Institute for Inequality Studies (IIS) and the Social Sciences Research Center (SSRC)
Most events are from 2:00-3:00 PM in 219 Jessup Hall
Fall Semester 2009
| Date | Presenter | Title |
Sept. 23, 2009, Wed. 12:00 pm in N300 Lindquist Center |
Tom Mortensen University of Iowa |
"The University of Iowa: A Gated Community " |
| Oct. 2, 2009, Friday 4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall | Ellen Lewin University of Iowa |
"Consuming (Gay) Fatherhood" |
Oct. 16, 2009 Friday 1:30 pm |
Tom Smith National Opinion Research Center |
"The General Social Survey and International Social Survey Program: An Overview" |
| Oct. 23, 2009, Friday | P.K. Kannan University of Maryland |
"Spatial Modeling Applications in Retail Services" |
Oct. 27, 2009, Tuesday 11:00 am in W113 Seashore Hall |
Patrick Carr Rutgers University |
"Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What it Means for America" |
Nov. 13, 2009, Friday |
Peter Marsden Harvard University |
"Modeling Social Networks" |
| December (TBA) 2009 | David Bell University of Pennsylvania |
"Preference Minorities and the Internet: Why Online Demand is Greater in Areas where Target Consumers are the Minority" |
Fall Semester 2008
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| Nov. 12, 2008 | Kevin Leicht, Gerard Rushton, David Bills, & Geoffrey Smith University of Iowa |
"The Effects of Severe Flooding on the Educational Development of Public School Students " |
| Oct. 25, 2008 | Anthony Paik University of Iowa |
"Demographic Processes in Adolescent Courtship: A Signaling Perspective" |
| Oct. 17, 2008 | John Geweke University of Iowa |
"New Developments in Time-Series Analysis" |
| Sept. 20, 2008 | Narish Kumar University of Iowa |
"Applications of GIS and Spatial Analysis in Inequality Research" |
Spring Semester 2008
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| April 17, 2008 | Karen Heimer & Joseph B. Lang University of Iowa |
"Gender, Race, and Imprisonment in the United States: A Bivariate Multi-Level Approach" |
| Mar. 6, 2008 | Jeff Gill Washington Univ.-St. Louis |
"New Developments in Baysian Inference" |
| Feb. 20, 2008 | Mary Campbell University of Iowa |
"Both Personal and Public: Measuring Attitudes Toward Intermarriage" |
| Jan. 31, 2008 | Rex Honey University of Iowa |
"The Vulnerabilities of Labor Migrants" |
