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2006-2007

Symposium

Do You Know the People in Your Neighborhood?

The Science of Diverse Community Contexts

Our center sponsored its second annual symposium on April 16, 2007, in Heritage Hall on the Penn State Univeristy Park Campus.  This year's speakers included Mark Roosa, Arizona State University, Stephen Matthews, Penn State, and Leandris Liburd, Centers for Disease Control.

 

2005 - 2006

Symposium

On April 20, 2006, over 150 people attended Colorism: Global Perspectives on How Skin Color Still Matters, a symposium sponsored by the Center for Human Development & Family Research in Diverse Contexts on the Penn State University Park Campus.  Participants included Edward Telles, University of California at Los Angeles as the keynote speaker, Ronald Hall, University of Michigan, Christina Gomez, Northeastern Illinois University, Cedric Herring, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author Marita Golden as panelists, Barbara Farmer, Host, What Matters, WPSU-TV/Radio as facilitator and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University as discussant.

 

2004 - 2005

Speaker Series

Multiracial Realities:

Exploring What We Know, Acknowledging What We Are Missing

The Center for Human Development & Family Research in Diverse Contexts hosted this very successful speaker series during the Spring 2005 semester:

Invited speakers and topics included:

  • Brooke Kroeger, New York University, Black for White, White for Black: True Tales of Two Who Passed
  • Earl Lewis, Emory University, Connecting the Past and the Future: America's Multiracial History and Present
  • Kerry Ann Rockquemore, University of Illinois at Chicago, Life on the Color Line: Rethinking Racial Identity Development in Post Civil-Rights America
  • Ruth McRoy, University of Texas at Austin, Exploring Transracial Adoptions: Challenges for Families and Adoption Agencies
  • Rachel Moran, University of California, Berkley, The New Multiracialism: A Whole Greater that the Sum of Its Parts?

1999 - 2003

FRC III:  Summer Institutes