2024-2025 Harriet Elliott Lecture Series-Stress & Us: Life Adversity By Other Names

Stress & Us: Life Adversity By Other Names

Thursday, November 7, 2024 in the EUC Audiotorium

Hosted by the Department of Psychology, the 2024-25 Harriet Elliott Lecture Series (HELS) will highlight the insidious ways that life stress, sometimes under different monikers, impacts our lives, our communities, and our health – and what we can do about it.

This free panel discussion and keynote address will focus on the effects of discrimination on physical health broadly and cardiovascular functioning specifically, the role of socioeconomic inequality in early life adversity and brain development, acculturation stress and health, and the role of identity socialization in resilience.

Started in 1948, the Harriet Elliott Lecture Series (HELS) is one of UNC Greensboro’s oldest and most established lecture programs. Each year, HELS brings distinguished speakers to campus to present fresh insights into key issues in the social and behavioral sciences.Harriet Wiseman Elliott taught political science on this campus from 1913 until 1935, when she became Dean of Women. Professor Elliott was a pioneer in the women’s rights and suffrage movements and served during the 1940’s as presidential appointee under the Roosevelt administration. Her activities included Consumer Commissioner on the Advisory Commission to the Council of Defense and U.S. delegate to the 1945 U.N. Conference on Education, Science, and Cultural Organization in London. In the year following her death, the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina established the Harriet Elliott Social Science Forum in her memory. The Social Science Forum has evolved over the years into the Harriet Elliott Lecture Series-one of UNCG’s premier events.

Panel Discussion: 2-4pm

Presentations and a discussion around current research by regional scholars, including:

• Dr. LaBarron K. Hill of NC A&T Psychology: Racism and cardiovascular health indicators
• Dr. Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda of Duke Nursing: Acculturative stress & resilience among Latinos
• Dr. Lisa Kiang of Wake Forest Psychology: The power of ethnic-racial socialization
• Dr. Margaret Sheridan of UNC-CH Psychology: Adversity’s impact on psychopathology

Read more here.

Keynote Address: 5:30-6:45pm

Dr. David R. Williams, the preeminent scholar on racism and health, will deliver a keynote address:

Reducing Health Inequities: The Need for a Renewed Emphasis on Innovative Solutions

Dr. Williams is the Norman Professor of Public Health and a professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. Please stay for a reception following the address.

Read more here.

This is free and open to the public. The Walker Parking Deck will be open and free.