seminars

Seminars & Colloquia

Brown Bag Seminar Presentations

The Brown Bag series is an opportunity for the campus demography community to present either works in progress or completed works in an informal setting. The lectures are hosted during the school year every Wednesday at noon in the Demography Conference Room.

Fall 2012 Schedule

August 29: John Wilmoth and Nadine Ouelette (Demography, UC Berkeley), Maximum human life span: will the records be unbroken?
September 5: Ryan Edwards (Economics, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY), The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Life-Cycle Impacts.
September 12: Luis Rosero-Bixby (School of Statistics and Health Research Institute (INISA), University of Costa Rica), Biomarkers and Mortality in Elderly Costa Ricans.
September 19: Margaret Frye (Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley), Schooling Attainment and Sexual Relationship Sequences in Southern Malawi.
September 26: Adrienne Germain (President Emerita, International Women's Health Coalition and Laureate, 2012 United Nations Population Award), Planning for ICPD + 20: What's Going On? (ICPD is the International Conference on Population and Development)
October 3: Sarah Cowan (Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley), Keeping Secrets, Telling Secrets and the Implications for Social Influence.
October 10: Willa Friedman (Economics, UC Berkeley), Antiretroviral Access and Behavior Change.
October 17: Nicholas Wilson (Economics, Williams College), Topic TBA.
October 24: Maia Sieverding (Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley), Topic TBA.
October 31: David Lam (Economics Research, University of Michigan), Family Size of Women and Children During the Demographic Transition.
November 7: Mike Hout (Sociology/Demography, UC Berkeley), Trends in self-rated health after 50.
November 14: Speaker TBA, Topic TBA.
November 21: Day before Thanksgiving, no Brown Bag currently planned.
November 28: Speaker TBA (), Topic TBA.
December 5: RRR week, no Brown Bag currently planned.

Past Brown Bag Seminars can be viewed on the Department of Demography Event Archives.

BACPOP Seminar Series

The BACPOP (Bay Area Colloquium in Population) is a monthly seminar sponsored by the Department of Demography at U.C. Berkeley. Noted demographers and scholars from related fields make up the list of invited speakers to this seminar series, which brings together specialists interested in demography from the entire Bay Area, including Stanford University and U.C. Davis. The seminar takes place the first Thursday of each month at 4:15 during the school year. After the presentations, those interested generally continue discussions over dinner at a nearby restaurant. Please confirm your attendance at the seminar and the dinner by e-mailing Monique Verrier.

If you would like to make a presentation at BACPOP please contact Mike Hout.

Fall 2012 schedule

April 5, 2012: Nathalie Williams (Sociology, University of North Carolina).
September 6, 2012: Aaron Cicourel (Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Sociology, UC San Diego). Origin and Demise of Socio-cultural Presentations of Self from Birth to Death: Caregiver 'Scaffolding' Practices Necessary for Guiding and Sustaining Communal Social Structure throughout the Life Cycle.
October 4, 2012: Géraldine Duthé (Chargée du recherche, Institut National d'Études Démographiques). Counting adult deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. A case study in Senegal.
October 30, 2012, NOTE SPECIAL TUESDAY MEETING!: Simon Szreter (History and Public Policy, Cambridge University). Title TBA.
December 6, 2012: Adrian E. Raftery (Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington). Title TBA.

Location: The Aaron Wildavsky Conference Room at ISSI, 2538 Channing Way

Past Brown Bag Seminars can be viewed on the Department of Demography Event Archives.