FALL 2020 MINNESOTA DEMOGRAPHY AND AGING SEMINAR SERIES
This is the archive of the Fall 2020 seminar series. Recordings are linked and hosted on YouTube where available. Please note some sessions were not recorded, per the speaker's request.
SEPTEMBER 14
Will the Robots Take Care of Grandma? Reconceptualizing Technology and Healthy Aging
Jerry Jacobs, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania | Watch the Recording
SEPTEMBER 21
Patterns of Social Network Change and Homeostasis in Later Life: Results from a National Survey
Benjamin Cornwell, Sociology, Cornell University | Watch the Recording
SEPTEMBER 28
Lactation, Human Milk, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Health and Disease
Ellen Demerath, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota | Watch the Recording
OCTOBER 5
Life Course Trajectories of Family Care: Implications for Care Policy
Janet Fast, Human Ecology, University of Alberta | Watch the Recording
OCTOBER 12
Long-Run Trends and Selection in Breastfeeding in the United States
Emily Oster, Economics, Brown University | Watch the Recording
OCTOBER 19
The Black Deaths America Treats as Normal (and How to Stop)
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Sociology, University of Minnesota | Watch the Recording
OCTOBER 26
Immigration and the American Dream over Two Centuries
Ran Abramitzky, Economics, Stanford | (This seminar was not recorded, per speaker's request)
NOVEMBER 2
A Duboisian Framework for Humanizing Data
Ivory Achebe Toldson, Human Development & Psychoeducational Studies, Howard University | Watch the Recording
NOVEMBER 9
OVPR/MPC COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants: Motivation and Early Results from Four Teams | Watch the Recording
Ryan Demmer, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota
Jesse Berman, Environmental Health, University of Minnesota and Gillian Tarr, Environmental Health, University of Minnesota
Susan Marshall Mason, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota
Ruby Nguyen, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota
NOVEMBER 16
Social Structure and Locus of Control Across the Life Course
Melissa Hardy, Sociology, Penn State University | (This seminar was not recorded)
NOVEMBER 23
Current Population Survey Microdata from IPUMS: New Developments and Future Plans
Sarah Flood, IPUMS, University of Minnesota | Watch the Recording
NOVEMBER 30
Creating and Using Measures of Structural Racism: A Panel Discussion | Watch the Recording
Jaime Slaughter-Acey, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota
David Van Riper, ISRDI, University of Minnesota
Rachel Hardeman, Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota
DECEMBER 7
Time Use and Emotional Wellbeing of Family Caregivers: The Role of Dementia
Vicki Freedman, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan | Watch the Recording
DECEMBER 14
Girl Child Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence, and Health in Conakry, Guinea
Yvette Efevbera, Global Health Specialist, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Watch the Recording