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The Notestein Seminar Series

An integral part of the research and training program at OPR is the series of weekly seminars, which provide a forum in which OPR staff, students, and visiting scholars can become acquainted with current research projects. Students who are writing theses are required to present a seminar in this series in order to receive suggestions on their research and to obtain experience in making public presentations. Demographers and social scientists from nearby institutions are frequently invited to present their research findings in this series.

In March 1983, the Frank W. Notestein Memorial Fund was established with the purpose of bringing distinguished outside speakers to OPR on a more regular basis. These lecturers usually spend several hours in informal discussion with students, faculty and postdocs before and/or after giving a seminar. Since 1993 OPR has also held occassional joint seminars with the labor economists and development economists with the goal of creating intellectual bridges between these two groups.

Spring 2008 Schedule

February 5 (Tues) Noon

Sam Preston, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, "Recent Portraits of American Mortality."

 

February 12 (Tues) Noon

Thomas DiPrete, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, "Segregation in Social Networks based on Acquaintanceship and Trust: Preliminary results from the 2006 General Social Survey."

 

February 19 (Tues) Noon

Barry Popkin, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, "The World is Fat: Dynamics of the World Nutrition Transition."

 

February 26 (Tues) Noon

Matt Salganik, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, "Studying drug injectors, sex workers, and other hidden populations with random walks: An introduction to respondent-driven sampling."

 

March 4 (Tues) Noon

Vida Maralani, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, "Black-White Differences in Educational Reproduction."

 

March 11 (Tues) Noon

Anne Pebley, School of Public Health, UCLA, "Social Interaction in Los Angeles Neighborhoods."

 

March 18 - Spring Recess

 

March 25 (Tues) Noon

Charles Hirschman, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, "Measuring Race and Ethnic Identities."

 

April 1 (Tues) Noon

Jeanne Altman, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, "For Better and For Worse: Social Impacts on Health and Fitness in Wild Baboons."

 

April 8 (Tues) Noon

Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, "No Margin for Error: Exceptional Outcomes in Education and Employment Among Immigrant Children in the U.S."

 

April 15 (Tues) Noon

Ana Diez-Roux, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, "Places and Health: Evidence and New Directions."

 

April 22 (Tues) Noon

Averil Clarke, Department of Sociology, Yale University, "A Familiar Trinity: Sex, Race, and Religion in Black Women’s Reproductive Choice."

 

April 29 (Tues) Noon

Noël Cameron, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, "Human Growth in Social and Economic Transition: Understanding the Legacy of Apartheid."

Previous Seminars

We also maintain a list of seminars for previous terms:

Fall 2007