Fall 2014
October 7, Tuesday 12:00 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Welcome and Introductions – Pizza and Drinks Provided
October 21st, Tuesday 12:00 – 1:30pm – 279 Haines
Student Practice Job Talk:
Xi Song (UCLA – Department of Sociology)
“Multigenerational Transmission of Education, by Race and Family Structure”
November 4th, Tuesday 12:30pm – 2:00 – Public Affairs 2355
Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins – Department of Sociology)
“Diverging Destinies of Dads: Growing Inequality’s Impact on the American Family”
To Register: Please visit http://feclecturenov4.eventbrite.com
Lunch available at noon prior to the talk
Co-Sponsored with UCLA Luskin and the Center for the Study of Inequality and the California Center for Population Research
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
November 18th, Tuesday 12:00 – 1:30pm – 279 Haines
Student Work-in-Progress Presentations:
Liz Kofman (UCLA – Department of Sociology)
“Strained Family Safety Nets: The Role of Precarious Employment in Homeleaving During Young Adulthood”
and
Juli Simon Thomas (UCLA – Department of Sociology)
“The Effects of Combinations of Changes in Parental Jobs, Partnerships Statuses, and Residence On Children’s Educational Attainment”
Winter 2015
January 20th, Tuesday 12:00 – 1:30pm – Haines 279*
Laura Tach (Cornell University – Department of Policy Analysis and Management)
“Social Mobility in an Era of Family Instability and Complexity”
Co-Sponsored with Stratification, Inequality and Mobility Working Group (UCLA Sociology) and the Ethnography Working Group (UCLA Sociology)
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
February 10th, Tuesday 12:00 – 1:30pm – Haines 279*
Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota – Department of History)
“History and Future of Big Population Data: Implications for Family Research”
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
*** Prof. Ruggles will also be speaking to the California Center for Population Research the following day ***
February 11th, Wednesday 12:00 – 1:30pm – Public Affairs 4240*
Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota – Department of History)
“Fragmentation of the Family”
February 24th, Tuesday 12:00 – 1:30pm – Haines 279
Student Work-in-Progress Presentations:
Karra Greenberg (UCLA – Department of Sociology)
“Adult Offspring Role Attainments and Parental Depression and Alcohol Use”
and
Sung Park (UCLA – Department of Sociology)
“Homeleaving Processes During the Transition to Adulthood”
Spring 2015
May 6th, Wednesday 12:00 – 1:30pm – 4240 Public Affairs Building
Francesco Billari (University of Oxford – Department of Sociology)
“Islamic Rule, Marriage and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Turkey”
Co-Sponsored with the California Center for Population Research (CCPR)
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
May 11th, Monday 12:00 – 1:30pm – Haines 279*
Esther Friedman (RAND)
“Gender Differences in Transfers among Married Couples in the “Sandwich Generation”
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
May 18th, Monday 12:00-1:00pm – 279 Haines
End-of-Year Meeting