Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series 2007 - 2008
Spring 2008
Katherine S. Newman
Director, Institute for International & Regional Studies, Princeton University
"Failure to Launch? Delayed Departure from the Family Home in Western Europe and Japan"
Monday, May 12th 2008
Katherine S. Newman leads the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton, and is the Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Formerly the Dean of Social Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Urban Studies in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Newman has written eight books on topics ranging from urban poverty to middle class economic insecurity to school violence. Her most recent book (in collaboration with Victor Chen), The Missing Class (Beacon Press, 2007), is an analysis of the condition of the near poor in American society. With colleagues at the Indian Institute for Dalit Studies, Newman has just completed work on four related projects on labor market discrimination. In summer 2006, she completed a five-country study on the prolonged stay of young people in their parents' homes in Western Europe and Japan, which is the basis of her Tay Gavin lecture and a forthcoming book. Newman has won a number of awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize and the Hillman Book Award, and appears frequently on public radio and television.
Susan H. Landry
Michael Matthew Knight Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Children's Learning Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
"Responsive Parenting: what is it and When is it Most Important?
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Dr. Landry is a developmental psychologist and nationally recognized expert in early childhood education. Her research into environmental factors that promote early cognitive growth and development led her to develop the framework for the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) and then to the implementation of the Texas Early Education Model (TEEM) in pre-kindergarten classrooms across Texas. Dr. Landry conducts many research projects and training activities that promote quality learning environments for young children. She is using the knowledge gained from years of study to help promote the national goals of early childhood literacy initiatives. Dr. Landry's numerous research programs, supported by the National Institutes of Child Health and Development, foundations, and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, have resulted in a large research database on early childhood. More than 70 peer-reviewed publications and over a dozen chapters describe the findings of these research studies. This event is co-sponsored by the UMass Amherst Center for Research on Families.
Fall 2007
FRANK F. FURSTENBERG, Jr.
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania and Center for Population Studies
Destinies of the Disadvantaged: Teenage Childbearing and Public Policy
(Presentation outline available here).
Thursday, October 26th at 4:00 p.m.
The Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union
His current research projects focus on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on children's well-being, and urban education. For more information click here.
All presentations are free and open to all.
The Tay Gavin Erickson Lectures began in 1999 though an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson.
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