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All events are free and open to the public


Fall 2007 - Noon Seminars
Tuesdays at noon, 300 North Ingalls,
10th Level, Room 1000

Fall '07 Seminars are organized by the Culture & Development research group at CHGD

September 25
Emotion Regulation as a Complex System
Culture & Development Research Group, CHGD

November 13 (tentative time 1:15- 3:00)
Special Clinical Seminar, jointly sponsored by UMACC and CHGD
Social emotional learning: Theory and practice
Meryl Lipton, Rush Neurobehavioral Center, Rush University Medical Center

November 20
Social competence and adjustment in Chinese and North American children: A contextual-developmental perspective
Xinyin Chen, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, Canada

November 27
It's the thought that counts: Neural mechanisms of Theory of Mind
Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

December 4
Social eyes and personal "I": Culture, choice and intrinsic motivation
Shinobu Kitayama, Ph.D., University of Michigan


Winter 2008 - Noon Seminars

Tuesdays at noon, 300 North Ingalls,
10th Level, Room 1000

Winter '07 Seminars will be organized by the CHGD group Development & Mental Health

March 18
Cultural variation in affect valuation
Jeanne Tsai, Ph.D., Stanford University

March 25
Changing responsiveness to threat by manipulating attention: From
neuroscience to potential interventions for anxious children
Yair Bar-Haim, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University

April 15
Preventive interventions for psychosocial and neurobiological vulnerabilities of young foster children
Phillip Fisher, Ph.D., Oregon Social Learning Center

April 29
TBA
Toni King, M.D., University of Michigan


Special Events 2007-08

Friday, October 19th
CHGD Retreat

Friday, November 2nd; 4:00pm
MHIRT Presentation Evening; Palmer Commons

Friday, November 9th; 5:00pm
MHIRT Applications Due (for summer 2008 placements)

Monday, January 28th; 4:30pm
MHIRT Awards Reception in the CHGD Commons


The 36th Annual Moyers (Craniofacial) Symposium


Committee for Children Events


 


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