2007-2008 Colloquium Series

All colloquia will be held from Noon to 1:15 PM in the Swig Boardroom, Room 241, CIT Building located at 115 Waterman Street unless otherwise noted. This room is handicap accessible.

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September 27, 2007

Speaker : Deborah Rivas, PhD
Assistant Professor of Education
Brown University

Topic : Ethnic Identity, Discrimination and Well-Being among Diverse Early Adolescents

Location : Chancellor’s Dining Room, Sharpe Refectory

October 18, 2007 Lipsitt-Duchin Lecture in Child Behavior and Development

Speaker : Carolyn Rovee-Collier, PhD
Professor II, Department of Psychology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Topic : The Secret Life of Infants

Time: 4 to 6 PM

Location : Solomon Hall 001

October 25, 2007

Speaker: Larry Nucci, PhD
Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at
Chicago, and Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Human
Development of the University of California, Berkeley

Topic: U-shaped Developmental Patterns and Adolescent Morality

Location: Dining Room 8 & 9, Sharpe Refectory

November 8, 2007

Speaker: JoAnn Robinson, PhD
Professor
Director of Early Childhood Education Training
Dept of Human Development and Family Studies
University of Connecticut-Storrs

Topic: Young Children's Narratives in the Clinical Research and Practice

Location: Dining Room 8 & 9, Sharpe Refectory

November 29, 2007

Speaker: Clancy Blair, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Topic: Development of Self-Regulation in Young Children

Location : Chancellor’s Dining Room, Sharpe Refectory

December 13, 2007

Speaker: David Baker, PhD
Margaret Clark Morgan Director of the Archives of the History of American Psychology
Professor of Psychology
The University of Akron

Topic: TBA

Location: Chancellor’s Dining Room, Sharpe Refectory

January 24, 2008

Speaker: József Fiser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Brandeis University

Topic: TBA

Location : Dining Room 8 & 9, Sharpe Refectory

February 14, 2008

Special Lecture in collaboration with The Urban Education Policy Program
Lecture begins at 11:00 AM

Speaker: Carola Su árez -Orosco, PhD
Chair of the Department of Applied Psychology
Steinhardt School of Education and Co-Director of Immigration Studies
New York University
and
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, PhD
University Professor and The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education
Co-Director, Immigration Studies
New York University

Topic: Explaining Trajectories of Academic Performance Among Newcomer Immigrant Students

Location: To be announced

February 28, 2008

Speaker: Bethany Rittle-Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychology and Human Development
Vanderbilt University

Topic: Taking Cognitive Science to the Classroom: Using Comparison to Support Mathematics Learning