
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The preconference created a space for engaging with students, early career researchers, and senior scholars working within Social Domain Theory, providing opportunities to discuss common interests and learn about each other's work. After several years of being fully remote, over 50 scholars came together in Salt Lake City to reconnect with friends, seek out collaborators, and join our community of scholars as we discussed recent advances and current directions in research and theory within the social domain approach to social and moral development.

Organized by Zina Besirevic and Franklin Moreno
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The meeting about Democracy, Human Rights, Civic Attitudes and Politics explored ideas and issues surrounding conducting Human Rights centered research in challenging global contexts. Some of the issues we discussed included tensions among various sectors, how to conduct research and what topics/issues are ethical, and how/who should disseminate the findings.

The meeting was led by Zina Besirevic and Franklin Moreno, covered examples of researcher-practitioner partnerships and work with youth at risk of violence in Honduras and Syrian refugees in Canada, and featured guest presentations by Emilia Quintanilla and Zuhra Teja.

Organized by Robyn Ilten-Gee and Laura Pareja Conto

The goal of the meeting was to help us answer the following questions: What are some ways that our research in moral development could inform efforts to create more equitable environments? How are we doing so far? What changes do we envision/hope our field can adopt to get closer to this goal? How can social justice takeaways from research be carried over into our communities? 

The meeting included a panel discussion (led by Franklin Moreno) with Allegra Midgette, Jean Klasovsky Sack, Emily Herry, and Adam Rutland. Breakout room sessions covered topics such as equity in scholarship production, inequitable treatment in school contexts, positionality, empowerment, and practice, and social exclusion of immigrants and bystander responses.

Organized by Wendy Rote and Marc Jambon
Workshop materials are shared in this folder. Full video recording: https://youtu.be/3skqYhNyEr4 

The workshop included informational sessions on formatting and analyzing categorical data, multilevel modeling and GLMMs, power analysis and handling missing data, and Q&A with the audience (led by Wendy Rote, Audun Dahl, Marc Jambon). We also had two research presentations (Nicole Campione-Barr, Franklin Moreno).

Organized by Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Robyn Ilten-Gee, and Sarah Manchanda
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This mini-conference featured several short talks, a discussant talk and break-out rooms focusing on research related to using social domain theory to study educational settings, strategies, and interventions, translating research for and partnering with schools, conducting research with teachers, and more.  

Featured speakers: Stacy Horn, Olga Lucia González, Hanna Beißert, Chris Daddis, Larry Nucci (Discussant)

Organized by Luke McGuire
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This meeting focused on the ways in which Social Domain Theory and theorists can respond to the increasingly global nature of the moral and social-conventional issues we are interested in understanding. The meeting featured presentations by early career researchers Dr. Laura Elenbaas (University of Rochester), Dr. Jeanine Grütter (University of Konstanz) and Ayşe Yüksel (University of Exeter), followed by plenary thoughts from Prof.s Melanie Killen (University of Maryland) and Audun Dahl (UC Santa Cruz). Over 60 people attended the event.

Organized by Clare Conry-Murray, Matthew Gingo, and Nicole Campione-Barr
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The preconference took place a few days before the SRCD biennial meeting in 2021. It was held virtually due to the global pandemic. The preconference included keynote talks by Melanie Killen, Judi Smetana, and Elliot Turiel. We also had flash talks by early career researchers (advanced graduate students and post-docs), and breakout working sessions to develop plans and resources for the Social Domain Theory community. Over 60 people attended the event.

Organized by Audun Dahl, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, and Holly Recchia
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This full-day preconference took place the day before the SRCD biennial meeting in 2019. The event offered an avenue for engaging with students, early career researchers, and senior scholars working within Social Domain Theory, providing opportunities to discuss common interests and learn about each others' work. The program focused on recent advances and current directions in research and theory within the Social Domain approach to social and moral development. Over 50 people attended the event.