Spring 2011

Wednesday, January 19
Student Presentations, University of Wisconsin, Sociology
Spring Symposium: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 50 Years of Medial Sociology
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, January 26
Student Presentations, University of Wisconsin, Sociology
Spring Symposium: Journal Demography Special Issue, Research on the Demography
and Economics of Aging
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, February 2
Jenna Nobles, University of Wisconsin, Sociology
Longitudinal Data Analysis (Seminar was cancelled due to a sever snow storm.)
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, February 9
Amelia Karraker, University of Wisconsin, Sociology
Relative to Whom? Social Status and Mental Health
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, February 16
Sun Woo Kang, University of Wisconsin, Human Development and Family Studies
Caregiving and Clinically-Assessed Biological Risk Factors: Evidence from MIDUS
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, February 23
Hannah Grol-Prokopczyk, University of Wisconsin, Sociology
Categorical Borders across Borders: Using Anchoring Vignettes to Measure CrossNational
Differences in Health-Rating Style
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, March 2
Robin Högnäs, University of Wisconsin, Center for Demography and Ecology
Family Transitions and Social Integration (cancelled)
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Thursday, March 10
Judith Seltzer, University of California Los Angeles, Sociology
Doubling Up When Times Are Tough: A Study of Obligations to Share a Home in
Response to Economic Hardship (CDE/CDHA/IRP joint seminar)
12:15-1:30 PM, 8417 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, March 16
No seminar Spring Break

Wednesday, March 23
Rob Mare, University of California Los Angeles, Sociology
The Multigenerational Demography of Social Mobility (Sociology Department
Colloquium)
12:00 PM, 8417 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, March 30
No Seminar PAA Conference

Wednesday, April 6
Elizabeth Bruch, University of Michigan, Sociology
Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Health
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Tuesday, April 12
Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University, Biology & Population Studies
Variation among Individuals: Selection, Neutrality, and Evolution (CDE/CDHA joint
seminar)
12:20-1:45 PM, 4308 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, April 20
Steve Ruggles, University of Minnesota, History
Big Data: Building Infrastructure for Spatiotemporal Analysis of Population and the
Environment (Sociology Department Colloquium)
12:00-1:30 PM, 8417 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Wednesday, April 27
Torben Grøngaard Jeppesen, Museum Director, Odense City Museums, Denmark
Scandinavian Descendants’ Lives, Values and Assimilation
2:30-4:00 PM, 6203 William H. Sewell Social Science Building

Tuesday, May 3
Noreen Goldman, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School and Office of
Population Research
The Physiological Linkages among SES, Stress, and Health: Insights from Biosocial
Surveys (CDE/CDHA joint seminar)
12:20-1:45 PM, 4308 William H. Sewell Social Science Building