Conferences

The Foley Center for the Study of Lives occasionally hosts and sponsors academic conferences and symposia focused on the problems and possibilities of psychological development across the human life course.

• On May 7, 2004, The Foley Center for the Study of Lives, The Family Institute, and the School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, sponsored a symposium, SECOND CHANCES IN LIFE: Transformative Stories of Self and Society.
  The symposium featured presentations from six internationally recognized scholars who addressed the problems and possibilities of second chances in individual lives, in families, in organizations and communities, and with respect to American social policy. Coming from the fields of personality and developmental psychology, community psychology, criminology, family therapy and counseling, and policy studies, the speakers explored a wide range of provocative issues tied to the theme of second chances in human lives.
  
  The symposium speakers were
  - Dan P. McAdams (Northwestern University)
  - Laura A. King (University of Missouri)
  - Shadd Maruna (University of Cambridge)
  - Kaethe Weingarten (Harvard Medical School and The Family Institute of Cambridge)
  - Julian Rappaport (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  - Dan A. Lewis (Northwestern University and Institute for Policy Research)
  
  Papers from the conference will be published in 2005 as part of two special issues of the journal, RESEARCH IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, to be edited by Kevin Roy and Dan P. McAdams.
  
  
  
• On November 3-5, 1999, The Future Generations Alliance Foundation of Kyoto, Japan sponsored an international conference commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Kyoto Forum. The conference was organized by the Future Generations Alliance Foundation and by the Foley Center. The title of the conference was
  
  Generativity Crisis and Our Responsibilities towards Future Generations
  
  Among the invited American speakers were:
  
  - Dan P. McAdams (Northwestern University, Foley Center)
  - Kai Erikson (Yale University, Sociology)
  - John Kotre (University of Michigan at Dearborn, Psychology)
  - Don Browning (University of Chicago Divinity School)
  - Bill Peterson (Smith College, Psychology)
  - Ronald Mannheimer (University of North Carolina, Adult Education)
  - Ed de St. Aubin (Marquette University, Psychology).
  
  Papers from the Kyoto conference were included in an edited volume by de St. Aubin, E., McAdams, D.P., & Kim, T.C. (2004).The Generative Society. Washington, DC: APA Press.
  
  
  
  
• On May 7, 1999, the Foley Center hosted a one-day conference at Northwestern University entitled
  
  Who Cares? Moral Commitment and Creative Lives in Contemporary America
  
  The invited speakers included:
  
  - William Damon and Anne Colby of Stanford University (Developmental Psychology and Education)
  - Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin (Education)
  - Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University (Sociology)
  - Mark Snyder of the University of Minnesota (Personality and Social Psychology)
  
  The conference was co-sponsored by the School of Education and Social Policy and the Psychology Department at Northwestern University.