DemSem Schedule: AY2026-2027

Fall 2026 Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held from 12:15-1:30pm in 8417 Sewell Social Science

September 8, 2026

Julie Ober Allen, Wesley Correll-King, Jacob Meyer, Minh Tung Phung, Johnny Uelmen (UW–Madison Faculty). “New Faces Flash Research Talks & Directors’ Welcome.”

September 15, 2026

Trond Petersen (University of California, Berkeley), “Victorious Family Policies. Stagnant Gender Equality” Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology.

September 23*, 2026

DemSem and Sociology Colloquium: Casey Breen, “Revisiting the Black–White Mortality Crossover: Evidence from Large-scale, Linked U.S. Administrative Cohort Data” 
*Wednesday (Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology)
Presentation takes place in 8417 Sewell Social Science from 12:15 – 1:30pm

September 30*, 2026

DemSem and Sociology Colloquium: Beza Taddess, “How Early Do Socioeconomic Gradients in Biological Aging Emerge?”
*Wednesday (Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology)
Presentation takes place in 8417 Sewell Social Science from 12:15 – 1:30pm

October 7*, 2026

DemSem and Sociology Colloquium: Jennifer Candipan, “Beyond the residential neighborhood: Mobility-based neighborhood networks and children’s education”
*Wednesday (Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology)
Presentation takes place in 8417 Sewell Social Science from 12:15 – 1:30pm

October 13, 2026

Meg Bea, Peter Rich, and Sarah Strochak (UW–Madison Faculty), “New and emerging research in the demography of housing”

October 20, 2026

Heather Randell (University of Minnesota), “Development-induced displacement and women’s health: Qualitative evidence from the Brazilian Amazon”

October 27, 2026

Leonard Lopoo (Syracuse University), “Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America’s Population” Co-sponsored with the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

November 3, 2026

Gisella Kagy (UW–Madison), “Consequences of childhood exposure to waterborne lead”

November 10, 2026

No DemSem (Junior Faculty Lunch)

November 12*, 2026

Anuj Gangopadhyaya (Loyola University Chicago)
*Thursday, Co-sponsored with Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP).
Presentation takes place in 8417 Sewell Social Science from 12:15 – 1:30pm

November 17, 2026

Wendy Sigle (London School of Economics and Political Science), “Feminist and Critical Demography – Truth, Power, and Transformation”
**Webinar Only, Co-sponsored with Florida State University’s Center for Demography & Population Health and the Feminist Demography Collective

November 24, 2026

No DemSem

December 1, 2026

Stefanie DeLuca (John Hopkins University), “Title TBD” Co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences (ITP).

December 8, 2026

Sameer Deshpande (UW–Madison), “Title TBD”