CSDA Colloquia 2005


COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS SPONSORED BY

Center for Social and Demographic Analysis
Lewis Mumford Center


Past Colloquia

2004 |2003/2002 |2001/2002 | 2000/2001



Spring 2005 Colloquia

Friday, January 28, 2005, 3:30pm, BA B-29, CSDA Library.

Claudia Diehl, PhD, German Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany and Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC.
 “Migration and Integration in Germany: Data, Findings, Open Questions.”

Friday, February 4, 2005, 3:30pm, Room 110A, East Campus (SPH).

*** Direction to East Campus.

H. Elizabeth Peters, PhD, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University.
 “Legislating Love: The Effect of Child Support and Welfare Policies on Father-Child Contact.”

Friday, March 4, 2005, 3:30 pm, Terrace Lounge, Campus Center.

Kirsten Davison, PhD, Dept. of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, UAlbany.
 “The Family Ecology and Childhood Obesity.” Jointly sponsored by the EXPORT Center for the Elimination of Health Disparities in Smaller Communities.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 3:30 pm, Terrace Lounge, Campus Center.

Edward Telles, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles and Russell Sage Foundation, NYC.
 “Generational Progress among Mexican Americans.”

Monday, April 18, 2005, 2:00 pm, Sociology Department Conference Room, AS351 .

Heck Elffers, PhD, Netherlands Institute for Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Leiden, Netherlands.
 “Neighborhood Influence in Criminology: Concepts, Questions, Analyses.” Jointly sponsored by the Department of Sociology and CSDA.

Friday, May 6, 2005, 3:30 pm, Humanities HU 354. Annual Lewis Mumford Center Lecture

Robert Sampson, PhD, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
 “The Disorder of Cities: Social Meanings and Mechanisms of Durable Inequality”

Fall 2005 Colloquia

Friday, October 7, 2005, 3:30pm, Terrace Lounge, Campus Center.

Paul Voss, PhD, Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
 “Exploring Data for Spatial Heterogeneity: Using GWR to Help Understand Relationship Heterogeneity.”

Friday, December 2, 2005, 3:30pm, Terrace Lounge, Campus Center.

Zai Liang, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Albany.
 “Cumulative Causation, Market Transition, and Emigration from China.”