SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Pizza Dinner
6:00-8:00 pm
Here is a chance for graduate student participants to meet and converse informally with invited speakers and faculty, prior to the symposium’s startRSVP requested: andreamazzarino@gmail.com
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Opening
9:30 am
Welcome by Organizing CommitteeMorning Session
Sexual Relationships: Changing forms and meanings, new analytical categories
9:45 - 11:45 amSpeakers:
William Jankowiak, “Desiring Sex, Longing for Love: A Tripartite Conundrum”
and Abigail Harrison, “A Context of 'Non-Marriage': Non-marital Unions in the Transition to Adulthood in South Africa”Discussants: Pilapa Esara and Michael Satlow
PSTC Colloquium
Noon – 1:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Sharon Sassler, "Cohabiting Unions: Affective Meaning, Social Distance, and Gendered Exchange"* Lunch will be provided after the colloquium to conference participants attending the afternoon session*
Afternoon Session
Family Formation, Child Well-being and Structural Inequalities
2:00 – 4:00 pmSpeakers:
Daniel T. Lichter, “Serial Cohabitation: Implications for Marriage, Divorce, and Public Policy” and L.A. Rebhun, “Changing Issues in Heterosexual Unions in Northeast Brazil”
Discussant: Andrea Mazzarino
Roundtable Discussion Session
Two simultaneous small-group facilitated discussions with speakers
4:15 – 5:15 pm
- Non-marital Unions: Creating a Meaningful Unit of Analysis across Contexts, Groups and Time
- Social Reproduction: What is the Social Function of Marriage Today?
Closing
5:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Closing Speaker: Frances Goldscheider, TBAClosing Reception
6:00 – 7:00 pm