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 […]

Our last Brownbag Seminar of the semester will be this Wednesday, November 20, 12pm. Yuan Peng, a PhD candidate in Demography at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and a visiting student researcher in the Tuljapurkar Lab at Stanford University, will give a talk on, “Mortality Variation Across U.S. States and Counties.” The […]

Featured affiliate research of the week: Ayesha S. Mahmud, Joyita Bhattacharjee, Rachel E. Baker, and Pamela P. Martinez. 2024. Alarming Trends in Dengue Incidence and Mortality in Bangladesh. The Journal of Infectious Disease. Volume 229, Issue 1.  Our next brownbag seminar is Wednesday, November 13th, 12pm, with Manisha Shah, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, who will present her […]

Our next brownbag seminar will be Wednesday, November 13th, 12pm, with Manisha Shah, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, who will present her research on, “Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica.” As usual the event will be in 310 Social Sciences and […]

Our next brown bag seminar is this Wednesday, October 30th, 12pm, with Antonino Polizzi, who will present his research on, “The Demography of the Mortality–Fertility Nexus: Early Death and ‘Missing Births’ in the United States.” Antonino is a PhD student in Sociology at Nuffield College and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University […]

Be sure to join our next Brownbag Seminar on October 23rd, 12pm, for a talk by John Casterline, Robert T. Lazarus Professor in Population Studies at Ohio State University: “Fertility Decline in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Fresh Assessment of Mechanisms.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and […]

Our next Brownbag Seminar on October 16th, 12pm, will be a special panel discussion on “Population Issues and the 2024 Election,” with UC Berkeley’s Hilary Hoynes, Ron Lee, and Jenna Nobles.  We’ll host this important and lively conversation in our seminar room, 310 Social Sciences Building. The panel session will also be available via Zoom.  […]

Our next Brownbag Seminar of the semester is this Wednesday, October 9th, with Peter Catron, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, who will present his research: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” This is an in-person talk, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences.  Event […]