Fall 2024 Schedule
September 3rd, 2024
Reproducibility Workshop*
*2:45-3:45pm in 8411 Sewell Social Sciences (required only for CDE/CDHA graduate students who have not attended previously, but all welcome), with a Semester Kick-Off Social to follow at the Memorial Union Terrace at 4:00pm
September 10th, 2024
New Faces Flash Research Talks including Callie Freitag, Gina Lee, Gisella Kagy, Dan Sacks, Mollie McQuillan, Quentin Riser & Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero
Lunch will be served at 12pm in 8411
September 17th, 2024
Laura Sochas (University of Edinburgh), “A Quantitative Approach to Critical Population Studies”
September 24th, 2024
Jennifer Glass (University of Texas at Austin), “The Motherlode: Why U.S. mothers are increasingly both financial providers and caregivers and what it means for families”
October 1st, 2024
No DemSem
October 8th, 2024
Jessica Ho (Penn State), “Routes to High and Low Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries”
October 15th, 2024
Sara Curran (University of Washington), “Reflections on Demographic Dynamics and Climate Change”
October 18th, 2024
RISE-THRIVE Initiative: Advancing the Healthspan Workshop*
*Friday, 8am-4pm at the Pyle Center, register here.
October 22nd, 2024
Working Groups (all groups will meet in Sewell Social Sciences during standard DemSem time)
- Families & Family Change (rm. 8417)
- Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility (rm. 2435)
- Spatial & Environmental Demography (rm. 3470)
- Gender & Reproductive Health (rm. 8411)
- Health & Biodemography (rm. 4405)
October 29th, 2024
Jennifer Van Hook (Penn State University), “Texas-Style Exclusion: Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity”
November 7th*, 2024
Geoffrey Wodtke (University of Chicago),* “Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-dimensional Model of Place-based Disparities in Academic Achievement”
*Thursday (co-sponsored by UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty)
November 12th, 2024
Sara Burgard (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), “Remembrance of things past? Measuring life course exposures retrospectively”
November 19th, 2024
Paula Fomby (University of Pennsylvania), “Fathers’ Military Service and Children’s Educational Attainment”
November 26th, 2024
No DemSem (Thanksgiving week)
December 3rd, 2024
Working Groups (all groups will meet in Sewell Social Sciences during standard DemSem time)
- Families & Family Change (rm. 8417)
- Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility (rm. 2435)
- Spatial & Environmental Demography (rm. 3470)
- Gender & Reproductive Health (rm. 8411)
- Health & Biodemography (rm. 4405)
December 10th, 2024
Chris Timmins (UW-Madison), “Hidden Biases: Selective Advertising in the Rental Housing Market”
Lunch will be served at 11:45am in 8411
Spring 2025 Schedule
January 28th, 2025
Tiffany Green (UW-Madison), “Reproductive Health Access & Equity in the Post-Dobbs Era: Challenges and Opportunities in Survey Data Collection”
Lunch will be served at 11:45am in 8417
February 6th, 2025 (THURSDAY CO-SPONSOR WITH IRP)
Van C. Tran (City University of New York), “Vulnerable Asian Americans: From Intra-Asian Diversity to Narrative Plentitude”
February 11, 2025
Steven Alvarado (CDE Visiting Scholar; University of Notre Dame), “The Growing Divide: Neighborhood Disadvantage & College Outcomes Across Demographic Cohorts”
February 18, 2025
Research Working Groups (all groups will meet in Sewell Social Sciences during standard DemSem time)
- Families & Family Change (rm. 8417)
- CANCELLED Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility (rm. 2435)
- Spatial & Environmental Demography (rm. 3470)
- Gender & Reproductive Health (rm. 8146) (new room!)
- Health & Biodemography (rm. 4405)
February 25, 2025
Ariel Azar (CDE Visiting Scholar, Purdue University), “Institutions, the Life Course, & Health: A Research Agenda”
March 4, 2025
Joel Mittleman (University of Pennsylvania), “Gender Inequality Beyond the Gender Binary: Recasting How Gender Shaped American Schooling, 1960-2012”
March 11, 2025
Courtney S. Thomas Tobin (UCLA), “The MOSAIC Initiative: Bridging Research, Community, and Innovation to Address Multimorbidity in Black Communities”
March 18, 2025
Arun Hendi (Princeton University), “Does Inequality Have Momentum? A Demographic Take on Educational Differentials in Mortality”
March 25, 2025
No DemSem – Spring Recess
April 1, 2025
Research Working Groups (all groups will meet in Sewell Social Sciences during standard DemSem time)
- 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)
April 8, 2025
No DemSem – Population Association of America Annual Meeting
April 15, 2025
Rahi Abouk (CDE Visiting Scholar; William Paterson University), “The Roots of Health Disparities: Access to Physicians in Early 20th Century America”
April 22, 2025
Jinkook Lee (USC), “Innovations in Global Aging Research on Brain Health”