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