EVENTS March 10  | 2-3:30pm | UC Berkeley Sociology Colloquium | “Mobilizations from Within: Black Political Struggle and Transformation in U.S. Prisons.” with David J. Knight, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. 402 Social Sciences Building. Zoom link here.  March 11 | 12-1pm | Berkeley Food Institute | Isabel Madzorera and Robin Marsh. “Global […]

The Berkeley Population Center (BPC) and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) invite you to join us for a webinar with ICPSR at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan on March 14th, 2025 from 10am-11am Pacific Time to learn about data depositing, sharing, and management. In the webinar, ICPSR […]

Our beloved colleague, Michael Burawoy, was killed the evening of February 3, 2025 when he was hit by a car while walking near his home in Oakland. Michael was a pillar of our community for decades, an intellectual giant, a dedicated mentor and educator, and a dear friend. Indeed, he played a central role in […]

Join us this week for our next Brownbag Seminar of the semester on Wednesday February 19th, 12pm, with Jason Fletcher, Professor of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The title of Dr. Fletcher’s talk is “Moving Forward by Looking Back:  New Evidence that Early Life Shapes Our Lifespan.” The event will take place in Room 310 […]

Kindly read the following message from Irma Elo, President of the Population Association of America (PAA), and Sarah Burgard, President of the Association of Population Centers (APC), requesting information from you as it pertains to awards and projects impacted by the implementation of Presidential Executive Orders (EOs). The information you provide will assist the PAA/APC […]

Don’t miss our first Brownbag Seminar of the semester, this Wednesday, February 5th, 2025, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences, with Rebecca Staiger, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Dr. Staiger will present her work, “Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians’ Practice Locations Before and After Dobbs.” Further event details are here. The Human Mortality […]

Be sure to join us this Wednesday January 29th, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences, as we host our first Demography Lunch of 2025. No need to bring yours; we will provide plenty of food. Come gather to settle into the new year together. We look forward to seeing you there! Our first Brownbag Seminar of the […]

The 120th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting will be held August 8-12, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. The online portal is open for submissions and proposals. The deadline to submit is Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. In addition to paper/extended abstract submissions, proposals are being accepted for courses, workshops, preconferences, the Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium, and the Teaching and Learning Symposium. Review the guidance on the number […]

Hotel reservations are now available at a discounted rate at the Marriott Marquis for the PAA Annual Meeting 2025, to be held April 10-13, 2025 in Washington, DC. More hotel options are coming soon. Featured affiliate research of the week: Andrew Wooyoung Kim. 2024. Psychosocial stress, adult suicidal ideation, and the mediating effect of poor sleep quality during […]

CenSoc Users Conference. The CenSoc project creates and disseminates large-scale, public microdata to be used for advancing understanding of mortality in the United States. On December 6th, 2024, CenSoc is hosting a one-day mini conference to bring together users of CenSoc data. The conference will primarily feature empirical research, as well an informational session on CenSoc data. Researchers interested […]