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J. COHLER MEMORIAL CONFERENCE The University of Chicago June 13-14, 2013 Bert Cohler was an extraordinary academic with a long and distinguished career, influencing the intellectual debate in the social sciences on the problems of aging and human development, family and the life course, narrative, sexuality, the Shoah, resilience, well being, mental illness and psychoanalysis. Bert was enormously productive, authoring and coauthoring hundreds of papers and several books. Berts legacy can be measured not only by his scholarly writings but also by how his ideas have been taken up and used by his students and close colleagues. One year after Berts death, the time is right to take stock of Berts impact on the direction of the social sciences through his students and colleagues. With the support of the Department of Comparative Human Development at The University of Chicago (formerly the Committee on Human Development), Berts academic home for 40 years, we will pay tribute to Berts legacy. What has been the impact of Berts scholarly work? What is the enduring value of his most pivotal ideas? How has Berts teaching, counsel, mentorship, and friendship influenced the direction of our thinking? What are the next steps to promote his legacy? All are welcome free of charge. Stuart Hall, Room 105 5835 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60537 PROGRAM Thursday, June 13 1:15-1:45PM Registration 1:45-2:00PM Welcome from the Department of Comparative Human Development (Richard P. Taub, Chair) 2:00-4:00PM Panel 1: OPENING PERSPECTIVES (Chair: Mark Freeman) Developments Story in Time and Place Brian Schiff, American University of Paris Dialogue as Epistemology: Bert Cohlers Radical Defiance of Disciplinarity in the Social Sciences Phillip L. Hammack, University of California, Santa Cruz Cohler on Method: John Dewey meets Herman the Newt Robert Galatzer-Levy, University of Chicago and Institute of Psychoanalysis

 4:00-4:15PM 4:15-5:45PM

Generational Stake and Mentorship in Life-Course Perspective: A Tribute to Bertram J. Cohler Andrew Hostetler, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Break Panel 2: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOANALYSIS (Part 1) (Chair: Robert Galatzer-Levy) Assessment of Change in Psychoanalysis Phil S. Lebovitz, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/The Chicago Medical School Dissociation, Dialogue, and Narrative Paul M. Gedo, George Washington University Metaphor and Narrative as Biological Constructs in Psychoanalysis Joshua Kellman, University of Chicago

Friday, June 14 9:30-11:00AM

Panel 3: PERSPECTIVES ON NARRATIVE (Chair: Phillip Hammack) The Turn to Narrative in Psychological Sciences Dan P. McAdams, Northwestern University Personal Narrative and the Life Course Revisited: Bert Cohlers Legacy for Narrative Psychology Mark Freeman, College of the Holy Cross We-ness in Couple Stories: The Role of Positive Narratives in Couple Therapy Jefferson Singer, Connecticut College Karen Skerrett, Northwestern University

11:00-11:15AM 11:30AM-12:30PM

Break Panel 4: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOANALYSIS (Part 2) (Chair: Robert Galatzer-Levy) Some Thoughts on What Children Tell Themselves About Themselves During Infancy and Early Childhood Molly Witten, Institute of Psychoanalysis

The Identity of the Psychoanalyst: A Meditation

Barrie Richmond 12:30-2:00PM 2:15-4:15PM 4:15-4:30PM 4:30-5:10PM Break for lunch

Panel 5: PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE LIFE COURSE (Chair: Andrew Hostetler) Erik Eriksons Analysis with Anna Freud and Its Consequences James William Anderson, Northwestern University Trajectories of Sexuality from Adolescence to Young Adulthood Johnny Berona & Cheryl King, University of Michigan Ambivalence in Twin Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood Victoria Bedford, Indiana University Paula Smith Avioli, Kean University Alzheimer Disease: Conversion Points in Long-Term Multiphasic Disease Course Virginia Olga Kennick-Beattie Emery, Dartmouth Medical School Break

Panel 6: REFLECTIONS ON MENTORSHIP AND PEDAGOGY (Chair: Brian Schiff) Bert Cohler and the Protean Self: Maintaining a Sense of Coherence in a Troubled World David deBoer, Loyola University Chicago Bert Cohlers Contribution as a Shepherd of Dialogic Communities Mike Kaufman, University of Chicago

5:10-5:40PM

Closing Reflections Brian Schiff, Phillip Hammack, Robert Galatzer-Levy, & Andrew Hostetler John Lucy, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago