Weekly News – November 13, 2017

EVENTS
Wednesday, November 15 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. “Population at the End of the Age of Aid.” Landis Mackellar,Senior Associate/Co-Editor, Population and Development Review, Population Council. | 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, November 13, 2-3:30 PM. Wage Stagnation and Buyer Power: How Buyer-Supplier Relations Affect U.S. Workers’ Wages, 1978-2014. Nathan Wilmers, Harvard University. 402 Barrows Hall.

Monday, November 13 | 4-5:30 p.m “Global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits” Tamma Carleton, Berkeley | 648 Evans Hall
Tuesday, November 14, 12-1 PM. Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia” with Willow Lung-Aman, Univ of Maryland, College Park. Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing Way.

Monday, November 13, 2-3:30 PM. Wage Stagnation and Buyer Power: How Buyer-Supplier Relations Affect U.S. Workers’ Wages, 1978-2014. Nathan Wilmers, Harvard University. 402 Barrows Hall.

Wednesday November 15 | 6-7 p.m. “The Good Neighbor: Addressing Global Poverty in an Age of Xenophobia” with William Easterly, GSPP. | David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room, 2150 Allston Way.

Thursday, November 16, 2017, 4:00pm-6:00pm. “Dependence and Precarity in the ‘Sharing’ Economy” featuring Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College. UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2521 Channing Way.

Thursday, November 16 | 2-3:30 p.m. “The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco” Rebecca Diamond, Stanford Graduate School of Business. | 648 Evans Hall. Link to paper.

Thursday, November 16 | 4-6 p.m. Precarity and Dependence in the “Sharing” Economy. Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College. 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director’s Room.

SAVE THE DATE
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.

Thursday, November 30th, 2017, 4:00 – 5:30 PM. Kitty Calavita, Interviewed By Jonathan Simon. Room 140 (Moot Courtroom), Reception To Follow. Kadish Library, 2240 Piedmont Ave.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Irregular Migrants, Refugees or Trafficked Persons? Anti-Trafficking Review. Guest Editors: Claus K. Meyer and Sebastian Boll. Deadline for Submissions: 7 January 2018. For more information visit: http://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/announcement/view/17.

CONFERENCES
American Sociological Association announces its call for papers. The deadline is January 11. Please visit the Submissions page for detailed information: http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2018/2018-call-submissions-information.

Population Association of America announces that Hotel Reservations are now possible. Remember: you can always reduce the nights or cancel, but you rarely can add later on. So book now. There are two hotels: The first is Sheraton Denver Downtown. Click here to reserve a room in the PAA 2018 block of rooms. The second is the Staybridge Suites. Click here to reserve your stay at the Staybridge Suites.

ON THE WEB
RCMAR webinar series, Estimating Costs of Elder Health
Learn about the use of an economic-demographic micro simulation called the Future Elderly Model (FEM). This webinar was presented by Bryan Tysinger, Director of Simulation and Data at USC Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation on October 4, 2017. The model is designed to predict the future costs and health status of the elderly and explore what current trends or future shifts imply for policy. Visit the RCMAR website to listen to the full session here: www.rcmar.ucla.edu.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Center for Engaged Scholarship, dissertation fellowships. We are very pleased to announce the opening of the Center for Engaged Scholarship’s fellowship competition for 2017-2018. Our dissertation fellowships are for Ph.D. students in the social sciences whose work is of high quality and that has the potential to contribute to making U.S. society less unequal, more democratic, and more environmentally sustainable. For further information: http://cescholar.org/assets/files/2018-2019_CES_Fellowship.pdf.

D-LAB
It’s GIS Week! The D-Lab, Earth Sciences and Map Library, and the Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) are offering a series of events on methods and technologies for working with geographic data, maps, and spatial analysis. All are welcome, but please RSVP here. Email pattyf@berkeley.edu with any questions.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.