We are pleased to announce three different funding opportunities through the Center for Human Rights for graduate and undergraduate students from all three UW campuses.

US citizenship/permanent resident status is not required.

1. Dr. Lisa Sable Brown Endowed Fund for Human Rights. $1900 available. Graduate students only. For studies or research.

2. Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Endowed Fund for Human Rights. $4000 available. Graduate students only. For studies or research.

3. Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Endowed Human Rights Fund. $4000 available. Undergraduate and graduate students (including professional students). For hands-on human rights project through direct action.

Applications open February 19 and are due on March 29, 2019 at 5:00 PM PST.

More info at: https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/funds/
We’re happy to talk to students about whether their projects may or may not be a good fit, and answer any questions they may have (contact uwchr@uw.edu).

Ubuntu is a South African philosophy of social justice through the notion that our own well-being is tied to the well-being of others and it is this shared responsibility of our community that binds us together and makes us human. The 2018 UW Runstad fellows will share discoveries from their study in Cape Town and Johannesburg and how the lens of race and social justice informs the post-apartheid redefinition of the built environment with attention given to informality in aspects of housing, public realm, and climate change and how we might apply these lessons to our home in Seattle.

Exhibit: March 4-13

Gould Gallery Presentation: Monday, March 4, 6:00 pm

Opening Reception: Monday, March 4, 7:00-8:30 pm, immediately following presentation.

Please join the Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science on March 7^th from 10:00-10:50am in K069 for our monthly seminar. This seminar is titled “Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program: Overview and Lessons Learned from 7 Years on the Ground” with Seema Clifasefi, Kris Nyrop, Leandra Craft, and partners from Evergreen Treatment Services and the Seattle Police Department. Webinar information, as well as an archive of past seminars, can be found here: https://depts.washington.edu/uwchips/monthly-seminar.

See you then! Any questions can be sent over to uwchips@uw.edu.

Please note date/time and venue change; new date/time and venue shown here.

In her new book Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018), Professor Lan uses parenting as an empirical lens to examine cultural transformation and persisting inequality in the contexts of globalization and immigration. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global parenting” among Taiwanese families across the socioeconomic spectrum. Professional middle-class parents employ divergent educational strategies to pursue cosmopolitan parenting: some arrange international school and bilingual programs to prepare their children for the imminent future of global competition, while some others choose Western-influenced alternative curriculums to escape the tradition of rote learning and academic pressure. Globalization touches the lives of working-class families in very different ways. Taiwanese men, who suffer from rising economic insecurity due to capital outflow and labor inflow, seek wives from China and Southeast Asia. These immigrant mothers’ cultural heritage and transnational connections are hardly recognized as valuable assets until the government encourages investment to Southeast Asia in the recent “New Southbound Policy.”

Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Director of Global Asia Research Center, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, a Fulbright scholar at New York University, and a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006, ASA Sex and Gender Book Award and ICAS Book Prize) and Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018).

For decades, scholars and policy makers have expected indigenous ethnicity in Mexico to gradually fade away due to cultural assimilation. Nevertheless, in 2010, the percentage of Mexicans who identified as indigenous in the Census more than doubled going from 6% to 15% between 2000 and 2010, a net gain of more than 11 million new indigenous people. This rise in indigenous identification seemingly challenges long-held views that indigenous ethnicity in Mexico was destined to fade away. Though the reasons behind this unexpected demographic phenomenon have been widely debated, no satisfactory explanation has been produced. We conduct the first systematic analysis to help explain it. We rely on census data and two original nationally representative survey experiments. We identify three processes that could explain this unexpected “ethnic explosion.” We find that natural demographic processes are insufficient to explain it. Instead, changes in the phrasing of the identity question used by the Mexican Census in 2010 were largely responsible for such dramatic increase. These wording changes redefined indigenous identity in a more symbolic way, which made it more appealing to more Mexicans. This involved two mechanisms: (1) avoidance of essentialist language (essentialism) and (2) not treating indigeneity as a collective condition (groupness).

Network Modeling for Epidemics
Summer short course at the University of Washington
12-16 August, 2019

Network Modeling for Epidemics (NME) is a 5-day short course at the University of Washington that provides an introduction to stochastic network models for infectious disease transmission dynamics, with a focus on empirically based modeling of HIV transmission. It is a ”hands-on” course, using the EpiModel software package in R (www.epimodel.org). EpiModel provides a unified framework for statistically based modeling of dynamic networks from empirical data, and simulation of epidemic dynamics on these networks. It has a flexible open-source platform for learning and building several types of epidemic models: deterministic compartmental, stochastic individual-based, and stochastic network models. Resources include simple models that run in a browser window, built-in generic models that provide basic control over population contact patterns, pathogen properties and demographics, and templates for user-programmed modules that allow EpiModel to be extended to the full range of pathogens, hosts, and disease dynamics for advanced research. This course will touch on the deterministic and individual-based models, but its primary focus is on the theory, methods and application of network models.

