Following is a listing of seminars from previous years. These remain posted to display the various types of seminars we have held in the past.
| Seminar Series | Brown Bag Seminars |
Spring 2000 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, February 4
Charles C. Geisler
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"The Other Environmental Refugees (OERS)"
Warren 32
12:15
Friday, February 18
Kai Schaftt and David L. Brown
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"Internal Population Redistribution in Hungary
During Post Socialism"
Warren 32
12:15
Friday, March 3
Marin Clarkberg
Cornell University, Sociology
"Birth Intervals and Maternal Involvement: Employment Experiences,
Breastfeeding and the Timing of Second Births"
Warren 4
12:15
Friday, February 17
David Pimentel
Cornell University, Entomology
"Food, Environment, and the World Population"
Warren 4
12:15
Tuesday, March 28
James P. M. Ntozi
Professor, Department of Population Studies
Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
Makerere University, Kampala Uganda
"HIV/AIDS and Fertility in Northern Uganda"
Warren 401
12:15
Friday, April 28
Kevin Kinsella
Director, Committee on Population
National Research Council, Washington DC
"Global Ageing into the 21st Century"
Warren 32
12:15
Spring 2000 Seminars
Thursday, March 16
Chinua Akukwe, MD
Associate Professor of Community-Oriented Primary Care
George Washington University
"HIV/AIDS in Africa: The Need for Urgent Action"
G-08 Uris
12:15
(Co-sponsored with Institute for African Development)
Friday, March 31
Kamran Asdar Ali
Department of Anthropology
The University of Rochester
"Producing Consent: Reproductive Politics in Egypt"
Rockefeller 104
4:30
(Co-sponsored with University Lectures Committee, Department of Government,
Department of Anthropology,
Women's Studies,
Contemporary Near Eastern Studies Program,
and Program on
Gender and Global Change)
Monday, April 24
Duncan Thomas
Professor of Economics, UCLA
Senior Economist, RAND
"Health, Nutrition and the Economic Crisis in Indonesia"
Savage 100
4:00
(Co-sponsored with Field of Nutrition, Program on Economic Development,
and The Program in International Nutrition)
Friday, April 28
Daniel Lichter
Department of Sociology, Ohio State University &
Russell Sage Foundation
"Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the 21st Century"
Warren 32
2:30
(Co-sponsored by Department of Rural Sociology)
Fall 1999 Seminars
Friday, December 3
Elizabeth Grieco
Florida State University, Sociology
"The Remittances of Micronesian Migrants: A Sociological Approach"
Warren 32
2:30
Tuesday, December 7
Kristine Hopkins
Berelson Fellow, Population Counciel Regional Office
for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico City
"Under the Knife: Cesarean Section in Urban Brazil"
Warren 32
2:30
Friday, December 10
Elizabeth Fussell
Post Doctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center
University of Pennsylvania
"Migration From a US-Mexico Border City: the Importance of Space and Place"
Warren 32
2:30
Tuesday, December 14
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
Research Consultant, Labor and Population Program
Rand Corporation, Santa Monica
"Fertility and Human Capital Formation in a Context of Economic Downturn
The Cameroon Case"
Warren 32
2:30
Fall 1999 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, October 1
Mary M. Kritz
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"Implications of Couple Agreement on Reproduction for
Family Planning in Nigeria."
Warren 4
12:15
Friday, October 15
Elizabeth H. Peters and Ann Horvath
Cornell University, Policy Analysis & Management
"Welfare Waivers and Non-Marital Childbearing
Warren 4
12:15
Friday, October 29
Stefan Rayer
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"The Evolving Metropolis: Exploring Recent Trends in the
Spatial Distribution of Population and Employment
in the Northeastern U.S."
