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Seminars and Speakers

CPC Seminars ARE HELD on Fridays, 1:25-2:40 PM in MVR 2250 (unless otherwise noted). 

For additional information contact population@cornell.edu

CPC Seminars | FALL 2026

CENTERS FALL WELCOME RECEPTION

Tuesday, September 1 | 3:30 – 5 PM | HEB Commons

Co-Hosts: CPC, CSI, RJEF, Roper

 

INNOVATIONS IN POPULATION SCIENCE

Leonard M. Lopoo, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (Economics)

Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of American’s Population

Friday, September 11 | 1:25 – 2:40 PM | MVR 2250

Co-sponsor: CSI

 

SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM

Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University

Talk Title TBA

Friday, September 18| 3:00 – 4:15 PM | LOCATION: TBA

Co-sponsor: CPC

 

BOOK LAUNCH

danah boyd (with Dan Hirschman)

Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census

Tuesday, September 22 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM | LOCATION: Warren B25

Co-Sponsors: CPC, Sociology, Economics, Information Science, Science and Technology Studies

 

UNIVERSITY LECTURE

Cynthia Miller Idriss, American University

Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism

Wednesday, September 30 | 4:30 – 5:30 PM | GSH 132

Host: SOC; co-sponsors: Cornell Center on Democracy, Government, FGSS, German Studies, CSI, CPC

 

INNOVATIONS IN POPULATION SCIENCE

Julia Behrman, Northwestern University (Sociology)

The Deinstitutionalization of Parenthood in the United States

Friday, October 2 | 1:25 – 2:40 PM | MVR 2250
Co-sponsor: CSI

 

INNOVATIONS IN POPULATION SCIENCE

Nicholas Mark, University of Wisconsin – Madison (Sociology)

Housing Costs and U.S. Fertility: A New Era?

Friday, October 23 | 1:25 – 2:40 PM | MVR 2250
Co-sponsor: CSI

 

INNOVATIONS IN POPULATION SCIENCE

Bocar Ba, Duke University (Economics)

Reforming the Provision of Public Safety

Friday, November 6 | 1:25 – 2:40 PM | MVR 2250
Co-sponsor: CSI

 

LABOR ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

Matthew Notowidigdo, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

Talk title: TBA

Monday, November 16 | 11:40 – 12:55 PM | Malott 406

Co-sponsor: CPC

 

BOOK LAUNCH

Benjamin Cornwell, Cristobal Young, Barum Park and Nan Feng

Friends and Fortunes: Social Capital Inequality in America

Friday, December 4 | 3:00 -4:15 PM | Malott 406

Host: SOC; Co-sponsor: CPC

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Upcoming Events

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Past Events

April 20, 2026

Explore strategies for securing foundation support in this moderated panel featuring faculty with hands‑on experience in the foundation landscape. The panel will...

March 20, 2026

Cornell Population Center Innovations in Population Science Speaker Series presents "Immigration and the Changing Landscape of U.S. Health Disparities" with Tod G....

March 13, 2026

Cornell Population Center Innovations in Population Science Speaker Series presents "The Demography of Staying: Probing the Decline of Domestic Migration in the United...

February 20, 2026

Cornell Population Center Innovations in Population Science Speaker Series presents "Developmental Origins of Health Disparities in Children and Families from Marginalized...

February 13, 2026

CPC, in collaboration with CCSS and  CAPS at Syracuse, will be hosting an online panel on Funding Research in Population Aging with Sarah Burgard and Tara McKay this Friday,...

January 30, 2026

Cornell Population Center Innovations in Population Science Speaker Series presents "Public Burial, Private Anguish: An Examination of Unclaimed Deaths in the United...

January 23, 2026

Cornell Population Center Innovations in Population Science Speaker Series presents "Demographic Divergence: The Legacy of the Opioid Epidemic" with Victoria Barone,...

December 5, 2025

Cornell Population presents "Advancing Cognability: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Neighborhoods and Cognitive Health across the Life Course" with Jessica...

November 7, 2025

Is IVF the Solution to U.S. Low Fertility? (And Why That’s the Wrong Question) with Kate Tierney   Kate Tierney, Western Michigan...

October 31, 2025

What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must there be tension...