Visible homelessness is increasingly arriving in cities’ public spaces, raising questions about the role of public space in confronting spike in people experiencing homelessness.

Brice Maryman, ASLA, PLA (UW MLA) discusses his ongoing Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship project and eponymous podcast, HomeLandLab, which is focused on exploring the intersection of homelessness and public space in urban America.

 

Using the Panel Component of IPUMS CPS

June 4-6, 2018 at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota

IPUMS CPS is accepting applications for its summer workshop, designed to familiarize researchers with the under-utilized panel component of the CPS. The workshop is targeted towards graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty from social science disciplines.

The workshop will include:

• presentations from the research team that developed IPUMS CPS and experienced CPS researchers
• lab sessions with hands-on experience using CPS longitudinally
• small-group sessions to discuss CPS research ideas with others who have similar interests

Applications are due March 2, 2018.

Applicants should submit

• information about their professional backgrounds
• a short statement regarding their interest in using the panel component of CPS
• a letter of support form an advisor or senior colleague

Up to $1,000 in expenses for the workshop will be covered; eligible expenses include domestic air fares, local transportation costs, and hotel accommodations.

Apply to attend the 2018 IPUMS CPS Summer Data Workshop.

A printable flyer with information about the data workshop is also available.

Support for this workshop is provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (R01HD067258).

The Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA) is aimed at utilizing research to augment knowledge about dimensions of healthful aging for people of Hispanic and Latin American descent and fostering emerging scholars in the field as this topic rapidly develops as a major policy and national budget issue.

Each CAA installment or ICAA has several goals, one is to promote interdisciplinary collaboration by gathering a broad array of researchers in the fields of Hispanic health, health care policy, and behavioral and social aspects of aging into a single forum to exchange ideas and foster collaborative efforts aimed at addressing key issues affecting the health of aged Hispanics. The conference research agenda is unique in its focus on the aging population in the United States and Mexico and has important implications for the health and well-being of older Hispanic adults and their families.

The University of Arizona in partnership with the UT Austin, UCLA, USC, and UTMB will host the 2018 International Conference on Aging in the Americas.

Call for Papers

All poster abstracts should include the following information:

• Project Title
• Lead-author’s name, email address, and classification (undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoc, or assistant professor)
• Brief summary of the research project (300 words or less)

Poster Abstracts should be submitted via email to: Sunshine Rote, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
sunshine.rote@louisville.edu

Abstract Submission Dates
Open: April 15, 2018
Close: May 31, 2018
Decisions: July 2, 2018

Emily Willard is conducting her dissertation research on women’s experience of conflict in Guatemala. She is a research fellow at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights “Unfinished Sentences” project conducting research on El Salvador, and manages the Center’s Freedom of Information Project. Previously, she worked at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. where she co-founded the Genocide Documentation Project, and also worked on the Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia documentation projects, filing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents to be used as evidence in human rights trials, and advocating for access to information as a human right.

Contemporary families live in a world that is complex, increasingly interconnected, and culturally diverse. Families are affected by continuously evolving economic, technological, ideological, cultural, and political changes. In many areas, a decreasing fertility rate, the decline in household size, the aging population, and the sharp increase in the proportion of women entering the labor force have led to new and diverse family arrangements.

Despite these changes, families remain a central arena for promoting the well-being and resiliency of their members. The 2018 NCFR Annual Conference will focus on innovative approaches, theories, research, policies, and programs that support and strengthen families in all types of Western and non-Western settings. Of particular interest are proposals that focus on new lines of research and prevention and intervention approaches, programs, and policies that support vulnerable families.

Please download and read through the full call for proposals (PDF) for details on conference presentation formats, criteria, topics, and more.

The online system for submitting conference proposals is now open. Proposals are due March 1, 2018 — 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Oxford Abstracts, the online submission database for NCFR conference proposals, has been redesigned to improve your experience submitting a proposal. Please read through these detailed instructions for a thorough understanding of these changes.

