Conference Program
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SSEA 2015 – Presentation Guidelines
Instructions for Paper Session Chairs
Each Paper Session is scheduled for 90 minutes and includes five papers.
Paper sessions must be organized as follows:
2 minutes for introductory comments by the Session Chair
15 minutes per paper presentation, including any questions following each
presentation
13 minutes for discussion at the conclusion of the five scheduled papers
All presenters should send final versions of their papers to their Session
Chair
at least ONE WEEK prior to the conference. Chairs should load all
presentations
on their laptop and connect the laptop at least 5 minutes prior to the
session.
Each presenter should also bring his/her own presentation on a memory
stick/flash
drive, as a back-up.
All presenters should send a brief (1-2 sentence) bio to their Session Chair
so
that the chair can provide introductions prior to each presentation.
Session Chairs should print, bring, and use 5-, 3-, and 1-minute warning
cards to
provide presenters with information about time remaining.
Instructions for Symposium Chairs
Each Paper Session is scheduled for 90 minutes and includes four papers or
three papers and a discussant.
It is up to the discretion of the Symposium Chair on how to divide the time
between the presentations, but there must be at least 15 minutes reserved
for discussion at the end of the session.
All presenters should send final versions of their papers to their Session
Chair
at least ONE WEEK prior to the conference. Chairs should load all
presentations
on their laptop and connect the laptop at least 5 minutes prior to the
session.
Each presenter should also bring his/her own presentation on a memory
stick/flash
drive, as a back-up.
All presenters should send a brief (1-2 sentence) bio to their Session Chair
so
that the chair can provide introductions prior to each presentation.
Session Chairs should print, bring, and use 5-, 3-, and 1-minute warning
cards to
provide presenters with information about time remaining.
Instructions for Poster Presentations
The dimensions of poster boards are 6’ (width) x 4’ (height).
At the conference, poster boards will be numbered. Please post your poster
on the corresponding poster board. Your number will be in the program book.
Please use the number listed in the official version of the program book
that you receive at the conference.
NOTE: Poster presenters should bring with them and plan to use pushpins to
hang posters. Presenters are responsible for putting up and taking down
their posters in a timely manner.
Instructions for Moderators of Discussion Sections
Each Discussion Session is scheduled for 90 minutes and includes three
panelists and a Moderator.
The session should be allocated 60 minutes for discussion among the panelist
and 30 minutes for discussion with the audience.
Discussion Sessions should not include individual presentations from the
panelists, and use of Powerpoint slides is strongly discouraged. Rather, the
Moderator should prepare a series of questions to be posed to the panelists
for discussion. No less than a month prior to the conference, the Moderator
should provide the panelists with the questions (between 4-7 questions) so
that the panelists have sufficient time to prepare their remarks.
Invited Program
The 2015 conference theme, Expanding Emerging Adulthood, will be represented
in the following invited sessions:
Keynote Speaker: Brent Roberts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
USA, Emerging Adulthood in a Lifespan Perspective
Presidential Address: Seth Schwartz, University of Miami, USA,
Unanswered Questions about Emerging Adulthood: An Agenda for Moving the
Field Forward
Special Event: Interrogating Emerging Adulthood: Jeffrey Arnett in the
Hot Seat. Turning the tables on the typical academic examinations,
three talented emerging scholars—Monique Landberg (University of Jena,
Germany), Maria Wängqvist (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), and Dalal
Katsiaficas (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)—will challenge
Jeffrey Arnett and his theory of emerging adulthood, posing questions about
the nature and generalizability of emerging adulthood.
Master Lectures
Carolyn M. Barry, Loyola University Maryland, USA,
Religiousness and
Spirituality
Margherita Lanz, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy,
Family
Relationships
Kate C. McLean, Western Washington University, USA,
Narrative Identity
Oliver Robinson, University of Greenwich, UK,
Quarterlife Crisis
Invited Panel Presentations
Susan Branje, Utrecht University, The Netherlands,
Personality
Development
Adriana Manago, Western Washington University, USA,
Globalization,
Media, and Identity
Gail Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA,
Acculturation around the World