EVENTS

Wednesday February 14, 12-1:10 PM.  A special demography brownbag seminar – a panel discussion on recent US and Comparative Mortality Patterns, with Magali Barbieri, Ray Catalano, Josh Goldstein, Ron Lee and Andrew Noymer.  2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room. Coffee tea and cookies are served.

Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Monday February 12, 2018, 4 – 5:30 p.m., “Worms and Wellbeing: 15 Year Economic Impacts from Kenya” Ted Miguel.  Evans Hall, room 648

Monday February 12  3-4 p.m. New directions in obesity epidemiology: Sleep, dietary patterns, and body composition” with Elizabeth Feliciano, ScD, MSc. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.

February 13th from 12pm-1pm in 401 University Hall. Grant Writing Workshop: Specific Aims. Presented by Erica Whitney, Associate Director of Strategy and Training, at the Berkeley Research Development Office (VCRO). The presentation will focus on tips for writing a successful Specific Aims section with examples of how to address different points and messages. We will have ample time for discussions and Q&A.

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Wednesday, February 7, 12-1:10 PM.  “Can Subsidized Early Child Care Promote Women’s Employment? Evidence from a Slum Settlement in Africa.” Shelley Clark, McGill University/Stanford. | 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room. Coffee tea and cookies are served. [Contact Monique@demog.berkeley.edu for more information about Dr. Alsan, the draft paper and her CV.]
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience. 

Monday, February 5, 2-3:30 PM.  “The Great Experiment and the Great Reckoning: Decarceration and the Legal Reform of Mass Incarceration” with Anjuli Verma, Chancellors Postdoctoral Scholar, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. 402 Barrows Hall.

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Wednesday, January 31, 12-1:10 PM. Marcella Alsan, a candidate in the current Demography assistant professor search. “Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities.”| 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room. Coffee tea and cookies are served. [Contact Monique@demog.berkeley.edu for more information about Dr. Alsan, the draft paper and her CV.]
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience. 

Tuesday, Jan 30, 3-4 PM.  Preterm birth in California: The association with coal and oil power plant retirements. Speaker/Performer: Joan Casey.  290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

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Wednesday, January 24, 12-1:10 PM. Drivers of infectious disease dynamics: Quantifying the impact of demography and climate: Ayesha Mahmud PhD.| 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room. Coffee tea and cookies are served.
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience. 

Monday, January 22, 2-3:30 PM. “Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance” with

 Karen Levy, Assistant Professor of Information Science, Associated Faculty at Cornell Law School, Cornell University. | 820 Barrows Hall

Tuesday, January 23, 4-5:30 PM.  “Metropolitan Migrations and Interwar Vietnamese Culture” Charles Keith, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University. | 180 Doe Library. 

Thursday, January 25 | 12-1 p.m. “Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?” Céline Teney, University of Bremen, Germany | 201 Moses Hall

January 25 | 12-2 p.m. Data Science/Health IT Job Talk, Tim Althoff, PhD, Stanford: “Leveraging Digital Activity Traces For Public Health”| 198 University Hall

Friday, January 26, 1-3 PM. “Hoarding the American Dream” Author talk with Richard Reeves. Banatao Auditorium. Register here. 
 

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Wednesday, January 17, 12-1:30 PM. “Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and ‘Secure Communities’ Deportations” with Juan Pedroza M.P.A, Stanford University. | 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room. Coffee tea and cookies are served.
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience. 

SAVE THE DATE

January 26, 1 PM. “Hoarding the American Dream” Author talk with Richard Reeves. Banatao Auditorium. Register here. 

February 13th from 12pm-1pm in 401 University Hall. Grant Writing Workshop: Specific Aims. presented by Erica Whitney, Associate Director of Strategy and Training, at the Berkeley Research Development Office (VCRO). The presentation will focus on tips for writing a successful Specific Aims section with examples of how to address different points and messages. We will have ample time for discussions and Q&A.

CALL FOR ABSRACTS/PAPERS Now Accepting Submissions for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Members may submit papers to regular session topics, section paper sessions and roundtables, and Open-Refereed Roundtables. Proposals for the Visual Media Poster Session, Workshops, Preconferences, Courses, Teaching and Learning Symposium, and Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium as well as discussion […]

CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Demographics, Immigration, and the Labor Market’ taking place on 6-7 April, 2018 in Nuremberg, Germany. The keynote addresses will be given by Anne Case (Princeton University), Christian Dustmann (University College London, CReAM), David Green (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) and Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim). The deadline for submission of full papers (preliminary versions are welcome) to dfg1764@zew.de is 20 December, 2017. Travel and accommodation costs will be reimbursed for speakers. For further information, please see the attached CfP and here. The conference is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Priority Program “The German Labor Market in a Globalized World – Challenges through Trade, Technology, and Demographics” (SPP 1764) and the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Association for Israel Studies Conference, June 25-27, 2018, hosted by the Berkeley Institute on Jewish Law and Israel Studies (BIJLIS) here at UC Berkeley, is seeking submissions. The conference will also be preceded by a graduate student workshop on Sunday, June 24. The organizer, Rebecca Golbert of the BIJLIS, is encouraging significant local participation and contributions for this conference. The deadline for submissions is January 15. For more information, visit: http://reg.co.il/ais//ais/annual. 

EVENTS
Wednesday, December 6, 12-1:30 PM.  Demography Brown Bag and Job Talk.  “Population-level mortality benefits of improved blood pressure control in Indonesia: A parametric g-formula approach.” with Nikkil Sudharsanan, Harvard University, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.  Cookies and refreshments served.  

Monday, December 4, 2-3:30 PM. Counting Women Beyond Survival: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Governance in Senegal.” With Siri Suh, University of Minnesota. 420 Barrows Hall.

Tuesday, December 5, 4-5 PM.  BIDS Lecture: Fighting Poverty with Data: Research at the intersection of machine learning and global development.  With Josh Blumenstock, School of Information. 190 Doe Library.  

Deadline: February​ 5, 2018 CEDA continues its long-standing, NIA-funded pilot grant program to support promising new research projects.​ Proposals are invited in areas of population studies encompassed by CEDA’s mission, including CEDA’s signature themes: Mortality and Health in Aging Populations Biodemography of Aging (including population-level epigenetics) Behavioral Economics applications to aging and health Macrodemographic consequences of global aging An important goal of the program is […]

EVENTS
Monday, November 27, 12-1:30 PM. “Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health.” 105 GSPP.
Monday, November 27 from 12:45-2:00p “Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism” a new book discussed by author Chris Zepeda-Millán in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont Ave. 
Tuesday, November 28th from 3 – 4 pm. Child Marriage & Youth Empowerment Speaker Series. With Daniel Perlman, co-director for the Centre for Girls Education, a joint program of the OASIS Initiative, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and Ahmadu Bello University. The presentation will last 20 minutes, followed by in-depth discussion. In room 198 of University Hall. 

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 (8:30 AM Pacific). Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health: A Workshop. Cal State East Bay Conference Center (Grand Lake Conference Room), Trans Pacific Centre, 1000 Broadway Suite 109, Oakland, CA 94607. For more information, visit here and here.