Events Calendar

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. A graduate student lunch will follow the talk in 155B from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, please RSVP. Title: Translating Youth and Family Assets to Community Intervention Abstract:  This talk will describe a program of research that includes (1) examination of youth and family assets to ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. A graduate student lunch will follow the talk in 155B from 1:00 pm 2:00 pm, please RSVP. Title: Violence and trauma prevention: Centering victim agency and leveraging third parties Abstract:  In efforts to prevent gender-based violence (intimate partner and sexual violence), we often focus ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: How educational inequities in the U.S. South pre and post Brown shape the cognitive status of Black and White adults Abstract: Although education is a key determinant of cognitive function, its role in determining Black-White disparities ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. Title: Is Disaster Risk Creation More Significant than Disaster Risk Reduction? Abstract: Most research and practice work in disaster risk reduction (DRR) is based on the assumption that it reduces vulnerability or mitigate hazards. Research is supposedly ‘taken up’ by governments and relevant institutions ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Learning How to Live Here: Some Steps in Building Stronger Connections Between Climate Change, Archaeology and Heritage, Social Science, and Policy Abstract: Archaeology and heritage are strangely invisible in US approaches to climate change. Strange because ... Read more

Welcome back everyone! To celebrate the start of the fall semester, IBS will gather with catered appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages at Martin Park. Enjoy the company of coworkers and let IBS pay for a meal for you and your family!

Title: The Social Context of Health Video: https://youtu.be/gY2ig27wXkg Abstract: Bio: Kathleen Cagney, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. Her general aim is to bring insights from urban ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Demography of Unrealized Fertility Biography: I am the new director of the CU Population Center and Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences at CU Denver. I am a social demographer and interdisciplinary researcher with training in the fields of sociology, demography, and public ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Murky Waters and Environmental Risks: A Community-Driven Approach to Evaluate Exposures from Sanitary Sewer Overflows and Basement Backups Abstract: Past studies in public health have demonstrated an association between disease and poor sanitation, such as waterborne illnesses and exposure to sewage-laden waters. ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (CMER), A Pocket of Hope in Facing Increasing threats in the Brazilian Amazon Abstract: Extractive Reserves (Resex) are a sustainable use conservation unit in which the maintenance of social, cultural and economic aspects of traditional peoples are ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Modelling migration to understand demographic change Abstract: Flows of international migration are needed around the world to understand the patterns and corresponding effects on demographic, social and economic change across sending and receiving countries. A major challenge to this understanding is that ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Do Remittances Increase Support for LGBTQ+ Rights? Abstract: People who have migrated to new countries send billions of dollars in remittances to family members each year. Research shows that receiving remittances influences the recipient’s voting, political engagement, and beliefs. Our project asks: ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Syndemic of Injustice Impacting Black Youth Abstract: Sex trafficking of children and youth is receiving significant attention from practitioners, researchers, and policymakers. Recognition that sex trafficking constitutes a form of child abuse has increased; however, there is still a need for ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Co-optation and Coercion of Online Influencers: Evidence from Saudi Wikipedia  Abstract: How do authoritarian regimes use co-optation and coercion of influential internet users to control online information?  This paper explores how the Saudi regime co-opted prominent Wikipedia administrators to alter content on sensitive domestic and foreign political topics. ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Enhancing the sustainability and resiliency of infrastructure: Collaboratively strengthening systems Abstract: Dr. Javernick-Will’s research group, Global Projects and Organizations, studies pathways to sustainable and resilient communities and infrastructure systems, often in resource-limited and multi-hazard contexts. Dr. Javernick-Will’s work takes a systems perspective ... Read more

Title: Human Rights or Criminals' Rights? How Crime Undermines Support for Human Rights in Central America Abstract: Amidst iron-fisted policing, state repression, and political violence, human rights advocacy remains critically important in Central America. Yet human rights are a contested concept in the region. Across multiple years of ethnographic research in Guatemala, we have often ... Read more

https://youtu.be/b7ZX22dv-H8 Title: Addressing Microaggressions Abstract: Microaggressions are everyday interactions that signal someone is being seen through the lens of a stereotype. While they are often subtle and brief, the cumulative impact is not. This interactive session provides skills for effectively addressing and repairing the harm of microaggressions. Bio: Teresa Wroe is currently the Assistant Vice ... Read more

Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Robert Wyrod (PID): Global China & Africa Scott Ortman (E&S): What the archaeological record reveals about inequality Sharon DeWitte (H&S): Migrant health in medieval London Karl Hill (PSP): Addressing suicide prevention through upstream universal childhood intervention Lori Hunter, Tania Barham, Elizabeth Montoya (POP): Migration, ... Read more

