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*New* SocSEM: Jack Goldstone on How Population Will Change the World in the 21st Century (02/12/26)

The University of Washington Department of Sociology is pleased to host Jack Goldstone, the Virginia E and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center, to join us for a SocSEM event on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:30 pm, in Savery Hall room 409.

Goldstone will focus on the seriousness of an aging population. Europe, the Americas and Asia will soon have the oldest populations known to humanity. Can we cope? He will lead a discussion on the changes that will be needed in the future to avoid disaster, including ways we thing about youth, women, immigration, and globalization.

He will also discuss his new book 10 Billion: How Aging, Immigration, Women and Youth will Change the World in the 21st Century which will be published by Oxford University Press.

Jack A. Goldstone (PhD Harvard) has received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr. Award, the Myron Weiner Award, the Ibn Khaldun Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the JS Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Mellow Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace.

SocSEM events are sponsored by the Earl & Edna Stice Memorial Lecture and Book Series in Social Science.

*New* The New Wave of SRH Indicators: Where Do Fertility Goals Fit In? (02/12/26)

Join the Ohio Population Consortium on February 12 at 12 pm EST for the second of three webinars in a series on “Fertility Goals: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Implications for Science and Policy“. CSDE External Affiliate Jamaica Corker (BMGF) is one of four panelist speaking on new indicators of sexual and reproductive health. Register for Zoom link.

There has been a recent surge of efforts to develop new indicators of sexual and reproductive health, indicators intended to supplant the constructs “unmet need for contraception” and “demand satisfied” that have served as featured indicators during the past two decades. The proposed indicators reflect an effort to achieve a more woman-centered approach to both SRH science and policy. Fertility goals were essential ingredients of the past indicators. Where do they fit in now? Have they been sidelined (deliberately or unintentionally)? If so, is this defensible and desirable, from both a scientific and policy perspective? The aim of this webinar is to have an energetic exchange about these (and related) questions.

Presenters

  • John Casterline, Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University
  • Nurudeen Alhassan, AFIDEP, Lilongwe, Malawi
  • Jamaica Corker, External Research Affiliate, Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, University of Washington
  • Leigh Senderowicz, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

*New* CAPS Webinar: Moderated Discussion on Social Science Funding within NIH (02/13/26)

Syracuse University is sponsoring a webinar on the funding landscape at NIH for aging and population health research.  Since CSDE is part of the Association of Population Centers, along with Syracuse, UW affiliates are welcome to join.  Two sociologists will be offering their insights on their understanding of the current landscape, given their experiences and current roles.  Both are highly productive social scientists with longstanding, successfully funded research programs from NICHD, NIA, NIMH, NIAID, NCI, etc.  Sarah Burgard is the University of Michigan’s population center director and Tara McKay is the co-founder of the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab at Vanderbilt University.  The conversation and insights should be illuminating.  Sarah Burgard is also President of the Association of Population Centers and actively engaged in interacting with NIH programs, other federal agencies, and with US Congress on health funding for population research.
Please add this to your calendar and  feel free to join Syracuse University’s Center for Aging and Population Studies for a moderated discussion on funding research in population health and aging. The speakers, Sarah Burgard and Tara McKay, will address the current funding landscape and prospects for the future.