33rd Annual BYU Russell B. Clarke Gerontology Conference | |
Tuesday, March 12Hinckley Alumni Center Assembly Hall | |
| 6 p.m. | Poster Session |
| 7 p.m. | New Horizons Orchestra |
| 7:30 p.m. | XP- Keynote Address |
Speaker: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Social Connection & Health Lab at Brigham Young University Social Isolation and Health Students in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences gain Experience Points for attending this lecture. Learn more about Experience Points. | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Refreshments |
Wednesday, March 13Hinckley Alumni Center | |
| 9 a.m. | Poster Session and Refreshments Main Assembly Hall |
| 10 a.m. | Senior Health Presentations Hinckley Alumni Center, 3rd floor |
Presenters: Corinna Tanner, Assistant Professor of Nursing Hispanic Familismo as a Buffer Against Social Isolation Alex Jensen, Associate Professor of Family Life Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Panel Discussion |
Chair: Christopher Jones, Professor of History, BYU Panelists: Leslie Harris, Professor of History and African American Studies, Northwestern University Understanding African American History through My Family History: An Academic Historian's Journey Harris is currently writing a book on New Orleans that uses Hurricane Katrina and her family’s history as a way to interrogate the history of African Americans in the city from the nineteenth century to the present. This presentation will offer her personal and professional reflections on that experience. Alice Faulkner Burch, Board Director at Sema Hadithi Foundation; Independent Historian of the Black American Experience in Utah; Editor of My Lord He Calls Me: Stories of Faith By Black Latter-day Saints (Deseret Book, 2022) Louise Wheeler, Licensed Clinical Psychologist; BYUSP Advisory Board Member | |
33rd Annual BYU Russell B. Clarke Gerontology Conference
Tuesday, March 12 - Wednesday, March 13
Hinckley Center