• Friday (morning and afternoon) and Saturday (morning and afternoon), there will be four background working sessions. These will be devoted to participants articulating their individual interests and concerns relevant to the conference themes in order to discover points of overlap and divergence. (To refresh your memory...the three themes we laid out at the beginning are 1) universals and diversity in the uses of immaturity, 2) the usefulness of conceptualizing childhood in terms of life course stages, and 3) consequences of the contemporary expansion and contraction of childhood.
• We will ask each of you to serve as discussant for one of these sessions, addressing themes from the four speakers (3 discussants per session). The background reading is available now (see below). Please identify the presenters in the session in which you will be a discussant and read the material that they have provided. Your comments should take no more than 10 minutes, and we hope they will focus on the commonalities and tensions you see among the approaches represented in the session. Thus, of the four background sessions, across Friday and Saturday, you will present in one and serve as a discussant in another. Each of these sessions will end with a general discussion, where we will try to identify general topics from that session that seem to deserve more attention by the group as we move forward.
• On Sunday August 9 we will have two working sessions, from 8:30-11:30 AM and 1:00-5:30PM. During the first hour of each of these sessions we will break into three small groups, each group led by David, Suzanne, or me. In this initial hour, the groups will discuss the the three basic topics. We will then take a short break, followed by an oral report from each group lasting about 15 minutes each, and general discussion of about an hour. In the first session we will also hear a brief oral report from our student participants on their take on the issues. The afternoon session will follow a similar format.
• On Monday morning we will have a working breakfast from 7:30-10:00AM. In that session we will wrap up outstanding issues as well as discuss ideas for final products and dissemination.
• Session #1: Friday August 7, 8:30-11:45 AM. Discussants: Hadley, Lucy, Montgomery.
  • First Presenter: Sara E. Johnson
    • Abstract
    • Growth rates in a wild primate population: Jeanne Altmann · Susan C. Alberts
    • Life History and the Competitive Environment: Sara E. Johnson
  • Second Presenter: Sally Crawford
    • Abstract
    • Babies Reborn: Bacvarov
    • Children, Childhood and Society: Sally Crawford/Gillian Shepherd
    • The Archaeology of Play Things: Theorising a Toy Stage in the 'Biography' of Objects
  • Third Presenter: Tom Weisner
    • Abstract
    • Ecocultural Understanding of Children's Developmental Pathways: Tom Weisner
    • Childhood: Anthropological Aspects: Tom Weisner
  • Fourth Presenter: Steven Mintz
    • Abstract
    • The Changing State of Childhood: Steven Mintz
    • Children’s Culture: Steven Mintz
• Session #2: Friday August 7, 1:00-4:15PM. Disscussants: Grimes-McLellan, Johnson, Orellana.
  • First Presenter: Jon Stieglitz
    • Abstract
    • Determinants of Time Allocation across the Lifespan: Michael Gurven · Hillard Kaplan
    • Sibship compositional effects on Tsimane’ children’s time allocation: Jon Stieglitz
  • Second Presenter: Paul Garrett
    • Abstract
    • Language Socialization and the (Re)Production of Bilingual Subjectivities: Paul Garrett
    • Elsevier Encyclopedia: Paul Garrett
  • Third Presenter: Craig Hadley
    • Abstract
    • Parental symptoms of common mental disorders: Craig Hadley
    • Ethiopian Adolescents’ Attitudes and Expectations Deviate from Current Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations
  • Fourth Presenter: Courtney Meehan
    • Abstract
    • Evolutionary Context of Human Development: S. B. Hrdy
    • Allomaternal Investment and Relational Uncertainty: Courtney Meehan
• Session #3: Saturday August 8, 8:30-11:30AM. Disscussants: Meehan, Stieglitz, Weisner.
  • First Presenter: John Bock
    • Abstract
    • A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: Kaplan
    • Learning, Life History and Productivity: John Bock
  • Second Presenter: Suzanne Gaskins
    • Abstract
    • Ethnographic Studies of Childhood: A Historical Overview: Robert A. LeVine
    • Cultural Perspectives on Infant-Caregiver Interactions: Suzanne Gaskins
  • Third Presenter: John A. Lucy
    • Abstract
    • Grammatical catagories and the development of classification prefrences: John A. Lucy · Suzanne Gaskins
    • The Scope of Linguistic Realitivity: John A. Lucy
• Session #4: Saturday August 8, 1:00-4:15PM. Discussants: Crawford, Garret, Mintz.
  • First Presenter: David F. Lancy
    • Abstract
    • Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics: Lancy
    • Getting Noticed: Lancy
• Second Presenter: Heather Montgomery
  • Abstract
  • Motherhood, fertility and ambivalence among young prostitutes in Thailand: Heather Montgomery
  • Children and Sexuality: Heather Montgomery
• Third Presenter: Marjorie Orellana
  • Abstract
  • Chapter One: Translating Frames from Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (2009). Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture.
  • "The Chinese Girls" and "The Pokémon Kids" Children Negotiating Differences in Urban California: Barrie Thorne
• Fourth Presenter: Dawn Grimes-Macllellan
  • Abstract
  • Three Years in Three Days: Dawn Grimes-Macllellan
  • From Indulgence to Internalization: Catherine C. Lewis
  • Killing kids: recession and survival in twenty-first-century Japan: Andrea G. Arai
• General Readings
  • Uses of Immaturity
    • Jerome Bruner
  • Life Stages
    • Steven Mintz
  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development
    • Flinn
  • Children and Childhood in Roman Italy
    • Rawson
  • Studies in Modern Childhood
    • James
  • The Five to Seven Year Shift
    • Weisner
  • Ethnographic Studies of Childhood: A Historical Overview
    • LeVine
  • Ages and Stages
    • Grove