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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 2010 Schedule

February 2nd (Tues) Noon

Thomas McDade, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, "Toward a New Human Population Biology: The Developmental Origins of Inflammation as Case Study."

 

February 9th (Tues) Noon

Audrey Beck, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, "Casting a Wider Net? Race, Mate Availability and Socially Distant Marriage In the US."

 

February 16th (Tues) Noon

Kenneth Bollen, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "A General Panel Model with Fixed and Random Effects: A 'Cost of Motherhood' Example."

 

February 23rd (Tues) Noon

Philip Morgan, Professor of Demography, Duke University, "The Correspondence of U.S. Fertility Intentions and Behavior."

 

March 2nd (Tues) Noon

Michel Guillot, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, "Understanding the 'Russian Mortality Paradox' in Central Asia: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan."

 

March 9th (Tues) Noon

Steven Ruggles, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota, "Joint Families and Stem Families: The Northwest European Family in Comparative Perspective."

 

March 16th - Spring Recess

 

March 23rd (Tues) Noon

Georges Reniers, Asst. Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs, Princeton University, "Polygyny and the Spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case of Benign Concurrency."

 

March 30th (Tues) Noon

Thomas Kane, Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard University, "The Impact of Test Score Data on Principal Evaluations."

 

April 6th (Tues) Noon

Thomas Pullum, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, "Monitoring and Evaluating U.S. Government Assistance for Orphans and Vulnerable Children."

 

April 13th (Tues) Noon

Joao Biehl, Professor of Anthropology & Joseph Amon, Director Health and Human Rights, "Judicialization and the Right to Health in Brazil."

 

April 20th (Tues) Noon

Kevin O'Neil, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, "Politics and Policymaking in America's "New Immigrant Destinations"."

 

April 27th (Tues) Noon

Duncan Thomas, Professor of Economics, Duke University, "Mexicans in America"

Previous Seminars

We also maintain a list of seminars for previous terms:

Fall 2009