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Spring 2025 Events & Deadlines
ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
The Monitoring the Future (MTF) project (http://monitoringthefuture.org/) is a long-term epidemiologic and etiologic study of substance use among the nation’s youth and adults. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 1975, the MTF project has collected data annually from nationally representative samples of high school seniors. Beginning in 1991, similar surveys of nationally representative samples of 8th and 10th graders have been collected as well. In all, approximately 50,000 students annually respond to about 100 drug use and demographic questions, as well as to about 200 questions on subjects such as attitudes toward government, social institutions, race relations, changing gender roles, educational aspirations, occupational aims, and marital plans.
The MTF project also includes a longitudinal panel study component, now spanning ages 19-65.
This workshop will introduce participants to the MTF cross-sectional data (public-use and restricted-use) and the restricted-use longitudinal panel data available from the ICPSR/NAHDAP. The workshop will consist of a brief overview of the MTF Cross-sectional and Panel studies and a detailed discussion of the content of MTF public release and restricted-use data, data management, and analysis planning including a complex sample design.
Please note there are two sections of this workshop. The first section (July 9-11) is online-only. The second section (July 28-30) is in-person only. Both sections cover the same material. Applicants may apply for one or both sections and should specify their interest for attending online, in-person, or both.
Posted 04/30/25
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
Association for the Study of African American Life and History 110TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND MEETING CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2025 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The ASALH Academic Program Committee is pleased to invite proposal submissions for panels, workshops, roundtables, papers, posters, media sessions, and Woodson Lightning Rounds at the 2025 ASALH Annual Meeting and Conference (Conference Theme: African Americans & Labor) .
🗓️ Event Dates: The conference will be held in person in Atlanta, GA on September 24-27, 2025.
As we approach our 110th ASALH conference, we seek to showcase versatile and innovative historical research that reaches beyond our theme of African American labor or highlights its significance to the Black experience. Black labor has been central to political, economic, social, cultural, and technological transformations across centuries of global society. Therefore, our capacity to work equates to our capacity to struggle, build, critique, and transform. Scholarship across the wide spectrum of the sociohistorical experience of African Americans will help the 110th annual conference ascend to become our greatest gathering.
Our 110th annual conference will also preserve and strengthen African American history in these stressful times. Black history continues to be assaulted on multiple political fronts, and we require scholars committed to studying the African American experience across many fields, topics, and interests. We especially call on emerging scholars and graduate students to submit research from their subfields. ASALH grows stronger each year as new scholars introduce their work at our annual conference.
Coinciding with momentous events like the 2024 election and historical anniversaries such as the 100th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, and the 40th anniversary of the 1985 bombing of MOVE, our 2025 conference will again boast cutting-edge analysis, debate, and critique that align with Carter G. Woodson’s vision of Black history. We call on all scholars, organizations, students, independent researchers, and others interested in the African American experience to convene in Atlanta, Georgia, for the continued reshaping of African American history and thought.
General Proposals of Black Life, History, and Culture
To be included on the program, your panel proposal need not be centered on the Annual Theme. The academic program committee will also accept panels and individual submissions that explore all aspects of Black life, history, and culture.
Proposal Types
Proposals should be detailed, comprehensive, and descriptive that outline the theme, scope, and aim of the session. Proposals that incorporate the annual theme are preferred, but submissions can be on a variety of temporal, geographical, thematic, and topical areas in Black history, life, and culture. Details on each can be found on the ASALH and All Academic website.
For individuals who are interested in collaborating on a panel, workshop, or roundtable, please use the Google spreadsheet, which is an informal tool to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration. The spreadsheet is not monitored by ASALH or the Academic Program Committee and is not part of the official submission process.
Individual Submissions
Paper Submissions: Individual(s) can submit papers. These papers will be put together with other papers on the same theme/topic by the Academic Program Committee. Papers will ONLY be accepted by non-academics, undergraduate, and graduate students on the 2025 Annual Black History Theme: African Americans and Labor. Paper submissions are not guaranteed audiovisual during the conference. There will be limited slots for paper sessions at the ASALH annual meeting. Submissions that are performances or plays will not be accepted.
Woodson Lightning Round/Pop-Ups: Individual(s) can submit lightning round papers/presentations. These proposals will be put together with other lightning-round proposals by the Academic Program Committee.
Poster Submissions: Individual(s) and ASALH Branches can submit posters. The posters will be put together in a single or multiple session by the Academic Program Committee. Posters have both a virtual/pre-recording and in-person component.
Session Submissions
Proposals will be accepted by all affiliations and academic status. Access to audiovisuals is not guaranteed during the conference. Panels: Are sessions composed of individuals presenting different papers/presentations on a specific concept/topic/idea.
Roundtables: These are sessions that are composed of individuals presenting a single idea/concept/theme.
Workshops: These are sessions that are hands-on and work to teach attendees about a particular tool, project, idea, and theme. Sessions that are performances or plays will not be accepted.
Media: These are sessions that are comprised of an individual film or a film panel where a moderated or group discussion of a film is conducted following the screening.
Posted 02/27/25
2025 ICPSR Applied Methods for Studying Structural Racism, Sexism, and Other Systems of Oppression: Data, Measurement, and Modeling
This workshop provides practical, theory-driven guidance on methods for studying structural oppression, with a focus on structural racism, structural sexism, and intersecting systems of inequality. Despite growing interest in this research, substantial challenges remain, including fragmented data ecosystems and limited adoption of theoretically grounded, empirically rigorous methodologies.
Workshop instructors will offer conceptual and analytical clarity, showcasing diverse data sources on structural oppression, with guidance on accessing, linking, and analyzing these data. The workshop will also highlight best practices for the scientific study of structural oppression by operationalizing structural oppression in ways that reflect its multifaceted, multilevel, and systemic nature, alongside its other core dimensions, including relational power dynamics, institutionalized structures, sociohistorical contexts, oppressive schemas and logics, the roles of specific actors, the inactions and omissions that sustain these systems, and intersections among forms of oppression.
This workshop is sponsored by the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA), which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Workshop Format:
- Morning Sessions: Interactive lectures on cutting-edge methodological approaches, with real-world examples.
- Afternoon Sessions – Hands-on exercises and individualized consultations to support participants’ research interests. These sessions will feature practical examples and applications, primarily using STATA and R, to demonstrate key methodological techniques and best practices in data analysis, measurement, and modeling of structural oppression.
Prerequisites: This workshop is particularly suited for early-career scholars, though all researchers are welcome. Participants should bring their own laptops.
Application: Enrollment is limited to 25 participants. To apply for this workshop, select the “Register Now” button, fill out the Summer Program registration form, select this workshop, and then upload the following application materials:
- Current curriculum vita
- Cover letter summarizing research interest in this course and related research experiences
🗓️ Application Deadline: May 26, 2025.
Registration Fee: There is no registration fee for accepted participants.