DemSem Schedules 2024-2025

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 FreitagGina LeeGisella KagyDan SacksMollie McQuillanQuentin 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