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         Demography and the Urban Context

Announcements

DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: Thursday, May 17, 2012

"Effect of Medicare Part D on Quality of Care: Dual Enrollees with Bipolar 1 Disorder" 

Presented by: Marguerite Burns, Instructor in the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard University Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

The weekly Demography Workshop series is held every Thursday from 12:00 – 1:20 p.m. in seminar room 232/233, located in NORC's offices on the second floor of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies at 1155 East 60th Street. Students, faculty, and all interested researchers are encouraged to attend. For more information about the weekly workshop series, its faculty co-chairs, or links to archived papers, abstracts, and slides from past presentations, see Demography Workshop>>

To make arrangements for persons needing assistance, please call Adelle Hinojosa at (773)256-6315. To schedule office hours with the Demography Workshop speaker, please email Katherine Morris (morris-katherine@norc.org) with your availability.


UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO URBAN FORUMS: "Modeling Local Area Processes: Theories, Methods, and Models"

This conference will bring together sociologists, epidemiologists, psychologists, demographers, economists, and other social scientists concerned with the relationship between social behavior and space to address the theoretical, methodological, and substantive questions surrounding what are broadly understood as local context effects. The goal of this event is to identify some of the best models of processes of local contextual effects, assess how they complement each other, and advance the field through articulation and implementation of theory to integrate these with each other. Accordingly, the conference is organized around four themes: theoretical perspectives, methodological perspectives, social and cultural mechanisms, and spacial and network mechanisms.

Presenters include:

 

  • Luc Anselin, Arizona State University
  • Christopher Browning, The Ohio State University
  • Terry Nichols Clark, University of Chicago
  • David Harding, University of Michigan
  • Louise Hawkley, University of Chicago
  • Shige Oishi, University of Virginia
  • Robert Sampson, Harvard University
  • Daniel Silver, University of Toronto
  • Patrick Sharkey, New York University


The conference will take place at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center (http://www.gleachercenter.com/), 405 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL on Friday, May 18, 2012 from 9 AM to 5 PM.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register: http://urbannetwork.wufoo.com/forms/m7x3w7/. For more information, please contact Caroline Ouwerkerk, Project Manager, the University of Chicago Urban Network at 773-702-5116 or CRO@UChicago.edu

This conference is sponsored by the University of Chicago Urban Network (http://urban.uchicago.edu/urbannetwork/), the Population Research Center at NORC at the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (http://ccsn.uchicago.edu/).


Many of the photographs on the PRC Website were taken by Beth Rooney and Wendy Wagner.  


The Population Research Center at NORC at the University of Chicago is an interdisciplinary research center designed to facilitate high-quality population research conducted by its researchers.

 

 

The Spring Quarter Demography Workshop schedule is now available via the Center's Web Calendar. For more information, see Events >>

 PRC Word Cloud

The word cloud displaying the research interests of PRC associates and affiliates above is from the Winter 2012 newsletter, which is available here>>

Donagld Bogue

Donald Bogue, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, was celebrated by former students in the University of Chicago Social Sciences Division newsletter, see Diagolo>>

Census Hands

For papers and presentations from the 2010 Census Conference, see Census Conference >>