This symposium at Notre Dame brings together an international audience interested in innovative approaches to human development, children, families, parenting, and human evolution. Speakers will present their research on the relationship between caregiving practices and outcomes.
- Venue: Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall Auditorium
- Date: October 10-12, 2010
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This Human Nature and Early Experience symposium features speakers from many countries and disciplines who will provide their expertise along three broad themes: How Early Life Matters, Parenting Effects and Modern Cultural Practices, and How Does the EEA and Evolutionary History Matter?. For more information, check out this site.
SCHEDULE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10
4:00 Registration and Refreshments (McKenna Hall)
Session One
5:00-5:15 Welcome
5:15- 6:00 Social Emotion Systems of Mammalian Brains and Vicissitude of Early Social Bonds: The Transformation of Social Delight to Grief, Depression and Despair.
Jaak Panksepp, Washington State University
6:00-6:45 Early Research on Emotion Development and the Implications for Human Society
James Prescott, Institute of Humanistic Science (formerly of NICHD)
6:45-7:30 Bowlby’s “Environment of evolutionary adaptedness”: Recent studies on the interpersonal neurobiology of attachment and emotional development.
Allan Schore, UCLA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11
8:00 Coffee and snacks (included with registration)
8:45 Welcome and Introduction
Session Two
9:00-9:45 Social Bonding in Early Development in Primates
Stephen J. Suomi, NIH
9:45-10:30 Fussy Babies and the Autonomic Nervous System
S. W. Porges, University of Illinois-Chicago
10:30-11:15 Oxytocin and Early Experience
C. Sue Carter, University of Illinois-Chicago
11:15-12:00 Caregiver Responsivity: Prompt Response to Needs
Alison Fleming, University of Toronto
12:00-1:00 Lunch (included with registration) (McKenna Hall, lower level)
Session Three
1:00-1:45 Birth and the First Hour of Life
Wenda R. Trevathan, New Mexico State University
1:45🔢30 Infant feeding practices: Rates, risks of not breastfeeding and factors influencing breastfeeding
Pranee Liamputtong, La Trobe University, Victoria Australia
2:30-3:15 Night-time nurturing: an evolutionary perspective on breastfeeding and sleep
Helen Ball, Durham University
3:15-4:00 Ready to Share Experience From Birth—In a Human Way
Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh
4:00-4:30 Discussant: Jay Belsky, Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, London
4:30-5:00 General Discussion
7:00-830 Film: The Business of Being Born
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12
8:30 Coffee and snacks (included with registration)
Session Four
9:00-9:45 The Effects of Early Experience on Brain Structure and Functioning
M.H. Teicher, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
9:45-10:30 The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adult Health, Well-being, and Social Function
Vincent Felitti, California Institutes of Preventive Medicine
10:30-11:15 Mothers, Fathers, Infants and Alloparents In Evolutionary Perspective: Revising the Conceptual Relevance of The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness
James McKenna, University of Notre Dame
11:15-12:00 Movement, Play and Multi-Age Playmates
Joseph Flanders, McGill University
12:00-1:00 Lunch (included with registration) (McKenna Hall, lower level)
Session Five
1:00-1:45 The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness, Rough-and-Tumble Play, and the Selection for Restraint in Human Aggression
Douglas Fry, Åbo Akademi University in Finland
1:45🔢30 Social cooperation, niche construction, and the core role of intergenerational bonding in human evolution
Agustin Fuentes, University of Notre Dame
2:30-3:15 Incentives Incentives in the Family Firm: An Evolutionary/Economic Approach to Avian Family Dynamics.
Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University
3:15-4:00 Early Experience, Moral Development and Human Nature
Darcia Narvaez, University of Notre Dame, and Tracy Gleason, Wellesley College
4:00-5:00 General discussion
