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The Center on Adolescence encourages participation at professional meetings, invited talks,
and other events related to the work of Center. Here is a summary of presentations by Center
members and visitors beginning with academic year 2007-2008.
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2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008

2009 - 2010
September 2009: Journal of College and Character

Matthew J. Bundick
Interview: "Finding the Good Life: How Positive Psychology Can Help College Students to Discover and Utilize Their Personal Strengths and Virtues"
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2008 - 2009
August 2008: American Psychological Association, Boston, MA
  • Matthew J. Bundick, David S. Yeager, and William Damon
    Division 7: Developmental Psychology
    Poster: "Correlates and Developmental Trends of Thriving in Adolescence"
  • Seana Moran
    Division 32: Humanistic Psychology
    Poster: "Adolescents' Emic Understanding of Purpose"
    Division 10: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts
    Paper: "Commitment and Creativity"
  • David S. Yeager and William Damon
    Division 8: Personality and Social
    Poster: "A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach to Predicting Social Psychological Phenomena"
August 18, 2008: United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C.
Symposium on Emerging Issues in Character Education

William Damon, Director
Talk: "Cultivating Character Education in High Schools"
August 28-30, 2008: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI),
Canterbury, United Kingdom

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "The Beliefs and Values of Gifted Finnish Adolescents"
September, 2008: European Council for High Ability (ECHA), Prague, Czech Republic

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Educating Talents for the Future: Industrial and School Co-operation in Practice"
September, 2008: Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Helsinki. Finland

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Talented Students"
November, 2008: Association for Moral Education, Notre Dame, IN
  • Matthew C. Andrews
    Paper: "Moral Values in the Context of Adolescent Ideology and Purpose in Life"
  • Kendall Cotton Bronk
    Poster: "Purpose, Hope and Life Satisfaction among Adolescents"
  • Matthew J. Bundick, Seana Moran, David S. Yeager, Matthew C. Andrews, and William Damon
    Paper: "Fostering Purpose in Adolescence: The Roles of Social Supports, Individual Characteristics, and Activity Involvements"
  • Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
    Paper: "Teachers’ Ethical Sensitivity in Critical Incidents at School"
  • Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
    Paper: "Two Worlds in One Person: Giftedness and Spirituality"
  • David S. Yeager, Matthew C. Andrews, Seana Moran, and William Damon
    Paper: "The Forms of Purpose in Adolescence"
December, 2008: Joy of Learning - A Cicero Learning Conference, Helsinki, Finland

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "School as a Good Work Place for Both Teachers and Learners: The Professional Ethics of Teachers"
December 12, 2008: Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto, CA

William Damon, Center Director
Article: "Late to launch: the come-home kids. What it takes for young people to find their purpose in life."
January, 2009: Mawhiba Forum, Saudi Arabia

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "Holistic Education for Gifted Students"
January, 2009: Helsinki University Bulletin, Helsinki, Finland

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Article, Page 18: "To Be Able To Do What You Love" Shorter version of this article
March, 2009: Dublin City University, Ireland

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "Holistic Education for Gifted Students"
April 1, 2009: 5th Annual Conference on Character and Civic Education, Fresno, CA

William Damon, Center Director
Keynote Address: "The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life"
April, 2009: American Education Research Association, San Diego, CA

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: Journal Talk: "High Ability Studies"
May, 2009: European Council for High Ability-Austria, University of Salzburg

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "Holistic Education for Gifted Students"
May, 2009: Midwest Psychological Association. Chicago, IL

Kendall Cotton Bronk
Poster: "Categories of Purpose in Life among Adolescents"
June 18-21, 2009: International Positive Psychology Association
First World Congress on Positive Psychology, Philadelphia, PA

Ulisses Ferreira Araújo, Matthew J. Bundick, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, Seana Moran, Kirsi Tirri
Symposium: "Finding Purpose in Three Societies: Cultural and Developmental Analyses"
June, 2009: National Institutes of Health Minority Opportunities in Research Program
Directors Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO

Seana Moran
Plenary Session: "Purpose, Commitment and Creativity"
July, 2009: Annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, WI

Devora Shamah and K.A. MacTavish
Paper: "Developing a sense of purpose among youth: The role of agrarian values"
July, 2009: Association for Moral Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Seana Moran
Paper: "Adolescent Aspirations for Change: Tolerance and Creativity"
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2007 - 2008
August, 2007: American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA

Matthew J. Bundick, Matthew C. Andrews, and William Damon
Poster: "New Perspectives on Youth Purpose: 'Seeking Purpose' versus 'Having Purpose'"
November, 2007: Association for Moral Education, New York, NY

  • Kendall Cotton Bronk
    Paper: “The Role of Purpose in Moral Functioning of Adolescents”
  • Seana Moran
    Paper: “The Moral Purposes of Creators”
    Paper: “Commitment in Democracy”
  • Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
    Paper: “Morality, Spirituality and Global Citizenship”
November, 2007: Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

Matthew C. Andrews
Talk: “Teaching Our Teenagers to be Good People”
February 4, 2008: Stanford Student Research Conference, Stanford, CA

David S. Yeager, Matthew J. Bundick, Matthew C. Andrews, William Damon
Paper: “Comparing Adolescent Purpose and Self-Oriented Life Goals in Career Aspirations”
March 8, 2008: Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL
  • Matthew C. Andrews
    Paper: “Uncertainty, Identity and Emotional Complexity in Youth Purpose”
  • Kendall Cotton Bronk
    Paper: “New Perspective on Youth Purpose”
  • David S. Yeager and Matthew J. Bundick
    Paper: “Presence and Integration of Adolescent Self and Beyond-the-Self Oriented Life Goals”
March, 2008: American Education Research Association, New York, NY
  • Seana Moran
    Paper: "Commitment and Creativity"
  • Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
    Paper: "Comparison of Academically Average and Gifted Students' Self-Rated Ethical Sensitivity"
  • David S. Yeager, Matthew C. Andrews, Matthew J. Bundick and William Damon
    Paper: "Integration of Adolescent Career and Pro-social Aspirations"
April, 2008: Annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR

Devora Shamah and K.A. MacTavish
Paper: "Looking toward the future"
May 12, 2008: New Hampshire Department of Education, Bedford, NH
Teacher Development "Purpose Day"

Seana Moran
Talk: "What is Youth Purpose?"
May 15, 2008: Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, Washington, D.C.

William Damon, Director
Talk: "Preventing 'Failure to Launch': Is Service a Path to Purpose?"
June 12, 2008: Conference on Postmodern Spirituality, Turku, Finland

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote address: "Spirituality in Education"
July 2-4, 2008: IV International Congress of University Teaching and Innovation, Lleida, Spain

Ulisses Ferreira Araújo, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Fostering Citizenship on Higher Education: The Experience of the University of Sao Paulo"
July, 2008: 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness, Singapore

Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote address: "Gifted Students as Citizens for the Future"
Parent workshop: "The Role of the Home in Nurturing Talent"
July, 2008: Annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Manchester, NH

Devora Shamah and K.A. MacTavish
Paper: "A sense of purpose and a sense of place: Examining rural residence and adolescent development"
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