COMPARATIVE POPULATION STUDIES
Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal on: Internal Migration as a Driver of Regional Population Change in Europe: Updating Ravenstein
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 29 March 2019.
See attached pdf for the full call for papers.
UW’s Geography Department is hosting Dr. Chuan Liao’s visit and talk entitled “Spatial Science of Human-Environment Systems for Sustainable Development” on Thursday, 2/14/2019, 3:30-5:00 PM in ECE 026. On Friday, 2/15/2019, CSDE is hosting a meeting with Dr. Liao at 11:30 AM-12:00 PM in 114 Raitt Hall. CSDE affiliates, scientists, and students are welcome to join us for both events and learn more about his research.
Dr. Chuan Liao holds a PhD in natural resources from Cornell and is now an assistant professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State. Liao is a GIScientist who studies reciprocal human-environment interactions that arise in small farming and pastoralism in forest and rangeland landscapes. He develops geospatial analytics for understanding the impacts of large-scale land tenure change on the agroecological systems and the sustainability of subsistence pastoralism, with current research in East Africa and Central Asia.
Tyler H. McCormick, Associate Professor of Statistics & Sociology and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute is teaching a social networks course in CSSS this year.
For next week’s Computational Demography meeting, we’ll hold a tutorial on creating research websites. Websites can be useful to showcase and communicate information about particular research projects, working groups, or personal academic profiles more generally. The good news is, the same tools and skills we use for computational research (GitHub, R, etc.) can be repurposed to create websites supporting that work!
We’ll meet Thursday, 2/14/2019, from 12:00-1:30, in Raitt 114. Food will be provided, and all are welcome. The Computational Demography Working Group is co-sponsored by CSDE and eScience.
This meeting will be similar in style to Tim’s GitHub tutorial from last quarter. We’ll focus on using GitHub pages and blogdown, but discuss alternatives as well. Connor will be leading the tutorial with a demo of creating a webpage for the working group itself, and collaborative contributions are more than welcome. Also, mark your calendars for our last meeting of the quarter, on 3/7/2019, when Ian Kennedy will present some of his work linking text data and demography.
The next CSDE Biomarker Working Group meeting will be this Wednesday, February 13, 2:30 – 3:30 PM, in 114 Raitt Hall. We’ll discuss a recent review article relevant to recurring topics of discussion for our group: stress and allostatic load. This will be an informal discussion (with a brief overview of the article and the issues it raises for those who haven’t read it) and all are welcome.
This article contrasts the allostatic load model, in which coping with stress has a long-term physical health cost, with the authors’ Adaptive Calibration Model, in which the stress response is an adaptive response with costs and benefits. We’ll use this article as a starting point to talk about how varying models of stress and its role in health may translate into practical approaches to biomarker measures of stress and health outcomes.
The purpose of the CSDE Biomarker Working Group is to provide a forum for discussions of practical and theoretical issues associated with collecting and using biomarker data in social and behavioral science research. We hope to provide an opportunity for faculty and students with an interest in biomarker methods to meet researchers with similar interests from departments across campus. Please feel free to forward this announcement to colleagues. Those who would like to receive regular meeting announcements by email may subscribe to the mailing list here. If you are interested in joining meetings via video conferencing, please RSVP to Ellie (ebrindle@uw.edu) before each session to receive instructions.
Join us to hear Harvard University Professor Dani Rodrik speak on the reason globalization is under threat, and the need to reinvent it to serve more people better.
RSVP by visiting this link!
This event is free and open to the public.
About the speaker
Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has published widely in the areas of economic development, international economics, and political economy. His current research focuses on the political economy of liberal democracy and economic growth in developing countries.
Rodrik is the recipient of the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Sciences Research Council and of the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Professor Rodrik is currently President-Elect of the International Economic Association. His newest book is Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017). He is also the author of Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (2015), The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011) and One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2007).
For media inquiries or RSVP registration, contact thormm@uw.edu or 206.685.0578
For other inquiries, contact tleonard@uw.edu or 206.685.2354
Professor Choi conducts research focused on the political, environmental, and technological facets of disasters. Her current book project examines the intersections of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the decades-long civil war which ended in 2009 in Sri Lanka. She is currently developing a new project on climate change and sea surface warming in the Indian Ocean basin.
Thursday, February 14,12:30-2:00pm, (Smith 40A): Brian Serafini, PhD Student, Sociology, “Strategies of Self: The Cultural Foundations of Dignity in Fast Food Work”
You are invited to a roundtable discussion exploring how equity concerns are (and are not) being built into planning for the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) into cities. We hope that you can join a group of practitioners, policymakers, and researchers for this interactive conversation.
Friday, March 1, 2019
8:30 -10:00 am
Room 305 A/B
UW Social Work Building
4101 15th Ave NE, Seattle 98105
Sponsored by Urban @UW and the West Coast Poverty Center
Registration is required.
Please register at the link below by 2/22.
Panelists:
Anne Brown
Assistant Professor
Planning, Public Policy, and Management
University of Oregon
Sahar Shirazi
Policy and Planning Lead for AVs
WSP USA
Don Mackenzie (Moderator)
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
SeniorAdvice.com has just announced a new $2,000 scholarship for CSDE students who have acted as a caregiver. I would greatly appreciate your help in getting the word out to your students by having the award listed under your external scholarships section on the CSDE website. This award has an application deadline of July 15, 2019 and we are encouraging students to apply early.
Full details for this new award are below:
SeniorAdvice Caregiver Scholarship – $2,000 Award
For students who have acted as caregiver to an adult friend or relative in any capacity:
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Information on Previous Scholarship Winners (can be kept confidential at the student’s discretion):
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