Reminder!! Essential Demography Symposium to honor Professor Kenneth Wachter. The schedule for the celebration of Ken this Friday, October 2 is attached. The event will take place in the Tilden Room on the 5th floor of the Martin Luther King Building, beginning with breakfast and coffee at 9:00 a.m. RSVP here.

No Brown Bag Seminar this week. There is no Brown Bag this week because of the special event “Essential Demography Symposium to honor Professor Kenneth Wachter” on Friday, October 2. Our next Brown Bag will be on Wednesday, October 7, with Leonardo Martinez (UC Berkeley) presenting “Tuberculosis Risk During Pregnancy and Postpartum Among Women With HIV in Kenya.”

Featured affiliate research of the week: Preparing for an Aging Africa: Data-Driven Priorities for Economic Research and Policy. (2026). Madeline Duhon, Edward Miguel, Amos Njuguna, Daniela Pinto Veizaga and Michael Walker. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 4(3).

See further announcements and opportunities below.

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EVENTS

September 28 | 2-3:30pm | Sociology Fall Colloquium | Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Brown University. “Crime Fiction: How Racist Lies Built a System of Wrongful Conviction.” 402 Social Science Building and zoom. Reception to follow in 420 Social Science Building.

FUNDING

Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics: November 2026 Rolling Call. The Weiss Fund supports research in development economics, broadly defined, on issues affecting low- and middle-income countries. Degree-seeking students and junior faculty at participating institutions, including UC Berkeley, are eligible. Its rolling cycle offers research grants and implementation and policy grants of up to $25,000, and travel and piloting grants of up to $15,000. Larger requests are reviewed in the spring and fall cycles. The next rolling deadline is November 1, 2026, followed by February 1 and May 1, 2027, and decisions are expected about a month after submission. See the eligibility rules and the application portal.

CACHE Call for Workshop Proposals. CACHE invites proposals for a topical in-person or hybrid workshop to be held during the 2026–27 academic year, with $15,000 available for one workshop. Proposals should fit CACHE’s aging–health–environment mission, have a data or methods focus, and include opportunities for early-career researchers. Proposals are due October 19, 2026. See more information.

CACHE Call for Seed Grant Proposals. CACHE is offering seed funding for projects that integrate social and environmental data to study the intersections of aging, health and environment. It expects to make two to three awards of $25,000. Applications are due October 30, 2026. See more information.

Health and Extreme Weather Research Award Program. The Natural Hazards Center, with funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, is accepting proposals for research on the health risks and consequences of wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, floods, extreme heat and other extreme weather events in the United States. Awards range from $10,000 for single investigators to $50,000 for multidisciplinary teams. Projects must be completed within six months. The PI must hold a PhD or equivalent and work at an academic institution in a U.S. state, territory or tribal nation. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis until funds are exhausted. A proposal Q&A session will be held October 15, 2026, 12:00 p.m. Pacific. See the call for proposals.

CALLS

Call for Papers: The Milbank Quarterly Special Issue. The Milbank Quarterly, in partnership with Syracuse University’s Center for Aging and Policy Studies and Center for Policy Research, invites empirical, methodological and theoretical papers for a special issue on “How Policy Contexts Impact Population Health in the United States.” It is especially interested in work linking variation and change in federal, state and local policy to health outcomes, identifying mechanisms, or improving how policy contexts are measured. Guest editors are Jennifer Karas Montez, Shannon Monnat and Emily Wiemers. Manuscripts are due November 1, 2026, and the issue will be published in November 2027. See the full call for submissions.

Call for Papers: Demographic Research Special Collection on Kinship Demography. Demographic Research invites submissions to a special collection, “Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities.” It welcomes empirical, methodological and theoretical work, preferably quantitative or mixed-methods, on how kin availability and structure vary across groups, time and place, and how kinship shapes caregiving, health, bereavement and aging with limited kin. Work on non-traditional family forms and understudied world regions is especially welcome. Guest editors are Ashton Verdery, Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez and Elena Maria Pojman. Submissions are due December 15, 2026 through the journal’s submission portal. See the submission guidelines.

Call for Papers: Scientific Reports Collection on Climate Adaptation in Africa. Scientific Reports invites original research for a collection on “Climate Information, Decision Support and Adaptation Pathways in Africa.” It welcomes interdisciplinary work on climate adaptation and climate-resilient development, including climate risk assessment, early warning systems, adaptation planning, socio-economic and governance analysis, Indigenous knowledge and community-led approaches, and digital tools for monitoring, forecasting and decision support. Narrative reviews can be submitted to the sister journal Scientific Reviews. Submissions are due June 8, 2027. See the collection details and guest editors.

IPC2029 Call for Session Topic Suggestions. The IUSSP Council invites members to suggest session topics for the 31st International Population Conference, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2029. Each suggestion needs a short session title, a rationale of up to 200 words, two potential organizers and a primary theme. Members can also volunteer to serve as organizers or chairs, though travel funding is unlikely to be available. Suggestions are due December 15, 2026. Log in to iussp.org with a current membership to submit a suggestion.

DATA AND RESOURCES

2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit Report. The National Institute on Aging has released the report from its 2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit. It highlights key research gaps and opportunities in dementia care and caregiving. See the full report, video recordings and related materials.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Measuring Disability and Functioning in Studies of Aging. The Network for Innovative Methods in Longitudinal Studies of Aging (NIMLAS) and the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA) will host a hybrid workshop on Thursday, October 8, 2026, 2:00–3:30 p.m. Central (12:00–1:30 p.m. Pacific). It will cover conceptual models of disability and functioning, how existing measures align with one another and with disability experiences, and survey measurement issues such as mode effects, proxy reports and new measures. It closes with a “measurement clinic” where participants can get feedback on the best measures for their own survey designs. Register by October 1.

IUSSP–PAA Webinars on AI and Demography. The IUSSP and PAA will host two webinars on how artificial intelligence is being used in demographic research, from data collection and estimation to simulation and dissemination. They will also cover challenges such as confidentiality, bias, transparency and unequal access, including in the Global South. Part 1 is on Friday, October 16, 2026, 7:00–8:30 a.m. Pacific, with Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni, Andrew Tatem and Matthew Hauer. Part 2 is on Thursday, October 22, 2026, 7:00–8:30 a.m. Pacific, with Evans Omondi, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Tyler McCormick and Madeleine Short Fabic. Vissého Adjiwanou moderates both. Register separately for each webinar. Questions for the speakers can be submitted when registering. See more information, speaker bios and registration.