Weekly News – October 23, 2017 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday, October 25, 12:10-1:15 PM. Human Health and Disease: Dynamics, Statics, and the Compression of Morbidity: Steven Orzack, Fresh Pond Research Institute. Demography Seminar room. 2232 Piedmont Ave. Refreshments and cookies served. [Grad students: Dr Orzack is available to meet Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. Contact Prof Ken Wachter, wachter@demog.berkeley.edu, for more information.
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Monday, October 23, 2-3:30 PM. Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia” with Karida Brown, UCLA. 402 Barrows Hall. [Brown brings together major debates at the intersections of race, migration, and cultural sociology to rethink the most dramatic population redistribution of the 20th century—the African American Great Migration.]

Tuesday, October 24, 5-7 PM. “Why Marry? Comparative Perspectives on Kinship, the House, and Marriage in the Eastern Himalayas.” With Stéphane Gros, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for 2017; Researcher, Centre for Himalayan Studies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

Wednesday, October 25, 4-5:30 PM. The Afterlife of Migration: Balikbayans and the Return Economy in Contemporary Manila.” Speaker: Eric Pido, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University. 180 Doe Library.

Friday, October 27 | 12-1 p.m. “Spillovers across workplaces from OSHA Safety Inspections: Evidence from randomized inspections” with David Levine. | 648 Evans Hall.

Friday, October 27 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. Why Can’t a Baby Be Born Through Its Mother’s Belly Button?: How evolution helps us understand why human childbirth is uniquely dangerous, and why half of all marriages end in divorce. With Malcolm Potts. | 714c University Hall. RSVP recommended: open to graduate and undergraduate students.

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
My ‘Paper Son’ Story: Reflections and Lessons. Saturday, October 28, 2017, 2-4 PM. Panelists are all descendants of paper sons and daughters: Buck Gee, Katie Quan, William Gee Wong, Judy Yung. Panel discussion will be preceded by a special advanced screening, of a 35-minute section of a PBS American Experience documentary, to be aired in May 2018, “The Chinese Exclusion Act,” by Emmy-award winning filmmakers Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu. At San Francisco State University, Humanities Building, HUM 133, On Tapia Drive (from 19th Avenue, turn on Holloway Avenue, then Tapia Drive), Map is here. Parking is available on the street, as well as in the parking structure on North State Street. RSVP: info@aiisf.org.

Wednesday, October 25th from 3:30 – 5:00. “Origins of a Legitimation Crisis: Medical Science, Private Profit, and the Challenge of Big Pharma”, Joseph Gabriel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine , Florida State University.Where: Laurel Heights Room 474, UCSF.

SAVE THE DATE
Friday, November 3, 12-1 PM. Berk Özler-The World Bank-Senior Economist, Development Research Group. ARE Dept. Friday Seminar Series.

FUNDING
The Russell Sage Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry until November 30, 2017 at 2pm ET/11am PT in the following areas: Future of Work, Social Inequality, Behavioral Economics, as well as the special initiatives on Non-Standard Employment and The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act. View all funding opportunities and application guidelines.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Applications: Young Scholars Symposium 2018. The Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to announce our annual Young Scholars Symposium. Our visiting professor for this academic year is Professor José E. Limón, Notre Dame Foundation Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor of American Literature Emeritus University of Texas at Austin, and former Director of the Institute for Latino Studies. Professor José E. Limón’s activities on the Notre Dame campus will include a symposium for advanced doctoral students and pre-tenured professors. We seek applications from young scholars who are working on a dissertation, a book, or another research project related to the study of U.S. Latina and Latino populations. Successful nominees will attend Professor José E. Limón’s public lecture and participate in a symposium at which they will present a dissertation chapter or essay draft for discussion with Professor José E. Limón and ILS faculty fellows. ILS will cover all expenses and offer an honorarium of $500 to each young scholar selected to participate in these events, which will take place April 25-27, 2018 at the University of Notre Dame. Applicants are asked to submit a CV, one letter of recommendation, and a brief (2 pages or less) application letter that presents (a) a general summary of your dissertation project and/or overall research agenda, (b) a précis of your proposed chapter or essay submission for the symposium, (c) a statement of your progress to date on the overall project and on the proposed chapter or essay submission, and (d) a statement of how specifically Professor José E. Limón’s expertise and mentorship will enhance your research. Please submit your application materials no later than December 4, 2017 to latino@nd.edu.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Master of Development Practice is pleased to announce the 2018 Global Development Fellows (GDF) program. GDF provides $7,500 summer fellowships for qualified UCB grad students to undertake 8-10 week consultant or research projects for host organizations — NGOs, social enterprises, government agencies, universities, research institutions, etc. — in countries where the US Agency for International Development (USAID) operates. Interested students identify and work with their prospective hosts to propose their project and apply for funding. Up to twenty fellowships will be provided to UCB grad students. Join the sixty UCB graduate students who, since 2015, have learned new skills and gained valuable field experience while contributing to solutions to major global challenges For more information, attend the upcoming information session: Tuesday, November 7: 5:15pm – 6:00pm The info session will take place in 311 Wellman Hall. Information is also available at: https://mdp.berkeley.edu/global-development-fellowships-about/.

DATA.
European Social Survey Round 10. Applications are now being invited for teams of academics to design modules for inclusion in the European Social Survey Round 10 questionnaire. This will be fielded from September 2020 with data available in late 2021. Applications are welcome for both new and repeat modules. There is a two stage application process. The deadline for Stage 1 applications is 18th January 2018. Details about the call and application guidelines can be found on the ESS website (http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/methodology/ess_methodology/source_questionnaire/call_for_proposals.html).

WEBINAR
Women’s Health: An overview of Policy, Research and Funding. Thursday, October 26 | 12-1 p.m. UC Berkeley Public Health Alumni Association Webinar. With Dr. Christine Dehlendorf. More information and Registration.

Survey Weighting: Goals and Methods, Tuesday, November 14, 2017, Noon – 1:30 PM CST. Presented by Richard Valliant. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the different steps in weighting and the reasoning behind each; 2. Understand how weights are used to correct for coverage errors and nonresponse; and 3. Understand how weighting approaches differ for probability and nonprobability samples. Go here to register: http://www.aapor.org/Education-Resources/Online-Education/Webinar-Details.aspx?webinar=WEB1117. (Registration works best using Chrome or Firefox).

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. This week includes Creating Maps in R, Intro to STATA, R, Tableau and Python. 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.