60th Anniversary Celebration and Conference

Friday, October 7

Pre-conference events – open to all

Family, Fertility, and Households Working Group:

8411/8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building, 1180 Observatory Drive

9:30-10:30: Coffee and conversation with Wendy Manning, “Funding Research on Families”

10:30-11:30: Lawrence Wu seminar, “A Cohort Discontinuity Approach to Causal Inference for Vital Rates”

Inequality and Stratification Working Group:

259 Educational Sciences Building, 1025 W Johnson Street

12:00-1:15: Fabian Pfeffer seminar, “The Effects of Financial Aid Policy on Short- and Long-Term Individual Outcomes”

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Conference

Rooms 325 & 326, 3rd floor Pyle Center

12:30: Registration and light lunch

1:00-1:30: Welcome and opening remarks

1:30-2:55: Family, Fertility, and Households

Kelly Musick – Marcy Carlson – Keera Allendorf – Paula Fomby –

Barthelemy Kuate Defo – Wendy Manning – Alejandra Ros Pilarz

3:00-3:30: Break and group photo

3:30-4:45: Health Over the Life Course

Deborah Carr – John Mullahy – Tiffany Green – Michel Guillot –

Malia Jones – Rob Warren – Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

4:45-6:00: Wine Reception + Early Career Scholars’ Research

Alumni Lounge (1st floor, lake view)

• Introduction by Provost Karl Scholz
• Early Career Alumni, Postdoc, & Dissertator Research Posters
• CDE History & Impact Visualized

Evening: Dinner on your own with friends and colleagues

Saturday, October 8

7:00: Optional guided morning exercise! Lakeshore bike ride or walk

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Conference

Rooms 325 & 326, 3rd floor Pyle Center

9:00: Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:45: Spatial and Environmental Demography

Katherine Curtis – James Elliott – Fernando Riosmena –

Elizabeth Fussell – Christina Diaz – Daniel Lichter

10:45-11:15: Break

11:15-12:15: New Directions: Perspectives of Foundations & Federal Agencies

Lawrence Berger – Michael Spittel – Amelia Karraker – Adam Gamoran

12:15-1:00: Lunch

1. General lunch provided for all
2. Research Careers in Government and the Private Sector: Mentoring lunch for interested students, post-docs, early career scholars with Amelia Karraker, Kathryn Edwards, and Esteban Quiñones

1:00-2:25: Inequality and Mobility

Jeff Smith – Eric Grodsky – Fabian Pfeffer – Jennie Brand –

Steven Alvarado – Yu Xie

2:30-3:00: CDE: An Oral History Movie

Introduction by Elizabeth Thomson, UW-Madison and University of Stockholm

3:00-3:30: Break

3:30-4:45: New Frontiers: Biodemography

Jenna Nobles – Jason Fletcher – Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez –

Stephanie Koning – Michal Engelman – Lauren Schmitz

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6pm: Cocktail Reception, Toasts, Dinner

Alumni Lounge (1st floor, lake view)

Jeff Petersen – Robert Hauser – Judith Seltzer – James Walker –

Marcy Carlson