Events
Recent Events
May 2, 2008
Retirement Party for W. Parker Frisbie
April 25, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"Race and the Growing Female Advantage in Educational Attainment: A Trend Comparison"
Thomas A. DiPrete
Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
April 24, 2008
Conference
Brazil: Gender, Sexuality, Violence, and the Racial State
On April 24-25, 2008, the University of Texas at Austin's Center for African and African American Studies will host a symposium exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, and violence as they are experienced and perpetrated with relation to (and often extrapolating) the Brazilian nation-state.
The symposium will bring together key Afro-Brazilian and United States intellectuals, activists, and artists to discuss the political challenges facing and possibilities for Black communities during the Lula administration and beyond. Speakers include former Minister for Racial Equality Matilde Ribeiro, acclaimed filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo, CRIOLA (Rio de Janeiro) director Lucia Xavier, and CEAFRO (Salvador) director Vilma Reis. Thursday afternoon's session will end with a screening of the latest film by Joel Zito Araújo (Denying Brazil, Daughters of the Wind), a documentary about sex workers in Brazil. On Friday, M. Jacqui Alexander and Joy James will provide points of reflection and dialogue at the final roundtable.
For more info., contact the Center for African and African American Studies at 512.471.1784.
April 11, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
PAA Practice Presentations
PRC Students
April 10, 2008
Conference
Making Europe/Making Europeans: The Ethnographic and the Everyday
Making Europe/Making Europeans focuses on Europe and European citizenship as a performance and as a process in the making. We want to present the diverse European realities from a “grassroots” level, based on empirical studies and reflections on the level of face-to-face contacts and everyday activities. In other words to think critically about “the ethnographic” as a mode of enquiry and the “everyday” as an important site of understanding and theory generation.
April 9, 2008
Conference
Mexico-US Migration: Rural Transformation and Development
Jorge Durand, Keynote Speaker
University of Guadalajara
Scholars and policymakers from the U.S. and Mexico examine current trends in migration and their impact on rural communities in both countries.
Participants will share recent trends and research on Mexico-U.S. migration, and related economic, social, cultural and political transformations occurring in rural communities of both nations.
For more information, please contact Gail Sanders at 512.232.2423 or g.sanders@austin.utexas.edu.
Sponsored by the Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program, Mexican Center of LLILAS, Teresa Lozano Long Institute Of Latin American Studies, Departments of Geography and Sociology, Center for Mexican American Studies, Population Research Center, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas At Austin, and The National Science Foundation.
April 4, 2008
Department of Sociology Job Talk
"Black Mexicans and Assimilation Theory: What Strivers, Thugs and Good Girls Can Teach Us About Immigration, Race and Upward Mobility"
Robert Smith
Baruch College and CUNY
April 4, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"To Punish or Not to Punish: Parental Responses to Inadequate Achievement"
Keith Robinson
PRC Faculty Research Associate and Department of Sociology
March 28, 2008
Department of Sociology Job Talk
"The Transmission of Economic Status and Inequality: U.S.-Mexico in Comparative Perspective"
Rene Zenteno
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California-San Diego
March 24, 2008
Department of Sociology Job Talk
"'Endgame': Exploring Impacts of the U.S. Policy of Massive Migrant Removal"
Nestor Rodriguez
University of Houston
March 21, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
Dept. of Sociology Job Talk: "U.S. Immigrants' Occupational Adjustment: Disaggregating the Transitions"
Ilana Redstone Akresh
University of Illinois
March 18, 2008
Dept. of Sociology Job Talk
"The incorporation of Mexicans into the U.S. labor market and the management of international migration"
Silvia E. Giorguli Saucedo
El Colegio de México
March 7, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
Dept. of Sociology Job Talk: "Differential Reproduction, Poverty, and the Dynamics of Inequality in Brazil, 1980-2000"
Jeronimo Muniz
University of Wisconsin
February 29, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"Race, Citizenship and Labor in the Information Technology Industry"
Sharmila Rudrappa
PRC Faculty Research Associate and Department of Sociology
February 22, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"Addressing Child Poverty Through Income Security Policies"
Lisa Gennetian
Senior Research Director, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
PLEASE NOTE: This lecture is being held from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. in Burdine 224
February 15, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"Dowry Discounts for Child Brides: Exploring the Connections Between Age at Marriage, Dowry, and Daughter’s well-being in Bangladesh"
Sajeda Amin
Senior Associate, Policy Research Division, Population Council
February 8, 2008
Statistics Seminar
"Modeling Spatial Dependencies with and in Inter-regional Flows: A Spatial Filtering Approach"
Daniel A. Griffith and Michael Tiefelsdorf
University of Texas-Dallas
Faculty or graduate students wishing to meet individually with Drs. Griffith and Tiefelsdorf on February 8th, please contact: amp1@mail.utexas.edu or 512.232.4252.
