Events
Event Archives
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
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
November 30, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
“Population Heterogeneity and Causal Inference”
Yu Xie
Otis Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
November 28, 2007
Department of Geography/PRC Job Talk
"Geographies of Obesity: Gender and Space in Morocco and India"
Adina Batnitzky
Oxford University
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 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 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
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*
July 9, 2007
Second Summer Session Begins
July 6, 2007
First Summer Session Ends
May 31, 2007
First Summer Session Begins
May 19, 2007
Spring Commencement
May 4, 2007
Spring Classes End
May 4, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Short Sleep, A New Lifestyle Risk Factor: Is Prevalence Really Increasing?"
Diane Lauderdale
University of Chicago, Health Studies, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division
April 27, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
“Sibship Characteristics and Transitions to First Marriage and Parenthood: The Case of Taiwan"
Wei-Hsin Yu
PRC Research Associate and Department of Sociology
April 20, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Harold Lentzner and Elsie Pamuk
National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
April 13, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Personal Health and Spousal Work and Earnings"
Patrick Krueger
PRC Research Associate and University of Texas School of Public Health, Division of Management, Policy and Community Health
April 6, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
“Trends, Priorities, and Opportunities for Federal Funding in the area of Population Health”
Michael Spittel
NICHD, Program Officer
March 30, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
No Brown Bag - PAA Meeting, New York
March 23, 2007
Conference
Challenges, Choices and Context: Health Behaviors in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Organized by Professors Michele Rivkin Fish (University of North Carolina) and Cynthia Buckley (Texas), the conference focuses upon exploring the ways in which cultural, political and economic factors shape health behaviors and health related practices within Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Through workshop meetings and an afternoon public forum on Friday March 23rd, an international and interdisciplinary group of 17 scholars will engage in critical dialogues concerning the way in which health choices are structured, constrained, and enabled by forces beyond the individual, in an attempt to contextualize and structure assessments of health "crises" within the region.
March 23, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
“Are Marital Status Differences in Health Increasing or Decreasing by Cohort? An Examination by Race and Gender for Younger Adults” presented by Cathy Liu and “Going Most of the Way: ‘Technical Virginity’ Among Young Americans” presented by Jeremy Uecker
PRC Graduate Students
March 21, 2007
Panel: Labor Migration in Latin America
"Employment and Income of Labor Migrants in Buenos Aires"
Marcela Cerrutti, Long Visiting Professor, LLILAS and Sociology; and Centro de Estudios de Población, Buenos Aires
"'Baianos"' in São Paulo: Internal Migration and the Working Class Culture and Politics During the 1950's"
Paulo Fontes, Visiting Associate Researcher, Princeton University and Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo
"Internal Migration Clusters in Brazil: An Analysis of Areas of Origin and Destination"
Ernesto Amaral, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
Moderated by Joseph Potter, Population Research Center
March 16, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
No Brown Bag - Spring Break
March 9, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Segmented Assimilation in the Long Run? The Socioeconomic Attainments of Native Americans"
Art Sakamoto, Kimberly Huyser, and Isao Takei
PRC and Department of Sociology
March 2, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Do Kin Networks Contribute to Black-White Differences in Marriage and Cohabitation?"
Kelly Raley
PRC Research Associate and Department of Sociology
February 23, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Perceptions of Disorder: Contribution of Neighborhood Characteristics to Subjective Perceptions of Disorder"
Luisa Franzini
University of Texas School of Public Health, Management, Policy, and Community Health/Health Economics
February 16, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
"Migration in the Southern Cone: Gender and Remittances of Paraguayan Migrants in Argentina"
Marcela Cerrutti
Visiting Professor, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
February 14, 2007
Reproductive Health Symposium
Kristine Hopkins, Lynn Rew, John Robertson
Open symposium highlighting reproductive health research across the 40 acres.
Join us for a discussion of emerging issues, perspectives, and challenges in this important area of research.
