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2024 Wallace Symposium on Talent Development Proposal Submissions are Now Open

Scholars are invited to participate in the 2024 Wallace Symposium to share current research findings and explore important questions relevant to the field. Scholars are invited to propose sessions related to the following themes:

  1. Giftedness, human potential, and talent development
  2. Affective issues in achievement and talent development
  3. Curriculum and instruction or program evaluation
  4. Creativity
  5. Acceleration
  6. Twice-exceptionality
  7. Diversity, equity, and inclusion
  8. Methodological issues in research on talent development
  9. Other

    Proposal submission deadline is October 23, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time

    Schedule

    Sunday, May 19, 2024
    1:00 – 3:30        Registration / Check-in
    3:30 – 4:00        Welcome
    4:00 – 5:00        Opening Keynote (Malik Henfield)
    5:00 – 5:30        Response and Q&A
    5:30 – 7:00        Dinner
    7:00 – 8:00       Panel: “What is the Future of Gifted Education and Talent Development?” (Camilla Benbow, Linda Brody, Dante Dixson, Dawn Frazier, David Lubinski, and Joyce VanTassel-Baska with Carolyn Callahan as moderator)
    8:00 – 9:00       Dessert Reception

    Monday, May 20, 2024
    7:30 – 8:30        Breakfast
    8:30 – 9:30        Julian C. Stanley Distinguished Lecture - Current Mindsets in Gifted Education and Talent Development: What Happened to Talent Discovery? (Susan Assouline)
    9:30 – 9:45        Response and Q&A
    9:45 – 10:15       Group Photo and Refreshment Break
    10:15 – 11:15      Concurrent 1 – Submitted Papers (~5 sessions of 2 papers each)
    11:30 – 12:30    Concurrent 2 – Invited Feature Sessions

    1. Rena Subotnik (Making the Implicit Explicit: Insider Knowledge and Talent Development)
    2. Sally Reis (Using Strength-based Teaching Strategies for 2e/ASD Students)
    3. Frank Worrell (Opportunities Provided, Opportunities Taken: Proving Early Talent Development Opportunities is Critical for Diversifying Gifted Education)

    12:30 – 1:45      Lunch
    1:45 – 3:15         Concurrent 3 - Submitted (~5 sessions of 3 papers each)
    3:15 – 3:45        Refreshment Break
    3:45 – 4:45       Keynote: Gifted Education Research from the Economists’ Perspective: What Have We Learned? (David Card and Laura Giuliano)
    4:45 – 5:00       Response and Q&A
    5:00 – 7:00       Posters and Dinner Reception
    7:00 – 8:30       Panel on Recent Foundation Reports

    Tuesday, May 21, 2024
    7:00 – 8:00        Breakfast
    8:00 – 9:00        Concurrent 4 – Submitted Papers (~5 sessions of 2 papers each)
    9:15 – 10:15        Concurrent 5 – Invited Feature Sessions

    1. Paula Olszewski-Kubilius (Research on Domain Specific Abilities and Trajectories: Implications for Practice with Gifted Students)
    2. Jacob Michaelson (Building a Community for Neuroscience-oriented Research on Twice-exceptionality)
    3. Franzis Preckel (Need for Cognition and Its Potential Role Within Talent Development)

    10:15 – 10:45    Refreshment Break
    10:45 – 12:15    Concurrent 6 - Submitted Papers (~5 sessions of 3 papers each)
    12:15 – 1:00      Lunch
    1:00 – 2:00        Closing Keynote (Po-Shen Loh)
    2:00 – 2:30       Response and Q&A

    2024 Wallace Symposium on Talent Development

    The Belin-Blank Center and the Renzulli Center announce the 2024 Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development, to be held May 19-21 at the University of Connecticut at the Storrs Campus.

    Group photograph from Johns Hopkins Wallace Symposium
    Group photograph from the 2018 Wallace Symposium at Johns Hopkins University

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      The 2024 Wallace Symposium is co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center; University of Connecticut-Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development; and National Center for Research on Gifted Education

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