Demography BACPOP
The Bay Area Colloquium in Population (BACPOP) seminars take place the first Thursday of each month at 4:15 PM. After the seminar, those interested generally continue the discussion of dinner at a nearby restaurant. Please confirm your attendance at the seminar and the dinner by e-mailing Monique Verrier.
If you would like to make a presentation at BACPOP please contact Mike Hout.
Fall 2012
- September 6, 2012: Aaron Cicourel (Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Sociology, UC San Diego). Origin and Demise of Socio-cultural Presentations of Self from Birth to Death: Caregiver ‘Scaffolding’ Practices Necessary for Guiding and Sustaining Communal Social Structure throughout the Life Cycle.
- October 4, 2012: Géraldine Duthé(Chargée du recherche, Institut National d'Études Démographiques). Counting adult deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. A case study in Senegal..
- November 2, 2012, NOTE Due Hurricane Sandy our special Tuesday BACPOP is now a special Friday BACPOP: Simon Szreter (History and Public Policy, Cambridge University). Estimates of the population prevalence of venereal disease in modern English history before the Great War: comparing the 1770s with the 1910s. Exact time to be posted later, expect an early evening start time.
- December 6, 2012: Adrian E. Raftery (Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington). Bayesian Population Projections for All Countries.
- SPECIAL WORKSHOP Friday, December 7 from 10am to noon in the Demography Seminar Room (2232 Piedmont Avenue) OPEN TO ALL: Bayesian Population Projections: Do It Yourself by Hana Sevcikova and Adrian Raftery.
Spring 2013
- February 7, 2013: Magali Barbieri (Demography, UC Berkeley/INED, France). Title TBA.
- March 7, 2013: Jason Boardman (Sociology, University of Colorado). Title TBA.
- April 4, 2013: Gopi Shah Goda (Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford). Title TBA.
- May 2, 2012: Tod Hamilton (Sociology, Harvard University). Title TBA.