Weekly News – December 11, 2017

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.

The diplomacy of migration: analysing external migration policies Deadline for paper proposals: 25 January 2018 Notification of successful applicants: 31 January 2018. This is a call for proposals for one or two panels on the diplomacy of migration at the EISA 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (Prague, 12-15 September 2018). The UN’s New York declaration for refugees and migrants, adopted on 19 September 2016, emphasised the need for international cooperation on migration between countries of origin or nationality, transit and destination, and strengthening the global governance of migration. However, states have vastly different migration histories and preferences, as well as capacity and willingness to engage with other states on migration. How does such international cooperation on migration then play out in practice? This is a particularly pertinent question given that the migration cooperation sought by some countries or regional organisations (such as Australia and the EU) with countries of origin or transit of migrants have been heavily criticised by human rights organisations. Contributions may cover (but are not limited to) one or more of the following themes:
* The content, context and effects of external migration policies
* The politics and bureaucracy of external migration policies
* Comparative case studies of migration in the diplomatic relations of one or more country-dyads
* The diplomacy of migration within regional or international organisations
* Conceptual or theoretical papers seeking to account for different patterns of external migration policies
* Papers on methodological approaches for researching the diplomacy of migration.
Papers on understudied countries/regions are particularly encouraged. Papers adopting any theoretical angle and methodological approach will be considered. Interested authors are invited to submit their paper proposals, including: title (max. 20 words); an abstract of up to 250 words; 3-6 keywords; full names, affiliations and contact details; and a short biography of the presenting author (max. 100 words) by 25 January 2018. Please submit your proposal to Dr. Natasja Reslow at n.reslow@maastrichtuniversity.nl. Successful applicants will be informed by 31 January 2018.

FUNDING
NICHD Parent Awards. All 3 research grant vehicles, R01, R21 and R03, have been issued with the new guidelines for clinical research required, or clinical research unallowable. These are (a) clinical research required: R01 (PA-18-480); and (b) Clinical trial optional: R01 (PA-18-480), R21 (PA-18-482), R03 (PA-18-481).

NIH Parent Awards: As with the above, new parent awards regarding clinical trials are here (not all agencies participate in these: Clinical trial not allowed: R01(PA-18-484); R03 (PA-18-488).

Social Epigenomics Research Focused on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01: PAR-16-355). NIA announces participation in this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), whose goal is to support and accelerate human epigenomic investigations focused on identifying and characterizing the mechanisms by which social experiences at various stages in life, both positive and negative, affect gene function and thereby influence health trajectories or modify disease risk in racial/ethnic minority and health disparity populations. For more information, see:https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-355.html.

Research Program on Migration and Health 2017 – 2018 cycle now open! Required Letter of Intent (LOI) is due January 19, 2018, 5:00 PM PST. Full proposals are due March 16, 2018, 5:00 PM PDT
Research Awards: Up to $25,000 USD. Each research team must include at least one principal investigator (PI) from a participating U.S. institution or university and one PI from either a CONACYT-accredited university or research institution in Mexico, or affiliated with UNAM.
Graduate Student Awards: Up to $5,000 USD. Students must be working on a master’s thesis or doctorate level dissertation to be eligible. PROJECT PERIOD: September 1, 2018 – February 28, 2020. For more information, see:
https://hiaucb.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/pimsa_2016-17_englishfinal.pdf.

WORKSHOPS
The National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives (NCCR LIVES) and the Bremen International Graduate School in Social Sciences (BIGSSS) are pleased to announce the opportunity for PhD students and young researchers to participate in the LIVES Winter School on Life Course. The course will take place in Bremen from 12 to 18 March 2018. The LIVES Winter School is a one-week intensive programme on life course research. Two interdisciplinary workshops (drawing from sociology, social psychology, life-span psychology, social demography, social policy) will take place in small groups of 6 to 8 students. Three to four experts will lead each two different research workshops, with the aim of preparing collaborative articles through a process of learning by doing. The 2018 workshops are:
1. Social networks, social participation and life transitions: a life course perspective
with Eric Widmer (University of Geneva), Karin Wall (University of Lisbon), Rita Gouveia (University of Lisbon) and Marie Baeriswyl (University of Geneva)
2. How do values and political orientations develop across the life-span?
with Klaus Boehnke (Jacobs University), Regina Arant (Jacobs University), Maria Pavlova (University of Vechta) and Clemens Lechner (GESIS, Mannheim – TBC). Application deadline: 29 December 2017.
For more information on the LIVES Winter School, the programme of the workshops and the application process: https://www.bigsss-bremen.de/academic-program/summer-school-program/life-course-2018.

Stats Camp, University of Costa Rica, San Jose.
SEM Foundations, February 19 – 20, 2018. Instructors: Todd Little & Esteban Montenegro. An advanced intensive short course in the using latent variable models also called structural equation models. Participants from a variety of fields, including sociology, psychology, education, human development, marketing, business, biology, medicine, political science, and communication, will benefit from the course.
Longitudinal SEM, February 21 – 23, 2018, Instructors: Todd Little & Esteban Montenegro. An advanced intensive short course in the analysis of longitudinal data using SEM, including: design and measurement issues in longitudinal research, traditional panel designs, latent growth curve analysis, growth mixture modeling, multi-level SEM with longitudinal data, dynamic intra-individual modeling.

WEBINAR
Intermediate Application of Data Sets: Data Linkage & Uses of Administrative Records at the U.S. Census Bureau, Dec 13, 3 PM EST/12 noon PST. For more information, see here.

ON THE WEB
U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2012-2016 ACS 5-Year Estimates. To explore more, start here.

D-LAB
D-Lab sponsors 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.

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.