Warren 4
12:15
Friday, November 5
Warren A. Brown
Cornell University, Cornell Institute for Social & Economic Research
"Household Change and Neighborhood Dynamics"
Warren 32
12:15
Friday, November 19
Lindy B. Williams and Teresa Sobieszczyk
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"Assessing Attitudes Toward Fertility in the Philippines"
Warren 32
12:15
Friday, December 3 -- Postponed till January (TBA)
Charles C. Geisler
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"The Silent Fall: How to Think About Sprawl in the
Context of the Continuing Farm Crisis"
Warren 4
12:15
Spring 1999 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, February 12
Mary M. Kritz, Douglas T. Gurak and Likwang Chen
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"The Changing Composition of the Elderly Immigrant Population
and Their Living Arrangements."
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, February 26
Joseph Masudi Uchudi
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"Gender Context and Fertilility Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Warren 4
12:15
Friday, March 12
David Pelletier
Cornell University, Nutritional Sciences
"Malnutrition and child Mortality: Quantifying the Impact
and Its Implications for Nutrition"
Warren 4
12:15
Monday, March 15
Margaret Catley-Carlson
Vice Chair, International Development Research Centre
and Former President of the Population Council
"Prospects for Population change"
Warren 234
12:00
Friday, March 19
Frank Young
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"The Social Causation of Health"
Warren 4
12:15
Thursday, April 1
Jefferey Sobel
Cornell University, Nutritional Sciences
"Relationships Between Parity and Body Weight:
Child Rearing and Childbearing"
Warren 4
12:15
Friday, April 16
Carol Conroy
Cornell University, Education
"Influences on Occupational Choices Among Rural Adolescents"
Warren 4
12:15
Friday, April 30
Nina Glasgow
Cornell University, Rural Sociology
"Transportation for Older Persons: Problems, Needs and Policy Issues"
Warren 4
12:15
Spring 1999 Seminars
March 15
Margaret Catley-Carlson
Vice Chair, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa
and former President of the Population Council
"World Population Dynamcs: What Do They Imply for Agriculture?"
Sponsored by Cornell Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development
4:30-6:00 in Alumni Auditorium
March 29
Alex F. McCalla
Director, Rural Development, The World Bank and
Professor of Agricultural Economics, Emeritus, UC-Davis
"World Agricultural Directions: What Do They Mean for Food Security?"
Sponsored by Cornell Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development
4:30-6:00 in Alumni Auditorium
Fall 1998 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, October 30
Marin E. Clarkberg
Cornell University, Department of Sociology
"Nonmarital cohabitation in the US:
the Role of
Economic Well-Being and the Consequences for Later Marriage"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, November 13
Douglas T. Gurak
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"How Are They Doing? Keeping Track of the
Occupational Progress of New York's Ethnic Minorities With Census Data."
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, November 20
Max J. Pfeffer
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Immigration and Environmental Behavior"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, December 4
Thomas A. Hirschl
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Estimating the Lifetime Incidence of Poverty Among American Adults"
Warren 216
12:15
Spring 1998 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, January 30
Naoko Mizuno
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Women's Participation in the Grameen Bank and Fertility in Rural Bangldesh"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, February 20
J. Mayone Stycos
Cornell University, PDP & Dept. of Rural Sociology
"Why Do Men Prefer More Children Than Women?"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, March 27
Joseph Masudi Uchudi
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Spouse's Socioeconomic Characteristics and Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Does Spouse's Education Matter?"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, April 17
Linda J. Piccinino
Statistician-Demographer, Reproductive Statistics Branch
National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
"National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 5"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, May 1
Diane Crispell
Editor at Large, Roper Starch Worldwide of New York
"Public Opinion Surveys: The Experience of Roper Starch Worldwide, Inc."
Warren 216
12:15
Spring 1998 Seminars
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 2:30pm in Warren 32.
Friday, February 6
Cornelia Butler Flora
Director, north Central Regional Center for rural Development and
Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University
"Balance in Community Resources: the Pluses and Minuses of Social Capital"
Friday, February 13
Luin Goldring
York University
"The Mexican State and Transmigrant Organizations"
Friday, March 6
Stephen Bunker
University of Wisconsin, Department of Rural Sociology
"Getting the Goods Home Cheaply: Raw Materials Transport and Rising Core Economies"
Friday, March 13
Elizabeth Barham, Douglas Gurak, Thomas Hirschl & Phil McMichael
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
Panel Discussion on "Neoliberalism and the Sociology of Development
Friday, March 27
Paul Eberts
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Community Theory and its contemporary Empirical Viability"
Friday, April 17
Patrick H. Mooney
University of Kentucky, Department of Sociology
"Paradox Lost: Toward a Political Economy of the Cooperative Movement in U.S. Agriculture"
Friday, April 24
Douglas Massey
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology
"The Social Process of Undocumented Border Crossing"
Friday, May 1
Katherine Bain
World Bank, NGO Unit
"The World Bank, Social Capital and Civil Society in Latin America and the Caribbean"
Fall 1997 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, September 19
Stefan Rayer
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"The Structural Dimension of Net Migration and Migration Efficiency
in the Mid-Atlantic
Region, 1985-90"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, October 3
Michael S. Rendall
Cornell University, Policy Analysis & Management Department
"Entry or Exit? A Transition Probability Approach to Explaining the
High Rates of African-American Single Motherhood."
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, October 31
Warren Brown
Cornell University, Cornell Institute For Social & Economic Research (CISER)
"Comings and Goings: Determining Age-Sex Migration Rates for U.S. Counties"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, November 7
Douglas Gurak, Rural Sociology; Mary Kritz, Rural Sociology and Michael Rendall, Policy Analysis
and Management
"The 23rd IUSSP General Population Conference in Beijing: An Informal Report"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, November 21
Alaka Basu
Cornell University, Nutritional Sciences Department
"Gender in Population Research: Confusing Implications for Health Policy"
Warren 216
12:15
Friday, December 5
Nalini Ranjit
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Household and Community Influences on Child Mortality in India"
Warren 216
12:15
Fall 1997 Seminars
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 2:30pm in Warren 32.
Friday, September 5
Mildred Warner
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Local Government Capacity and Investment: Historical Implications of devolution, 1972-1987"
3:30pm
Warren 32
Friday, September 12
Phil McMichael
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Global and Regional Implications of the East Asian Food Import Complex"
Friday, September 19
Michael Rendall and Raisa Bahchieva
Cornell University, Department of Policy Analysis & Management
"An Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility in Developed Countries: The Large Contribution of
Coresident Family to the Poverty Alleviation of Unmarried and Disabled Elderly in the U.S."
Friday, October 3
Scott Peters
University of Minnesota
"Public Scholarship: the Promise and challenge of Faculty-Citizen Research Partnerships"
Friday, October 17
Jeff Sobal
Cornell University, Nutritional Sciences
"Food and Nutrition System Trajectories and Transitions"
Friday, October 24
David Brown
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"Interhousehold Exchange in Rural Hungary"
Friday, October 31
Leland Glenna
Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology
"On Becoming Ecologically Rational: A Social & Environmental Critique of
Agriculture"
Friday, November 14
Nancy Mathews
Natural Resources Conservation Service
"PrivateLand Conservation: What Role for Rural Sociologists?"
Friday, November 21
William Heffernan
University of Missouri
"Globalization and Response"
Spring 1997 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, February 7th
Douglas Gurak
Cornell University
"Recent Developments in Multi-Level Analysis"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, February 21st
David Price
Editor-Elect of Population and Environment
Cornell University Center for the Environment
"Unthinking Carrying Capacity"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, February 28th
Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Cornell University
"Transient Relations and their Effect on the Selection of 'Mr. or Ms. Right'"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, March 7th
Annabel Perkins
Cornell University
"Exploring Fertility Differences in East and West Africa Using the Economic Theory of Public
Goods"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, March 14th
Mary M. Kritz
Cornell University
"Ethnic Differences in Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Behavior in Nigeria"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, April 4th
William Schooling
Cornell University
"The Sex Ratio and Migration in California"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, April 25th
Shengzu Gu
Institute for Social & Economic Research
Wuhan University
"Migration & Urbanization in China"
Warren 216
12:30
Spring 1997 Seminars
Friday, January 29th
Daniel Hogan
President, Brazilian Population Studies Association
"Demographic and Environmental Constraints to Regional Development in Sao Paulo"
Warren 32
2:30
Friday, February 21st
Patrice Kuzniak
Deputy Director, Social and Demographic Analysis, N.Y. State Assembly
"Welfare Reform In New York State"
Warren 32
2:30
Friday, February 28th
Linda Lobao
Ohio State University
"Spatial Dimensions of Labor Markets in the Global Economy"
Warren 32
2:30
Friday, March 7th
Joachim Singelmann
Louisiana State University
"Democratization in a Reunified Germany"
Warren 32
2:30
Friday, April 11th
Lief Jensen
Pennsylvania State University
"Poverty and Children's Schooling in Rural and Urban Chile"
Warren 32
2:30
Friday, May 2nd
Louise Fortmann
University of California-Berkeley
"Some Land Matters: Reflections on Work in Progress
Warren 32
2:30
Monday, June 2nd
Jack C. Caldwell
National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health
Australian National University
"The Social Context of Fertility Decline in SubSaharan Africa and South Asia"
Warren 32
2:30
Fall 1996 Brown Bag Seminars
Friday, September 27th
Georges Tapinos
Institut d'Etude Politiques de Paris
"The Current International Migration Situation in Europe"
Warren 216
12:00
Thursday, October 3rd
Assata Zerai and Rae Banks
Syracuse University
"Maternal Cocaine Use and Infant Survival:
Interrogating the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, October 11th
Frank Young
Cornell University
"Is Social Participation Really a Super Variable?"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, November 1st
Cheryl Bowdre
Cornell University
"Infant Mortality and Ethnicity in Nigeria"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, November 8th
Michael Rendall
Cornell University
"Retrospective and Panel Underreporting of
Male Fertility in the United States and Britain"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, November 15th
Peter Chi
Cornell University
"Research on Chinese Enterprises"
Warren 216
12:30
Friday, December 6th
Warren Brown
Cornell University
"GIS in Demographic Analysis"
Mann Library, Stone Microcomputer Lab
12:30
Fall 1996 Seminars
Friday, September 27th
Georges Tapinos
Institut d'Etude Politiques de Paris
"Trade and Development as an Alternative to International Migration:
The European Union and the Maghreb"
Warren 32
2:15
Jointly sponsored by:
PDP, Department of Rural Sociology, and the Institute for European Studies.
Friday, September 27th
Professor Siemienska-Zochowska
"The Contemporary Dilemma of the Polish Family and Its Geneology"
Warren 32
12:00
Jointly Sponsored by:
PDP and the Department of Rural Sociology
Friday, October 18th
Parker Mauldin
The Population Council
"The Role of Family Planning Programs in Reducing Fertility:
The 1970-1995 Record"
Warren 32
2:15
Jointly sponsored by PDP & Rural Sociology
Friday, November 8th
Paul Stern
National Research Council
"Coping with Uncertainty in Environmental Policy"
Warren 32
2:15
Jointly sponsored by PDP & Rural Sociology
Friday, November 22th
Leann Tigges
University of Wisconsin
"Locality, Livelihood, and Lifestyle"
Warren 32
2:15
Jointly sponsored by PDP & Rural Sociology
Friday, December 6th
Geoff Lawrence
Central Quuensland University, Australia
"Global meets local: Evidence of Recent Agro-Food Restructuring in Australia"
Warren 32
2:15
Jointly sponsored by PDP & Rural Sociology
