Past Events Category: Fall 2023

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
December 12, 2023 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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Elizabeth Bruch is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Complex Systems, an Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, and an External Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. She also leads the University of …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
November 28, 2023 @ 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
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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 …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
November 7, 2023 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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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 …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 24, 2023 @ 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
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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 …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 17, 2023 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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From Dr. Yi: “This talk will focus on providing an overview of the motivation, conceptual framework, and current planned research design for a project that aims to explore how racial/ethnic categories are produced (and in …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
October 10, 2023 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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From Costa: “How important is economic growth to long-run increases in longevity? I argue that we have underestimated the role of early economic growth in the health improvements we saw after 1870 because we have …

Sewell Social Sciences, 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
September 26, 2023 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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Working Group Meetings Families & Family Change, led by Christine Schwartz & Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Rm. TBA Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. TBA Spatial & Environmental Demography, led …

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
September 12, 2023 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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Matt Hauer is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University and a faculty affiliate in the Center for Demography and Population Health. “Determining who is most responsible for climate change is of paramount …