Brown Bag Seminar Schedule
Spring 2013 Schedule
January 18, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"The Social Recession: The Immediate and Lasting Effects of the Lagging Economy, 2006-2010"
Michael Hout
mikehout@berkeley.edu
Department of Sociology, The University of California at Berkeley
January 25, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress"
Becky Pettit
bpettit@uw.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Washington
February 1, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"What you don't know can hurt you: Gender and health care utilization among U.S. Immigrants"
Jen'nan Read
jennan.read@duke.edu
Department of Sociology, Duke University
February 8, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"Economic and social consequences of teen fatherhood"
Elizabeth Peters
EPeters@urban.org
Director, Center on Labor, Human Services and Population, Urban Institute
February 15, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"Causal Effects of Social Capital on Child Outcomes"
Adam Gamoran
gamoran@ssc.wisc.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison
February 22, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"Social Psychology Outside the Lab: Do Experiments Conducted With College Students Generalize to the US Population?"
David Yeager
yeager@psy.utexas.edu
Department of Psychology & Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
March 1, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Marital Dissolution"
Christine Schwartz
cschwart@ssc.wisc.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison
March 22, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"We Don't Die Alone: The Role of Families in End-of-Life Planning and Bereavement Processes"
Deborah Carr
carrds@rci.rutgers.edu
Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
March 29, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"The impact of recent restrictions on abortion care in Texas"
Daniel Grossman
DGrossman@ibisreproductivehealth.org
Vice President for Research, IBIS Reproductive Health
April 5, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"The Future of Human Health and Longevity"
Steven Austad
austad@uthscsa.edu
Cellular and Structural Biology, UT San Antonio Health Sciences
April 19, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"Family Instability, Multipartner Fertility, and Behavior in Middle Childhood"
Cynthia Osborne
cosborne@prc.utexas.edu
LBJ School & Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
April 26, 2013, 12-1pm
SAC Ballroom (*please note the location change)
"LGBT Parenting Research: Science in the public square"
Gary Gates
gates@law.ucla.edu
The Williams Institute, The University of California at Los Angeles
May 3, 2013, 12-1pm
CLA 1.302B
"How should we think about developmental contexts?"
Jacquelynne Eccles
jeccles@umich.edu
School of Education & Department of Psychology, The University of Michigan
Fall 2012 Schedule
September 7, 2012, 12-1pm
Student Activity Center Legislative Assembly Room 2.302
"Fall 2012 Brown Bag Kickoff"
Mark Hayward
mhayward@prc.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
September 14, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Research in motion: How the organization of foreign aid makes it difficult for researchers to improve lives in the Third World"
Susan Watkins
SWatkins@ccpr.ucla.edu
Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles & University of Pennsylvania
September 21, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Cultural contingency: a framework for modeling social evolution"
Marcus Feldman
mfeldman@stanford.edu
Department of Biology, Stanford University
October 5, 2012 - 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Scale, pattern, and process: functional implications of pattern metric analysis for demographic research"
Kelley Crews
kac@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and Department of Geography & the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin
October 12, 2012 - 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Adapting to climate change, food shortages and drought: Lessons from the ancient Near East"
Arlene Rosen
amrosen@austin.utexas.edu
Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin
October 19, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"China's demographic dynamics, sexual networks and the spread of HIV"
Giovanna Merli
giovanna.merli@duke.edu
Department of Sociology, Duke University
October 26, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Methodological individualism"
Sahotra Sarkar
sarkar@mail.utexas.edu
Integrative Biology & Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
November 2, 2012, 1-2pm (with reception from 2-3:30pm)
ACES 2.302 (reception to follow in the ACES Lobby)
"Fragile Minds: Neural Scaffolding and Cognitive Aging"
Denise Park
denise@utdallas.edu
Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas
November 9, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Impacts of economic downturns on maternal and infant health"
Claire Margerison Zilko
cmargerisonzilko@gmail.com
Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
December 7, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214 (*please note the location change!)
"Emergent Hot Topics in Demography"
Mark Hayward, Joe Potter, Kelly Raley and Alex Weinreb
Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
