CAF Events

CAF Events

September 11, 2026 | 12:30-1:25 PM (EST)

CALC 2026 Colloquium Series

Shiro Furuya, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Title: "Health Consequences of Working and Not-Working for Older Adults"

Registration for the colloquium will close Wednesday September 9. Register here.

*Symposium is co-sponsored with Purdue's Center on Aging & the Life Course (CALC).

October 2, 2026 | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM (EST)

CALC 2026 Symposium: Family Caregiving in Later Life

Keynote address by Karen Fingerman, Wilson Regents Professor of Human Ecology & Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Title: "Caregiving for Family Members with Lewy Body Dementia"

Register for the symposium here.

*Symposium is co-ponsored with Purdue's Center on Aging & the Life Course (CALC) and Center for Families. Other speakers include CAF affiliates Jill Suitor, Melissa Franks, Nasreen Lalani, and Marian Liu.

October 22, 2026 | 3:00-4:30 PM (EST)

CAF Webinar Series: Understanding Sexual Minority Aging Families: A Data Primer

Lisa Christian (The Ohio State University and CAF affiliate)
Haoming Song (Case Western Reserve University)
Christopher Julian (Vanderbilt University)

Register for the webinar here. 

*Webinar is co-sponsored with the University of Texas-Austin's Center on Aging and Population Sciences network core on Sexual Orientation and Aging Populations (CAPS/SMAP).

Previous Events

April 14, 2026 | 12:30-1:30 PM (EST)

CAF Seminar Series:

Jenjira Yahirun (Bowling Green State University)

Title: "Does Offspring Education Influence Older Parents' Cognitive Health?"

*Talk is also part of the Institute for Population Research Seminar Series.

April 10, 2026 | 11:00-11:55 AM (EST)

CAF Seminar Series:

Jennifer Karas Montez (Syracuse University)

Title: "U.S. States and Population Health: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here?" 

March 24, 2026 | 12:30-1:30 PM (EST)

CAF Seminar Series:

Hui (Cathy) Liu (Purdue University)

Title: "Data Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Cognitive Health of Older Sexual Minorities in the Digital Age"

*Talk was also part of the Institute for Population Research Seminar Series.

February 12, 2026 | 10:00-11:00 AM (EST)

CAF Emerging Scholars Program Information Session: 

Hui Lui (Purdue University)
Rin Reczek (The Ohio State University)
Shiro Furuya (Purdue University)
Lauren Newmyer (Bowling Green State University)

January 28, 2026 | 1:30-2:30 PM (EST)

CAF Mentorship Development Series: 

Jacqueline Angel (University of Texas-Austin)

Title: "The Art and Practice of Mentoring in Aging Research"

December 8, 2025 | 1:30-2:30 PM (EST)

CAF Seminar Series:

Jill Suitor (Purdue University)

Title: "Maybe Mom Did Always Love You Best, But Does it Really Matter?"