Weekly News – November 28, 2017

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.

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, 12:40-2 p.m. “The Aging of the Homeless Population: Causes, Implications and Potential Solutions” with Margot Kushel, MD, UCSF. | 714C University Hall.

Tuesday, November 28, 3-4 p.m. “Pathways to Choice: Delaying Marriage and Building Assets through Girls Education” Daniel Perlman, Bixby. | 198 University Hall

Thursday, November 30, 2-3:30 PM. “Changes in Nutrient Intake at Retirement” with Mel Stephens, Univ. of Michigan. 648 Evans Hall. Download Paper.

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.

Friday, December 1, 12-1 PM. “$15 Minimum Wage Policies: Early Evidence.” With Carl Nadler, IRLE. 648 Evans Hall

CALL FOR PAPERS
XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 26-July 1, 2018 is soliciting abstracts for paper and poster presentations. We invite abstract submissions for oral presentations (20 minute lecture) and posters (90 minute poster session) on topics relevant to social network analysis, including theory, methods and applications of social network analysis. Please submit your abstract before February 1, 2018 (23.59 hrs. CET time). For more information about the conference, submission portal and more, visit: https://sunbelt.sites.uu.nl/welcome-letter/.

CONFERENCES
PAPOR’s annual conference and the conference agenda is nearly complete. Register for the conference before 12/1 for the early-bird discount at http://www.cvent.com/d/y5qyp9/4W. The conference agenda is available here athttp://www.cvent.com/d/y5qyp9/6X.

FUNDING
R03 NICHD now has revised targeted areas for funding by the Small Grant program, PA-17-299. To include a focus on HIV/AIDS data.

FELLOWSHIPS
2018-2019 Advancing Equity Through Research Fellowship at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellowship Program, housed in the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard. It’s part of the Hutchins Center’s five-year commitment to the Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research. The Fellowship supports research addressing the lives of women and girls of color, and expands research opportunities for women of color. The Advancing Equity Through Research Fellow will participate fully in our robust Fellows Program, which brings scholars to Harvard from around the world for a period of one or two semesters to conduct individual research in a wide variety of fields related to African and African American Studies, across disciplines and geographic boundaries. For more information about the fellowship program and how to apply, visit the Hutchins Center’sFellows Program. Deadline for applications is January 17, 2018. Contact Abby Wolf (wolf@fas.harvard.edu) with any questions.

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.