*CANCELLED* FMRI Seminar: Elizabeth Wrigley Field (University of Minnesota), “What do, and don’t, we learn from the Black-white mortality disparity?”

Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715)
@ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She is a formal demographer and a sociologist. Her work integrates demographic methods, designed to shift perspectives between population-level patterns and individual-level …

DemSem: Marci Ybarra (UW-Madison), “No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule

Lunch will be served at 11:45am. From Dr. Ybarra: “We draw on interviews before and after COVID-19 with thirty-eight Latina immigrant and citizen mothers, most of whom are undocumented. We find that pre-pandemic distrust of …

FMRI Seminar: Josh Goldstein (University of California Berkley), “The persistence of immigrant mortality advantages over multiple generations: results from the CenSoc project ”

Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715)
@ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule

Josh Goldstein is the Chancellor’s Professor of Demography and the Director of the Berkley Population Center at the University of California, Berkley. His recent research includes a new interest in big data and naming patterns, …

DemSem: Melissa Alcaraz (Brigham Young University; CDE 2023-24 Visiting Scholar), “Unaccompanied Migrant Children in U.S. Government Custody: 2014-2023”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule

Melissa Alcaraz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University. “Between October 1, 2014, and March 1, 2023, the US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) took custody of 568,890 unaccompanied …

FMRI Seminar: Jason Fletcher (UW-Madison), “Extending Evidence for the Importance of Fetal Programming on Old Age Mortality”

Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715)
@ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule

Jason Fletcher is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Public Affairs with appointments in Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences. A specialist in health economics, economics of education, social genomics, and child and adolescent health …

Hilldale Lecture Series 2023

Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53703
@ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Event Poster

“Healthy Aging: The Interaction of Social and Biological Factors” with Dr. Eileen Crimmins We are pleased to announce Dr. Eileen Crimmins (Professor, USC; AARP Chair in Gerontology; Director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography & …

DemSem: Jose Manuel Aburto (Oxford University), “The Upsurge of Violence in Mexico: Lives Lost and Challenges Ahead”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule

José Manuel Aburto is the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Department of Sociology. Lunch will be served at 12:00pm. “Since 2006, Mexico experienced an unprecedented surge in violence …