EVENTS
Wednesday, September 26, 12-1:10 PM. Kevin Thomas (Penn State University) will present, “Foreign Student Emigration to the United States: Pathways of Entry, Demographic Antecedents, and Origin-Country Contexts.” 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies and refreshments served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, September 24, 2-3:30 PM. “Logics in Conflict? Contradictions in Campus Sexual Misconduct Adjudication” with Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Michigan. Barrows 402.
September 25: “Putting AI to Work: Technology and Policy for Enabling the Workforce of the Future” http://puttingaitowork.
September 25, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., “Pre-Results Review at the Journal of Development Economics” and “Long-term impacts of hosting refugees on second generation health outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania and Uganda” with Aleksandar Bogdanoski and Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, CEGA. Evans 648.
EVENTS
Wednesday, September 26, 12-1:10 PM. Kevin Thomas (Penn State University) will present, “Foreign Student Emigration to the United States: Pathways of Entry, Demographic Antecedents, and Origin-Country Contexts.” 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies and refreshments served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, September 24, 2-3:30 PM. “Logics in Conflict? Contradictions in Campus Sexual Misconduct Adjudication” with Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Michigan. Barrows 402.
September 25: “Putting AI to Work: Technology and Policy for Enabling the Workforce of the Future” http://puttingaitowork.
September 25, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., “Pre-Results Review at the Journal of Development Economics” and “Long-term impacts of hosting refugees on second generation health outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania and Uganda” with Aleksandar Bogdanoski and Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, CEGA. Evans 648.
Wednesday, Sept 26, 4-5:30 PM. Hal Varian who will talk about robots and humans in the future of work “Automation and Procreation”. 658 Evans Hall.
Wednesday September 26, 4-5 PM. Demography Department Fall Reception. Come meet and greet. Refreshments and snacks served. 2232 Piedmont Avenue.
Thursday, September 27 | 1:00 to 2:30 PM QMG Presents: Securing Grants for Qualitative Research in a Positivist Funding Environment: A Conversation with Professor David Harding. | 356 Barrows Hall. To register, please click here.
September 26 | 12-1:30 p.m. “Moving Beyond Recruitment: Supporting and Retaining Black Male Teachers” Travis J. Bristol, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room, 12-1 PM. “Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply” with Supreet Kaur | 648 Evans Hall.
September 25 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. “Why do Spatial Wage Gaps Persist? Evidence from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany” with Tommaso Porzio, University of California, San Diego, 597 Evans Hall.
September 26 | 12-1:30 p.m.Moving Beyond Recruitment: Supporting and Retaining Black Male Teachers. Travis J. Bristol, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
September 27 | 12-1:30 p.m. “Deportations: When Immigrants Are Sent Back” with Rafael Alarcon. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
September 27 | 12-1 p.m. “Fighting mosquito-borne diseases with genomics, machine learning and likelihood functions” with John Marshall, Assistant Professor in Residence. 5101 Berkeley Way West
SAVE THE DATE
Tuesday, October 2, 4:10 – 5:00 PM. “The challenge of big data and data science for the social sciences” Henry Brady, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy. BIDS, 190 Doe Library.
Friday, October 5, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR CC) open meeting on on NIH’s campus (Rockledge II, room 9112/9116) or online (WebEx access code: 628 548 199, password: gWZPDbr4). Representatives from NIH Institutes and Centers will meet to discuss behavioral and social sciences-relevant topics. This is a good way to understand their funding priorities.
Friday October 12, 12-1 PM. “Deterring Illegal Entry: Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions” Gordon Hanson – UC San Diego. 248 Giannini Hall
OCTOBER 10 @ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. “The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data” With John Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau. IRLE. REGISTER.
CONFERENCES
8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association will take place 15th-19th July 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. The ESRA Conference Committee is now inviting researchers who are active in the field of survey research, survey methodology and data analysis to submit proposals for individual paper and poster presentations for the conference. Proposals are invited in any area of survey methodology, or in substantive applications of survey research. We encourage proposals from researchers with a variety of backgrounds, including academic research, national statistics and market research. For more information, visit https://www.
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR): Call for Abstracts. The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is pleased to announce that its 74th Annual Conference will be held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, May 16-19, 2019. 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. Submissions will be grouped into the following conference tracks. All Abstracts should be submitted electronically by Monday, November 12, 11:59 a.m. (EST). Important Dates: Papers, Methodological Briefs and Poster Abstracts: November 12, 2018. Panel Proposals: November 12, 2018, Acceptance notification: Mid-January, 2019. For more about the conference and how to submit abstracts, visit https://www.aapor.org/
LMICs on Friday, February 22, 2019 and have released a call for abstracts. Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 12, 2018. This workshop is designed to share leading research methods and findings on comparative patterns of adult mortality, mortality determinants, and risk factors in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), following-up on workshops held on this topic at USC and Berkeley in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Details are in this PDF.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Beyond Academia for the Public Sector Fellowships Workshop. Thinking about fellowships in government, policy, or the public sector after your PhD? Curious about how to make your application stand out from the crowd? Join Beyond Academia for the Public Sector Fellowships Workshop and learn from current fellows to discuss a variety of programs and get detailed information on the application process. This event will include light refreshments and a concluding networking reception. We will host panelists from: the California Council of Science and Technology (CCST) Policy Fellowships; the Delta Science (previously known as CALFED) Fellows Program; the Mellon / American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program; and the Fulbright Program. The event is free but requires a $10 deposit which is refunded to attendees after the event. For more information and to register, please check out the event page here!
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, visit http://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.
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.