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The aim of NOWCAM is to support Pacific Northwest faculty and student researchers working in the general area of memory and cognition by creating an annual venue in which they can share their current research activities with an informed, sympathetic, and good-humoured audience. With the exception of keynote addresses, NOWCAM favours papers and posters presented by students (usually with faculty as co-authors). This gives students an opportunity to develop their chops, and faculty a chance to sit back and relax.
The Pacific Northwest is home to numerous wide-flung psychology departments with strengths in cognition and memory. NOWCAM provides a forum for faculty and students from these departments to get together and discuss their latest research. Interactions with other researchers can spark innovations and cross-fertilizations that move the research forward in new and exciting ways. In any case, it's good fun to get together with friends and colleagues who share similar interests, chew the cognitive rag a bit, and quaff a beer or two over a good meal.
NOWCAM 2023 was hosted by Daniel Bernstein and Carla MacLean of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) and sited at the KPU Richmond campus. See Mike Caulfield's keynote address on how people can get better at the assessment of the accuracy/reliability of claims encountered on social media from NOWCAM 2023 here: https://youtu.be/X3gErspjhBU. You can also see Mike's SIFT workshop for practical demonstrations https://youtu.be/oW1LZTD-iHI
NOWCAM 2024 will be hosted by Steve Lindsey et alia at University of Victoria in BC's beautiful capital city. Watch here for more information.
To subscribe to the NOWCAM mailing list (which will bring you periodic updates regarding NOWCAM meetings), please visit/subscribe at https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/nowcam_list. You can also unsubscribe at that site at any time. Messages are few and far between.
Steve Lindsay is Grand Poo-bah Mother Hen of NOWCAM, and the Exalted Order of the Group of 7 ±2 consists of Deb Connolly (SFU), Daniel Bernstein (Kwantlen), Ira Hyman (WWU), Ryan Fitzgerald (SFU), Daniela Palombo (UBC), and Heather Price (Thompson Rivers University). NOWCAM co-founders Don Read and Mike Masson and long-time stalwart Peter Graf are Exalted Emeriti.
NOWCAM gratefully acknowledges financial support from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, the University of Washington, and Western Washington University, and from generous anonymous donations by a number of individuals attending past NOWCAM conferences. We also thank the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavioural, and Cognitive Science for a donation toward the cost of our 2011 meeting.
The first annual KiwiCAM was held in Wellington, New Zealand, in April of 2012. Inspired by NOWCAM, KiwiCAM is a student-oriented conference for cognitive types in New Zealand. KiwiCAM's Grand Poobah Mother Hen is Maryanne Garry. The first meeting was a great success and they have carried on ever since. Check out http://www.kiwicam.org/