This presentation focuses on the novel spatial filtering approach to capture the inherent autocorrelation in geo-referenced observations. This methodology is applied here to: (a) map patterns and their putative causes by assuming that they are tied together through interregional migration flows, and (b) origin-destination flow data, which are interconnected through an underlying network structure.
Dr. Griffith's web page
Dr. Tiefelsdorf's web page
February 8, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"Network Effects in Global Fund Expenditures"
Alex Weinreb
Hebrew University
Since 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF) has become one of the most significant multilateral sources of health-related funds. It has also introduced an innovative network-related, "multistakeholder" approach to grant applications. This paper explores the effects of countries' connections to bilateral development organizations on GF disbursements. Analysis is consistent with network-related hypotheses. Over the first five rounds of GF disbursements—up to November 2005—the presence of bilateral aid organizations was associated with the receipt of a GF grant in an earlier grant cycle, with more GF grants in total, and with larger dollar amounts. These "network effects" were net of countries' disease burden, wealth, and a range of other characteristics.
February 7, 2008
XXVIII Annual ILASSA Student Conference
The oldest and largest student conference in the field of Latin American Studies, with many presentations on migration, health, and education. For more info, contact Sean Sellers at rssellers@gmail.com.
February 1, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"Fertility in Times of Crisis: HIV Infection and Childbearing Preferences in Rural Malawi"
Sara Yeatman
PRC Graduate Trainee, Department of Sociology and William H Hildebrand Endowed Graduate Fellow
January 25, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
Heterosexual Relationships among American Young Adults
Mark Regnerus
Department of Sociology and Population Research Center
January 18, 2008
Brown Bag Seminar
"Boundaries and Dilemmas: Justifying the Violation of Universal Moral Imperatives"
Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Rapoport Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts, Department of Sociology, UT-Austin
January 14, 2008
CHPR Colloquim
"Does the Hispanic Paradox in Mortality Extend to Disablement?"
Mark Hayward
Director, PRC
December 7, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Political Ecologies of Health: Linking Livelihoods and Environments in the New South Africa"
Brian King
Dept. of Geography and the Environment, UT-Austin
November 30, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
“Population Heterogeneity and Causal Inference”
Yu Xie
Otis Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
November 23, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Thanksgiving holiday - No Brown Bag
November 13, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Timing, Accumulation, and the Black/White Disability Gap in Later Life"
Miles Taylor
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Sociology Job Talk
November 9, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Department of Sociology Job Talk: "The Role That Never Ends: Psychological Implications of Parenthood at Midlife"
Tetyana Pudrovska
University of Wisconsin
Department of Sociology Job Talk
November 6, 2007
Department of Economics Job Talk
"Decision-making by Children"
Shelly Lundberg
University of Washington
Dr. Lundberg is Castor Professor of Economics, University of Washington; Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington (http://csde.washington.edu/index.php) and Director, Center for Research on Families, University of Washington
(http://www.depts.washington.edu/crfam/). For her complete C.V., go to http://csde.washington.edu/lundberg/pdfs/cv.pdf.
November 2, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Department of Sociology Job Talk: "Stability and Change in Family Structure and Maternal Health Trajectories"
Sarah O. Meadows
Princeton University
Department of Sociology Job Talk
October 26, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Home on the range? Population trends and water resources in the Great Plains"
László J. Kulcsár
Director, Kansas Population Center, Kansas State University
Dr. László J. Kulcsár will also be giving a lecture "From the Soviet periphery to the EU periphery- Social change and regional inequalities in post-socialist Hungary" at 5:15 pm on Thursday, 10/25 in the Texas Union Chicano Culture Room 4.206, Thursday, October 25.
