Despite all that is going on, one routine remains – CSDE SEMINAR!  Join us for collegiality to boost your mood and some super stimuli for your brain! Here is a link to our seminar schedule.

Our first week of the seminar will include PAA presentations by CSDE Trainees.  Please join us for their presentations to offer them encouragement and constructive feedback. They would REALLY appreciate your presence.  Of all the presentations this spring, this is one to attend.  The following week is the PAA and there will be no seminar on April 11.

Starting April 18, CSDE welcomes Dr. Daniel Parker (UC Irvine) for a talk on tracking conflict and cholera from space.  Should be fascinating technically and substantively!  Then, Dr. Lake Lui (National University of Taiwan) will speak about the re-institutionalization of marriage among young people in Taiwan.  Dr. Lake’s visit is possible through a collaboration with the East Asia Center and the Skinner Fund on a workshop focused on “The Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Crisis Discourses and Collaborative Responses.” On May 2nd, Dr. Christy Erving (U Texas) will join CSDE to present on life course dynamics of gendered racisms and US black women’s health.  On May 9, Dr. Ann Chih Lin (U of Michigan) will present their work on how states might select immigrants and reshape immigration reform.  Dr. Natasha Iskander (NYU) will join CSDE on May 23 to discuss a new model for temporary worker migration as instantiated in the Qatar case.  On May 30, Dr. Holly Hummer (UBC and CSDE Visiting Affiliate) will present on “Paradoxes of Childlessness in Two Divergent Family Contexts.”   Then, mark your calendars on June 6 when wel close out the year with a celebration of our trainees and their accomplishments!