Demography Seminar Series

Date: Fridays
Time: 1:00-2:30 PM
Location: Room 5382 of the CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue

To learn more about the seminars or to sign up for email announcements, contact seminar organizer, Professor Holly Reed (Holly.Reed@qc.cuny.edu ).

Fall term:

10/09/09 Andrew Mason, University of Hawaii--"Population Aging and the Generational Economy"
10/16/09 Narayan Sastry, University of Michigan--“The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans”
12/04/09 Nancy Luke, Brown University--"Gender, Caste, and Household Bargaining in South India"

Spring term:

Fall term:

10/24/08 Warren Sanderson SUNY Stony Brook--"Rethinking Age and Aging"
12/19/08 Sam Preston, University of Pennsylvania--“American Mortality, 1950-2030"

Spring term:

2/13/09 Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University--"International Migration: A Statistical Model for Use in Population Projections"
2/20/09 Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington--"Non-Cognitive Attributes and Family Outcomes"
5/8/09 Vida Maralani, Yale University--"Family Processes and Changing Educational Gradients in Smoking"
5/15/09 Nancy Landale, Penn State University--"Why do Immigrant Youth who Never Enroll in U.S. Schools Matter? An Examination of School Enrollment Among Mexican and Non-Hispanic Whites"

CIDR’s seminar series will commence in the 2007-2008 academic year. There will be six seminars incorporated into the Labor and Health Seminar Series.

Fall term:

10/12/07 David Bloom, Harvard University--"Global Demographic Change: Dimensions of Economic Change."

10/19/07 Scott Lynch, Princeton University--"The changing role of socioeconomic status in explaining black-white disparities in healthy life over the last three decades"

12/07/07 Mark Montgomery, Population Council and SUNY-Stonybrook--“Forecasting city growth in poor countries: Comparing classical and Bayesian methods”

Spring term:

2/15/08 Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania--"Expectations, Networks and Interventions: Research on HIV/AIDS in Malawi". Read more about this seminar .

3/07/08 John Bongaarts, Population Council--"The Evolution of the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic"
Read the paper on which this seminar is based: "Late marriage and the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan
Africa" .

5/09/08 Myron Gutmann, University of Michigan and Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research--"Household and Farm Transitions in Environmental Context." Read more about this seminar .