Events

      

SSEA Webinars

November 2025

ISRI, in collaboration with our colleagues at SSEA, is excited to invite you to ISRI’s first webinar for the academic year of 2026.

Join us for a roundtable discussion titled:

Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves:

Conversations on Immigration and Identity Development

On Monday, November 17th, 2025

8:45am CST, 9:45am EST, 15:45pm Central Europe,.16:45pm Israel, 23:45 Japan.

The meeting will last for 75 minutes 

(Please double check your local time zone compared to 8:45am CST).

Join us as prominent scholars in the field discuss issues related to Identity and Immigration.

We will explore the history of the field, tracing the development of concepts and perspectives over time, key milestone findings, areas of consensus and debate, and developmental considerations, including during emerging adulthood, as well as the impact of social and educational policies and other influential factors. 

With, (in alphabetical order):

Maya Benish Weisman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Daysi Ximena Diaz-Strong, University of Illinois at Chicago

Linda Juang, University of Potsdam

Seth Schwartz, University of Texas at Austin

Sophie Walsh, Bar Ilan University

Q&A at the end!

The zoom link for this meeting is embedded in our GCAL calendar invite: https://calendar.app.google/kVrLx7ksBphTn1fE7

Or, save this link on the calendar of your choice: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/83939124827?pwd=9k0c38yJhaLEYPVTh6KDz5Rkbd4mXj.1

(zoom Meeting ID: 839 3912 4827 Passcode: ISRI (if asked))

See you then,

Elli Schachter

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Past Webinars

April 2025

A Cross-National Analysis of the Labor of Emerging Adults in a Time of Widening Economic Injustice

Presenters:

Valérie Cohen-Scali, Ph.D., Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France

Gabriela Aisenson, PhD., University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina

Donna Marie San Antonio, EdD., Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA

Join Dr. Valerie Cohen-Scali, Dr. Gabriela Aisenson, and Dr. San Antonio to learn about international research on emerging adults without a diploma in seven developed and developing countries. The presenters will examine the differences and similarities of these young people’s representations of work as a function of different contextual and work situations and discuss implications for practice with social and economic justice at the ethical core of what we do as mentors, teachers, and counselors going forward.

Hosts: Byron G. Adams, Melissa Fenton

May 2025

Transitions to adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa: Comparative trends and case studies from coming-of-age in Senegal

Presenter: Luca Maria Pesando is Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYU-AD). Before joining NYU-AD, he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography in the Department of Sociology and Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill University. His research lies in the areas of social, economic, and digital demography. He is interested in issues of family poverty, inequality, gender, social stratification, intra- and inter-generational processes, technology adoption, and interactions between life-cycle events and human capital accumulation. His overarching research aim is to produce better knowledge on the link between family change, gender, and educational inequalities in areas where these dynamics are changing rapidly and scant research is available.

Large-scale evidence suggests that, despite persistently high fertility, transition to adulthood markers have been delayed in sub-Saharan Africa. This study adopts a mixed-methods approach to investigate transition to adulthood markers in sub-Saharan Africa. We explore family formation trajectories among women and men in Senegal, as well as young adults’ narratives around delayed family formation. We do so by combining data from the Demographic and Health Surveys with rich longitudinal in-depth interviews among young Senegalese adults. Findings from quantitative analyses reveal a pronounced delay in age at first sex and age at first union, especially until the 1980s birth cohort, after which we observe a plateau. Findings from qualitative analyses identify three cross-cutting themes behind the observed delays, namely i) lack of economic preconditions for marriage, tied to labor-market insecurities and informality; ii) perceptions of adverse generational change, whereby young adults witness higher hardship today vis-à-vis their parents’ generation, and iii) ambivalent dynamics of strong social control in extended family networks.