“Is It Better to Grow Up Later? The New Life Stage of Emerging Adulthood”

• Event Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
• Time: 07:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Department of Human and Community Development
The Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program Lecture Series
"Is It Better to Grow Up Later? The New Life Stage of Emerging Adulthood"

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Clark College

Dr. Arnett coined the term "emerging adulthood" to describe the new stage of life that has developed in industrialized societies in recent decades. Young people in their late teens and twenties are postponing traditional milestones such as finishing education, marriage, parenthood, and full-time employment. Dr. Arnett and colleagues are exploring this new developmental stage and its impact on individuals, families and society. He has authored a book on adolescents in the heavy metal subculture, Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Alienation (1996, Westview Press). He also is the author of the textbook Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties and has edited a book on emerging adulthood with Jennifer Tanner: Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century. Dr. Arnett received his PhD from the University of Virginia and did three years of postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. From 1992-98 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and the University of Maryland. He is the chair of the Special Interest Group on Emerging Adulthood sponsored by the Society for Research on Adolescence.

Museum visitors are reminded that food and drinks are not allowed in the Museum. Backpacks and other large items brought to the Museum will have to be stored; there is limited locker storage space available for these items.