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, May 1, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
TALK | Co-Designing the Future of Cultural Heritage: Interactive Technologies and Museum Collaborations in Northern Europe by Siiri Paananen, University of Lapland (Finland)
About the Talk:
What does cultural heritage mean today, and how can we shape its future together? My research explores interactive technologies in collaboration with Nordic museums, including Indigenous Sámi institutions. It focuses on creating new ways to experience heritage while addressing ethical concerns. From photogrammetry for detailed 3D models to virtual experiences of remote sites, digital tools reshape how people relate to the past. Heritage is not only about the past but also about shaping the future, and arts-based and speculative design approaches explore new possibilities for this. The talk considers how design and technology can support diverse cultural perspectives and recontextualize heritage in a changing world.
About the Speaker:
Siiri Paananen is a University Teacher in Design and a doctoral researcher in the Lapland User Experience Design group (LUX) at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design. She specializes in Human-Computer Interaction, focusing on designing…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
CSDE Seminar - Life Course Dynamics of Gendered Racism and U.S. Black Women’s Health- Christy Erving
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Christy Erving, Sociology, University of Texas - Austin
Abstract: Recently, scholars have attempted to bring voice to Black women’s interpersonal experiences with gendered racism by developing measures that capture their intersectional oppression. Missing from this small, but growing, literature is the nuance of life course dynamics which suggest that Black women’s gendered-racialized discriminatory encounters could differ in content and frequency at different points in their life course. Moreover, the strategies Black women employ to cope with gendered racism are potentially differentiated by their age and birth cohort. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this presentation will examine the various strategies Black women deploy to cope with gendered racism and the psychological health impacts of gendered racism across the life course.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fOFq9i3zQUK7BZKXR5i20w. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Test seminar 3 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
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Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
SAV 123.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. PROFESSIONALIZATION SEMINAR: Developing Your Writing Practice **open session**
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Reflect on how you work best, and how you can set up your life to support best practices.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 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. Target Audience: Department of Sociology graduate students.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.
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, May 7, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Enabling Frugal Evaluations of Vision and Language Models | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: In this talk, I will cover evaluations of machine learning models under data constraints, whether due to limited annotation budgets or the difficulty of collecting additional labels. First, I will describe a sampling- and estimation-based workflow that tailors data collection to model predictions, leveraging stratified sampling and difference estimators to reduce labeling needs without compromising the reliability of the estimates. I will then cover an empirical Bayes method for subgroup evaluation, which integrates small-sample direct estimates with regression-based predictions to produce precise performance metrics. Throughout the talk, I will highlight how these simple approaches are applied at industry scale for efficient evaluations of vision and language models. Riccardo Fogliato is an applied scientist in Amazon Web Service's Responsible AI team. He works on evaluating vision and language models, developing statistical methods for scalable assessments. He holds a PhD in Statistics from…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Workshop - Biospecimen Collection for Population Research
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
This workshop is an introduction to biospecimen data collection with CSDE Biodemography Lab Director Tiffany Pan. We will cover ethical considerations, a broad range of specimen types, equipment and supplies needed for transport and storage, analyte stability, and other practical factors for designing a study that involves specimen collection and storage for downstream biomarker analyses. No prior experience with biomarker research is necessary.
The workshop will be fully remote. A Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94815354144. Campus room: Zoom Link provide upon SignUp. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Seminar - Let States Select Immigrants - Ann Chih Lin
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Ann Chih Lin, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Abstract: In the forty years since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), no significant reform to the structure of immigration law has made it through the U.S. Congress. Yet during those forty years, how immigrants enter the United States, where they come from, where they settle, who employs them, and how they adapt to American life have all changed dramatically. During the same time, a shadow state of immigration regulation has developed, based not on statutory law but on precedents, executive action, federal agency guidance, and state and local policy entrepreneurship. None of these provides a stable legal structure for immigrants, their families, their employers, or their neighborhoods and communities. In Let States Select Immigrants, I argue that states – rather than the federal government or individual employers -- should govern immigration selection, basing their decisions on economic development…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rJza0Z08RfOZuxoWachodw. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Jane Dai, CSDE Fellow, Health Services
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, May 14, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Making AI Globally Intelligent | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Robust and comprehensive evaluations of generative AI models play a critical role in ensuring safe, and beneficial technologies being deployed in society. These evaluations rely heavily on copious amounts of semi-structured data annotated by humans. Both the data and human perspectives involved in the process, thus play a key role in what is taken as ground truth by models, and who the models are eventually able to serve. Pervasive data skews lead to a lack of representation of global contexts and identities in models as well as evaluation strategies, with observable degradation of model utility in different contexts worldwide. Accounting for cross-cultural differences in interacting with technology is an important step for building and evaluating AI holistically. We will talk through different data driven strategies on broadening the scope of GenAI evaluations to be more competent in its handling of global perspectives and challenges. Sunipa Dev is a researcher at Google, working at the…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. Displacement, Trauma, and Becoming among Shang Communities during the Western Zhou Period (ca. 1046-771 BCE)
Friday Afternoon Archaeological Lecture Series
Abstract: At the height of its prosperity, the Late Shang state (ca. 1250-1046 BCE) existed as one of the preeminent powers in the ancient world. The sprawling Shang capital at Anyang rivaled other contemporaneous centers in the world both in population and urban development. With the fall of the Late Shang state following a series of conquests by the Zhou and their coalition of highland allies, the Shang people at Anyang and affiliated settlements dispersed widely throughout the Western Zhou (ca. 1046-771 BCE) world. Displaced to new locales with their own complex histories, the Shang people were confronted with the reality of navigating new worlds while simultaneously dealing with the fall of their own. While archaeologists have long recognized the material evidence for the Shang people in Western Zhou spaces, there remains much unknown regarding the complex social processes involved in the displacement of the Shang. This talk explores the lifeways of the Shang people in the aftermath of the Zhou conquests…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 313. Accessibility Contact: pjgibbs@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 16, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
CSDE Workshop - Spatial Data Analysis In R and ArcGIS
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructor: Jessica Godwin and Matt Dunbar
Introduction to the pros and cons of working with Spatial Data in R and ArcGIS.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
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, May 21, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Evans Research Seminar - The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities - Brian Taylor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Brian Taylor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: dafengxu@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM.
