CSDE Spring Seminar Series Schedule
Posted: 3/12/2026 (CSDE Seminar Series)
Welcome Spring! CSDE seminars will resume on Friday, April 3, 2026. You can find the schedule here and you can also subscribe to our Trumba Events to receive regular announcements about CSDE-sponsored events.
CSDE Affiliate Dan Goldhaber (Social Work) will kick off the quarter on April 3 with a talk on “Improving Hiring Decisions: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Reference Information About Teacher Applicants.” Then on April 10, Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan (Sociology & Population Studies, National University of Singapore) will present “Aging with Limited Kin: Childlessness and Care Arrangements in Singapore and Thailand.” Then, Rana Khoury (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will speak on international aid in Syria’s war on April 17. On April 24, Ninez Ponce (UCLA) will present a qualitative analysis of public feedback on Asian racial categories. In advance of the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2026, the May 1 seminar session will be devoted to practice talks. There is no seminar on May 8 while the PAA Annual Meeting takes place. The series resumes on May 15 with a seminar by Angela Garcia (The University of Chicago) titled “Enduring Illegality: Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life.” On May 22, Lauren Olsen (Temple University) will present on “The Promises and Pitfalls of Social Scientific Instruction in U.S. Medical Schools.” Jen Rose Smith (University of Washington) will deliver the last seminar of the year, “Ice Geographies and Critical Demography,” on May 29. We will close the 2025-2026 academic year on June 5 with a Celebration of Trainees’ Accomplishments.