EVENTS
Wednesday, October 23 | 12-1 p.m Demography Brown Bag: “The Long-Term Consequences of Solitary Confinement” Christopher Wildeman, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology, Cornell University. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room. Refreshments and cookies served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, October 21 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works” with Rucker Johnson. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1102 Berkeley Way West.
Wednesday, October 23 | 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Live Stream: Colloquium on Population Health and Health Equity: Immigrant Health. | 5310 Berkeley Way West. Anyone is welcome to stop by the conference room to watch any of the speakers. Full agenda available bCal.
Wednesday, October 23 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use? Mathijs de Vaan, Assistant Professor, Haas. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
EVENTS
Wednesday, October 23 | 12-1 p.m Demography Brown Bag: “The Long-Term Consequences of Solitary Confinement” Christopher Wildeman, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology, Cornell University. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room. Refreshments and cookies served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, October 21 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works” with Rucker Johnson. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1102 Berkeley Way West.
Wednesday, October 23 | 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Live Stream: Colloquium on Population Health and Health Equity: Immigrant Health. | 5310 Berkeley Way West. Anyone is welcome to stop by the conference room to watch any of the speakers. Full agenda available bCal.
Wednesday, October 23 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use? Mathijs de Vaan, Assistant Professor, Haas. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
SAVE THE DATE
Monday, Oct 28, 12:10pm –1:30pm Policy Research Seminar: Assessing Criminal Record Clearance Reforms: Population Effects and Racial Disparities. With Amy Lerman, Professor (UC Berkeley, Goldman School) and Alyssa Mooney, Postdoc (UC Berkeley, California Policy Lab and Goldman School). Goldman School of Public Policy.
Wednesday, October 30 @ 5:10 pm – 6:30 pm. The Triumph of Injustice: A Book Talk with authors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. REGISTER.
Thursday, November 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Book Talk – On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration, David J. Harding. Social Welfare Libary, 227 Haviland Hall #6000.
FUNDING
Sandell Grants and Dissertation Fellowship Programs – opportunity for junior or non-tenured scholars to pursue research on retirement or disability policy.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CDC’s first public crowdsourcing competition for natural language processing is underway! Every day, work-related injury records are generated. In order to alleviate the human effort expended with coding such records, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in close partnership with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), is interested in improving their NLP/ML model to automatically read injury records and classify them according to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS). Objective: The task is a well-defined classification problem. The programming languages are strictly limited to Python and R. Learn more about the CDC Text Classification Marathon.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for submissions – Special Issue of Gender & Society: “Gender Transformations of Higher Education Institutions”. Guest Editor: Julia McQuillan (University of Nebraska); Guest Deputy Editors: Sheryl Skaggs (University of Texas, Dallas) and Kevin Stainback (Purdue University). In 2001, the National Science Foundation (NSF) started to fund “Institutional Transformation” grants as part of a program called “ADVANCE” in recognition that the underrepresentation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields required changes in institutions and not just individuals. Since the ADVANCE program started, numerous gender scholars have brought a sociological gender lens to programs designed for institutional change in higher education. The goal of the NSF ADVANCE program was to recruit, retain, and promote more women in STEM fields. Research and publications on gender and STEM in organizations have burgeoned in the last two decades. Feminist and gender scholars often collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to report the results of their efforts, often publishing in interdisciplinary journals that focus more on outcomes than theories. Only a handful of articles use intersectional frameworks. It is now time to assess what we know about the success and weaknesses of the attempts to transform higher education in feminist directions. We need to have theoretical explanations that help to predict success and failure at organizational attempts to bring women and people of color into STEM disciplines. We need to develop theories that integrate and guide understanding of the transformation of higher education institutions. See the full Call for Papers.
CONFERENCES
The 23rd Annual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences conference invites proposals for a paper presentation. AABSS is sponsored this year by the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Liberal Arts. The conference will be held on February 24-25, 2020 at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with a special conference room rate of $69 per night (plus tax & fees). The deadline for submitting a proposal is November 20th and papers will undergo juried review on a rolling basis, with prompt notifications of acceptance/rejection so that presenters can make early and economical travel arrangements. All presented papers are eligible for submission to the Journal of Behavioral & Social Sciences (www.jbssjournal.org) and all submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for potential publication. Visit the website for details at www.aabss.net.
The European Population Conference 2020 (EPC 2020) June 24-27, 2020 is organized by the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) in collaboration with the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova, Italy. To join EAPS or update your membership, visit our website here. We have finalized the Call for Papers, a PDF version can be found in “Reference Documents”. To see the themes please click on the themes link on the toolbar. Thanks are owed to the members of the program committee and all those who contributed ideas and suggestions. The website is now ready to accept submissions of papers and posters for the meeting. Online Submission Process: At EPC 2020 only one submission as presenting author is allowed. Participants may co-author other papers or posters, but only one presentation per author (paper or poster) will be allowed. Each submission should include a short Abstract as well as an extended Abstract or a full paper. To submit a paper for the meeting, first click on Login/Registration, then on the switchboard click on Submit a paper for the conference. You will then be asked to enter a title for the paper. Once saved, you will be able to enter the authors, an abstract, select the theme to which it will be submitted, and upload an extended abstract or paper. Visit the conference website here: http://epc2020.eaps.nl/. November 1 is the deadline for submissions.
WORKSHOP
27th Annual RAND Summer Institute– Two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists; Workshop on the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging. Interested researchers can apply for financial support covering travel and accommodations. More information and application form.
DATA
The New Immigrant Survey project initial public-use release of data from Round 1 of the NIS 2003 immigrant cohort.
Full-count IPUMS census data spanning the period 1790-1940 are now available. IPUMS USA released the 1860 and 1870 full count datasets on September 25, completing the range of publicly available US Decennial Census full count microdata.
WEBINAR
IPUMS Health Surveys Webinar “Intro to IPUMS NHIS” Wednesday, October 30, 12:00-1:00 p.m. CST. IPUMS NHIS harmonizes data from the National Health Interview Survey collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. Data include annual survey data from 1963 to the present. This webinar will overview the structure of the NHIS data and topics available in IPUMS NHIS, explore website features for customizing data extracts, provide a quick start guide for new users, and share insider knowledge useful to both new and experienced users. Registration is required. Like all IPUMS data, the webinar is free of charge!
D-LAB
The previously cancelled workshop on questionnaire design is rescheduled for October 31 (note date correction). Be sure to check their calendar by visiting the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.
RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
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 which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAILING LIST
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu.