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BARI Conference 2025: The Greater Boston’s Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit

We are excited to be co-hosting BARI Conference 2025: Greater Boston’s Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit with Roxbury Community College’s Center for Economic and Social Justice(CESJ)!

Established to organize college and community resources to advance economic mobility and opportunity through collaboration, the CESJ offers a unique context for BARI Conference’s main goal of gathering community leaders, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to share how they advance data-driven research and policy in Greater Boston.

Join us on Friday, April 11th at the first BARI Conference to be hosted by a community college, and let’s envision how we could do even more together through collective action!

🗓️ Event Dates: April 11, 2025

Posted 03/21/25

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

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.

Apply Here!

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

NEW 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