IUSSP Expert Group Meeting on Population Data for the 21st century: Advances in data collection methodologies
UNFPA Headquarters New York City, 4-6 December 2019
The IUSSP and UNFPA, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNFPA and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), will hold an Expert Group meeting on Population Data for the 21st century: Advances in data collection methodologies at UNFPA headquarters in New York from 4 to 6 December 2019. This meeting will bring together key researchers, practitioners and institutions innovating in data collection methodologies, to present their work and, when possible, to critically confront alternative approaches and underlying hypotheses, validate innovations, refine estimators, and seek consensus on the lessons learned. In addition, the meeting seeks to inform the larger research and data practitioner communities about advances in this area and of recommended best practices.
A provisional program is available here.
The meeting will be live-streamed and a video recording will be accessible from the home page of the IUSSP website. More details on how to follow the streamed sessions will sent to members before the meeting and will be posted on the IUSSP home page.
Please note that those invited as observers are expected to cover their travel and accommodation to attend this meeting. No travel support will be provided. Places are limited and registrations are subject to validation by the organizing committee. The organizers will give preference to those who are in the New York City area.
The eScience Institute will host a limited-registration Research in the Cloud hands-on event November 18,19, and 20 at the WRF Data Science Studio (6th floor PAB). This is running three days as we will focus on AWS, Azure and Google in sequence. Morning session 9:30-noon is hands-on Cloud 101: Basic interaction (VMs, storage), cost estimation, cost management, reliability, security. Lunch provided, and then 1:00 – 2:30 the program will move on to Cloud 102: Machine Learning, Computing at Scale, and/or other topics as time and interest permit. Click the links below for registration and more information:
Monday, November 18: Amazon Web Services
Tuesday, November 19: Azure
Wednesday, November 20: Google Cloud
In an October 14, 2019 article in the New York Times’s Upshot, CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Public Policy Jacob Vigdor is quoted regarding the linkage between immigration and urban economic vitality and revitalization. While the current administration’s policy approach gives both topics distinctly separate and high priority, the New York Times essay argues that the issues are inevitably interrelated and so are the political solutions. The article quotes Vigdor, writing “there’s a symbiotic relationship that immigrants need cities in order to acclimate to a new society, and cities need new immigrants”. The article draws upon Vigdor’s research published in 2017 in the Cato Journal. “Immigration, Housing Markets, and Community Vitality” in which he finds that immigrants spur population growth in cities where a population has been declining.
It is a well known fact that pregnancy and childbirth affects women’s physiology and hormones, before and immediately following pregnancy. Less well understood is how pregnancy and childbirth affects the aging process. CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor of Anthropology Dan Eisenberg pioneering research in this area was featured in The Washington Post in a recent article “Do pregnancy and childbirth accelerate aging in women? Maybe.” The Post’s article discusses Eisenberg and co-authors’ findings, published in Scientific Reports (July 2018), showing how human reproduction can lead to shorter telomeres and acceleration of epigenetic aging among young women. According to the article and Eisenberg’s paper, shorter telomeres and accelerated epigenetic aging are linked with accelerated aging and earlier death.
The Washington Post story also highlights Eisenberg’s involvement in a new study, together with recently graduated CSDE fellow Tiffany Pan, that focuses on microchimerism. Microchimerism is a phenomenon where cells are transferred back and forth across the placenta and some colonize long-term. Fetal cells found in the mother might have long term impacts on their health and aging.
The metaphor of “lynching” is repeatedly used by politicians in recent American history. This Mother Jones essay explores how the metaphor came about in American politics considering the violent racial history of the term “lynching”. The author quotes CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Sociology Amy Bailey about her research examining race and inequality. Bailey discusses the historical roots of lynching and racial violence drawing on her co-authored book with CSDE Affiliate Stew Tolnay, Lynching: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence. Bailey argues that powerful politicians who use this metaphor ultimately contribute to a “false narrative” of this part of US history—diminishing the meaning of the term “lynching” for those who were actual victims of the historical violence.
The deadline for the 2020 call for nominations for the NIH Office of Disease Prevention Early-Stage Investigator Lecture is on November 1st! The award is made annually to an early-career scientist who has made significant research contributions in disease prevention but who has not yet successfully competed for an R01 or R01 equivalent NIH research grant. The award winner will be invited, with all travel expenses covered, to give a lecture at the NIH in April 2020. The awardee will also have the opportunity for professional networking with NIH program directors and scientists. Details about the submission package can be found here.
After compiling your submission into a single PDF file, attach the PDF to an email, and send it to prevention@mail.nih.gov with the subject line “2020 ESIL Nomination” no later than 11:59 p.m. on November 1, 2019.
Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2019, at 11:59 p.m.
Winner Notified: January 15, 2020
Lecture Presentation: April 8, 2020
Designed to encourage original and significant study of religious and ethical values in fields across the humanities and social sciences, the 2020 Newcombe Fellowships are available to Ph.D. and Th.D. candidates who expect to complete their dissertation between April and August 2021. Download the program flyer here. Questions may be directed to hogans@woodrow.org.
Deadline: November 15, 2019
Call for papers: Standing committee “Reflexive Migration Studies” Panel-session for the 17th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Luxembourg, 30 June – July 2, 2020
The overall aim of this standing committee is to push forward a reflexive (and selfreflexive) perspective within migration studies. Investigating how this field has emerged as well as promoting reflexivity in current and future research involves questions on knowledge production, knowledge circulation and knowledge utilization. Our endeavour is a multi-faceted one: It tackles the embeddedness of the field in wider societal (power) relations and the risk to reproduce hegemonic structures. Hence, studying knowledge production cannot be separated from studying eurocentrism, situated positions of researchers, or contested public debates on “truth” or “fake-news”. Studying knowledge circulation requires examining patterns of knowledge utilization in policy, politics, or state institutions. Equally important is to analyse the transfer of migration-related knowledge produced by other actors, like mass media, so-called migrants themselves, civil society actors, international organizations, or social science disciplines.
We invite abstracts identifying such a particular challenge and proposing ideas to address it. Please send your abstract of up to 250 words, a title and institutional affiliation to Janine Dahinden (janine.dahinden@unine.ch), Andreas Pott (andreas.pott@uni-osnabrueck.de) and Anna-Lisa Müller (anna-lisa.mueller@uniosnabrueck.de). Deadline for application: 10 November 2019