Resilience in Development: Pathways to Multisystem Integration
Thursday, October 27 to Friday, October 28, 2022 | Humphrey School of Public Affairs Cowles Auditorium
Organizers:Dante Cicchetti, Ann Masten and Fanita Tyrell
The Minnesota Symposium is a biennial meeting on a selected topic in developmental science. This year’s symposium focuses on multisystem, multilevel, and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding and promoting resilience in the development of diverse young people. All lectures are free and open to the public. Please note that continuing education credits are not available for this event.
Agenda
Thursday, October 27, 2022
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 8a.m.-8:45a.m. | Light continental breakfast |
| 8:45a.m.-9a.m. | Welcome and introduction to the symposium by Dr. Ann Masten Welcome, rationale, overview |
| 9 a.m.-10a.m. | Velma McBride Murry (Vanderbilt University) Critical Examination of Resilience in African American Families: Adaptive Capacities to Navigate Toxic Oppressive Upstream Waters |
| 10a.m.-10:30a.m. | Morning break with coffee |
| 10:30a.m.-11:30 | Riana Elyse Anderson (University of Michigan) When the Rubber Band Can No Longer Function: Promoting Multisystemic Structural Resistance alongside Individual Resilience |
| 11:30a.m.-noon | Drs. Murry and Anderson – moderated by Dr. Fanita Tyrell |
| Noon-2p.m. | Lunch (please make your own arrangements) |
| 2 p.m.-3p.m. | Frosso Motti-Stefanidi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Acculturation and Immigrant Youth School Resilience: A Multi-level Integration |
| 3p.m.-3:15p.m. | Brief afternoon break |
| 3:15p.m.-4:15 p.m. | Michael Ungar (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada) Multisystemic Approaches to Researching Young People’s Resilience: Discovering Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Accounts of Thriving |
| 4:15p.m.-4:45p.m. | Drs. Motti-Stefanidi & Ungar – moderated by Dr. Masten |
| 4:45p.m. | Adjourn |
Friday, October 28, 2022
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 8 a.m.-8:45a.m. | Light continental breakfast |
| 8:45a.m.-9:45a.m. | Margaret Beale Spencer (University of Chicago) Leveraging Theory for Maximizing Resilience in African American Youth as well as Multisystem Efforts Intended to Provide Support: Applications of PVEST (Phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory) |
| 9:45a.m. | Brief morning break |
| 10a.m.-11a.m. | Dylan Gee (Yale University) Leveraging Developmental Neuroscience to Promote Resilience among Youth |
| 11:00a.m.-11:30 p.m. | Drs. Spencer and Gee – moderated by Dr. Dante Cicchetti |
| 11:30a.m.-1:30p.m. | Lunch (please make your own arrangements) |
| 1:30p.m.-2:30p.m. | Fred Hasselman (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands) Early Warning Signals in Phase Space: Geometric Resilience Loss Indicators from Multiplex Cumulative Recurrence Networks |
| 2:30 p.m. | Afternoon break with refreshments |
| 3 p.m.-4 p.m. | Catherine Panter-Brick (Yale University) Multisystem Resilience for Youth in Humanitarian Crises: Energizing Research, Practice, and Policy |
| 4:00pm-4:45p.m. | Panel discussion featuring all symposium speakers moderated by Drs. Cicchetti, Masten,
& Tyrell Future Advances Required to Understand and Promote Resilience in the Context of Global Multisystem Threats to Children and their Lifelong Development |
| 4:45 p.m. | Symposium Adjourns |
RSVP
RSVP to Eric Hart: hartx036@umn.edu
To inquire about disability-related accommodations, please contact Eric Hart: hartx036@umn.edu
Past symposium volumes
In the past, each symposium has resulted in a volume that contains the collected papers on the designated topic. Below are the most recently published volumes.
