The Center sponsors an in-house colloquium series for researchers from different Stanford departments and schools to discuss a topical issue related to adolescence. Here is a summary of the Center's colloquia by academic year, beginning with the most recent speaker. There were no colloquia in 2006-07.
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| 2010-2011 |
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Elisabeth (Lissa) Soep, Ph.D. 
Senior Producer & Research Director, Youth Radio, Oakland CA
Topic: "Web Two Dot Whoa: Youth Adventures in the Digital Afterlife"
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Amy Binder, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Sociology
Topic: "Creating Conservatism: How Campuses and National Organizations Shape Students’ Political Discourses and Styles"
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Geoffrey Saxe, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: "The social origins of numerical representations and ideas: A framework for inquiry"
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Aaron L. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Hakubi Scholar, Kyoto University, Japan
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center on Adolescence
Topic: "Navigating the ‘Green Years’: Exploring the Cultural ‘Uniqueness’ of Adolescence in Japan"
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Joseph Kahne
Dean of the School of Education, Mills College
Research Director of Civic Engagement Research Group
Topic: "Discussion-Based and Experiential High School Curricula: Their Differential Impact on Civic and Political Outcomes"
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Margie Lachman, Ph.D.
Minnie and Harold L. Fierman Professor of Psychology, Director of the Lifespan Developmental Psychology Lab and Lifespan Initiative on Healthy Aging, Brandeis University, and Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)
Topic: "Long-Term Effects of Education on Health"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Kofi Marfo, Ph.D.
Professor of Educational Psychology and Director Center for Research on Children's Development & Learning, University of South Florida; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)
Topic: "Domesticating Child Development Inquiry in the Majority World: Pathway to a Global Science?"
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Malene Gram, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Head of Cross-Cultural Studies, Allborg University, Denmark
Topic: "Family Food Purchasing Decisions: Roles of Parents and Children"
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Linda M. Wagener, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary
Topic: "Once There Was War," a documentary about how young adults from Bosnia, Iraq and Kyrgyzstan have tried to find meaning and purpose after the wars that devastated their countries. |
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Margarita Azmitia, Ph.D.
Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Topic: "Finding Your Niche: How First Generation Early and Late Adolescents Transition to Middle School and to and from College"
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Robert Emmons, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of California Davis
Topic: "Spiritual Transformation and the Development of Character Strengths and Purpose"
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Per Gjerde, Ph.D.
Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of California Santa Cruz
Topic: "Developmental Implications of Openness to Experience in Preschool Children: Gender Differences in Young Adulthood"
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Wednesday, March 12, 2009
Gregory M. Walton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Topic: "Social Belonging and School Achievement: A Social-Psychological Intervention"
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Seana Moran, Ph.D.
Center on Adolescence, Stanford University
Topic: "Multiple Intelligences"
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Mark Lepper, Ph.D.
Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Topic: "Advances in the Study of Intrinsic Motivation"
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Daniel McFarland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology and Business, Stanford University
Topic: "The Mechanisms of Adolescent Social Network Formation"
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
David Whitman
Freelance journalist, former senior writer at U.S. News & World Report, and author of Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism, Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
Topic: "How to Close the Achievement Gap: From Schools of Rock to Schools of Character"
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Michael F. Steger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology & Applied Social Psychology
Director, Laboratory for the Study of Meaning and Quality of Life, Colorado State University
Topic: "Meaning in Life in Late
Adolescence: The Latest Theory and Findings from the Meaning in Life Questionnaire"
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Prudence L. Carter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology, Stanford University
Topic: "Race and Cultural Flexibility among Students in Different Multiracial Schools"
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Ulisses Ferreira Araüjo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of São Paulo
and Visiting Scholar, Center on Adolescence
Topic: "Moral Self Functioning and Some Educational Perspectives"
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Jacqueline Lerner, Ph.D 
Professor of Education, Boston College
Topic: "Positive Youth Development: "Results from a National Study"
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Rob Crosnoe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin
Populaton Research Center
Topic: "Education, Relationships and Inequality"
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Brigid Barron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University
Topic: "The Development of Technological Fluency in Highly Skilled Adolescents"
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Maria Ojala, Ph.D.
Postgraduate student, Orebro University, Sweden
Topic: "Hope and Worry: Young People's Values, Emotions, and Behavior
Regarding Global Environmental Problems."
