This page is updated regularly with news about conference opportunities, outside of annual professional conferences.
Fall 2024 Deadlines
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Gender in the Economy Working Group with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has formed a Working Group on Gender in the Economy. The Working Group is directed by Jessica Goldberg (University of Maryland and NBER), Claudia Goldin (Harvard University and NBER) and Claudia Olivetti (Dartmouth College and NBER). Further information on the Working Group may be found at:
The Working Group will convene a one and a half day research meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 22 and 23 as part of the NBER Summer Institute. The meeting will feature approximately ten to twelve research presentations and shorter talks.
To be considered for presentation at the meeting, papers must be submitted by 11:59 pm (EST) on March 20 via the following link:
We are planning for an in-person meeting in Cambridge, MA. There will not be an option to attend virtually; however, the presentations will be streamed live on the NBER YouTube Channel.
We will only accept papers, not abstracts. Submitted papers can be less-than-polished drafts. Papers by researchers with and without NBER affiliations, by early career scholars, and by researchers from under-represented groups, are welcome. Papers that will be published by July 2025 will not be considered. Authors will be notified about whether their papers have been selected by the end April.
The NBER has a zero-tolerance policy for any form of discrimination or harassment at both in-person and virtual meetings. All invitees will be required to agree and comply with the NBER Conference Code of Conduct. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nber.org/conferences/conference-code-conduct__;!!Jh1S!hfQ_nj7PNTQkl-b2LYRC-2822FaBnGHN1NePQickHCx7JJCRebsRDc2JaXw_tI7I1f79hwZNV9zq$
The NBER will cover the travel cost for up to two authors per paper. Please direct questions about this meeting to rshannon@nber.org.
Posted 02/5/25
CAFÉ Climate and Health Conference
Keep your eyes out for submission deadlines for workshops, sessions, posters, and more. Registration for the conference is open to all in the climate and health community and will open Fall 2024.
🗓️ Event Dates: March 3-6, 2025
2025 NHA Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day This event will provide an opportunity to connect with a growing number of humanities advocates from around the country. During our Annual Meeting, we will explore approaches to year-round advocacy on college campuses and in local communities while also preparing for Capitol Hill visits. On Humanities Advocacy Day, we will meet with House and Senate offices to make a persuasive case for federal funding for the humanities.
Welcome Reception – March 9
Connect with fellow conference participants at our evening welcome reception.
NHA Annual Meeting – March 10
The NHA Annual Meeting brings together faculty, administrators, and representatives from scholarly societies, museums, archives, and other humanities organizations and builds their capacity to advocate broadly for the public value of the humanities.
Highlights include:
- Sessions on engaging students in the humanities
- Trainings for Capitol Hill advocacy
- A Capitol Hill reception and the presentation of the Yates Award for Distinguished Public Service to the Humanities
Humanities Advocacy Day – March 11
On Humanities Advocacy Day, state-based delegations will travel to Capitol Hill to meet with Members of Congress and their staff. This is an essential opportunity to build relationships with policymakers on both sides of the aisle and ensure we are well-poised to confront threats to the NEH and other federal humanities programs.
We hope that you will join us to continue building bipartisan support for the:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Department of Education’s International Education programs (Title VI and Fulbright-Hays)
Prior to Humanities Advocacy Day, we will offer a virtual orientation on Capitol Hill advocacy. New and experienced advocates are welcome—learn more here.
Sponsorship Opportunities and Student Group Discount Available!
This event would not be possible without the support of our sponsors, whose contributions defray direct costs associated with the event. Sponsors at the Silver Level will receive one complimentary event registration, and sponsors at the Gold Level will receive two. All sponsors are recognized on the NHA website, program, and event signage. Learn more about sponsorship and sign on here.
The Student Group discount is designed for higher ed departments, centers, and institutions interested in bringing a group of three or more undergraduate or graduate students to the conference. Please email Kassandra Wahlstrom Ford at kwahlstrom@nhalliance.org if you are interested and would like more information.
🗓️ Event Dates: March 9 – 11 in Washington, D.C.
Posted 12/12/24
2025 International Conference on Urban Affairs – Triangulating the Urban-H (Housing, Heat, Health) in Cities Session – Call for Papers:
In 2023 the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing warned of a global housing crisis in which millions were struggling with access to safe, secure and habitable housing. That same year heat records were broken on all continents and the world saw the highest global temperatures in over 100,000 years. The frequency, duration, and intensity of heatwaves are expected to increase. Individuals living within urban heat islands are more vulnerable to heat than those living outside of them. High temperatures can exacerbate already present negative physical health effects, especially for vulnerable groups, including young children, older adults, and those with chronic conditions. Exposure to extreme heat, especially during heatwaves, can also have detrimental effects on mental health. The quality and stability of housing plays a crucial role in mitigating or worsening the effects of extreme heat on physical and mental health, living in substandard or unaffordable housing heightens the impact on health. Socioeconomic stressors associated with housing displacement and insecurity, such as financial strain, social isolation, and disruption in access to healthcare, can compound the impact of extreme heat on mental wellbeing.
The proposed session seeks papers that explicitly triangulate research, policy and/or practice on housing-heat-health. As the impacts of climate change and the housing crisis worsen around the world the public health impacts will no doubt be severe. We feel that this triangulation is critical going forwards.
Session Organizers: Loretta Lees, Professor of Sociology, and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Research Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University Initiative on Cities
If interested in participating in this conference session, please email your name, institution, paper title, and short abstract to Loretta Lees at llees@bu.edu and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba at sedc@bu.edu.
🗓️ Event Dates: April 15-19, 2025
Where: International Conference on Urban Affairs, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NEW Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data User Workshop (admitted attendees only pay $100!)
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, is the world’s longest-running multigenerational household panel study. It is used to investigate scientific and policy questions about life course trajectories in health and well-being, intergenerational social and economic mobility, income and wealth inequality, family investments in children, neighborhood effects on opportunity and achievement, and many other topics.
This five-day, in-person only, workshop will orient participants to the content and structure of the core PSID interview, its special topics modules, and its supplemental studies, including the Child Development Supplement (CDS) and the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS). In addition, we will discuss topics including the recently-released and newly collected genomics data collected from 2014-2023 as well as new data files which explain family relationships and demographic characteristics over time.
🗓️ Application Deadline: is April 21, 2025.
Posted 02/13/25
2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference The Big Microdata Network and Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA), a collaboration between IPUMS and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center, is inviting abstract submissions for the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference being held August 6-7 in Minneapolis and online. The 2025 conference theme is Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata and will feature research that demonstrates the enormous potential of a growing volume of full count census microdata for operationalizing historical and present-day contexts: linking persons, families, or communities to examine trajectories; and elucidating experiences of small demographic groups that often cannot be adequately studied using other data sources. We welcome submissions that apply these big microdata sources to examinations of health and population dynamics, including those that feature linkages across time, create place-based measures, or link them to other individual or contextual data. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract.
🗓️ Application Deadline: Abstract submissions are open through January 31, 2025. Travel support is available.
🗓️ Event Dates: August 6 – 7, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN & online
Please send any questions to ndira@umn.edu.
Posted 11/5/24