Fall 2024 Seminar Series
Seminars are primarily held in-person with hybrid presentations when possible.
Overflow parking is available for faculty and staff at the Mowatt Lane Garage (Lot U)
Please note :
- MPRC public events for will primarily be held in-person with an online via Zoom option
- The Seminar Series for Fall 2024 will be held in 2208 LeFrak
- For in-person events, all event attendees must follow current protocols for COVID-19
- For Seminars and Workshop events that are held via teleconference, each event has a unique registration link; open individual seminar pages to get the link for that event.
- Note if visiting MPRC offices, at the present time, Morrill Hall is not accessible for people who are not able to climb stairs. If accommodations are needed, please send request to meeting organizer (mprc-support@umd.edu) at least 72 hours prior, if possible, to the event to allow time to discuss and implement alternatives.
- If faculty are interested in inviting an undergraduate class to the seminar, please send a request to Wade C. Jacobsen so that we can assess the feasibility of accommodating them.
- Ideas for seminars or speakers can be sent to Wade C. Jacobsen
Suzanne Bell, Johns Hopkins University
Sep 09, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 Lefrak / online,National and state-specific estimates of the unequal impacts of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on fertility in the US
Jeffrey Swindle, Harvard University
Sep 16, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 Lefrak / online,Defining Abuse: The Role of Interpretation during Global Cultural Diffusion
Postponed until Spring 2025: Emily Smith-Greenaway, University of Southern California
Sep 23, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 Lefrak / Hybrid Online,The childhood cost of mid-life mortality: Parental death in the United States
Susan Godlonton, Williams College
Sep 30, 2024 from 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM — 2208 LeFrak Hall / Hybrid Online,Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility
Joel Mittleman, University of Pennsylvania
Oct 14, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 LeFrak Hall / Hybrid Online,Gender Inequality Beyond the Gender Binary: Adolescent Gender Norms and the Changing Gender Gap in American Education, 1960 - 2012
Catherine García, Syracuse University
Oct 21, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 LeFrak Hall / Hybrid Online,Early-Life Experiences and Cognitive Function: Biosocial Pathways in Aging U.S. Latino Subgroups
Thomas Dee, Stanford University
Oct 28, 2024 from 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM — 2208 LeFrak Hall / Hybrid Online,Mental-Health First Responders Reduce Involuntary Psychiatric Detentions
Mia Brantley, North Carolina State University
Nov 04, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — Online Only via Zoom,“It will stress you out”: The Health Costs of Black Motherhood
Hannah Postel, Duke University
Nov 11, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 LeFrak Hall / Hybrid Online,Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson)
Heather Randell, University of Minnesota
Nov 18, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 LeFrak / Hybrid Online,Dams, Displacement, and Water Security in the Brazilian Amazon
Heather Schofield, Cornell University
Nov 25, 2024 from 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM — 2208 LeFrak / Hybrid Online,Temperature and Learning on the Job
Marie Thoma, University of Maryland
Dec 02, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — 2208 LeFrak Hall / Hybrid Online,Prenatal WIC enrollment trends during the COVID-19 pandemic and electronic benefit transfer systems
Kathleen Beegle, World Bank
Dec 09, 2024 from 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM — 2208 LeFrak Hall,Youth employment, wages and manufacturing jobs in urban Africa