CSDE Seminar - Occupations, Careers, and Opportunity: A Structural Approach to Studying Economic Mobility over the Life Course - Michael Shultz
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Michael Shultz, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington
Abstract: A person’s work life is a major feature of the middle of the life course. A sociological approach focuses on how wages and other job rewards are tied to workers obtaining discrete positions. Consequently, the movement of workers between jobs and the work contexts of those jobs are primary explanations for inequality over the life course. The large number of possible transitions between jobs presents theoretical and methodological challenges. In this talk, I draw on several of my recent and ongoing research projects that use the 500 Census occupations to identify structural positions in the labor market and analyze occupational and wage mobility over the life course. Occupations are a meso-level unit of analysis that facilitates studying institutional job ladders, career continuity/discontinuity across job transitions, and changes in the availability and access to jobs associated with opportunity.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W-WridIXR2KQEoKKcqiHpA#/. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Workshop - Text as Data and LLM applications
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Text data has gained popularity over the last decade due to the increased data availability, the emergence of new methods, and the decreasing costs of computational resources. Based on the book Text As Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences, this workshop introduces the methods that could be used to select and represent text, conduct research discoveries, and build measurements out of text data. A specific focus is put on building measurements/labels out of unstructured text data using both supervised approach and generative LLMs. We will review the principles briefly, take an overview of the methods for each section, and deep dive into one or two of the most common methods using Python. This workshop is designed to help researchers in social science and demography with no prior experience in working with text.
A free Google Colab account is recommended to run the workshop demos.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Associations of Forest vs. Urban Environmental Exposure with Well-Being and Nasal Microbiome Composition: An Exploratory Pilot Study
Biocultural Anthropology Seminar Series
Featured Speaker: Dr. Connor Lashus, PhD. student, School of Environment and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
The benefits of nature exposure for human well-being are well-recognized, yet much remains to be understood about the underlying causal mechanisms. This exploratory, hypothesis-generating pilot study used a natural experimental design with University of Washington students (Seattle, WA, USA; 2024) to investigate links between the nasal microbiome and well-being over an 8-week forest vs. urban environment exposure. After an academic year (September-May) during which all participants (N = 13) were full-time students in Seattle, one group relocated to remote forest sites in western Washington (n = 5; forest condition), while another group remained in urban Seattle (n = 8; urban condition). Self-reported affect, rumination, and mental well-being were assessed pre- and post-exposure using validated surveys, and nasal swabs were collected pre- and post-exposure for nasal microbiome profiling via 1…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 313. Accessibility Contact: clcarr82@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate/Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Emily M. Bender, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities"
The production and promotion of so-called "AI" technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring the importance of communities and webs of relationships. Meanwhile, the purpose of humans is framed as being labelers of data or interchangeable machine components. Data collected about people is understood as "ground truth" even while it lies about those people, especially marginalized people. In this talk, Bender will explore these processes of dehumanization and the vital role that the humanities have in resisting these trends by painting a deeper and richer picture of what it is to be human.
Emily M. Bender is the Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor in Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Courtney Allen, PhD Student, Sociology, University of Washington
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, February 11, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Novel methods to construct a representative sample for surveying California’s unhoused population: the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH). Seminar co-sponsored by CSDE | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: California has among the highest per capita rate of homelessness in the United States, with more than 181,000 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) nightly – more than 25% of the country’s homeless population and half of its unsheltered population. Much of the literature on PEH draws on data from nonrepresentative samples, limiting (and potentially introducing bias to) inference and our overall understanding of the population. From October 2021 to November 2022, the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative fielded a statewide survey of PEH in California. The purpose of this survey was to understand the characteristics of PEH, the causes and consequences of homelessness, and to identify potential opportunities to end and prevent homelessness. This seminar will describe our novel sampling strategy to generate a representative sample of PEH in California (drawing upon methods from venue-based sampling and respondent driven sampling), implementation challenges, and lessons learned. Dr. Paul…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSSS Seminar - Novel Methods to Construct a Representative Sample for Surveying California’s Unhoused Population: the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH) - Paul Wesson
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
California has among the highest per capita rate of homelessness in the United States, with more than 181,000 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) nightly – more than 25% of the country’s homeless population and half of its unsheltered population. Much of the literature on PEH draws on data from nonrepresentative samples, limiting (and potentially introducing bias to) inference and our overall understanding of the population. From October 2021 to November 2022, the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative fielded a statewide survey of PEH in California. The purpose of this survey was to understand the characteristics of PEH, the causes and consequences of homelessness, and to identify potential opportunities to end and prevent homelessness. This seminar will describe our novel sampling strategy to generate a representative sample of PEH in California (drawing upon methods from venue-based sampling and respondent driven sampling), implementation challenges, and lessons learned.
