Weekly News – April 23, 2018 - Population Sciences

EVENTS

Tuesday, April 24, 4-5 PM. “Equity and the Environment: What’s the connection?” With Rachel Morello-Frosch. BIDS: 190 Doe Library.

Monday April 23, 2-3:30pm. “The Great Regression: Machine Learning, Econometrics, and the Future of Quantification.” Etienne Ollion, Associate Professor and Permanent Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Matrix. 820 Barrows.

Thursday, April 26, 2-3:30 PM. “The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-family Information” Petra Persson, Stanford. Evans Hall, room 648.

Thursday, April 26 | 4:00 pm. “Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the Bay Area.” Richard Walker, UC Berkeley Geography. IRLE: 2521 Channing Way

Friday, April 27, 2018, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m., “Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth”. Sandra Black, UT Austin. Evans Hall, room 648

Friday, April 2, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. “Migrations and New Mobilities in Southeast Asia” Conference/Symposium. | 180 Doe Library. For more information, visit here.

EVENTS

Tuesday, April 24, 4-5 PM. “Equity and the Environment: What’s the connection?” With Rachel Morello-Frosch. BIDS: 190 Doe Library.

Thursday, April 26, 2-3:30 PM. “The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-family Information” Petra Persson, Stanford. Evans Hall, room 648.

Thursday, April 26 | 4:00 pm. “Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the Bay Area.” Richard Walker, UC Berkeley Geography. IRLE: 2521 Channing Way

Friday, April 27, 2018, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m., “Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth”. Sandra Black, UT Austin. Evans Hall, room 648

Friday, April 2, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. “Migrations and New Mobilities in Southeast Asia” Conference/Symposium. | 180 Doe Library. For more information, visit here.

Friday, April 27 | 6:15-7:15 p.m. “Challenges of Migrant Workers Protection in ASEAN.” Anis Hidayah, Founder, Migrant Care (Indonesia). 180 Doe Library

SAVE THE DATE

May 2, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm. “Women’s Empowerment and Fertility Decision Making in Niger” Nouhou Abdoul Moumouni, Director of OASIS Niger. University Hall Room 401, University Hall.

Friday May 04, 12:10pm – 1:30pm. “A Structural Analysis Of The Decline Of Home-Cooked Food” Valerie Lechene- University College London (UCL), 201 Giannini Hall

Friday, May 18, 2018, 12pm to 1pm, “More than Medicine: The Case for Social Investment to Improve America’s Health.” Dr. Robert Kaplan has served as director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences at NIH, Chief Science Officer at AHRQ, Chair of the Department of Health Services at UCLA and Chair of the Dept. of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD. He is currently Adjunct Professor and Research Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at Stanford University. Please RSVP Now at CHC@chc.ucsf.edu. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Refreshments will be provided. UCSF, Laurel Heights Room 474.

PAA EVENTS
Thursday, April 26, 2018/ 6:30-8:00PM. “Assessing the Marriage of Demography, Genetics, and Population Health – Population Health Reception and Discussion. Sheraton Denver Downtown / Director’s Row H. Speakers: John Hewitt, Director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado; Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University; Jonathan King, Program Director in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research, NIA.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Ninth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, held 25–26 April 2019 at the University of Granada in Granada, Spain. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. For more information, visit: http://religioninsociety.com/2019-conference/call-for-papers.

Journal of Religion and Demography. Previously known as the Yearbook of International Religious Demography, https://brill.com/view/serial/YIRD. They seek submissions for 2019 by October 30, 2018. For further information and guidelines for writers, contact co-editor Gina Zurlo at gzurlo@bu.edu.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
POSTPONED: Social Science Matrix GRAD SLAM! Was scheduled for April 20, 2018, 4pm-6pm, 820 Barrows Hall. No rescheduled date just yet.

D-LAB
D-Lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description.

JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs. This list advertises positions of all sorts relevant for social and behavioral scientists with advanced degrees.

MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list (immigration_group@lists.berkeley.edu), which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and not all of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News.