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Announcing the annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society The Jean Piaget Society announces the 34th Annual Meeting to take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 3–5, 2004. This year’s theme, Social Development, Social Inequalities, and Social Justice, will bring together philosophical, anthropological and psychological perspectives to address issues of social justice as they pertain to social hierarchies embedded in societal arrangements and cultural practices. Philosophers, anthropologists, and psychologists have approached the study of social justice and social hierarchy with the assumption that human reasoning is central to morality, that people make judgments about cultural practices, and that conflicts and discontents exist in the context of inequalities and injustices. Plenary speakers will discuss their ideas and research on social hierarchies and social justice, connecting those ideas to theory and research on social development. Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) brings her Human Capabilities Approach, a philosophical perspective combining Aristotelian and neo-Kantian views, to bear on the inequalities and hardships women around the world have experienced. Claude Steele (Stanford University) has conducted extensive social-psychological research examining the effects of minority status and associated stigma on academic performance. Unni Wikan (University of Oslo), a cultural anthropologist, has examined social life within economically poor neighborhoods of Cairo. Edward Zigler (Yale University) is a developmental psychologist who has focused on intersections between children’s development and social policy and has been instrumental in the Head Start program. In his Presidential Address, Elliot Turiel (University of California, Berkeley) will provide an integration of these views from the perspective of developmental psychology and will discuss his research on social judgments, social practices, and culture. The program will also feature a special seminar on Piaget’s The Moral Judgment of the Child. Please visit the Jean Piaget Society website hhttp://www.piaget.orgi for registration details and on-line registration forms, or write to: Colette Daiute The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 [email protected]

doi:10.1016/S0885-2014(04)00029-2