EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
Research Presentations by Demography Faculty
Wednesday, September 9, 12-1:15 PM. Demography Brown Bag. Linguistic Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration: Evidence from Ellis Island Oral Histories. Leah Platt Boustan, Department of Economics, Princeton University. Zoom Meeting ID: 928 0042 4142. Password: DEMOG916
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Tuesday September 8, 11:30 am – 1 pm. SPH Seminar: Sadie Costello, “The other essential workers: Implementation and impact of COVID-19 prevention measures on the physical and emotional well being of unionized grocery store workers” https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/
Tuesday September 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. “How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data” Raj Chetty, Harvard University
Wednesday, September 9 | 10:00 SHARP!-11:30 a.m. “Unequal societies: Slavery, abolition, and long-run consequences.” Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics. Write to camillen@berkeley.edu for the link
EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
Research Presentations by Demography Faculty
Wednesday, September 9, 12-1:15 PM. Demography Brown Bag. Linguistic Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration: Evidence from Ellis Island Oral Histories. Leah Platt Boustan, Department of Economics, Princeton University. Zoom Meeting ID: 928 0042 4142. Password: DEMOG916
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Tuesday September 8, 11:30 am – 1 pm. SPH Seminar: Sadie Costello, “The other essential workers: Implementation and impact of COVID-19 prevention measures on the physical and emotional well being of unionized grocery store workers” https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/
Tuesday September 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. “How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data” Raj Chetty, Harvard University
Wednesday, September 9 | 10:00 SHARP!-11:30 a.m. “Unequal societies: Slavery, abolition, and long-run consequences.” Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics. Write to camillen@berkeley.edu for the link.
SAVE THE DATE
Friday, October 9, 12 PM – 1:30 PM The Population Centers of the University of California – newly dubbed UCPop – is pleased to announce its inaugural (remote) meeting, “Race and Inequality: A Collaborative UCPop Event.” Keynote talk: “Demography of Race: The Propaganda of Demography” by Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Call for graduate-student presenters: Graduate associates of one of the four UC population/demography centers are invited to submit proposals for a 10-minute research presentation related to race and inequality. Two student presenters will be selected from each center (UC Berkeley, UCSB, UCLA and UCI). Presentations will be grouped thematically into four parallel breakout sessions that will follow the keynote talk. Student presenters will have the opportunity to suggest faculty “respondents” from other UC population centers. Based on these suggestions, UCPop will invite faculty respondents to provide feedback during the breakout sessions. Interested graduate associates should submit titles and abstracts (or extended abstracts) of their research projects, and provide names of 2-3 faculty members from other UC population centers centers who might be invited to serve as respondents. This information should be submitted to local center directors by Tuesday, September 15, as follows:
UC Berkeley: Josh Goldstein, josh.goldstein@berkeley.edu
UC Santa Barbara: Maria Charles, mcharles@soc.ucsb.edu
UC Los Angeles: Jennie E. Brand, brand@Soc.ucla.edu
UC Irvine: Tim Bruckner, tim.bruckner@uci.edu or David Neumark, dneumark@uci.edu
Wednesday, September 16 | 12-1 p.m. Disrupting Upstream Determinants of Family and Community Violence in the COVID-19 Era. Panel Discussion; featuring Dr. Anita Raj, UC San Diego, Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, RYSE Center, CSU San Francisco, Dr. Michael Lens, UCLA and John Finley, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) with Erin Kerrison, UC Berkeley (moderator). For more information and the zoom link, visit: https://events.berkeley.edu/
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Monday, Sept 21, 12-4 PM EDT. Bowling Green’s Center for Family & Demographic Research presents Declining Fertility in the U.S.: Interpretations, Predictions, and Implications. The symposium is free, but pre-registration is required. Please contact the CFDR office, cfdr@bgsu.edu, to register. Speakers include Lawrence Wu, NYU, Allison Gemmill, Johns Hopkins and Joshua Goldstein, UCB.
Thursday, September 17, 2020, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST “Health Care – Population Health Science Partnerships: What Can And Can’t They Do”. The growing interest in population health approaches among health care entities is creating new opportunities for partnerships between health care systems and population health science. This webinar examines the potential, as well as the challenges and limitations, of these partnerships for advancing population health and equity. Organized and moderated by Sara Curran (University of Washington) and Chris Bachrach (University of Maryland). Register here.
