Program 2010

6 months program at the MPIDR in Rostock

Introduction to Demography and Aging Research
Roland Rau, University of Rostock

Adaptive perspectives on aging
Jacob Moorad, University of Georgia

The Remarkable Malleability of Mortality
James W. Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Interdisciplinarity in Aging Research
Rainer Heuer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Late Careers under Globalization: An International Comparison of Retirement and Late Career Patterns among older Workers in Western Industrialized Societies
Dirk Hofäcker, State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg (ifb)

Losses of Expected Lifetime in the US and Other Developed Countries: Methods and Empirical Analyses
Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Job mobility and family lives in Europe. Individual and societal consequences of increased spatial mobility
Norbert F. Schneider, Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB), Wiesbaden

Age and Multilingualism
Sonja A. Kotz, Research Group „Neurocognition of Rhythm in Communication“ at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig

Intergenerational Solidarity and the Welfare State. A comparative analysis of older people’s attitudes towards public childcare in 12 OECD countries
Markus Tepe, Center for Social Science Methodology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Relationship linkages and dynamics in adolescence
Jaap Denissen, Institute for Psychology, Humboldt-University of Berlin

The Human Somatosensory System – Plasticity and Cognition
Burkhard Pleger, Research Group “Plasticity in the Somatosensory System” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig

Work, engagement and health in early old age - a sociological prospective
Johannes Siegrist, Dept. of Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf

Structuring Lives: East African Age-Grading System
Günther Schlee, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale

Elder Law: a developing Field of Law
Markus Roth, Faculty of Law, Philipps-University Marburg

Aging, Crime and Criminal Justice
Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg

Why do we age?
Annette Baudisch, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Max Planck Research Group: Modeling the Evolution of Aging

Plasticity of Aging from a Psychological Perspective
Ursula M. Staudinger, Jacobs University, Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development

Music for the ages: Timing and rhythm across the lifespan
Peter Keller, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Independent Junior Research Group “Music Cognition and Action”

What does it mean to senesce and die in the most primitive animals? Individuality and coloniality in animals that can live up to 20,000 years
Cliff Cunningham, Department of Biology, Duke University

Aging and Expertise: Behavioral and Neuropsychological Evidence
Ralf Krampe, Center for Developmental Psychology, Catholic University Leuven

The cultural construction of aging - an anthropological perspective
Verena Keck, Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Ethnology

Parental Age and Offspring Outcome
Mikko Myrskylä, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Max Planck Research Group: Lifecourse Dynamics and Demographic Change