Changing Demographics

SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS

Quinn Auditorium Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30 PM

VISITORS WELCOME!

 

February 9

Demographic Overview

Art Mead, Professor and Chair, Economics Department, URI

February 9

Muticulturalism and Global Youth Culture

Robin Kelley, Professor of History and Global Youth Culture, New York University

February 16

Senior Market: Fact and Fiction

Phil Clark, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, URI & Director of RI Geriatric Education Center

February 23

Baby Boomers at Home

Kerry McKay ('71) and Kim Bartkiewicz ('95), McKay's Furniture

February 28 MONDAY

Generation Y

Maury Klein, Professor, History, URI

March 8

Web Marketing

Harry Washburn, Wallace & Washburn, Cambridge, MA

March 15

Spring Break

 

March 22

Minority-based Manufacturing

Gwen Sargeant, FAITH, Inc. & Production Assistant/Technical Director, Woodlake

March 29

Hispanic Consumers

Josephine Moreno, Assistant Professor, TMD, URI

April 5

Sizing for Over 55

Sirvart Mellian, US Navy Textiles and Clothing Research, Natick, MA

April 12

Over 55 Consumers

Margaret Ordonez and Linda Welters, TMD, URI

April 19

Lalania Balas

Brooke McAuley

Gen X Companies: Bebe and Guess

The GAP and Changing Demographics

April 26

Michelle Nason

Katie Gallichio

Gray Market

Magazines for the Adolescent Market

May 10, 4-6 Nancy Conner

Lauren Jensen-Akula              

Jessica Kao

Advertising for Diverse Cultural Markets

Ethnicity and Youth Markets-Hip Hop, FUBU, Nike

Asian American Market