Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research is looking for Post-Docs/Research Scientists for the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography. The details of the job vacancy and how to apply can be found below:

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research is looking for a Software Developer for the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography. The details of the job vacancy and how to apply can be found below:

The University of Washington Departments of Global Health and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are seeking candidates for up to two faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (without tenure) to join the UW Global Mental Health Program. These are full-time, 12-month service period positions with anticipated start dates in fall of 2019. The full job description is attached.

If you have any questions about this new opportunity, please email me at uwgmh@uw.edu

The 15^th Annual Western Regional Global Health Conference will be hosted at Western Washington University for the first time ever. This is one of the largest student-led global health conferences in the nation and will take place on April 26-28 (starting Friday evening and ending Sunday noon). The theme this year is Criminalization of the Body: Life, Law, and Liberation. Our keynote speaker is Festus lbanda Kisa, a sexual and gender minorities activist and sexual reproductive health and rights advocate in Q-lnitiative Eldoret, Kenya. Our sub themes are policing and state sanctioned violence, immigration, and LGBTQI+ issues globally. 

The Duke Network Analysis Center (DNAC) and the Duke Population Research Institute, with support from the  NICHD, will be hosting a fourth, week-long Social Networks and Health workshop from May 13 – 17, 2019.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out this *very short* interest form.

https://goo.gl/forms/NqtQS6REWySBNc792

We will notify folks when registration is open.  Registration costs $150 for the week.

The Social Networks and Health workshop will cover topics in social network analysis related to studying health behaviors, including:

• Data collection
• Ego network analysis
• Diffusion and peer influence
• Communities in networks
• Respondent-driven sampling
• Network visualizations
• Statistical Models for networks (ERGM, AMEN, SOAM)
• Agent-based modeling

The workshop will also contain a substantial lab component, which will give attendees an opportunity to learn how to use the R statistical computing language to analyze networks.  Last year’s presentations and labs are available online at https://dnac.ssri.duke.edu/social-networks-health-scholars-training-program-2018.php .

**In addition, we have funding for a limited number (up to 12) of SN&H fellowships. Fellows will participate in the week-long training course, but also be matched with a mentor to work on an ongoing research project that the fellow has proposed. All participation costs (including domestic travel and lodging expenses to come to Duke) for SN&H fellows will be covered by the program.  There is additional funding fellows can access throughout the year to travel to meetings and otherwise support research meetings with their program mentor. SN&H fellows must commit to presenting the results of their project at next year’s workshop.  Due to NIH policy, we can only consider applications from US citizens or permanent residents.  SN&H Fellowships will be primarily targeted at pre-doctoral students, post-docs and junior faculty and is open to participants both in the triangle and across the nation. Women, individuals from underrepresented minority groups, and disabled individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.**

Note we can waive the registration fee for participants from universities without means to cover the costs or scholars under-represented in the SN&H field.

The EDSD is an eleven-month sponsored program that is offered every year aiming to provide students in the first year of their doctoral studies with an appropriate high-level education in demography. Students will acquire a solid knowledge base on the causes and consequences of demographic change, population data, statistical and mathematical demography, as well as modeling, simulation, and forecasting. The School’s courses are structured in such a way that the students work on the precise formulation of a thesis topic and early steps of their dissertations. Many of the School’s courses concentrate on strengthening the quantitative and programming skills of the students. The language of the School is English.

In the 2019/20 academic year, the School will be held at two different locations. The preparatory courses (from early September to mid-October 2019) will be offered at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. The core courses (from mid-October 2019 until end of July 2020) will be held at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics, in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

For more information, visit the current EDSD 2018/19 program in Odense, Denmark: EDSD 2018/2019

Upon successful completion of the program and presentation of a thesis, the students enrolled in the EDSD will attain an official European Master in Demography from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Please find all the information on how to apply on our  website, or contact us at edsd@ced.uab.es

ABSTRACT: Based on insights from the Mapping American Social Movements Project, this essay reframes the history of American radicalism by paying close attention to the singular fact that for the last century the left has consisted solely of shifting constellations of social movements without the anchoring presence of a competitive leftwing electoral party.  As a result, the American left has been more discontinuous and more innovative than its counterparts in most countries and operates in different ways. Its organizations come and go, flourishing for a time then withering, only to be replaced at some later point by a new left based in different organizations, often with different demography, geography, and ideological agendas. The essay maps five distinct left constellations over the last century and explores the question of how American radicalism has survived, how it has repeatedly reconstituted itself absent the supportive institutional apparatus of an electoral party.

James Gregory is a Professor of History and former Harry Bridges Chair of Labor Studies at the University of Washington. His research and teaching center on these aspects of 20th century United States history: (1) labor history, particularly the history of American radicalism; (2) regionalism, both the West and the South; (3) race and civil rights history; (4) migration, especially inside the United States.