Link to recording: https://youtu.be/y6y8S83kji8 Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Urban science and its implications: from large societal transformations to changes in behavior and cognition Abstract: Cities are some of the most spectacular and pervasive manifestation of our human capacity for ultrasociality. New evidence throughout history and from ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Critical and quantitative? Squaring the circle in health and population studies. Abstract: While qualitative research presents obvious strengths for critical population studies, quantification is also essential to critical social science’s emancipatory aim. In this talk, I take feminist critiques ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: I was obligated to accept: Measurement of coercion and autonomy in global family planning programs Bio: Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (she/her) is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights, race, ... Read more

Join Gary Machlis in a book reading and discussion of his new book, Sustainability for the Forgotten. The event will take place at the Boulder Public Library's Canyon Theatre. Machlis will also be a visiting lecturer at IBS on Monday, September 9.  Sustainability for the Forgotten: Bringing the oft-forgotten into the core of the sustainability ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Sustainability for the Forgotten: Bringing the oft-forgotten into the core of the sustainability movement. Abstract: Opening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 amongst impoverished villages of northeast Brazil, struggling to bring sustenance, sustainability, and ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Co-optation and Coercion of Online Influencers: Evidence from Saudi Wikipedia Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Resisting Climate Coloniality in the Andes: Towards Care-based Adaptation Abstract: TBD Bio: Dr. Jamie Haverkamp (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. She is also an Affiliate with the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU ... Read more

Join us to honor Denise Porchetta’s contributions to IBS — and to support breast cancer patients and research! Walk or ride scenic loops that circumnavigate Boulder, a dream that Denise sadly left unfulfilled. The walk kicks off at 10 am, Saturday, September 28, 2024, at Scott Carpenter Park, 1505 30th Street, Boulder, CO 80303. As chosen by ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Do Emotions Drive the Link Between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy? Leveraging the Super Bowl, the World Cup, and The Lion King Bio: Singh has been a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the Kennedy School ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Preventing School Shootings Abstract: Weaving together insights from five active research projects (a mixed-methods study of US mass shooters, a national survey of gun violence exposure, a new database of K-12 school homicides, a mixed-methods study of homicide in ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: How well do Demographic Transition Models capture 21st Century experiences of non-European societies? Bio: Alex Ezeh is Dornsife Professor of Global Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.  Dr. Ezeh’s work focuses on urban health, population change, ... Read more

Lecture from 3:30 - 4:45 pm, Reception from 5 - 6 pm Lecture Title: Realizing transformative change in adolescent health and wellbeing: Why a Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing? Bio: Alex Ezeh is Dornsife Professor of Global Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.  Dr. Ezeh’s work focuses on urban ... Read more

Title: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Advance the NWS Mission and Transformation Abstract: Artficial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the World with powerful tools with considerable potential for various applications in industries and everyday life. Alongside this potential comes inherent risks that require careful management and oversight. At the same time, the increase in number and intensity ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Topics and Speakers:

Abstract: Demographic science does not support catastrophizing about low birth rates and population “collapse.” In this brief webinar, three population scholars place rising pronatalism into scientific perspective. Featuring: Moderated by: Jessica Pieklo - Journalist and Executive Editor, SVP of RewireNewsGroup

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45 am. Title: Fear in the Neighborhood: The Cost of Racial Prejudice Abstract: Residential segregation in the United States is persistent, and even though policymakers tout the benefits of integration, social and economic headwinds limit its progress. These challenges to integration are ... Read more

About: This workshop will bring together academics and practitioners from across the University of Colorado campus, and around the world to share ideas, stories, concerns and success stories with each other and the wider audience, on how to bridge global conservation needs within science and policy agendas with Indigenous knowledge, ways of living, and ways of ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45. Title: What is Conservation: How has it been received (as trauma, as protection)? How can it be done differently? And how can the science/research be done differently? Roundtable Participants:

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45 a.m. Title: Immigration is Difficult?! Bio: Michelangelo Landgrave (he/him/él) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He serves as the lab director for the Research on Accountability, Civics, and Equity Lab. Landgrave specializes in state and local politics, legislative ... Read more

Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45 a.m. Title: Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: evidence from incremental dentine analysis Bio: Sharon DeWitte is a professor of anthropology at CU Boulder and IBS Faculty and Fellow. She is a biological anthropologist with expertise in ... Read more

Save the date for a very special event at the Institute of Behavioral Science! Our building is now the Richard Jessor Building in honor of our co-founder, Richard Jessor. This event will formally introduce the building's new name and showcase all seven of the incredible programs and centers that make IBS their home. Celebrate the ... Read more