Narrative Genetics Seminar: Making Sense of the Increased Prevalence of Autism?

NEW DATE!! Monday, May 3 (changed from May 6)
Guest Presenter, PETER BEARMAN, Columbia University.

Director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program.

6-8pm, Room 801, International Affairs Building, Columbia U

Peter Bearman was the founding director of ISERP, serving from the Institute's launch in 2000 until 2008. A recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2007, Bearman is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. A specialist in network analysis, Bearman co-designed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and has used the data extensively for research on topics including adolescent sexual networks, networks of disease transmission, and genetic influences on same-sex preference. He has also conducted research in historical sociology, including Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk, England, 1540-1640 (Rutgers, 1993). He is the author of Doormen (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

This event is free and open to the public. For details on schedules, locations, speakers, and topics, visit our full calendar of events at www.iserp.columbia.edu.The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) is the research arm of the social sciences at Columbia University. Its core mission is to catalyze and produce pioneering social science research and to shape public policy by integrating knowledge and methods across the social science disciplines.