CSDE Seminar: Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol - Sanyu A. Mojola
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Sanyu A. Mojola, Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs, Princeton University
Abstract: Washington, DC, the capital of the United States, has the nation’s largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nation’s worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS. These epidemics have disproportionately affected African Americans. Why and how does racial health inequality exist and persist? Starting from the city’s founding in the late 1700s and drawing on a range of sources—including archival material, life history interviews, and census, vital statistics, and disease surveillance data—this book illustrates how the physical, social, and policy design of the city contributes to the production and reproduction of disproportionate Black death.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L8YO5FRnRVKdCIHIcufwLw#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Katz Distinguished Lecture: Michael Rothberg, "Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory"
Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory, Why do we turn to the past in order to confront the crises of the present? Michael Rothberg approaches this question from the perspective of “comparison controversies,” which occur when impassioned public debates emerge from provocative historical comparisons. Since October 7, 2023, political speeches, protests, magazine articles, and social media posts have generated controversy by connecting recent events in Israel and Gaza to the Holocaust. In this talk, Rothberg will consider post-October 7 examples in relation to a larger context of comparison controversies and a longer trajectory of Holocaust memory to reflect more generally on the possibilities and pitfalls of historical analogy. Michael Rothberg (1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles) researches the social and cultural implications of political violence and its…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Chaytan Inman
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Statistical Approaches to Studying Primate Functional Morphology and Locomotion | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Reconstructing early hominin locomotion is a central task for understanding the origin of the human lineage because locomotion provides access to key evolutionary resources including food, water, shelter, and potential mates. This talk will focus on three-dimensional geometric morphometric (i.e. the statistical analysis of shape) approaches to investigating primate foot functional morphology. Such approaches include high-dimensional sliding semilandmark, coherent point drift, and weighted spherical harmonics analyses to investigate the external shape and internal structure of the primate foot, providing the necessary context to reconstruct aspects of early hominin locomotor repertoires. .
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. Katz Colloquium: Michael Rothberg, "Restitution, Repair, and Implication: Afterlives of Colonialism and the Holocaust in the Humboldt Forum"
Registration requested: bit.ly/michael-rothberg
What does it mean for individuals and institutions to be ‘implicated’ in past violence? This is an urgent question across nations and continents, but it has a particular force in Germany. In recent years, the German public sphere has been agitated by debates that concern the relationship between the Holocaust and colonialism, antisemitism and racism, and Holocaust memory and violence in Israel/Palestine. These debates have intersected with a longer-standing dispute about colonial legacies that has centered on the reconstruction of Berlin’s imperial palace and the creation of the Humboldt Forum. The Humboldt Forum debate involves the afterlives of colonial structures, stolen artifacts, and human remains. In this lecture, Michael Rothberg will address the stakes of these different debates. Much of the controversy about the relationship between the Holocaust and colonialism concerns the past, but Rothberg’s approach also foregrounds what it means to live in the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
CSDE Workshop - Intro to R II: Working With Data
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
This workshop is a 75 minute introduction to data manipulation in R. We will cover reading and writing data, summarizing data, creating new variables, and moving between long and wide data formats.
This workshop is the second in a series of 3 workshops, and will be followed by Intro to R III: Data Visualization.
The workshop will be remote and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
CSDE Biodemography Working Group Meeting
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
"Ten Thousand Things" at the Wing Luke Museum
Registration required: bit.ly/ShinYuPai
Join curator Shin Yu Pai at the Wing Luke Museum’s Ten Thousand Things exhibit. The exhibit is an exploration of the objects that shape identities, histories, and cultural narratives. Inspired by her experience cataloging artifacts at the Wing Luke Museum as a Museology graduate student, Pai has long been fascinated by the way objects function as vessels of memory, meaning, and storytelling. This exhibition expands upon Pai’s acclaimed public radio podcast Ten Thousand Things. Through four seasons of storytelling, Pai has explored the intimate connections people have with everyday and extraordinary items—objects that hold deep personal significance, evoke generational ties, or serve as cultural touchstones.
Shin Yu Pai is an award-winning writer, photographer, podcast host and editor based in the Pacific Northwest. She is author of numerous collections of poetry, including No Neutral (Empty Bowl Press, 2023), and was Seattle’s 2023-2024 Civic Poet. Her literary papers…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Wing Luke Museum, 719 S. King Street.
4th Sam Dubal Memorial Lecture: Tracie Canada, "How Black College Football Players Tackle their Everyday"
College football, with its prestige, drama, media, and money, is a core feature of the sporting landscape in the US. However, the promises of an “amateur” system that offers a “free” education contradict the reality. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Canada describes how this system particularly harms, disadvantages, and exploits the Black men who are demographically overrepresented on gridirons across the country. In this talk, she highlights how she engages multiple audiences in her ethnographic writing, which details how Black college football players tackle the systems that structure their everyday lives, and who helps them do it.
Tracie Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and director of the HEARTS (Health, Ethnography, and Race through Sports) Lab at Duke University. She is a Black feminist anthropologist and ethnographer whose research uses sport to theorize race, kinship and care, gender, and the performing body.
Co-sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Miller Hall (MLR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ibc1du9_TsmWfwb7nufUQw. Campus room: 301. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM.