February 9, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Latina Mothers' Parenting and Girls' Anxiety and Depression in an Urban Sample: Associations with Ethnic Identity and Neighborhood Context
Angelica Ware
PRC NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow
February 2, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
Cultural Marginality and Depressive Symptoms in Asian American Family Members
Su Yeong Kim
PRC Research Associate and Department of Human Development and Family Studies
January 26, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
A Consilient Theory of Social and Demographic Change
Philip Morgan
Duke University, Department of Sociology
January 19, 2007
Brown Bag Seminar
The Only Child: Myths and Realities
Toni Falbo
PRC Research Associate and Department of Sociology
January 16, 2007
Spring Classes Begin
December 8, 2006
Fall Classes End
December 8, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Affairs of the Heart: Qualities of Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Sexual Behavior"
Peggy Giordano
Bowling Green University
December 1, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Eat, drink, and be marry(ied): Marital status, marital transitions, and eating behavior"
Debra Umberson and Hui Liu
PRC Faculty Research Associate; PRC Trainee, PhD Candidate, both in Dept. of Sociology
November 17, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
Work Family Conflict and Gender Equity Across Classes
Gretchen Ritter
PRC Faculty Research Associate, Director, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, and Dept. of Government
November 10, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Fragile Families: The First Five Years"
Sara McLanahan
Princeton University
October 27, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effects of Neighborhood Poverty Concentration on Initiation of Sex among Adolescents"
Catherine Cubbin
PRC Faculty Research Associate and UC-San Francisco
October 20, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans"
Steve Trejo
PRC Faculty Research Associate and Dept. of Economics
October 13, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Racial and Ethnic Differences In Parent-Child Relationships: Does Mixed Race Matter?"
Holly Heard
Rice University
October 7, 2006
3rd Conference of Texas Brazilianists
The event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.
Sponsored by the Brazil Center of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.
October 6, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Competitive Spirits in Brazil: A Test Using Census Data"
Joseph E. Potter and Sarah A. McKinnon
PRC and Dept. of Sociology
September 29, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Can Parental and Peer Influences Explain Inequality in Test Performance between Whites and Asian Americans?"
Keith Robinson
University of Michigan
Hosted by the Department of Sociology
September 22, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis"
Ronald Angel
PRC Faculty Research Associate and Dept. of Sociology
September 15, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Voices in the Wilderness: Religious Congregations and HIV-Risk Behaviors in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa"
Jenny Trinitapoli
PRC Trainee and Dept. of Sociology
September 8, 2006
Lecture
"Women in Science and Engineering: Network Access, Participation, and Career Outcomes"
Sharon Mastracci
Univ. of Illinois- Chicago
The lecture will discuss research that Dr. Mastracci is currently conducting as part of a three year project that is being funded by the National Science Foundation.
Sponsored by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, along with the Office of Graduate Studies and the Population Research Center.
September 8, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar
"Fall 2006 Brown Bag Kickoff"
Mark D. Hayward
Director, Population Research Center and Dept. of Sociology
*Pizza and drinks will be served starting at 11:30 am*
**Originally scheduled for 9/1**
August 30, 2006
Fall Classes Begin
May 19, 2006
Spring Commencement
May 12, 2006
Special Lecture in Sociology
"Gender Differences in the Effects of Religious Conservatism"
Jennifer Glass
University of Iowa
Dr. Glass is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include work and family life, gender stratification, organizations, and mental health. She is currently researching the effects of family-responsive policies on mothers' earnings.
We hope you can join us for this special event.
May 8, 2006
Extended Deadline
For Submission of abstracts to Asociacion Latinoamericana de Poblacion annual meeting
October 12, 2005
Methods Workshop
Getting Started with STATA
Dan Powers
Department of Sociology and Faculty Research Associate, PRC
This talk provides an introduction to using STATA on the LACIL and PRC UNIX servers. Topics to be discussed will include the use of utilities like secure-shell (SSH) to connect PCs to UNIX services and the use of X-windows emulators to allow the display and use of STATA's graphical user interface on PCs. The help system, reading and saving data, memory management, and some procedures for data management will be discussed and demonstrated. Some statistical procedures/models will be discussed and demonstrated if time permits.
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Brown Bag Seminar
"Toward a new Paradigm for Prevention with Emerging Adults"
Kim Fromme
Department of Psychology