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Life Course Center Miniconference

In addition to the Life Course Center Seminar Series, the Center sponsors Miniconferences featuring national and international speakers. These events are free and open to the public.

Miniconference 2010 - February 26

The New Inequalities: Race, Crime, and the Life Course in the Era of Hyper-Incarceration

Co-Sponsored by Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), the College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of Sociology.

  • Sara Wakefield, University of California-Irvine
    "Mass Incarceration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality"
  • Jason Schnittker, University of Pennsylvania
    "Incarceration and Health: Results, Mechanisms, and Processes"
  • Keynote Speaker: Bruce Western, Harvard University
    "From Inequality to Insecurity: A Longitudinal Perspective on Stratification"
  • Carla Shedd, Columbia University
    "Arresting Development: Urban Youth and the End of Adolescence"
  • Devah Pager, Princeton University (presented by co-author Michelle Phelps)
    "The Prison as a Socializing Institution"

Miniconference 2007 - October 26

Changing Lives and Changing Times: American Life Courses in Historical Perspective

Co-sponsored by the Life Course Center and the Minnesota Population Center

  • Elizabeth Fussell, Washington State University
    "Change and Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood: An Entropy Analysis of the Early Life Course in the U.S., 1880-2000"
  • Karen Hansen, Brandeis University
    "The Gendered Mosaic of Landowning at Spirit Lake, 1900-1930"
  • Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania
    "Growing Up and Growing Old in Twentieth Century America"
  • Keynote Speakers: Claude Fischer and Michael Hout, University of California-Berkeley
    "Century of Difference: How America's Families Changed Over the Last 100 Years"
  • Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland
    "Changes in Time Allocation of American Parents, 1965 to the Present"
  • Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University
    "An American 'Motion' Picture: Social Mobility in the U.S. Since 1850"
  • Michael Rosenfeld, Stanford University
    "Young Adulthood as a Factor in Social Change, Evidence from the U.S. and Abroad"

Miniconference 2006 - April 7

Looking Forward and Back on the Occasion of the Life Course Center's 20th Anniversary

  • Plenary Speaker: Glen H. Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    "The Life Course and Human Development: Contributions, Challenges and New Directions"
  • Walter Heinz, Bremen University, Germany
    "On the Co-evolution of Comparative Life Course Research"
  • Jane McLeod, Indiana University-Bloomington
    "Mental Health over the Life Course"
  • Guillermina Jasso, New York University
    "Migration, Health, and the Life Course"
  • Timothy Owens, Purdue University
    "Life Course: Witnessing the Rise, Development, and Flourishing of a Phrase and a Center"
  • Michael J. Shanahan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    "Carnality and the Life Course"
  • Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University-Pullman
    "Life Course Social Psychology"
  • Sharon Preves, Hamline University
    "Intersex and Identity Over the Life Course"
  • Jeremy Staff, Pennsylvania State University
    "Early Work Experiences and Problem Behaviors"