2017/18 Schedule
All Seminars are on Mondays, from 1:00 - 2:15 pm, in North Hall 2111 (The Thormahlen Family Seminar Room).
A reception with light refreshments follows the talk at 2:15. All are welcome.
FALL
Monday, October 2: Mike Gurven (UC Santa Barbara, Anthropology) "Costs of Reproduction in Natural Fertility Populations"
Monday October 16: Terence Keel (UC Santa Barbara, Black Studies) "How Christian Thought became the Science of Human Bio-Diversity"
Monday October 30: Amy Boddy (UC Santa Barbara, Anthropology) "Life History Theory and Cancer"
Monday November 13: Deborah Cobb-Clark (University of Sydney, Economics) "The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities" Host: Shelly Lundberg
Monday December 4: Tony Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Epidemiology) "Scary viruses, killer tapeworms and nostril ticks: emerging infections in a changing global environment" Host: Mike Gurven
Notes:
Friday Nov 10 is a university holiday.
Thanksgiving is Thurs Nov 23.
WINTER
Monday January 22: Kyle Crowder (University of Washington, Sociology) "The Social Drivers of Residential Stratification" Host: Susie Cassels
Monday February 5: Emily Oster (Brown University, Economics) "Changes in Household Diet: Determinants and Predictability" Host: Peter Kuhn
Monday February 12: Joscha Legewie (Yale, Sociology) "Policing and the Educational Performance of Minority Youth" Host: Maria Charles
Monday, February 26: Douglas Almond (Columbia University, Economics) "Perinatal Health Among 1 Million American-born Chinese" Host: Heather Royer
Monday March 5: Siobhán Mattison (University of New Mexico, Anthropology) "The Demography of Matriliny" Host: Mike Gurven
Monday, March 12: Rachel Franklin (Brown University, Population Studies) "Capturing the Spatial Dimensions of Decline: Metrics for Characterizing Population Loss" Host: Stewart Sweeney
Notes: Mon Jan 15 and Mon Feb 19 are university holidays.
SPRING
Monday April 9: Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations (University of Pennsylvania, Sociology) "The Population Principle of Race" Host: Howard Winant
Monday April 23: Jennifer Glass (University of Texas - Austin, Sociology) "The Lie That Wouldn't Die: Effects of Work-Family Amenities on Women's Job Choices"
Host: Maria Charles
Monday May 7: Hilary Hoynes (University of California, Berkeley, Economics) "Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health" Host: Shelly Lundberg
Monday May 21: Raziel Davison (UC Santa Barbara, Anthropology) "Evolutionary Retrospectives on the Human Life History Trajectory: Lessons from Small-Scale Societies and Chimpanzees"
Monday, June 11: Janet Afary and Roger Friedland (UC Santa Barbara, Religious Studies) "Critical Theory, Authoritarianism, and the Politics of Lipstick: From Weimar Republic to the Contemporary Middle East."
Notes: Friday March 30 and Monday May 28 are university holidays.