Dr. Paul Wesson is an As…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: csss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SocSEM Speakers Series, Jack Goldstone: 10 Billion: How Population Will Change the World in the 21 Century
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
SocSEM
Jack Goldstone
10 Billion: How Population Will Change the World in the 21st Century
Thursday, February 12, 2026
12:30 pm-2:00 pm
SAVERY 409
The future will be old; Europe, the Americas and Asia will soon have the oldest populations ever known to humanity. Can we cope? It will require major changes in the way we think about youth, women, immigration, and globalization to avoid disaster.
Jack A. Goldstone (PhD Harvard) is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, and a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center.
He has received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship award from the American Sociological Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr. Award, the Myron Weiner Award, the Ibn Khaldun Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the JS Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Mellon Foundation.
He also served as the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor to…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Lecture: Lisa Uperesa, "Embodied Racialization, Mobility, and Cultural Expression: Tracing the Roots of the Modern Polynesian Sports Diaspora"
Athletes with ancestral ties to the Pacific Islands are dominant fixtures in some of the world’s most visible sports and over several generations have produced a modern sports diaspora. Tracing Samoan transnational and diasporic movement along divergent colonial pathways, this talk examines the relationship between embodied experiences of racialization and the emergence of Pacific sports excellence in three settler colonial countries (United States, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia). It then considers what recent efforts to mobilize Indigenous practice inside and outside sport tell us about the uses and importance of culture in contemporary sport.
Lisa Uperesa (Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, UCLA) works with Pacific communities to understand movement and mobility, and how they shape lives, identities, families, cultures, and futures. Her past research focused on the rise of American football in Samoan communities and the navigation of sport as both labor and tautua (service). Current researc…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Communications 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
CSDE Seminar - The Hidden Private Safety Net: Shared Households and Older Adults' Housing Costs - Kristin Perkins
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Kristin Perkins, Sociology, Georgetown University
Abstract: Where U.S. public supports fall short of need, individuals often turn to the private safety net – instrumental support from family and friends. Although impacts of the public safety net are well-documented, less research considers how the private safety net shapes patterns of hardship. Focusing on the case of older adults’ shared households, this study demonstrates how the provision and receipt of private safety net support shapes housing costs and, ultimately, our understanding of the contours of the housing affordability crisis. Using Survey of Income and Program Participation data, we find that 15% of older adults are hosts, who share their home with others, and 6% are guests, who live in someone else’s home. Counterfactual estimates reveal that guests pay $713 less a month on housing than they would in nonshared housing, and hosts pay $53 more. Without shared households, an additional 5% of older adults would experience cost burdens,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8uTJ8X5SRneM3KLnpKYuPA#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Changjie Chen, The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning
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, February 18, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Making All the Pieces Matter: Bridging Theory, Methodology, and Analyses to Uncover Nuance in Parenting and Child Development Research | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Parents with addiction and mental health challenges (also known as psychopathology) can struggle to consistently and responsively meet their children’s needs. This can increase children’s risk for future mental health problems and adverse developmental outcomes. Sometimes the effects of parent addiction and psychopathology are subtle, less “visible” and unfold in diverse, complicated processes that are difficult for researchers to capture or explain. Consequently, this requires scholars to adopt more sophisticated or creative empirical approaches to enrich our understanding of associations between addiction, psychopathology, parenting, and child development. However, few studies explicitly, intentionally, or strategically combine theories (which help explain complex phenomena) with diverse methods or advanced analytical approaches to explore the nuance, novelty, and complexity of these associations. This talk demonstrates the utility of integrated and intentional theory-methods-analysis approaches…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSSS Seminar - Making All the Pieces Matter: Bridging Theory, Methodology, and Analyses to Uncover Nuance in Parenting and Child Development Research - Debrielle Jacques
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Debrielle Jacques is an Assistant Professor of Child Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington. Research-wise, she is broadly interested in a) the developmental effects of parent psychopathology and b) childhood risk, resilience, developmental psychopathology, and general child development in adverse family environments. Specifically, she is interested in studying how and why addiction (especially among mothers) impacts parenting - including parent social cognition, parenting attributions, parenting behavior, and parent-child interactions - and consequently, child development, including the development of psychological problems. In studying children of mothers with substance use disorders, she is also interested in better understanding the underlying function of the strategies children use to navigate these family environments, including a) how children calibrate and adjust these strategies to environmental changes over time (e.g. increasing levels of domestic violence in the home), and b) understa…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: csss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
CSDE Seminar - Gendered Dissent and Social Threat: Attitudes Towards Protest Repression in Colombia - Gabriella Levy
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Gabriella Levy, Political Science, University of Washington
Abstract: What determines support for police restraint in times of social protest? Previous research shows perceptions of protest violence increase support for repression. We argue that protests violating social norms are also seen as less deserving of restraint— even when they pose no physical threat. Focusing on gender-related protests, we test this argument using a survey experiment in Bogot´a, Colombia, which like many cities in Latin America has repeatedly experienced women-led protests in recent years. Our results show that protests for LGBTQ+ rights and expanded abortion access reduce support for restraint compared to demands that are less threatening to the social order, even though perceptions of violence do not vary by protest goals. Non-violent protest tactics that violate traditional gender norms also reduce support for police restraint. These findings suggest that the right to peacefully protest—an essential component of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6NqV1fREQ5eqn554ckv0Ug#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Workshop - Probabilistic Population Projections I: Theory
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructor: Hana Ševčíková
Probabilistic Population Projections I: Theory
Introduction to the theory and models behind subnational Bayesian population projections.