WORKSHOPS
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography. The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) will be offering a five-day intensive online course and encourages qualified candidates to apply:. Instructors: Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Samin Aref, André Grow, Sophie Lohmann, Emilio Zagheni. Start date: 9 November 2020, End date: 13 November 2020. For more information and application instructions please visit https://tinyurl.com/dcd-call. The application deadline is 9 October 2020.
FUNDING
Request for Pilot Proposals: Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America (NLCHDD). Due Date: Monday, October 12, 2020 @ 5:00pm. The NLCHDD, funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites researchers to submit pilot proposals that have potential to better understand how US adult health and mortality outcomes are shaped by meso-level contexts. By meso-level, we mean the county, metro area, city, carceral apparatus, commuting zone, housing or labor market, hospital catchment area, and other contextual levels of influence that are not state-level but are also broader than local contexts such as neighborhoods. For more information about the NLCHDD, its pilot proposal program, and submission instructions, see: https://gero.usc.edu/nlchdd/
DATA
The European Social Survey (ESS) has issued a call for questions to be asked in a new cross-national online panel, scheduled to be fielded in 12 countries during 2021 and 2022. This work builds on the success of the pioneering CRONOS panel, implemented in three countries (Estonia, Great Britain and Slovenia) during 2016-18. CRONOS-2 is expected to be fielded amongst respondents in Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The online panel – due to begin in some countries in April 2021 – will comprise six waves of 60 questions that will each take participants around 20 minutes to complete. Respondents will be recruited at the end of ESS Round 10 face-to-face interviews and the panel will include only the on-line population. Applications are invited for up to 15 questions to be asked in a single wave, or 20 longitudinal questions to be asked across all waves (e.g. 5 questions asked in wave 1 and repeated in waves 2, 4 and 5). Waves 1, 2, 4 and 5 will include proposed questions selected as part of this call, as well as a similar call for questions that will be published on the ESS website early next year. This initial call will primarily cover questions to be included in waves 1 and 2, though we welcome applications at this stage from research teams who would be interested in undertaking a longitudinal study. Successful applicants for the four waves will be chosen to work with the ESS in order to develop a module of survey questions which would then be fielded on the panel. Whist teams must include those from ESS countries team members from outside Europe can also be included. The deadline for applications is 5pm (UTC+1) on Tuesday 29 September 2020. Please, forward this call to interested colleagues. For further details and guidelines on how to apply see https://bit.ly/2PhFb3j. Feel free to contact ess@city.ac.uk with any questions you may have regarding this call.|
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Principal Investigators are responsible for informing all members of the project team that procuring, obtaining, providing, or using any telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies Company, ZTE Corporation (or any subsidiary or affiliate of such entities), Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company, Dahua Technology Company (or any subsidiary or affiliate of such entities), or any other entity reasonably believed to be owned or controlled by, or otherwise connected to, the government of a covered foreign country is strictly prohibited. Note that personal device use, including cell phone use, is included in the prohibition. In addition, PIs are advised to work closely with Supply Chain Management on procurement of any third-party services. Any known breach of the ban must be reported to SPO as soon as reasonably possible.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Pacific Sociological Association: The Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award recognizes a graduate student or students for a paper of high professional quality. This award includes a $200 honorarium and two nights of lodging at the conference hotel. To be eligible a paper must be: 1) worthy of special recognition for outstanding scholarship; 2) written by a graduate student or students in the Pacific region; 3) written or substantially revised in the last year; 4) presented at the upcoming PSA annual conference; and 5) in article format but not yet published. Nominations for the award must include a copy of the paper, an abstract, and a minimum of one letter of support. The deadline for nominations is February 1. Send nominations materials to awards@pacificsoc.org.
NSF/NSB: Vannevar Bush Award (Closes: September 30, 2020)
NSF/NSB: Public Service Award (Closes: September 30, 2020)
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) is now accepting nominations for the annual Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize in Social Science and Public Policy. The Moynihan Prize was created to recognize social scientists, public officials, and civic leaders who champion the use of informed judgment to advance the public good. The winner is recognized at a formal event to be (tentatively) held in 2021 and receives a $20,000 prize. The nomination form can be found here and nominations will be accepted until October 16, 2020.
D-LAB
All D-Lab workshop instruction, events, and consultation are moving to online delivery for the rest of the semester. The D-Lab Collaboratory and Convening Room will be closed to the public during this time. We will assess and share decisions at a later date about how and when we will return to in-person delivery. Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.
RELATED LISTS
Jobs
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
Migration Mailing List
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link
School of Public Health Mailing List
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu.