2004-2005 Colloquium Series
Thursday, October 7, 2004
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Social Work & Joanne T. & Raymond H. Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence
University of Pennsylvania
TOPIC:
The Third Lie: Why Social Policies on Behalf of Children Don't Work
Saturday, October 9, 2004
2004 Lipsitt-Duchin Lectures in Child Behavior and Development
TOPIC:
Children's Memory: True and False Recollections, and Social Consequences
More information on these lectures is available here.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Shirley Brice Heath, Ph.D.
Professor at Large, Watson Institute, Department of Anthropology and Department of Education
Stanford University
TOPIC:
Forgotten: Later Language Development
Thursday, November 4, 2004
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D.
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
TOPIC:
Making Sense of Another Mind: The Role of the Right Temporal-parietal Junction
Thursday, November 18, 2004
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Patrick Davies, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
University of Rochester
TOPIC:
Children's Coping with Interparental Difficulties
Thursday, December 2, 2004
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Kathleen McCartney, Ph.D.
Professor of Education, Academic Dean
Harvard Graduate School of Education
TOPIC:
Child Care Effects in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
Thursday, December 16, 2004
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Susan Short, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Associate Director, Population Studies and Training Center
Brown University
TOPIC:
HIV/AIDS, Family Organization, and Child Well-being in Southern Africa
Thursday, February 3, 2005
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Rebecca S. New, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Tufts University
TOPIC:
Contexts and Concepts of Competence: Italian Early Childhoods
Thursday, February 17, 2005
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Malcolm W. Watson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Brandeis University
TOPIC:
Two Pathways to Aggression in Children and Adolescents
Thursday, March 3, 2005
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Kim Saudino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies; Director, Developmental Behavior Genetics Laboratory
Boston University
TOPIC:
Using Behavioral Genetic Methods to Evaluate Parent Perceptions of Temperament
Thursday, March 31, 2005
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Carroll E. Izard, Ph.D.
Trustees Distinguished Professor, Psychology Department
University of Delaware
TOPIC:
Validation of an Emotion-based Preventive Intervention for Economically Disadvantaged Young Children
Thursday, April 21, 2004
COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Laura Schulz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TOPIC:
Doing and Learning: Causal Inference in Early Childhood