Prior knowledge of R programming beneficial.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Those interested in learning about Bayesian population projections.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Yue Chu, The Ohio State University
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, February 25, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Estimating global age- and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations from 1950–2025 for the Global Burden of Disease Study | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Comprehensive, comparable, and timely estimates of age-specific mortality are essential for evaluating, understanding, and addressing trends in population health. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of timely all-cause mortality estimates for being able to respond to changing trends in health outcomes, showing a strong need for analysis tools that can produce all-cause mortality estimates more rapidly with more readily available all-age vital registration data. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is an ongoing research effort that quantifies human health by estimating a range of epidemiological quantities of interest across time, age, sex, location, cause, and risk. This seminar will cover the methodology used to estimate all-cause mortality for the GBD. Specifically, it will explain the novel statistical model developed as part of the latest release (GBD 2023). This model accounts for complex correlation structures in demographic data across age and…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSSS Seminar - Estimating Global Age- and Sex-Specific All-Cause Mortality in 204 Countries and Territories and 660 Subnational Locations from 1950–2025 for the Global Burden of Disease Study - Austin Schumacher
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Comprehensive, comparable, and timely estimates of age-specific mortality are essential for evaluating, understanding, and addressing trends in population health. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of timely all-cause mortality estimates for being able to respond to changing trends in health outcomes, showing a strong need for analysis tools that can produce all-cause mortality estimates more rapidly with more readily available all-age vital registration data. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is an ongoing research effort that quantifies human health by estimating a range of epidemiological quantities of interest across time, age, sex, location, cause, and risk. This seminar will cover the methodology used to estimate all-cause mortality for the GBD. Specifically, it will explain the novel statistical model developed as part of the latest release (GBD 2023). This model accounts for complex correlation structures in demographic data across age and time, and fl…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: csss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
CSDE Workshop - Probabilistic Population Projections II: Practice
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructor: Hana Ševčíková
Probabilistic Population Projections II: Practice
Implementing subnational Bayesian population projections in R.
Prior knowledge of R programming beneficial.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Those interested in learning about Bayesian population projections.
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Seminar - The Journey into Adulthood in Uncertain Times - Robert Crosnoe
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Robert Crosnoe, Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract: This presentation will provide an overview of a new book, The Journey into Adulthood in Uncertain Times, co-authored with Shannon Cavanagh and published in 2025 by Russell Sage. It tackles some key questions of interests to population scientists, developmental scientists, and the public, including: Is the lengthening span of time that young people in the U.S. take to transition into adult roles creating a new generation of “adultolescents”? How has the decades-long reshaping of this critical period of life been complicated by specific historical crises? The answers to these questions come from What does this interplay between long-term trends and short-term shocks mean for the cycle of inequality across American generations? The answers come from integrated analyses of multiple sources of population and qualitative data that consider how: 1) key aspects of socioeconomic attainment, family-building, and socioemotional development…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ikj70nK6RkCLLMCjIwsOkA#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Jessica Godwin, CSDE, University of Washington & Lauren Woyczynski
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, March 4, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Individual and Collective Human Agency in the Face of ‘AI’ | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: As AI systems increasingly shape our personal, professional, and societal lives, the question is not only what machines can do, but who controls the values and outcomes they produce. This talk examines both individual agency — the capacity to think, judge, and act — and collective agency, where communities define norms, resist imposed standards, and guide AI deployment. Drawing on research in trustworthy AI, decolonial alignment, and human–AI collaboration, I will explore technical and governance approaches that preserve human autonomy, including transparency tools, scoped alignment methods, and collaborative task structures. I will introduce AI platform cooperatives as a counterweight to tech‑company dominance, fostering community ownership, shared governance, and technological self-determination. Ultimately, AI should be a tool that empowers humans, singly and together. Kush R. Varshney is an IBM Fellow based at the T. J. Watson Research Center where he is responsible for innovations in AI…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSSS Seminar - Individual and Collective Human Agency in the Face of ‘AI’ - Kush Varshney
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
As AI systems increasingly shape our personal, professional, and societal lives, the question is not only what machines can do, but who controls the values and outcomes they produce. This talk examines both individual agency — the capacity to think, judge, and act — and collective agency, where communities define norms, resist imposed standards, and guide AI deployment. Drawing on research in trustworthy AI, decolonial alignment, and human–AI collaboration, I will explore technical and governance approaches that preserve human autonomy, including transparency tools, scoped alignment methods, and collaborative task structures. I will introduce AI platform cooperatives as a counterweight to tech‑company dominance, fostering community ownership, shared governance, and technological self-determination. Ultimately, AI should be a tool that empowers humans, singly and together.
