Our next Brownbag Seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 16th, 12pm, with Magali Barbieri, joint researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris, France and in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Barbieri will present “Multi-morbidity and the US Disadvantage in Life Expectancy.” This is an in-person seminar, Room 310, Social Sciences […]

Join us today, April 7th, 12pm, for Matrix on Point: The New Gender Gap, with Joshua R. Goldstein, Professor of Demography; Xiaoling Shu, Professor of Sociology at UC Davis; and Rachel Bernhard, Associate Professor of Quantitative Political Science Research Methods at Nuffield College and the University of Oxford. Kiera Hudson, Assistant Professor in the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, will moderate. 820 […]

This Friday, April 4th, 10am, we’ll hold our annual Pre-PAA Mini-Conference, giving graduate students and post-docs the opportunity to practice and present their upcoming talks at the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (April 10-13). This Friday’s conference will be held in person in 310 Social Sciences, as well as via zoom. We start at 10am and lunch […]

Congratulations to David Harding, Chair of the Sociology Department, on receiving the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity! This prestigious award is presented to UC Berkeley faculty members for outstanding contributions in advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice through their research, teaching, and public and/or university service. Harding studies poverty and inequality, […]

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 […]