We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 6th International OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON POPULATION, MIGRATION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE to be held on the 7th and 8th of December, 2017 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK.
Attendees are welcome to either present a paper or participate as a panel member/observer.
The abstract submission deadline is November 15th. Abstracts are reviewed on a rolling basis and notifications are sent within ten days of submission.
The early registration deadline is October 16th, and the regular registration deadline is November 17th.
- Keynote speaker – David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demography; Associate Fellow, Department of Social Policy, University of Oxford.
- We welcome papers that take an interdisciplinary view of the main themes of the conference: climate change, world population increase, human migration, and environmental sustainability.
- The Symposium seeks to cover a broad agenda that includes disciplines such as economics, education, environmental studies, agriculture, law, political science, religion, and social studies.
- Topics for presentation may reach beyond these areas; our website contains an extensive list of suggested topics.
- Participant abstracts will be published online in the conference proceedings.
- Submission of complete papers is optional. If interested you may send your manuscript by the 1st of April 2018 to be peer-reviewed by external readers for possible publication in Symposium Books or sponsored academic journals.
Email contact@oxford-population-and-environment-symposium.com if you have questions.
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Symposium Program:
1:00 Welcome
- Pete Guest, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Washington
1:15 Tolnay’s Impact on Historical Demography
- Steve Ruggles, University of Minnesota
- Robert Adelman, University of Buffalo
- Katherine Curtis, University of Wisconsin
2:30 Break
2:45 Tolnay’s Transformation of the Study of Lynching
- David Jacobs, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University
- Amy Kate Bailey, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Ryan Gabriel, Brigham Young University
4:00 Concluding Remarks
Affiliate Marieka Klawitter, Professor at the Evans School, discussed the wage gap between black and white Americans last week on Seattle’s NPR station, KUOW. The gap is vast; on average, black Americans earn just about half of what their white counterparts do. According to Klawitter, there are a number of reasons for this disparity in earnings, including barriers such as residential segregation, a history of wealth in the family, and the role race plays in the job market. Another contributing factor is the notion of the American Dream. “We love to believe in the American Dream, that if we work hard we can get ahead,” said Klawitter. “We believe that other people will also work hard and that will pay off. It’s hard for us to see the systemic elements like racism that feeds into how much people earn.” The full segment is available below.
Affiliate Ann Bostrom, Professor at the Evans School, along with members of the Washington State Emergency Management Division and Joint Centre of Disaster Research at Massey University, organized a Subduction Megaquake and Tsunami Preparedness Workshop that recently took place at UW. The workshop provided an overview of Cascadia Rising and Tangaroa disaster simulation exercises and findings from related reviews, and was attended by academics and researchers, members of local and Washington state governments, and visiting colleagues from New Zealand. The UW M9 research project—a team of experts from a variety of departments and outside organizations working to reduce potentially catastrophic effects of a Cascadia megathrust earthquake on society and the natural environment—provided partial support for the workshop.
Affiliate Stephen Hawes, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and colleagues published an article in Neurology that examines whether cognitive decline in domains associated with Alzheimer-related changes in the nervous system are associated with other neuropathologies, including Lewy body disease or vascular brain injury. The authors find that study participants with Alzheimer disease neuropathic change plus Lewy body disease had poorer cognitive trajectories—particularly relating to attention and executive function—than those with Alzheimer disease neuropathic change plus vascular brain injury or other pathology groupings. The authors note, however, that the effects of particular co-occurring pathologies on cognitive outcomes could depend on the level of Alzheimer disease neuropathic change. The full article is accessible below.
In a recent article, affiliate Amy Hagopian, Associate Professor of Health Services and Global Health, explores the following question: “Why isn’t war properly framed and funded as a public health problem?” According to Hagopian, war is “mostly treated as ‘background noise,’” rather than a preventable public health problem. In the article–which was published in the journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival–Hagopian addresses obstacles that pose difficulties for academics and professionals seeking to advance war as a public health issue, and appeals to these audiences to take advantage of opportunities for change. The full article is available below.
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Eighth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, held 24–25 May 2018 at the Wayne State University in Detroit, USA.
Founded in 2010, the conference is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social, and natural environments.
We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2018 Special Focus: “Urban Regeneration (UR) – between Regeneration and Resentment.”
For more information regarding the conference, visit our conference website.
Submit your proposal by October 24, 2017.
We welcome the submission of proposals to the conference at any time of the year before the final submission deadline. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.
If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you may present in a virtual poster session or a virtual lightning talk. Virtual Sessions enable participants to present work to a body of peers and to engage with colleagues from afar.
As virtual participants, presenters are scheduled in the formal program, have access to select conference content, can submit an article for peer review and possible publication, may upload an online presentation, and can enjoy annual membership to the Research Network and subscriber access to The International Journal of the Constructed Environment.