Fall 2024 Schedule
FRIDAY, September 20 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
PAA Abstract Review
Join us to review and give feedback on abstracts to be submitted for PAA 2025.
FRIDAY, September 27 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
On the Market Practice Job Talk: "Covenanted-Policing: How does historical spatial racism shape contemporary policing practices?"
Population Studies Trainee alum Chris Robertson
FRIDAY, October 4 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Year of Open Science
Noah Haber, Year of Open Science, moderated by Rae Anne Martinez
FRIDAY, October 11 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Data Science Initiative
Learn about the University of Minnesota Data Science Initiative from Hayley Borck and Galin Jones
FRIDAY, October 25 | 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Population Studies Training Program required meeting for Current Trainees
FRIDAY, November 1 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
GSA Practice Session
Join us for practice GSA conference presentations.
FRIDAY, November 8 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Paper Hatchling
Join us to discuss paper and research ideas.
FRIDAY, November 15 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Accessibility Observatory
Eric Lind, Director of the Accessibility Observatory. Hosted by David Van Riper
FRIDAY, November 22 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Three Ways of Looking at Black/White Mortality Differences in the United States
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Associate Director of the Minnesota Population Center
Everyone agrees that U.S. Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This talk argues that there are three main strategies for doing so, falling on a spectrum of more conventional (though with many novel variants) to unexpected. Distributional approaches quantify population death rates or lifespans, and there is a proliferation of new, creative distributional measures. Comparative approaches benchmark Black excess deaths against other deaths; some versions can be normatively powerful but rest on normative assumptions that are open to challenge. Meaning-based approaches attempt to measure losses -- to decedents, their survivors, and the world -- that follow from excess Black deaths. These losses range from lost votes and cultural production to traumatic proximity to death to lost chances for reconciliation. Each approach offers new empirical and theoretical opportunities to better understand unequal lifespans. This talk is workshopping a paper making these arguments, seeking feedback before the final version is submitted.
FRIDAY, December 6 | 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Promoting your Research: Disseminating for Impact
Members of the University Relations PR team will join us to discuss tips and tricks for how to work with journalists, how to prepare for successful media interviews across print, TV, and radio channels, and how you can work alongside the University Relations PR team to promote your research and expertise.