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CDE & CDHA’s weekly Demography Seminar (DemSem) offers presentations of substantive work at the forefront of population sciences by top scholars from across the university campus and beyond. The Demography Seminar is open to all and meets on Tuesdays during the academic year from 12:15-1:30 p.m. DemSem will meet in 8417 Social Sciences (see exceptions below). Subscribe to our DemSem Google calendar here.
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”