Sample Presentation Topics

The 2018 conference theme allows for a wide variety of topics, debates, and policy analyses, including these examples:

• The current state of empirical research on families of difference races and ethnicities
• The intersection of social class, gender, ethnicity, and race from a global perspective
• Reproductive technologies and new conceptualizations of motherhood and fatherhood
• How families are responding to increasing racial and cultural diversity around the world
• Families’ increasing use of technology to maintain connections globally
• The effect of immigration issues on families in Western and non-Western societies
• Multiple-partner fertility and parenting
• Evaluating family support programs and their utility from the lens of complex families
• Incorporating family complexity into quantitative and qualitative research
• Changing demographics in the European Union, Asia, Latin and South America, and Africa, and policy responses to those changes
• Gender–work balance in the Asian context, in Canada, in the European Union, as well as how gender-work balance compares in the United States

Twenty years ago the National Research Council published the ground-breaking People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science (NRC, 1998).  The volume focused on emerging research findings that linked population dynamics and human activities to changes in land use and land cover, revealing the many ways that human activities affect landscapes from the Latin America to Southeast Asia. Separate chapters also addressed health- and famine-related applications of remote sensing. Since that time, new research opportunities are opening because of the increasing array of social science data from both traditional (e.g. censuses, surveys) and new sources (e.g., mobile phone and social media data), the growing variety of satellite and aerial data sources (e.g., high resolution, VIIRS nightlights, radar, UAVs), and the access to computation cyberinfrastructure for the analysis of massive spatiotemporal datasets.

This cyberseminar aims to identify and review the primary research breakthroughs and future directions opened by this digital revolution. The “people and pixels” move in geography shed light on the concerns of sustainability, human livelihoods, land use planning, resource use, and conservation, and led to practical innovations in agricultural planning, hazard impact analysis, and drought monitoring. What will the next 20 years bring?

Key future directions for human-environment interactions that build on original People and Pixels research priorities include:

1. Integration of RS and survey data: combining spatially expansive satellite imagery with nationally or regionally representative household surveys, and with censuses;
2. Integration of RS and big data: use of data from portable digital devices to achieve new research objectives, such as population downscaling, and “poverty mapping.”
3. Breakthroughs in RS-based product development: global analysis of co-located landscape processes over long periods of time using recently developed satellite-derived data products (e.g. global human settlements, forest change, and surface water data sets).
4. Computational advances: advances in computation and GUI platforms for implementing machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, anomaly detection, large-scale unsupervised mapping/clustering, etc.
5. Remote sensing as validation technique: confirming high impact hypotheses around disaster impacts, land grabbing, violent conflict, famine, and illicit economies through their interaction with landscapes.

In this Cyberseminar, we will assess where we’ve come since 1998, identify key extensions of the People and Pixels foundation, and their significance for the demographic aspects of local to global sustainability problems: disasters, famine, drought, war, poverty, climate change, and migration.

Abstract
Our social, personal, and political lives are increasingly mediated by technology. This change has introduced new problems, such as echo chambers and viral hoaxes. But it has also brought exciting new opportunities to understand the social world, using data and methods that earlier social scientists could only dream of. The first generation of computational social science focused on sensing technologies and social network analysis; the next generation will be driven by artificial intelligence, which makes it possible to operationalize social science constructs such as influence, attention, formality, and respect. In this talk, I will present an approach to computational social science that leverages customized machine learning models of heterogeneous data, including language, social networks, and spatiotemporal cascades. First, I will show how unsupervised machine learning over social network labelings and text makes it possible to induce the social meanings of address terms such as “Ms” and “dude.” Next, I will describe how the spread of linguistic innovations can serve as evidence for sociocultural affinity and influence, using Bayesian vector autoregressive models and the Hawkes process. Finally, I will present recent research analyzing the causal impact of closing forums for hate speech.

Winona State University seeks one or more individuals to join our Community of Learners as Instructors/Assistant Professors of Sociology.  These positions are fixed-term/9 month appointments with an expected start date of August 20, 2018.  As a faculty member, you will be responsible for teaching four courses (12 credits) per semester.  Courses include, but are not limited to, some combination of Introduction to Sociology, Introductory Research Methods, Sociology of Families, and additional upper-level sociology courses per department needs.  Minimum qualifications for these positions are (1) an earned doctorate or ABD in Sociology and (2) a demonstrated commitment to quality teaching.

For a complete job description and information on applying for this position, please go to www.governmentjobs.com/careers/winona. Review of applications begins 2/26/2018.