ISSBD 2010- Invited Programme

INVITED SPEAKERS PROGRAM

Invited Lectures and Symposia confirmed at 12 February 2010

(see downloadable attachment for Further details of the invited symposia)

Invited speaker	Institutional affiliation	Provisional title of address to the congress
Toni Antonucci	Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Scientist,Institute for Social Research Life Course Development Program,University of Michigan, USA	"Social Relations and Health: A Life Span Approach"
Jay Belsky	Professor of Psychology,Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK	"Individual Differences in Developmental Plasticity: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences".
Guozhen Cen	Professor of Psychology,Shanghai Normal University, P. R. of China	"The mainstream values among Chinese adolescents today:meanings and orientations"
Eveline Crone	Professor, Developmental and Educational Psychology UnitInstitute of Psychology,University of Leiden, Netherlands	"Neurocognitive development of decision-making in childhood and adolescence"
Pierre Dasen	Professor Emeritus, Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education,Universite de Geneve, Switzerland	"Cultural differences in cognitive styles"
Nancy Eisenberg	Regent's Professor of Developmental Psychology,Arizona State University, USA	"Self-regulation: conceptualization and relations to adjustment"
Silvia Koller	Professor and Chair, Center for Psychological Studies on At Risk Children, Youth and Families,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil	"Creating methodological strategies for research and intervention withvulnerable children and youth: Examples from Latin America"
Kang Lee	Professor and Director, Human Development and Applied Psychology, OISE / University of Toronto, Canada	"Little liars: development of verbal deception in different social-cultural contexts"
Tetsuro Matsuzawa	Professor and Director, Primate Research Laboratory,University of Kyoto, Japan	"Comparative cognitive development"
Peggy Miller	Professor, Developmental Psychology Division,University of llinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA	"Narrative Reverberations: New Insights into Socialization through the Study of Personal Storytelling"
Ajit Mohanty	Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi	"Growing up in a multilingual society: developmental stages and strategies in multilingual socialisation"
Bame Nsamenang	Director, Human Development Resource Centre, Bamenda,Associate Professor of Psychology & Learning Sciences,University of Yaounde, Cameroon	"Contributions to Human Development Knowledge: An Africentric Research Perspective"
Arnold Sameroff	Professor of Developmental Psychology,University of Michigan, USA.President, Society for Research in Child development	"A Unified Theory of Development"
Ann Sanson	Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia. and Network Coordinator, ARACY ARC/NHMRC Research Network	"Using research to improve child and youth well-being through collaboration with policy and practice"
Hua Shu	Professor, Institute of Psychology,Beijing Normal University, China	"Typical and dyslexic development in learning to read Chinese"
Leickness Simbayi	Professor and Executive Director , National research programme on Social Aspects of HIV & AIDS,Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa	"Behavioural changes by young people in Southern Africa: are we winning the fight against HIV & AIDS?"
Peter Smith	Professor of Psychology and Head, Unit for School and Family Studies,Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK	"Bullying and cyberbullying: Reflections on new directionsin an established scientific research programme"
Margaret Beale Spencer	Professor of Urban Education and Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, USA	"Gendered Analyses of Youth Development: Context-sensitive opportunities and challenges"
Yanjie SU	Professor of Psychology, Peking University, PR China	"All roads to Roma: theory of mind acquisition in Chinese children"
Suman Verma	Head, Department of Child Development Government Home Science College, Chandigarh, India	"Altered Pathways: Risk, Protection, and Well-being among Children on the Streets in four developing Countries"
Invited symposia Co-convenors	Institutional affiliations	Provisional title of symposium
Cooper, Catherine & Seginer, Rachel	Univ of California Santa Cruz USA; University of Haifa, Israel	"Adolescents in Migrant Families: A Cross-National View of Developmental Resources and Challenges" "
Glazebrook, Cristine & Menon, Anitha	Univ of Nottingham, UK; University of Zambia	"Mental Health in young people with chronic conditions: promoting self management in Zambian adolescents"
Lyytinen, Heiki & Grigorenko, Elena	Univ of Jyvaskyla, Finland; Yale Univ, USA	"Reading Acquisition in Africa: Typical and Atypical Pathways"
Marfo, Kofi & Pence, Alan	Univ of Florida, Tampa, USA; Univ of Victoria, Canada	"Advancing Early Childhood Developmental and Policy Research in Africa"
Tremblay, Richard & Paus, Thomas	Univ of Quebec, Canada; Univ of Nottingham, UK	"Shaping the Social Brain & Behaviour during Development"
Bornstein, Marc H. & Oburu, Paul Odhiambo	NICHD, USA; Maseno University, Kenya	"Multinational Research On Parenting"
van IJzendoorn, Marinus & Kasonde-Ng'andu, Sophie	Univ of Leiden, Netherlands; University of Zambia	"Child abuse and neglect across cultures and settings: Developmental perspectives"
Flanagan, Constance; Martinez, Loreto & Cumsille, Patricio	Pennsylvania State Univ, USA; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	"Development of Political Persons: Studies from Three Continents"
Schneider, Wolfgang & Kail, Robert	Univ of Wuerzburg, Germany; Purdue University, USA	"Memory development in childhood and adolescence "
Suomi, Steven & Bakermans-Kranenburg , Marian	National Institute of Health, USA; Leiden University, Netherlands	"Epigenetic approaches to the study of developmental processes"
Giorguli, Silvia Benavides, Martin Costa-Ribeiro, Carlos	CEDUA, Coyoacán, Mexico, GRADE, Lima Peru, IUPRJ, Rio de Janeiro Brazil	"Institutional Settings and School-to-Work Transitions among the Youth in Latin America".
Boyden, Jo & Cueto, Santiago ............................................................ Kjorholt, Anne Trine & Katz, Cindi ............................................................ Roos, Vera & Aboderin, Isabella	Oxford University, UK; GRADE, Lima, Peru ..................................................................... NTNU, Norway; CUNY, New York USA .................................................................... North West University, South Africa; Oxford Institute of Ageing, UK	"Children living in poverty: developmental perspectives from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam" ............................................................... "Childhood studies in Africa: representations, ecology and culture" ............................................................... "Older persons' 'neglect' and contributions in sub-Saharan Africa"

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