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Monday, April 24, 2006
Lisa Henriksen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine
Topic: "The Impact of Retail Marketing on Adolescent Tobacco Use"
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Frank Zimring
Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: "The Character and Future Prospects of Juvenile Sex Offenders"
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Rob Reich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society, Stanford University
Topic: "Equality and Adequacy in School Finance"
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Linda Darling Hammond, Ed.D.
Professor of Education, Stanford University
Topic: "Schools that Support Adolescent Students"
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Cheryl Gore-Felton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Topic: "Community Based Interventions to Prevent HIV among Adolescents"
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Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Michael S. Wald, LL.B.
Professor of Law, Stanford University
Topic: "Parental Sexual Orientation and Children's Development"
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Monday, May 25, 2005
Patricia Greenfield, Ph.D.
Professor of Develoopmental Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Topic: "Media and Adolescence"
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Beth Cauffman, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of California, Irvine
Topic: "Assessing Juvenile Psychopathy"
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Amado Padilla, Ph.D.
Professor of Education, Stanford University
Topic: "Why the Need to be Ethnic?: Reflections on Social Identity"
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Michael Kirst, Ed.D.
Professor (now Emeritus) of Education, Stanford University
Topic: "The Bridge Project"
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
David Harrington, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Topic: "The Creative Process"
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Andreas Schroeer, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Center on Adolescence, Stanford University
Topic: "Development of Political Identity in Adolescence"
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Carol Dweck, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Stanford University/Columbia University
Topic: "Self Theories and Paths through Adolescence"
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Claude M. Steele, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Topic: "Contingencies of Social Identity and Their Roll in Intellectual Performance"
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Thursday, November 11, 2004
Peggy Dolcini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, College of Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University
Formerly, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Topic: "Putting the Social Context Back into Sexual Health"
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Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Anne Colby
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Tom Ehrlich
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Topic: "Political engagement project"
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Don Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor (now Emeritus) of Communication, Stanford University
Topic: "Teen Television"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Doug McAdam, Ph.D.
Director (now former), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Topic: "The Civic Impact of Participation in 'Teach for America'"
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Catherine R. Cooper, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Topic: "Bridging Multiple Worlds: Culture, Youth Identity, and Pathways to College"
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Wednesday, December 3, 2003
Chris Hayward, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Topic: "Methodological Issues in the Study of Puberty and Psychopathology"
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Shelley Mallett, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, University of Melbourne
Topic: "Homeless Youth"
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Michael S. Wald, LL.B.
Professor of Law, Stanford University
Topic: "Disconnected Youth"
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Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Charles Bidwell, Ph.D.
Professor (now Emeritus), University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Topic: "Educational Project in Bosnia"
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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Marilyn Winkleby, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Faculty Advisor, Stanford Medical Youth Science Program
Topic: "Encouraging Low-Income High School Students to Pursue Advanced Studies in the Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences to Prepare them for Medical and Other Professional careers"
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Fe Moncloa
4-H Youth Development Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension, Santa Clara
Topic: "Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Among Latinas"
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Thursday, February 27, 2003
Elliot Turiel, Ph.D.
Professorof Education, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: "Flexibilities of Mind: Moral Resistance and Subversion"
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Peggy Giordano, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, Center for Family and Demographic Research, Bowling Green State Univ.
Topic: "The Meaning(s) of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: Complications of Race/Ethnicity and Gender"
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Sanford Dornbusch, Ph.D.
Professor (now Emeritus) of Sociology, Human Biology, and (by courtesy) Education
Director (now former), Stanford Center on Adolescence
Topic: "Effort and Ability: The Relative Strength of Effort-Engagement Behaviors and Standardized Test Scores as Predictors of High School Grades"
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Tuesday, December 3, 2002
William Damon, Ph.D.
Director, Center on Adolescence
Kendall Bronk, Ph.D., (former graduate student) Center on Adolescence
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Ball State University
Jennifer Menon, Ph.D., (former graduate student) Center on Adolescence
Assistant Professor Psychological and Social Foundations
College of Education, University of South Florida
Topic: "Exploring the Nature and Development of Purpose in Youth"
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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Kathleen Mullan Harris, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina
Topic: "Parenting Processes, Neighborhood context, and Adolescent Risk Behavior. Research focus: teenage mothers and welfare policies"
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