Kush R. Varshney is an IBM Fellow based at the T. J. Watson Research Center where he is responsible for innovations in AI governance and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: csss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
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, March 5, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Evo-Hub Lecture: Gregory Radick, "Nurturing Science: An Enhanced Role for the Humanities"
The traditional role of history and philosophy of science (HPS) in the science classroom is to stir some “human interest” into the pedagogic mix. HPS has been the stuff of the sidebar, where textbook authors put information that they regard as interesting, yet non-essential. Radick will advocate for the potential of HPS to enliven the creative critical thinking from which science benefits. He will describe how his HPS research has opened up a new option for teaching introductory genetics, more in line with present-day emphases on the modifying roles of internal and external environments than the standard start-with-Mendel curriculum. Radick will leave us with a sketch of how to broadly extend this more radical integration of HPS perspectives into science education.
Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Metascience, and a Trustee of the Science Museum. In 2025, he became the first humanities scholar to win the J. B. S.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: CMU 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
CSDE Winter 2026 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, March 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Elizabeth Nova, PhD Student, Sociology, University of Washington
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, March 11, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Big and Small Data for Understanding the Demographics and Health of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar abstract coming soon! Zack W. Almquist is an Associate Professor of Sociology, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics, and a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. His research develops and applies innovative statistical, survey, and social network methodologies to address critical social issues, including housing and homelessness, population health, and environmental governance, with a particular focus on improving data collection for marginalized and hard-to-reach populations. Prior to joining UW, he held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota and worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook. Prof. Almquist has received numerous honors, including the NSF CAREER Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, and two major awards from the American Sociological Association. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology and in elected chair of the Section on Mathematical Sociology for the American Sociological Association…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSSS Seminar - Big and Small Data for Understanding the Demographics and Health of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County - Zack Almquist
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Zack W. Almquist is an Associate Professor of Sociology, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics, and a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. His research develops and applies innovative statistical, survey, and social network methodologies to address critical social issues, including housing and homelessness, population health, and environmental governance, with a particular focus on improving data collection for marginalized and hard-to-reach populations. Prior to joining UW, he held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota and worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook. Prof. Almquist has received numerous honors, including the NSF CAREER Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, and two major awards from the American Sociological Association. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology and in elected chair of the Section on Mathematical Sociology for the American Sociological Association and Chair of the Caucus on Homele…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: csss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
CSDE Seminar - Infrastructures of Resettlement: How Bureaucratic Legacies Shaped Racial Disparities in Post-Cold War Refugee Selection - Jake Watson
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Jake Watson, Sociology, University of California San Diego
Abstract: This paper draws on migration infrastructure perspectives to theorize how states select refugees. After the Cold War, the United States shifted its refugee admissions program from a focus on anticommunism toward more humanitarian criteria, marked by greater need-based selection and distributional equity – including explicit efforts to increase African admissions. Yet the 1990s saw the US resettle roughly 300,000 Europeans and just 40,000 Africans despite comparably large displacement crises in Yugoslavia and the Horn of Africa. Why? While scholars explain such disparities through explicit racial preferences or geopolitical interests, I show that inherited processing infrastructure shaped which humanitarian claims could be acted upon at scale. Decades of racist migration control and Cold War foreign policy had built networks of embassies, processing centers, and NGOs that could be rapidly deployed for Yugoslav displacement. African…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mqjs5IEXRDCKhsKTyOYkMw#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, March 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Spring 2026 CSEAD Student Conference
This conference is an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to share their original research relating to Southeast Asia or Southeast Asian diasporas with peers and the UW community. Research on any discipline is welcome. More info coming in Feb from sponsor, UW Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas.
Please know, the event start/end time is TBD, but the calendar setup does not have a "TBD" option, so the time that is shown as of January 7, 2026 is not the set time. More info will be coming soon.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: clcarr82@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Conferences. Student Activities. Target Audience: Faculty and Undergrads/Grads.
Friday, May 1, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.