Our next Brownbag Seminar of the semester is this Wednesday, October 9th, with Peter Catron, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, who will present his research: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” This is an in-person talk, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences. Event details are here, including zoom link. See our events calendar for our fall semester schedule as well as updates.
Featured affiliate research of the week: Casey Breen and Dennis Feehan. 2024. “New Data Sources for Demographic Research.” Population and Development Review. As part of PDR’s 50th anniversary special issue, Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Celebrating 50 Years of Population and Development Review.
See further announcements and opportunities below.
EVENTS
October 8 | 12:40-2pm | UC Berkeley Health Policy Colloquium Series | Aoife McDermitt, Professor of Human Resources Management, Aston University & Visiting Scholar, Harkness Senior Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, Berkeley Public Health. “Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Healthcare Workers.” 2121 Berkeley Way West Building, 1st Floor, Room 1102. Event details are here.
October 9 | 12:10-1pm | UC Berkeley Demography Colloquium | Peter Catron, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington. Peter will present his research, “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” This is an in-person talk, 310 Social Sciences Building. See the full event details here. See our events calendar for our fall semester schedule as well as updates. Visit our Brown Bag event page for both past and upcoming talks here. Zoom Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB
CONFERENCES
Call for abstracts. The 5th International Sociological Association Forum, “Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene” will be held in Rabat, Morocco on July 6-11, 2025. The deadline for submission is October 15, 2024. Submit your abstract here.
WORKSHOPS
The National Academies’ Committee on Population is organizing a hybrid, 1.5 day workshop, to be held on October 15, 16, 2024:
There is no cost to attend. This workshop will focus on:
- Measuring trends and disparities in working-age disabilities and disabling morbidities
- Social and economic factors influencing trends in disabling conditions, with a specific focus on work and employment-related drivers
- Implications of COVID era and COVID developments for key public programs.
The motivation for focusing on these topics is that health and disability trends during midlife have been worsening. Through this workshop, NIA hopes to gain insight on critical research questions and data needs for midlife health with attention to disparities and interactions with labor markets and public programs. Registration is available here: Workshop on Health and Disability among Working-Age Adults Trends, Disparities, and Implications for Employment and Federal Programs Day 1 and 2 | National Academies
Virtual Town Halls with the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center. We would like to invite you to help shape research priorities related to aging and dementia at one of our upcoming virtual town halls hosted by the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center. Our first town hall will be on October 9th, with others hosted throughout the rest of the year.
What is the GECC?
The Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC) is an NIA-funded initiative that brings together research experts and other partners to advance the science on sources of dementia risk and resilience. The GECC aims to contribute to our understanding of how life experiences and exposures shape the risk of dementia, how societal structures support aging populations, and what causes disparities in risk across populations. Collectively, the features that influence health and well-being over a lifetime are known as the exposome and we aim to identify research priorities and develop best practices for measuring, harmonizing, and using exposome data. You can learn more about the center at https://gatewayexposome.org/.
Critical to this work are the voices of people across government, advocacy, academia, local communities, and industry who can share their expertise on what experiences may promote healthy aging and reduce risks of dementia. To hear these voices, the GECC is hosting a series of virtual town halls.
When are the town halls?
Town halls will be held from October to December 2024, with two sessions each month to accommodate participants in different time zones. Participants need only attend one session but are welcome to attend multiple. The dates and times will be as follows:
Wednesday, October 9 | Session 1: 9-10:30 AM EST/3-4:30 PM CETSession 2: 2-3:30 PM EST/11-12:30 PM PST |
Monday, November 4 | |
Tuesday, December 10 |
Berkeley Population Center