Fall 2009

October 5, **Monday** 12 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Welcome and Introductions – Dessert and Drinks Provided

October 19, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Sarah Meadows (Rand Corporation)
“Economic Trajectories in Non-Traditional Families with Children”

November 9, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Joy Pixley (University of California Irvine School of Social Sciences)
“Career-Prioritizing in Dual-Earner Couples”

November 30, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 215 Haines
Student Works in Progress Session – Lisa Kietzer
“Going Off-Topic in Marital Communication”

Winter 2010

January 13, **WEDNESDAY** 12:00 – 1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs
Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota Twin Cities – Department of Sociology)

“Working Families, Stress, and Wellness: Can an Organizational Time Change Make a Difference?”
Co-Sponsored with California Center for Population Research and the Center on the Everyday Lives of Families

January 25, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines

Pamela Stone (Department of Sociology – Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

“A Closer Look at Opting Out: Toward a Better Understanding of Women’s Career Exits”
Co-Sponsored with the Sociology of Gender Working Group

February 8, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines

Bernhard Nauck (Department of Sociology – Chemnitz University of Technology)

“The German Panel Study on Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (PAIRFAM) – It’s Design and its Analytical Potential”

Spring 2010

April 5, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Don Treiman (University of California – Los Angeles)
“How I became a social demographer: reflections on an on-going career”

April 26, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Gary Gates (University of California – Los Angeles)
“LGBT Secondary Data Analyses: Best Practices”

May 10, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Suzanne Bianchi (University of California – Los Angeles)
“Reexamining the Second Shift: Time Allocation and Time Pressure in U.S. Families with Preschoolers”

May 24, **Monday** 11:30 – 12:30 – Haines 279
End of the year planning session and party
Lunch will be served