The course uses a mix of lectures, tutorials, and labs with students working in small groups. On the final day, students work to develop an EpiModel prototype model (either individually or in groups based on shared research interests), with input from the instructors, including the lead EpiModel software developer, Dr. Samuel Jenness.

Returning students: We encourage previous attendees with active modeling projects to apply to return for a refresher course. The EpiModel package has been significantly enhanced over the last few years. Returning students with active projects will have the opportunity to work with course instructors to address key challenges in the design of their network model code.

Dates and location:

The course will be taught from Monday, August 12 to Friday, August 16 on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

Costs:

Course fee is $750. Travel and accommodation costs are the responsibility of the participant, although discounted hotel rates are available. We offer a limited number of fee waivers for pre-doctoral students or for attendees from low income countries.  These cover waiver of the registration fee only; travel and accommodation are still the responsibility of the fee waiver recipient.

Application dates and decision dates:

*    Apr 1: Fee-waiver application deadline. Decisions will be made by Apr 15, and response required by May 1.

*    May 1:  General application deadline. Decisions will be made by May 15 and a response required by June 1. A waitlist will be established with rolling admission through June 30.

Application:

Apply online at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/goodreau/367818 (Note: it is essential that you follow the application through to the end and click on “submit responses”; otherwise, we will not receive your application.)

Course website and more information: http://statnet.github.io/nme

ABSTRACT: This paper situates the recruitment of Filipinos to work in the cane fields of Hawai‘i in the early twentieth century within a broader transpacific anti-Japanese movement. The 1909 strike on Oahu’s sugar plantations was a catalyst for Filipino labor recruitment, but Japanese worker resistance extended to the western United States, where Japanese labor had been integral to the expansion of California’s agricultural industry. In their challenges to the distinct yet interrelated labor regimes of haole planter society and West Coast agriculture, Japanese workers disrupted U.S. imperial expansion, exposing the contradictions of ongoing colonial development dependent on migrant labor.

Roneva Keel is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Washington. Her dissertation, “Mobilizing Empire: Race Sugar and U.S. Colonialism across the Pacific, 1898-1934,” brings together the histories of colonization in California, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines to explore the historical development of race and capitalism in the formation of the U.S. empire. Her research focuses on race, labor, and colonialism in the formation of the modern U.S. state, with an emphasis on the mobilization of workers across borders and oceans.

Thanks to CSDE for sponsoring the upcoming panel discussion and reception at PAA on community-engaged research. Please feel free to distribute information about the event (below), as well as the attached flyer, to CSDE affiliates!

Panel Discussion and Reception at PAA on Community-Engaged Research

“Population Health Reception: The Perils and Promise of Community Engaged Research”

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

6:00-7:30 PM

JW Marriott, Brazos 206

If you are interested in hearing about population health research, please plan to attend this panel discussion and reception at the PAA Annual Meetings in Austin, TX. Organized by Chris Bachrach and Dawn Upchurch, it will feature comments by Mark Hayward, Professor of Sociology and Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Lourdes Rodriguez, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Place-Based Initiatives, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, David Vlahov, Associate Dean of Research, Yale School of Nursing, and Rachel Kimbro, Professor of Sociology, Rice University. There will be plenty of time for networking, refreshments, and a lively audience discussion.

NIA has just posted the concepts for future Funding Opportunity Announcements that were approved at the recent meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aging.   Please share these with anyone who might be interested.

 https://www.nia.nih.gov/approved-concepts

For those of you who advise, or who are, doctoral students, I would particularly call attention to a planned new type of award called “Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students”

 https://www.nia.nih.gov/approved-concepts#transition

Others in which you may be interested include:

• Aging, Driving and Early Detection of Dementia
• Dementia Care: Home and Community-Based Services
• Increasing Research Capacity in Behavioral and Social Science Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and AD-related Dementias
• Innovations to Foster Healthy Longevity in Low-Income Settings
• Interpersonal Processes in AD/ADRD Clinical Settings
• Tailoring Interventions to Improve Preventive Health Service Use