Events

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 8, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 15, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

From Dr. Curran: The presentation will reflect upon past and current research around demographic dynamics and climate change. The talk will consider how demographers might think more broadly about both adaptation and mitigation in relation …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 17, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Fall IRP Seminar Series.  Precarious employment (PE), which encompasses the power relations between workers and employers, is a well-established social determinant of health. Often characterized …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 22, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 29, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

While Americans largely support legal immigration, this support is conditional on the basis that immigrants “make it on their own”. European-origin Industrial Era immigrants came to U.S. impoverished, worked hard, and achieved the American Dream …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 31, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Fall IRP Seminar Series.  Drawing on nationally representative data from the 1996–2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Dr. Altman will examine associations between migration …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
November 7, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Fall IRP Seminar Series.  Disparities in academic achievement between students from high- and low-poverty neighborhoods are often attributed to unequal school environments. Using nationally representative data …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
November 12, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

From Dr. Burgard: Major ongoing longitudinal studies of aging start interviewing respondents in later life and have added retrospective life history (RLH) interviews or retrospective questions to fill in information about earlier exposures and experiences …

5131 Nancy Nicholas Hall
November 14, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Fall IRP Seminar Series.  The killing of Breonna Taylor in 2020 brought national attention to no-knock search warrants, a policing practice that allows law enforcement officers …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
November 19, 2024 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

From Dr. Fomby: US men’s military service has mixed effects on their own later status attainment. We consider whether and how Black and white men’s military service contributes to their children’s status attainment as measured …