Join us this week for our Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, October 1st, 12pm. Jeffrey W. Lockhart, who recently joined UC Berkeley’s Sociology Department as an Assistant Professor, will present, “The Role of Demographics in Sociological Research: Authorship, Citation, and Acknowledgment.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available via zoom. See the full event details here. Our YouTube channel is here. Visit our event page for both past and upcoming talks here.
Featured affiliate research of the week: The gears in network dynamics: The alter-trajectory approach. 2026. Shira Offer, Claude S. Fischer, and Keunbok Lee. Social Networks Vol. 84, pp. 131-146.
See further announcements and opportunities below.
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EVENTS
September 29 | 2-3:30pm | UC Berkeley Sociology Colloquium Panel | G. Christina Mora, Jenna Nobles, Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, moderated by Cybelle Fox. “Researching and Teaching about Race, Ethnicity, and Migration in These Times.” The recent authoritarian turn in American politics presents various challenges for scholars working in the United States, including the repression of individual scholars; attacks on DEI, our research, and higher education more generally; as well as attacks on our communities, our students, and many of the people and institutions that we study. This panel will feature a conversation with three sociologists whose scholarship and teaching touches on questions of race, ethnicity, and/or migration to discuss how scholars are and should be responding to these threats.
402 Social Sciences Building. In person only.
September 29 | 4-5:30pm | Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative | “The Trump Administration at 9 months: Assessing Democratic Backsliding.”
Panelist: Catherine Lhamon, Executive Director, Edley Center on Law and Democracy
Panelist: Paul Pierson, Director, Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative
Speaker: Eric Schickler, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Join us for the second in a regular series of panels exploring the threatened status of democratic institutions in the United States. UC Berkeley political and legal scholars will weigh in on issues including the weakening of Congress, Trump and the courts, the pressures on civic institutions, and the possible dynamics and implications of popular protest.
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building. Register Now
September 29 | 4pm | Seminar 271, Development Seminar | Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, Assistant Project Scientist with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). “Beyond Publication Bias: Experimental Evidence on Recovering Missing Results In Economics.” 468 Evans Hall. Event details.
September 30 | 12:10-1pm | UC Berkeley School of Public Health | Sean Darling-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Community Health, UC Berkeley. “School Practices and Student Mental Health: Troubling Trends and Promising Pathways.” Online only. Event details.
October 1 | 12-1:05pm | UC Berkeley Demography Seminar Series | Jeffrey W. Lockhart, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, will present, “The Role of Demographics in Sociological Research: Authorship, Citation, and Acknowledgment.” 310 Social Sciences Building and via zoom. See the full event details here.
Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198
Password: DEMOG_BB
October 2 | 3:30-5pm | Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research | Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Book Talk: In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us. Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building. Event details and register here.
FUNDING
Development of Novel or Improved Infertility Technologies (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional)
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
WORKSHOPS
The virtual PAA Applied Demography Conference is back. We are excited to provide applied demographers with a unique opportunity to participate in a conference designed to showcase developments in applied demography, receive feedback on work in progress, and strengthen professional and personal ties within the applied demography community. We seek participation from anyone whose work intersects with population studies, whether in the academic, government, non-profit, or private sector, and at all levels of seniority. Does your work or field of study relate to counting or characterizing populations, or generating/using population data to make decisions? If “Yes” to any of these, then this conference is for you. Submit an abstract, a session or a workshop. See all types of submissions in the Call for Papers. Submissions deadline October 23, 2025. Conference dates: February 10 – 12, 2026.