EVENTS
Demography Brown Bag: Wednesday, April 4 | 12-1 p.m. “Immigrant Women Labor Market Incorporation: A Double-Cohort Approach.” With Sandra Florian, University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology. | | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.
A selection of Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.
Monday, April 2 | 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Adolescent Health and Emerging Adulthood Research Symposium. Conference/Symposium. Alumni House, Toll Room. Register ONLINE by April 1.
EVENTS
Demography Brown Bag: Wednesday, April 4 | 12-1 p.m. “Immigrant Women Labor Market Incorporation: A Double-Cohort Approach.” With Sandra Florian, University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology. | | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.
A selection of Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.
Monday, April 2 | 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Adolescent Health and Emerging Adulthood Research Symposium. Conference/Symposium. Alumni House, Toll Room. Register ONLINE by April 1.
April 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. Economic History: The Transmission of Creativity: Evidence from Western Music, 1450-1900. With Karol Jan Borowiecki, University of Southern Denmark. | 639 Evans Hall
Tuesday, April 3, 12:00-1:30pm. Immigrant Agency and Social Movements in the Age of Devolution. Greg Prieto, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of San Diego. Multicultural Community Center (MCC), 220 Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union Building, UC Berkeley. Register for free lunch.
Tuesday, April 3, 6-8 PM. Metrics of Health Equity, with Dr. Juan Garay. At Prof. Art Rheingold’s residence. RSVP required: http://metricsofhealthequity.eventbrite.com. See the flyer here.
April 4 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. “A Nation of Immigrants: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration” Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University. Seminar | | 648 Evans Hall.
Friday-Saturday, April 6-7, 2018, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. “Reconciling Islamic and European Civil Laws: Avenues and Obstacles to the Integration of European Muslim Immigrants.” The two-day conference to be held at Berkeley Law will include sessions on “Mosque and State”; “Islam and Legal Systems”; “Immigrant Integration in France and Germany” and “Cultural and Religious Identity, and Islamic Family Law in Europe” | Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall. For more information and to RSVP, please visit: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/event-services/islamiclaw/.
SAVE THE DATE
Friday April 13, 2018, 12:10pm – 1:30pm. Household Recombination, Retrospective Evaluation and Educational Mobility over 40 years. Andrew Foster – Brown University. 201 Giannini Hall.
April 24, 4-5 PM. “Equity and the Environment: What’s the connection?” With Rachel Morello-Frosch. BIDS: 190 Doe Library.
FUNDING
Traceback Testing: Increasing Identification and Genetic Counseling of Mutation Carriers through Family-based Outreach. The purpose of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support pilot research projects using a “Traceback” approach to genetic testing women with a personal or family history of ovarian cancer and reaching out to family members to identify unaffected individuals at increased risk for cancer in different clinical contexts and communities, including racially/ethnically diverse populations. Traceback testing is a framework for identifying and genetically testing previously diagnosed but unreferred patients with ovarian cancer and other unrecognized mutation carriers to improve the detection of families at risk for breast or ovarian cancer. The overall goal of this FOA is to evaluate the benefit of Traceback testing of women with a personal or family history of ovarian cancer and reaching out to family members to identify unaffected individuals at increased risk for cancer. One of the focuses of the FOA is to improve outreach with minority populations, including Native American communities. For more information, please see: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-18-616.html.
The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) invites applications for our Data Science Fellows Program. Letter of Intent due April 2, 2018. Successful applicants will join our current cohort of fellows, building a community of postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, and research staff with excellent credentials in their fields as well as a strong interest in advancing data science and data-intensive research across the campus and beyond.
IRLE 2018-19 Research Awards. IRLE is accepting applications from faculty and students for 2018-19 Research Awards. We will prioritize research projects addressing the intersection of labor and employment with education, immigration, public employment, criminal justice, or racial equity. Due April 15.
CONFERENCES
2018 NCFR Annual Conference November 7-10 2018 in San Diego – registration is now open. This year’s conference focuses on innovative approaches, theories, research, policies, and programs that support and strengthen families. To register and learn more, visit: https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-2018/registration-details.
Social Protection and Growth. July 12, 2018. Paris, France. We are delighted isue our public call for papers for the 2018 and Second Edition of the Symposium on “Social Protection and Growth”. Whether and how social protection and welfare expenses have positive or negative effects on economics growth is still a debate among economists. Three elements give a new momentum to that question: – Ageing economics and its consequences; – Universal coverage policy as recommended by international agencies; – Technologies provoking a shift in the labor market and authorizing higher productivity and efficiency in healthcare and social services. Please take notice that the Chair is currently working on the following topics: • Ageing, economic growth and welfare economics • From housing wealth towards productive investment • A new momentum for funded pensions systems and longevity bonds • Healthcare finance for an aging population • Training needs in an aging society Abstracts should be submitted for validation, before the 1st of April 2018 and other important dates are: Notification of review results: May 11, 2018 Registration deadline: (full paper) June 8, 2018 Please submit abstracts and papers in English or French. However, presentations can be done in researcher’s native language. We look forward to seeing you in Paris. Papers must be submitted to the following address: francois-xavier.albouy@tdte.fr
Please for further details, contact Sophie Parisel: sophie.parisel@tdte.fr. View the call for papers here.
WORKSHOPS
The application deadline for the RAND Summer Institute (July 9-12, 2018) is April 1st, and a flyer is attached. The application can be found online at https://www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi.html.
AWARDS
W.E.B. DU BOIS CAREER OF DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AWARD. This award honors those ASA member scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline. The body of lifetime work may include theoretical and/or methodological contributions. The award selection committee is particularly interested in ASA members whose work that substantially reorients the field in general or in a particular subfield. Nominations should include a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae and letters in support of the nomination. The most compelling cases contain five to eight letters from a variety of individuals able to speak to the qualifications of the nominee. The person making the nomination should obtain this material and forward it to the committee, with the nominee’s curriculum vitae, as a package. Nominations remain under active consideration for five award cycles.
Send complete nomination packets via email to nominations@asanet.org. The deadline for nominations for the 2019 award is April 1, 2018. http://www.asanet.org/news-events/member-awards/web-dubois-career-award
D-LAB
D-Lab is on Spring Break. But they resume April 2 with its regularly offered workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focused 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.