EVENTS
Wednesday, October 17. 12-1:15 PM.” “Immigrants live longer, but why also do their children? New results from the CenSoc project” Josh Goldstein. 2232 Piedmont Ave.  Cookies and refreshments served.  

To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience. 
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html. 

Monday, October 15 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration” Ellora Derenoncourt, Harvard University | 597 Evans Hall

Monday October 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. “School-Based Interventions to Improve Developmental Trajectories in Very Young Adolescents” Erin Murphy Graham, Graduate School of Education; Megan Cherewick, Institute of Human Development; Lucia Magis Weinberg, Institute of Human Development | 1102 Berkeley Way West

Tuesday October 16, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm. “Impacts of Minimum Wages on Single Mothers” Anna Godøy, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics. IRLE.  2521 Channing Way.

Wednesday, October 17 I 12:00-1:30pm. “Mobility, Expulsion and Claims to Home: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession” Monisha Das Gupta, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

Wednesday, October 17 | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. |What is in a Category? Telling Political Refugees and Economic Migrants Apart.” Jutta Allmendinger, WZB Berlin Social Science Center; David Miliband, International Rescue Committee. | Alumni House, Toll Room.

Thursday, October 18 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. “Mental Health Reform: Lessons from the Israeli Experience” Dr. Uri Aviram, U. of Tel Aviv. Haviland Hall, Commons/116

Friday October 19 | 12-1 p.m. Labor market changes and earnings dynamics in Germany: 1960 -2015“Matthias Giesecke, RWI & IZA | 648 Evans Hall. 

SAVE THE DATE
November 1, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. “Race and Network in the Job Search Process” David Pedulla, Stanford University. IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way

CALL FOR PAPERS
Migration studies in the digital era (14 and 15 Feb 2019). A workshop on qualitative digital research methodologies and the study of mobilities. For more information, visit:https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/cemis/seminars-and-conferences/conferences/migration-studies/. 

The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) will hold its 74th Annual Conference at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 16-19, 2019. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in the premier forum for the exchange of advances in public opinion and survey research. AAPOR seeks proposals for full panel, individual paper, methodological brief, and posters sessions. Submissions on any topic across public opinion, survey and social science research will be considered for the 2019 Annual Conference. Proposals for full panel, individual paper, methodological brief, and posters sessions. Submissions on any topic across public opinion, survey and social science research will be considered for the 2019 Annual Conference. All Abstracts should be submitted electronically by Monday, November 12, 11:59 p.m. (EST).  For more information, visit www.aapor.org. 

FELLOWSHIPS
CUNY Advanced Research Fellowship. Deadline: October 31, 2018. ARC invites tenured and tenure-track scholars to apply for the 2019-2020 Distinguished CUNY Fellowship or Distinguished Visiting Fellowship who are conducting research in any of the following areas: inequality, immigration, multilingualism & translation, global cities, critical university studies.  For more information, see:https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Degrees-Research/Advanced-Research-Collaborative/ARC-Applications

Bureau of Labor Statistics Fellowship Program. The program’s main objective is to facilitate collaboration between academic scholars and government researchers in fields such as statistics, mathematics, economics, survey methodology, behavioral science, and other related fields. Research Fellows have unique opportunities to expand their work to address some of the difficult methodological problems and analytic challenges BLS faces. Fellows are funded to conduct research at the BLS headquarters in Washington, DC, use BLS data and facilities, and work closely with BLS staff. There is more information available on our website at http://www.bls.gov/osmr/asa_nsf_bls_fellowship_info.htm or in our brochure at http://www.amstat.org/careers/pdfs/ASANSFBLSFellowshipProgram.pdf. Proposals are due January 2, 2019 with final decisions anticipated around April 15, 2019.  We encourage interested researchers to contact us before submitting a proposal, so we can provide assistance in tailoring the proposed topic to best utilize your skills and interests in addressing BLS issues. Please contact Daniel Yang (yang.daniel@bls.gov) if you have any questions. 

WORKSHOPS
2019 Arizona Methods Workshop. Please consider joining us for the 9th Annual Arizona Methods Workshops, January 3-5, 2019! This year we will offer workshops in Propensity Score Techniques, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Qualitative Data Analysis in ATLAS.ti, Team and Grant Management, and R. Graduate students can apply for the Scott R. Eliason Award, which covers all but the $50 registration fee. Website (links to workshop descriptions, instructor bios, award application, & online registration): https://sociology.arizona.edu/methods. 

WEBINAR

Harm Reduction Talking Circles for Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives with Alcohol Use Disorders (HaRTC) With Drs. Lonnie Nelson & Susan Collins. Wednesday November 14, 2018, 12PM-1PM PST The Harm Reduction Talking Circles (HaRTC) project is a collaboration between researchers, patients, traditional healers, and the Seattle Indian Health Board to integrate a harm-reduction approach with the Native tradition of the talking circle. In this webinar, the project co-leaders, Drs. Lonnie Nelson and Susan Collins, will discuss the project’s aims, development, and implementation.  Lonnie Nelson, PhD (Eastern band of Cherokee Indians), is a licensed psychologist and an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Washington State University. Dr. Nelson researches health disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native communities as a faculty member with Partnerships for Native Health, a component of the Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health. Susan Collins, PhD, Co-Leader of HaRTC, is a licensed clinical psychologist, Associate Professor, and Co-Director of the University of Washington’s Harm Reduction Research and Treatment Center at Harborview Medical Center.  Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9615391052042/WN_EZjtOCRuTg2AGSRtUk6i3Q. 

D-LAB
D-Lab offers training in Data Science this fall for students as well as pedagogical training for instructors. Visit the D-lab website for more information. 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, visithttp://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.