Designing Robust and Domain-Specific Multimodal Foundation Models | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Modern foundation models show high performance in language-related tasks such as question answering, and they have also been applied to modalities outside of text, particularly vision. Such multimodal foundation models can unlock a variety of complex reasoning capabilities beyond text-based reasoning. Extending models to new modalities brings unique challenges, including the ability to generalize to more niche domains and the ability to generalize to variation in user input. In this talk, I will survey the landscape of modern multimodal foundation models, then discuss two recent projects meant to empower models with more robust inference performance and domain-specific reasoning. Ian Stewart is an NLP researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he develops novel methods for interpretable and robust machine learning systems. Ian holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
https://washington.zoom.us/j/91889204671.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Seminar - Moving Toward a GCC-Model of Temporary Worker Migration?: Lessons from Qatar on the Formalization of Labor Precarity - Natasha Iskander
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Natasha Iskander, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, Abstract: With the rightward turn of governments in migrant-receiving countries, policy approaches to labor immigration have shifted from an emphasis on labor market integration to the punitive enforcement of controls against migrant workers who are undocumented or otherwise out of status. These hardline policy approaches have sharply augmented the precarity of an already precarious workforce, but in the context of increasingly tight labor market conditions, they have also cut against employer investment in workforce development and worker retention. To address industry concerns, many governments are quietly developing temporary migrant worker frameworks to import the labor that many industries depend on. These proposals aim to provide migrant-dependent sectors with a labor force that sufficient but deportable, building the precarity that drives down working conditions into the policy structures governing migration. But in doing…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CgJC91CKS3eNBNrGKVx4BQ. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Aryaa Rajouria, CSDE Trainee, Sociology
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, May 28, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Evans Research Seminar - Shannon Portillo, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Shannon Portillo, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: dafengxu@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Active Learning Sampling Design (A-LSD): A New Adaptive Survey Design Paradigm to Improve Representativeness for Subpopulations | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Traditional face-to-face surveys are expensive, especially those designed to be representative for small subpopulations. They are thus infrequently carried out, limiting real-time awareness in epidemic settings. Lower cost alternatives such as online and mobile phone surveys can suffer from bias, but offer advantages in terms of cost and speed. We propose a new adaptive survey design strategy, based on an active learning approach. Our algorithm automatically oversamples hard-to-reach populations, adaptively optimizing for user-defined goals such as representativeness as the survey progresses, taking nonresponse into account. It has the potential to lower the cost of face-to-face surveys and reduce the bias of mobile phone surveys, by increasing representativeness at smaller sample sizes. We present experiments on simulated data and the results of a pilot telephone survey of food insecurity conducted jointly with the World Food Program in Zimbabwe in 2023. Dr Flaxman is an associate professor…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. First-year Sociology Grad Student Presentations
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 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. Target Audience: Sociology faculty and students.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
CSDE Seminar - Paradoxes of Childlessness in Two Divergent Family Contexts - Holly Hummer
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Holly Hummer, Sociology, University of British Colombia
Abstract: In our era of low fertility rates, much research has examined the role of macro-level context in enabling or constraining individuals’ reproductive and parenthood decisions. Yet, we know less about the role of context in shaping what it means to remain childless—a historically stigmatized status—today. This presentation draws on in-depth interviews with 157 non-mothers in the U.S. and Japan to examine if and how individuals without children experience and evaluate childlessness differently by country. When analyzed in comparative perspective, women in Japan were more likely to frame childlessness as increasingly normalized and justifiable via entrenched gender inequalities whereas women in the U.S. were more likely to emphasize the socially isolating and publicly contested nature of childlessness, often drawing on moral logics to then justify their non-motherhood. To contextualize these narrative divergences, I offer two mechanisms…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dM2xNynWR-CrxtE5oD5trw. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. 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, June 4, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Robustly Estimating Heterogeneity in Factorial Data Using Rashomon Partitions | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Many statistical analyses, in both observational data and randomized control trials, ask: how does the outcome of interest vary with combinations of observable covariates? How do various drug combinations affect health outcomes, or how does technology adoption depend on incentives and demographics? Our goal is to partition this factorial space into "pools" of covariate combinations where the outcome differs across the pools (but not within a pool). Existing approaches (i) search for a single "optimal" partition under assumptions about the association between covariates or (ii) sample from the entire set of possible partitions. Both these approaches ignore the reality that, especially with correlation structure in covariates, many ways to partition the covariate space may be statistically indistinguishable, despite very different implications for policy or science. We develop an alternative perspective, called Rashomon Partition Sets (RPSs). Each item in the RPS partitions the space of covariates us…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, June 4, 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, June 5, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
CSDE Professional Development Workshop - Academic Publishing
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
In this Professional Development Workshop, CSDE will discuss Academic Publishing.
Zoom link will be provided upon registration.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95900559604. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Graduate students.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.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, July 3, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.