Upcoming SIMWG events (2023-2024)
2023-2024
FALL QUARTER 2023
- Student speaker: Bowei Hu
- Monday, November 20st, 2pm-3pm
- “Banking without Banks: How Bank Account Ownership Influences Racial Disparities in Alternative Financial Services.”
2021-2022
FALL QUARTER 2021
- Faculty speaker: Natasha Quadlin (UCLA Sociology)
- Friday, October 15th, 11:00am-12:15pm
- “Organizing and Documenting Your Workflow in Stata (and Perhaps Other Softwares)”
- Guest speaker: Jayanti Owens (Brown University)– cosponsored with EWG
- Tuesday, November 2nd, 11am-12pm
- “Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial Disparities in Schoo Discipline”
2020-2021
SPRING QUARTER 2021
- Weekly member meetings
- Wednesdays at 2:30pm
- Guest speaker: Xi Song (Penn)
- “Occupation-Based Socioeconomic Index with Percentile Ranks” (Cancelled)
- Guest speaker: Richard Pitt (UCSD) – co-sponsored with FWG
- Thursday, April 8th, 12-1pm
- “Family Matters: The Impact of Family on Postdoctoral Attrition from the Academy”
- Graduate student speaker: Nicholas DiRago
- Friday, May 14th, 10am-12pm
- Workshop: Introduction to Spatial Bias, Weighting, and Regression
- Guest speaker: Yasmiyn Irizarry (UT-Austin) – co-sponsored with REWG
- Wednesday, May 19th, 1-2pm
- “Race-Shifting in the United States: Latinxs, Skin Tone, and Ethnoracial Alignments”
- Guest speaker: Ravaris Moore (LMU)
- Thursday, May 20th, 12-1pm
- “Do Police Shootings Alter the Demand for Police Intervention?”
- Guest speaker: Hyunjoon Park (Penn) – co-sponsored with FWG
- Monday, May 24th, 11am-12pm
- “The Luxury of Family: Growing Educational Differentials in Family Life in South Korea”
WINTER QUARTER 2021
- Weekly member meetings
- Thursdays at 1pm
- Graduate student speaker: Nick DiRago
- Friday, March 5th, 11am-1pm
- Workshop: Introduction to Spatial Data and Visualization
FALL QUARTER 2020
- Weekly member meetings
- Fridays at 10am
- Guest Speaker: Josh Seim (USC) – hosted by USC
- Friday, September 25th, 12-1:30pm
- Virtual Book Launch: “Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering”
- Guest Speaker: Stefanie DeLuca (Johns Hopkins) – hosted by USC
- Tuesday, October 13th, 12-1pm
- Social Innovation Speaker Series
2018-2019
SPRING QUARTER 2019
- Guest Speaker: Sharon Sassler, Cornell University
- Thursday April 4, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Haines 279
- “Whither Marriage? Cohabitation, and the Diverging Union Outcomes of More & Less Advantaged Americans”
- Guest Speaker: Tomás Jimenez, Stanford University
- Wednesday May 15, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Pub Affairs 4240
- The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
- Student Work In Progress- Ryan Cho and Isaac Jilbert
- Tuesday May 28, Time and Location TBD
- Graduate Students Ryan Cho and Isaac Jilbert will present on their respective work
WINTER QUARTER 2019
- Guest Speaker: Daniel Schneider, University of California, Berkeley
- Thursday January 31
- Parental Exposure to Routine Work Schedule Uncertainty and Child Behavior
- Guest Speaker: Kristin Turney, University of California, Irivine
- Wednesday February 13, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm, Haines 279
- Vicarious and Contingent Consequences of Adolescent Police Exposure
FALL QUARTER 2018
- Welcome and Introductions
- Wednesday October 10, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Haines 215
- Guest Speakers: Richard Sander, UCLA Law and Yana Kucheva, City College of NY
- Friday October 19, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Haines 279
- “Understanding Patterns of Housing Desegregation, 1970-1990: African American Mobility and the Contingent Nature of Stable Integration”
- Guest Speaker: Sam Friedman, London School of Economics
- Monday November 19, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Haines 279
- “The Decline and Persistence of the ‘Old Boy’: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897-2016”
- Student Work In Progress- Amber Villalobos and Taylor Aquino
- Monday November 13th, 10:30am- 12:00pm, Haines 279
- Graduate Students Amber Villalobos and Taylor Aquino will present on their respective work
