Past Event Category: DemSem
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May 13Summer DemSem 2026
Introduction to Aging and Cognition Research
Sewell Social Science
The full EdDEM Spring 2026 Workshop agenda can be here.
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Feb 18DemSem: Working Groups8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Locations in Sewell Social Sciences: Families & Family Change (rm. 8417) Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility (rm. 2435) Spatial & Environmental Demography (rm. 3470) Gender & Reproductive Health (rm. 8146) Health & Biodemography (rm. 4405)
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Oct 8DemSem: Jessica Ho (Penn State University), “Routes to High & Low Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Ho: Contemporary high-income countries have achieved the highest life expectancies observed to date in human history. However, there remains considerable variation even among these long-lived populations. This talk explains why the United States has the lowest life expectancy among high-income countries, now lagging behind its peers by decades. I will also explore how …
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Apr 23DemSem: Uchechi Mitchell (University of Illinois-Chicago), “The Stress Process in the Lives of Older Black Adults”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
This presentation covers the ways in which race and stress interact to affect the physical, mental and cognitive health of older Black adults. It identifies the factors and mechanisms that put them at greater risk for poor health compared to white populations, while also highlighting protective factors and cultural assets within the Black community
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Apr 9DemSem: Working Group Meetings8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Working Group Meetings (all meetings in Sewell Social Sciences) Families & Family Change, led by Christine Schwartz & Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Rm. 8417 *CANCELLED* Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. 2435 Spatial & Environmental Demography, led by Malia Jones & Meg Bea, Rm. 3470 *CANCELLED* Gender & Reproductive Health, …
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Apr 2DemSem: Jacqueline (Jackie) Torres (UC-San Francisco), “Upward influences of adult child socio-economic status on parents’ health: an expansion of lifecourse epidemiology with quasi-experimental and observational evidence”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Torres: Lifecourse epidemiology has long recognized the importance of intergenerational influences on health. However, the direction of these influences is typically described as flowing downward, from one generation to the next. A rapidly emerging body of scholarship from economics, sociology, and public health has begun to consider the reverse – that is, whether …
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Mar 19DemSem: Working Group Meetings8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Working Group Meetings (all meetings in Sewell Social Sciences) Families & Family Change, led by Christine Schwartz & Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Rm. 8417 *CANCELLED!* Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. 2435 Spatial & Environmental Demography, led by Malia Jones & Meg Bea, Rm. 3470 Gender & Reproductive Health, led …
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Mar 12DemSem: Byungkyu (BK) Lee (New York University), “Homogeneity and Health: Sameness and Othering Processes in Suicide and COVID-19 Infection”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Lee: “Individuals prefer to be connected to those who are similar to themselves, generating a homogenous network environment. How does homogeneity shape our own health and our perception of the health status of others? In the first part of the talk, I use a novel harmonized data set on completed suicide in the …
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Mar 5DemSem: Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde (CDE Visiting Scholar, Utah State University), “Intersectionality & Discrimination: Predicting Cardiovascular, & Sleep Health Outcomes among Sexual & Gender Minorities”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Lunch will be served at 11:45 am in 8417 Sewell Social Sciences From Marquez-Velarde: “The chronic exposure to social disadvantage-related stressors becomes biologically embedded over time. Discrimination is a chronic stressor associated with adverse health outcomes among both racial & ethnic and sexual & gender minoritized individuals. Extant research predominantly examines the health effects of …
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Feb 27DemSem: Isaac Sasson (Tel Aviv University), “Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Sasson: “In this talk I propose a demographic framework for conceptualizing the burden of bereavement with respect to intensity and predictability. Applying this framework to Swedish population register data reveals inequalities in bereavement by education and income among the 1973 birth cohort, including differences in cumulative exposure to deaths of family members and in …