Dr. Kulcsár is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Kansas Population Center. His field of expertise is social demography and regional development, with a particular emphasis on migration and spatial inequalities. Dr. Kulcsár does research on the links between population dynamics and social change, including counterurbanization and the transforming rural landscape in post-industrial countries. He also studies the social and demographic transformation of Eastern Europe from a historical perspective, with a particular emphasis on the post-socialist period. Dr. Kulcsár teaches courses on social and spatial inequalities, population dynamics, immigration and sociological methodology.
October 19, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
“Is Marriage Protective for All Children? A Cumulative Risk Perspective"
Cynthia Osborne
LBJ School of Public Affairs and Population Research Center, UT-Austin
October 12, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting in Birmingham, AL - No Brown Bag
October 5, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"The Demographic Dividend and the Structure of Wages: A Demand-Theoretic Analysis for Brazil"
Daniel Hamermesh, Joseph E. Potter, Ernesto Amaral
Edward Evertt Hale Centennial Professor, Department of Economics (Hamermesh); Population Research Center (Hamermesh and Potter), UT-Austin; FAPEMIG Postdoctoral Fellow (Amaral)
With rapidly declining fertility and increased longevity the age structure of the labor force in developing countries has changed rapidly. Changing relative supply of workers by age group, and by educational attainment, can have profound effects on labor costs. Their impacts on earnings have been heavily studied in the United States but have received little attention in Asia and Latin America, where supply shocks are at least as large. We use data on 502 local Brazilian labor markets from Censuses 1970-2000 to examine the extent of substitution among demographic groups as relative supply has changed. The results suggest that age-education groups are imperfect substitutes, so that larger age-education cohorts see depressed wage rates, particularly among more-educated groups. The extent of substitution has increased over time, so that the decreasing size of the least-skilled labor force today is not raising its remaining members’ wages.
September 28, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"New Hispanic Immigrant Communities and HIV Risk"
Michele G. Shedlin
Charles T. and Shirley L Leavell Professor of Health Sciences II, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Senior Fellow, Hispanic Health Disparties Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso
Because the HIV pandemic undergoes continual change in its locations and affected populations, it is crucial to study the risk behaviors of mobile and migrant populations. It is increasingly important to recognize and study the attitudes and behaviors which determine risk as they are transported across borders, changing as people adapt to new environments and communities.
This study used a qualitative approach to identify and describe new Hispanic migrant and immigrant populations their HIV risk in the Metropolitan New York Area, one of the most affected in the nation by HIV/AIDS and immigration from Mexico, Central America and the Dominican Republic. Neither accurate population estimates nor reliable seroprevalence data exist for these increasing and largely hidden and hiding populations who fear deportation, stigma and a system with which they cannot communicate.
The research explored these new communities in urban, sub-urban and rural locations, and compared not only the cultural factors which influence risk of HIV and STIs, but also the environmental factors which provide the context for both risk and prevention.
September 22, 2007
Dessert Reception
"Love, Labor, and Loss: Raising Awareness about Obstetric Fistula"
Kristine Hopkins; Morgan Stephans
Population Research Center; Every Nation Campus Ministries
This dessert reception, co-sponsored by the student group Give Back and the Population Research Center seeks to raise awareness about women's devastating experiences with obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury which leaves women incontinent, isolated and ashamed.
Featuring a short video, and two brief talks by Kristine Hopkins, Ph.D., of the Population Research Center and Morgan Stephans, Regional Director, Every Nation Campus Ministries. Event is free and open to the public.
September 21, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Neighborhood Racial Context and Intergroup Relations: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Interpersonal Discrimination"
Sapna Swaroop
State University of New York at Albany
September 14, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Divine Control: Beliefs about God's Influence in Everyday Life"
Scott Schieman
Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronoto
September 7, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Schools and Stigma: The Well Being and Academic Success of Sexual Minority Youth"
Jennifer D. Pearson
Dept. of Sociology and PRC Trainee, UT-Austin
August 31, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Fall Kick-Off
Mark Hayward
Director, Population Research Center, UT-Austin
*Pizza and drinks will be served starting at 11:30 am*
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Brown Bag Seminar
"Toward a new Paradigm for Prevention with Emerging Adults"
Kim Fromme
Department of Psychology