Request for Abstracts: Population and Public Policy Conference (2/8-2/9)

Posted: 9/18/2018 (Conference)

The Second Biennial Population and Public Policy Conference will take place Feb. 8-9, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Speakers will include Dr. Douglas Massey, author of Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times; and Timothy P. Olson, the U.S. Census Bureau’s associate director for field operations. This interdisciplinary gathering of researchers, practitioners, policy makers and students is an excellent platform for sharing recent innovations, trends, challenges and solutions to population and public policy issues.

A number of abstracts have already been submitted, and you are encouraged to submit yours. We invite abstracts on papers and posters, along with descriptions on panels and workshops.

The conference is planned to include panels on New Mexico-specific issues (such as land grants, water rights, the Yazzie vs. New Mexico court case), plus other topics. Some potential subjects for the conference are:
•             Best Practices on Using Data to Inform Policy/Quantitative Science
•             Role of Nonprofits in Public Policy
•             Business Demography
•             Census 2020
•             Children and Youth
•             Data Visualization
•             De Facto and Other Special Populations (e.g. Daytime, Homeless, Prison, Seasonal Populations)
•             Demographic Transition
•             Development, Environment and Sustainability
•             Disaster Demography and Management
•             Disparities in Health and Aging
•             Domestic Migration
•             Education
•             Estimates and Projections
•             Federal and State Collection Systems
•             Fertility
•             Health Care and Public Health
•             Historical Demography
•             Housing
•             Indigenous/Native American Data on Health and Community Planning
•             International Demography
•             International Migration
•             Intersectionality and Inequality: Race, Class and Gender
•             Labor Force Participation
•             Land Tenure and Water Rights
•             Mortality
•             National and International Censuses
•             Population and Public Policy
•             Population Change
•             Poverty and Socioeconomic Status
•             Redistricting
•             School Demography
•             Social Justice Policy for Serving Vulnerable Communities
•             Spatial Analysis
•             Urbanization and Globalization

You can learn more about the conference at https://gps.unm.edu/conference/. 

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Deadline: 10/31/2018

Location: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque