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Join us tomorrow (Wednesday, April 22nd) at 12pm PT for our Brown Bag talk, featuring UC Berkeley PhD student, Paige Park, who will be presenting her project, “Deep Learning Approaches to Demographic Forecasting.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom.

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Up to one-fifth of the population has been lost to net migration, the balance of immigration and emigration, in some newer EU member states over three decades. The Baltic countries and parts of the Balkans have been particularly hard hit. Source: doi.org/10.1111/padr... #demography #migration

Join us tomorrow, April 15, at noon (PT) for our Brown Bag Seminar. We will be holding a special virtual event that will feature presentations by two UC Berkeley Demography Department alumni and a current Demography and Sociology PhD. Register to attend here: berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join our next Brown Bag talk on Wednesday, April 8th at 12pm PT. Na’ama Shenhav (UC Berkeley) will present, “Life-Cycle Effects of Women’s Education on their Careers and Children.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

Join our Brown Bag Seminar today, April 1st, at 12pm PT. Juana Montoya Murillo, PhD candidate in Demography at UC Berkeley, will present, “After Legalization: Fertility and the Persistence of Abortion Stigma in Colombia.” events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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Join our next Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, March 18 at 12pm PT. @dennisfeehan.bsky.social, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, will present, "What Do We Lose if We Lose the Demographic and Health Surveys? Quantifying Research Impact with Digital Trace Data.” events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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Join our next Brown Bag talk on Wednesday, March 11th at 12pm PT. Hans-Peter Kohler (Penn) will present, “Aging Against The Odds: Biosocial Perspectives on Health & ADRD in Malawi.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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Don't forget to apply! Deadline is the end of the day on Sunday.

Join our next Brown Bag talk on Wednesday, March 4th at 12pm PT. @dzeltzer.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) will present, “Intergenerational Correlation in Mortality: The Role of Chronic Conditions.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

Reminder that we are accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography (June 1-5, 2026). This year's special topic: The Demography of Population Decline and Aging Grant support will fund air travel and lodging for accepted trainees. Make sure to apply by March 1st!

Happening today at noon (PT)!

Reminder that we are accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography (June 1-5, 2026). This year's special topic: The Demography of Population Decline and Aging Grant support will fund air travel and lodging for accepted trainees. Make sure to apply by March 1st!

Join our next Brown Bag talk on Wednesday, February 18th at 12pm PT. Serina Chang (UC Berkeley) will present, “Simulating Population Behaviors and Public Opinions with Generative AI.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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Join our next Brown Bag talk on Wednesday, February 11th at 12pm PT. Soren Larsen (UC Berkeley) will present, “Understanding the Role of Social Disparities in Shaping Respiratory Disease Dynamics.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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Our second Brown Bag talk of the semester is happening next Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 12pm PT. Jessica Y. Ho (Penn State) will present, “Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries.” Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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We're now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 1-5, 2026. Deadline to apply: March 1. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... Please share widely!

Call for Abstracts: Spring Symposium on Population Research: New Findings, New Directions (April 17, 2026, Faculty Club at UC Berkeley) Sponsors: Berkeley Population Center & Center on Economics and Demography of Aging Deadline: February 16, 2026 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/conferences/...

Join us for our first Brown Bag talk of the Spring semester next Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 12pm PT. Henry E. Brady (UC Berkeley) will present, “How Should We Use Time-Series Trends, Statistical Models, and Scenarios to Inform Future Public Policies?” Attend in-person (310 SSB) or via Zoom.

We are excited to share our upcoming line-up of Brown Bag talks for the 2026 Spring semester! Our Brown Bag talks are held every Wednesday at noon (PT) at the UC Berkeley Demography Department's Seminar Room (310 Social Sciences Building), and via Zoom. Join us starting next week!

Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center on Economics and Demography of Aging & USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health Deadline: Dec 15 2025 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/conferences/...

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Join us for our final Brown Bag talk of the semester, Wed., Nov. 19 at 12pm PST. Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) presents, “Demographic Reproduction in the Early Modern City: Testing the Urban Graveyards and Sharlin Theses.” Attend in-person (310 SSB) or via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

Due to unexpected health reasons, today's Demography Brown Bag Seminar with Jessica Ho will be rescheduled for the spring semester. There will be no talk this week.

Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wednesday, November 12th, 12pm PST. Jessica Ho (The Pennsylvania State University) will present, “Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries.” Available in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) and via Zoom. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

Reminder, join us today at 12pm PST for Hal Caswell's presentation!

Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wed. Nov. 5, 12pm PST. Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute & University of Amsterdam) will present, “Inequality in Demographic Outcomes: Contributions of Multiple Social, Biological, and Environmental Factors.” events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wed. Oct. 29, 12pm PST. @davidalam.bsky.social (University of Michigan) will present, “Global Labor Markets and the End of World Population Growth.” This talk will be available in-person or via Zoom. See details in flyer. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

Happening today at noon (PST)! Listen, in-person or via Zoom, to Felix Elwert's presentation, “A New Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities.”

Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wed. Oct. 22, 12pm PST. Felix Elwert (University of Wisconsin-Madison) presents, “A New Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities.” This talk will be available in-person or via Zoom. See details in flyer. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

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As the federal #shutdown enters week 2, GPAC is monitoring developments and working with partners (@cossa.bsky.social) to address disruptions. If your research/funding has been affected, share impacts via our portal—your examples help strengthen advocacy for a swift resolution. buff.ly/pIO1QQw

That’s a wrap on #HMDsymposium2025 👏 A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made these inspiring days of exchange a great success 📈💡 Special thanks to @ined-english.bsky.social, @mpidr.bsky.social, and CEDA @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, for their support in making this event possible 🧡

The #HMDsymposium2025 is coming to an end with the final session on ✨new insights ✨, with contributions from Nadine Ouellette, Daniel Meier, Vladimir Shkolnikov, @paigepark.bsky.social, and @isamarinetti.bsky.social. Chair: Dmitri Jdanov #Longevity #LifeExpectancy #Forecasting #CausesOfDeath

Join us at our next Brown Bag seminar, Wednesday Oct. 15th at 12pm PST, as Kriti Vikram (National University of Singapore) presents, “Age at Marriage and Women’s Health Over the Life Course in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” This talk is available in-person or via Zoom. See details in flyer.

Join us today at noon (in-person or via Zoom) for @drjenndowd.bsky.social's talk, “Temporary Shock or Lasting Scar? Life Expectancy Deficits Since COVID”!

Our Brown Bag talk next week will feature @drjenndowd.bsky.social presenting, “Temporary Shock or Lasting Scar? Life Expectancy Deficits Since COVID.” Join us in-person at 310 Social Sciences Building or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB). Wednesday, October 8th at 12pm PST.

Join us today for our Brown Bag talk with Jeffrey Lockhart:

Come join our next Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, Oct 1st at 12pm PST. Jeffrey Lockhart (UC Berkeley) will present, "The Role of Demographics in Sociological Research: Authorship, Citation, and Acknowledgment." Taking place in-person at Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and also via Zoom.

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Our next Brown Bag Seminar is Wednesday, Sept 24th at 12pm PST. Erin Hartman (UC Berkeley): "Inference with Weights: Residualization Produces Short, Valid Intervals for Varying Estimands and Varying Resampling Processes." In-person at Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building or also via Zoom.

Join us today at 12pm PST in-person at Room 310 SSB or via Zoom!