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IPSR/NIA Workshop on Aging
Introduction and Welcoming Remarks
* Bob Levenson, IPSR, UC Berkeley - Introduction and framing the questions
* Lis Nielsen, NIA - NIA interests
* Richard Suzman, NIA - NIA vision
Session 1 - Fundamental Social and Affective Processes in Aging
Framing Talk
* Laura Carstensen, Stanford - Why isn't aging depressing?
Exciting Findings
* Louise Phillips, Aberdeen - Aging and the use of emotional cues to guide social judgments
* Derek Isaacowitz, Brandeis - What is the function of age-related positive gaze preferences?
* Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Georgia Tech - Effective emotion regulation in older adulthood: Converging levels of analysis
* Steve Manuck, Pittsburgh - Correlates of social position in brain serotonergic function
* Michael Lamb, Cambridge - Exploring the effects of attachment relationships on reactions to transitions
Open Discussion (Moderators: Bob Levenson and Lis Nielsen) -
IPSR/NIA Workshop on Aging
Session 2 - Healthy Aging Over the Lifecourse
Framing Talk
* Shelley Taylor, UCLA - Stress, social processes, and health over the lifecourse
Exciting Findings
* Laura Kubzansky, Harvard - Biology of resilience: Oxytocin, positive adaptation and health
* Louise Hawkley, Chicago - Loneliness: Cause and target
* David Sbarra, Arizona - Relationship disruptions and health: From social epidemiology to social psychophysiology
* Sonja Lyubomirsky, UC Riverside - The promise of interventions for promoting well-being
* Elissa Epel, UCSF - Psychosocial influences on longevity biomarkers
Open Discussion (Moderators: Lis Nielsen and Bob Levenson) -
IPSR/NIA Workshop on Aging
Session 3 - Decision Making in Aging
Framing Talk
* Brian Knutson, Stanford - Decision making in aging: Emerging insights from affective neuroscience and neuroeconomics
Exciting Findings
* Natalie Denburg, Iowa - Neural basis of decision making in aging
* Mara Mather, USC - Age and sex differences in the effects of stress on decision making
* JoNell Strough, West Virginia - No time to waste: Understanding why older adults are less subject to the sunk-cost fallacy
* George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon - Wanting and liking for sex by gender and age
Open Discussion (Moderators: Bob Levenson and Lis Nielsen) -
More than half of the growing human population now lives in cities, depending on the need for increasing food production from a fixed quantity of arable land, and the use of large quantities of our rapidly dwindling fossil fuel reserves. As a result, more than half the planet’s resources and land area are under the direct management of humans. While the scientific basis for this looming food and ecological crisis is understood, how can the problem – and solutions – be cast in a way that a citizen can recognize the issues, and find satisfaction and hope in contributing individually, and collectively, to the solution?
A bridge between science and society is the media, and recent achievements in related environmental issues provide a roadmap for progress. Former Vice President Al Gore stepped well outside the policy arena to make a film that connected personally with viewers, and set off a wave of change in America’s perception of climate change. Can a similar change of awareness occur for our solid Earth, and for sustainability and healthy living, or is the change already underway?
In this panel discussion, we bring together scientists, film makers, economists, journalists, and visionaries at the forefront of a concern for the soil (the Earth’s “skin”), a portion of our planet impacted by how we eat, how we balance the need for both food and renewal energy, and finally by what portion of the planet we decide (or are able) to preserve unused for future generations.
This discussion, and the connections it leads to, will be used by the panel and their colleagues to develop novel, and maybe previously unrecognized, means of bringing scientific knowledge about soil and society to a broader audience. This discussion will build on, and expand, the themes articulated in “Dirt! The Movie”, which will be screened at the Pacific Film Archive on May 11 at 6:30 pm.
Possible questions to fuel and encourage discussion:
• What is soil to you, and why is it valuable?
• Food is cheap. Why is soil and sustainability an issue?
• What is the role and obligation of the US to soil management and food in underdeveloped nations?
• People in cities seldom see or touch soil. Is this a problem? -
Denise Dresser will evaluate the limitations of the Calderon government’s “war” on drugs and how the current climate of insecurity explains the renewed electoral strength and political renaissance of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She will also address the characteristics of Mexico’s dysfunctional political economy that explain why the country seems condemned to “muddle through,” instead of undertaking substantive reforms that would assure greater equality and growth.
Denise Dresser is a professor of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) where she has taught comparative politics, political economy and Mexican politics since 1991. She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso and was the host of the political talk shows “Entreversiones” and “El País de Uno” on Mexican television.Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies.
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How have New Media influenced elections and political governance, and shaped the language of civic engagement? Hear this panel sponsored by the Goldman School's Class of '68 Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement.
Panelists: Professors Henry Brady, Bruce Cain and Geoffrey Nunberg
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/ -
The Blum Center for Developing Economies Presents:
International Law
A presentation by US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, followed by a conversation with Dean Christopher Edley, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Stephen Breyer, born in San Francisco in 1938, is a graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. He taught law for many years at Harvard and has also worked as a Supreme Court law clerk, a Justice Department lawyer, an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1990 he was appointed an appellate court judge by President Carter. In 1994 he was appointed a Supreme Court Justice by President Clinton. -
Rebecca M. Blank is the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former dean of the
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and co-director of the National Poverty
Center. Dr. Blank’s research has focused on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty
programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families.
Economic inequality in the United States is large by any measure. In part this reflects the structure of
U.S. labor markets, but inequities in individual labor market outcomes are magnified by family formation
and by patterns of wealth-holding. Can existing patterns of inequality be altered? This talk will
discuss a conceptual framework for thinking about mechanisms to alter inequality, and the evidence to
support different approaches.Panelists:
Dr. Rebecca M. Blank, Brookings Institution
Lee Friedman, Professor of Public Policy
Mike Hout, Professor of Sociology
Steven Raphael, Interim Dean and Professor of Public Policy
Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy -
Rebecca M. Blank is the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former dean of the
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and co-director of the National Poverty
Center. Dr. Blank’s research has focused on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty
programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families.
Economic inequality in the United States is large by any measure. In part this reflects the structure of
U.S. labor markets, but inequities in individual labor market outcomes are magnified by family formation
and by patterns of wealth-holding. Can existing patterns of inequality be altered? This talk will
discuss a conceptual framework for thinking about mechanisms to alter inequality, and the evidence to
support different approaches.
