Climate change is not just an environmental issue — it is an economic, social and moral issue. Adapting to wildfires, flooding, and rising temperatures underscores an urgent need for policies that center communities at the forefront of climate impacts.
Washington has an opportunity to lead on state climate policy. We hope you’ll join us for a robust panel discussion featuring important perspectives from civic leaders as we discuss how we can best address this multi-faceted problem.
Panelists include:
-Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington Chapter of AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the United States
-Rosalinda Guillen, Executive Director of Community to Community Development, the Pacific Northwest’s leader in food justice, immigration reform and farmworker rights
-Daniel Malarkey, Board Member on Washington CleanTech Alliance and previous Deputy Director of Washington’s Department of Commerce
-Nives Dolsak PhD, Associate Director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, with a research focus on governing common pool resources, and member of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Science Panel
-Heidi Roop PhD, Communications Director for the Climate Impacts Group
Moderated by:
Dr. Sarah Myhre, UW Oceanography Researcher, Climate Justice Activist and member of the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
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Organizations involved include UAW4121, GreenEvans, GPSS Science & Policy Committee, and Program on Values and Society
Neferti Tadiar speaks on race and capitalism as part of “Capitalism and Comparative Racialization,” a 2017-2018 John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her work examines the role of cultural practice and social imagination in the production of wealth, power, marginality, and liberatory movements in the context of global relations. Her research focuses on contemporary Philippine and Filipino cultures and their relation to political and economic change, while addressing broader issues of gender, race, and sexuality in the discourses and material practices of nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization.
She is working on two book projects: Present Senses: Aesthetic Politics and Asia in the Global (with Jonathan L. Beller) and Remaindered Life: Becoming Human in a Time of War. She is the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009) and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004), which was awarded the Philippine National Book Award in Cultural Criticism.
Join the Harry Bridges Center for our annual meet-and-greet dedicated to networking Labor Studies faculty and students at the University of Washington.
- Meet other faculty and students interesting in Labor Studies from departments across campus
- Learn more about scholarships and research grants opportunities
- Learn about internship opportunities with local labor organizations
- Meet Seattle area labor leaders
- Enjoy drinks and refreshments!
Founded in 1992, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies supports research, teaching and community outreach at the University of Washington in order to promote the study of labor in all of its facets – locally, nationally, and worldwide.
RSVP: RSVPs are not required, but are requested. To RSVP, contact the Bridges Center at 206-543-7946, or e-mail hbcls@uw.edu .
Pop Dynamics and Environmental Change
A monthly seminar series exploring the links between people and their environments, in our fast changing global landscape. Co-sponsored by the Population Council, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR), and the UN Population Division. This seminar series will feature key experts from the fields of demography, climate and public health sharing insights on their interdisciplinary work to measure and solve climate related challenges.
Join us for our first seminar on Friday February 23, 1:00–2:30 pm
Title: “Lessons from DesInventar: A Critical Look at the Performance of Disaster Databases”
Authors/Presenters: Mark R. Montgomery and Samir Souidi
The need for systematic data for understanding and measuring the social and economic consequences of disasters is a central theme in the Sustainable Development Goals. Since the 1990s, the DesInventar initiative has offered a unique database built primarily on media reports that make it possible to pinpoint exactly when and where disasters occur. Using DesInventar databases from Mexico, Peru, Madagascar, Mozambique, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the seminar will take a critical look at the performance of media reports as indicators of four types of local disasters: floods, landslides, drought, and earthquakes.
Population Council
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Floor 3
New York, NY 10017
RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/wMIv3qCKaeDWUkaL2
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Spaces & Flows: Ninth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, held 25–26 October 2018 at Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany.
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: “Mobilities in the Global North and South – Critical Urban and Global Visions.”
Visit the link below to learn more and submit a proposal. Proposals due by March 19, 2018.
OBSSR in collaboration with NHLBI will hold the Eighteenth Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials on July 8-19, 2018, in Warrenton, Virginia. The purpose of the multi-day training is to provide a thorough grounding in the conduct of randomized clinical trials to researchers interested in developing competence in the planning, design, and execution of randomized clinical trials involving behavioral interventions. There is no fee to apply.
The deadline for submitting a completed application is February 23, 2018.
CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to welcome twelve new faculty affiliates!
- Arthur Acolin – Assistant Professor of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, UW
- Engi Attia – Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmony, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, UW
- Alan Griffith – Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UW
- Crystal Hall – Associate Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, UW
- Grace John-Stewart – Professor, Departments of Global Health, Epidemiology, Medicine, and Pediatrics, Director of Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children, UW
- Karin Martin, Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, UW
- Bradley Wagenaar – Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, UW, Technical Advisor, Health Alliance International
- Rebecca J. Walter – Assistant Professor of Real Estate, UW
Regional or Visiting
- Amy Kate Bailey – Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Jacqueline E. Darroch – Senior Fellow, Guttmacher Institute
- Janelle Hawes – Assistant Professor, Social Work and Criminal Justice Program, UW Tacoma
- Joshua Tom – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Seattle Pacific University
These affiliates bring a wealth of knowledge and unique approaches that enhances our community of demographers and collectively advances population science. We look forward to supporting each of them as they pursue their research. You can learn more about their individual research interests by visiting their affiliate pages, linked above.
If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or you know of someone who should become one, you can invite them to do so by directing them to this page. Affiliate applications are reviewed quarterly, by CSDE’s Executive Committee.
A recent CityLab article highlights a study by affiliate Stewart Tolnay, Professor of Sociology, and CSDE Trainee Christine Leibbrand, graduate student in the Department of Sociology—along with colleagues at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan—that assesses the outcomes of the Great Migration for the children of migrants. While there have been a number of studies on the migrants themselves, Tolnay, Leibbrand, and their co-authors turn their attention to how the Great Migration affected the next generation. As the article points out, their study—published in Demography—is the first to explore if improved economic outcomes for migrants benefited their children. The study finds this to be the case for children of African American migrants, who fared better when it came to education, income, and rates of poverty. Outcomes were not the same for the children of white migrants, however, which may have been due to greater labor competition for whites in the north, along with the comparatively vast opportunities for improvement for blacks from their previous conditions in the south. Could these outcomes have led to attitudes of racism and economic anxiety amongst whites? According to Tolnay, “‘[whites] might have perceived that blacks were taking jobs that they thought [whites] should have, but the black labor market was so segregated by race that this’ likely was not the reality.” You can access the full article at the link below.
Affiliate Sherry Willis, Research Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, co-authored an article published in the American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias that explores how the use of compensation strategies affects the daily functioning of older adults. Based on the results of neuropsychological testing of older adults in various states of cognitive function—as well as questionnaires completed by informants—the authors found that older adults with normal cognitive function or only mild cognitive impairment used compensation strategies more than those with dementia. Furthermore, their findings indicate that more frequent use of compensation strategies is associated with higher levels of both independence and neuropsychological functioning. The full article is accessible below.
Affiliate Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, Professor of Social Work, co-authored a recent article that examines the role pets play for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adults aged 50+. In the article, published in Research on Aging, the authors use a life-course perspective and mixed-methods data to assess how having a pet affects older adults’ perceptions of social support and the size of their social networks, along with the meaning of pets for this population. The authors’ findings indicate that pets provide support to older LGBT adults, who view them as companions and kin. Moreover, older LGBT adults with pets felt that they had more social support than those that did not. The full article is available below.