CSDE Seminar: Growing up in the UK: Child Development in a Complex System - Chia Liu
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Chia Liu, Associate Lecturer of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W41BWLM6RbiWlb9V3T76EQ#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Lauren Woyczynski & Jessica Godwin
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Generative Climate Modeling: Emulation and Dimension Reduction | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar Abstract coming soon! Xinwei Shen is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. Her research interests include distributional learning, causality, robustness, and applications in climate science.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Workshop - Intro to R III: Data Visualization
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
This workshop is a 75 minute introduction data visualization in R. We will cover all major types of plots in both base R and the tidyverse
The workshop will be remote and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Evo-Hub Lecture: Marshall Abrams, "The Uniqueness of Organisms in Evolution"
If natural selection is “the survival of the fittest” and being fittest means having more offspring, then survival of the fittest is just the survival of those that survive. In this talk, Abrams explains how evolutionary biology avoids this puzzling conclusion, and why research practices motivate the idea that evolution takes place in “population-environment systems”—complex analogs of dice-tossing. But traditional research practices have been criticized as focusing too much on populations, and not enough on each individual organism’s unique dance with its environment. Abrams argues that his approach allows us to see what is right about each perspective.
Marshall Abrams is a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. Abrams’ book Evolution and the Machinery of Chance is the basis of ongoing research
This event is free and open to the public. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by November…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
CSDE Seminar: Deep Mapping Grief and Loss in the Context of Migration - José Alavez
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: José Alavez, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZLjbB0QjSGCsNGHnvOnvcg#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Digital & Data Humanities Meet & Greet
RSVP Encouraged: bit.ly/dhmg
The Simpson Center invites current UW faculty, students, and staff working in the digital and data humanities, broadly defined, to a fall meet-and-greet to make connections and learn about upcoming events, workshops, and ongoing projects. RSVP encouraged. Refreshments provided. Featured Projects & Resources, Black Digital Studies in the Age of Techno-Fascism, Cultural Analytics Praxis, Digital Humanities Reading & Research Cluster, Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies, Humanities Data Lab , Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Society + Technology at UW, Free and open to UW faculty, students, and staff; RSVP encouraged. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by November 4, 2025 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu.
Generously made possible by the Digital Humanities Commons Endowed Fund.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 204 (enter through CMU 206). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW Faculty, Students, & Staff.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
JSDE Seminar: Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford)
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, November 17, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
For more info visit econ.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Sruly Rosenblat, Ilan Strauss
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. The Global Burden of Disease Study: A 34-year journey to make the invisible visible | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study is a systematic and collaborative effort to provide comprehensive and comparable health estimates worldwide. The GBD’s ability to provide a complete picture of health, even in data-scarce environments, has been instrumental in shifting global health priorities. In this talk, Rob will discuss the ongoing challenges and innovations, including the increasing use of electronic health record data in the GBD, the development of methods to handle sparse and conflicting data, as well as the expanding collaborations with local and national policy makers that aim to turn GBD evidence into action. Rob will also highlight future directions in relation to his work at GBD, such as an increasing focus on socially excluded groups. Rob Aldridge is a Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences at University of Washington and leads the Clinical Informatics team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), where he contributes to the Global…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. Panel: Pathways to Faculty Positions in Two-Year Colleges
This panel will feature the voices of two-year college faculty from the Seattle District Colleges who will describe their paths to these teaching-intensive institutions and offer advice to graduate students who are considering community college careers. Panelists will discuss effective approaches to the job search and application materials, the classroom experience, service expectations, and the unique rewards of working in this critically important part of the higher education sector. Panelist remarks will be followed by Q&A with the audience.
Panelists
Deepa Bhandaru, PhD (Humanities, North Seattle College)
Cristóbal A. Borges, PhD (History, North Seattle College)
Steph Hankinson, PhD (Humanities, Drama, & English, South Seattle College)
Free and open to graduate students. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by November 9 to the Simpson Center: 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu.
Generously made possible by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center Endowment for the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
CSDE Seminar: A Demographer’s View of Education and Dementia: Patterns, Predictability, and Persistence
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Hyungmin Cha, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Abstract: Education is one of the strongest predictors of dementia, but its influence extends well beyond whether individuals develop the condition. In this talk, I synthesize three projects that examine how education shapes the functional form, timing, and cumulative duration of dementia experiences. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, I show that (1) dementia risk declines linearly with additional years of schooling, with a notable threshold reduction at high school completion; (2) education postpones dementia onset and reduces variability in its timing, such that college-educated adults experience both later and more predictable onset; and (3) higher life-course socioeconomic status extends dementia-free life expectancy and compresses the years lived with dementia. Together, these studies position education as a fundamental cause of dementia disparities, shaping not…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_niBJ_KdpT2a3JP5sVf5v_A#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. JSDE Seminar: Resem Makan (Case Western Reserve University)
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
For more info visit econ.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Survey Sampling in Difficult Contexts | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: This talk will focus on applying principles of survey sampling, such as sampling frames, stratification, and clustering, to developing and unstable contexts. This work is particularly challenging given a frequent lack of pre-existing data and ethical challenges relating to both enumerators and respondents. The presentation will draw on the speaker's experience fielding face-to-face surveys in Colombia and South Sudan as well as current work designing future face-to-face surveys in Iraq and Ukraine. Gabriella Levy is a political scientist who studies the ways that individuals and societies react to and come to terms with political violence in countries in or emerging from civil conflict or other forms of large-scale instability. She focuses on Latin America, particularly Colombia, and primarily uses survey methodologies. .
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Biodemography Working Group Meeting
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
CSDE Fall 2025 Lightning Talks & Poster Session
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Campus room: 221. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu.