The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) is holding its XXIIIrd General Population Conference in Beijing, China, from October 12th to October 17th. IUSSP program consists of two plenary sessions at the Opening and Closing of the Conference, 30 formal sessions, and 37 informal sessions. Also, a number of poster sessions and other types of meetings are being planned. The IUSSP Conference will take place at the Beijing International Convention Center; the official languages of the IUSSP Conference are English and French (simultaneous interpretation will be provided for the plenaries and for most of the formal sessions). IUSSP member-ship is not required to participate.
Hotel accommodations are presently being negotiated by the IUSSP with the Chinese National Organizing Committee. Here are approximate room rates (in US$) for three of the hotels on the list: Continental Grand (4 star), $100/night; Catic (3 star), $85/night; Labor Building (2 star), $45/night.
Research Committee 41 (Sociology of Population) of the International Sociological Association is holding an inter-session pre-IUSSP one-day conference in Beijing on October 11th. (The next meeting of the ISA will be in Montreal in July-August of 1998.) Demographers and sociologists are invited to submit papers to present at this one-day conference. The "ISA Research Committee 41 Workshop on Population" will be held in conjunction with the IUSSP and will use the IUSSP facilities in Beijing. The program will consist mainly of paper presentations, organized around several demographic themes. The session themes will depend on the topics of the papers submitted for presentation. All presentations and discussions at the Workshop on Population will be in English. If you want to present a paper at the Workshop in Beijing, please send or fax a title and a brief abstract to Dudley Poston, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA; Fax: 409.862.4057 by August 15, 1997. You do not need to be a member of the ISA Research Committee 41 to participate.
Penn State is hosting a national symposium on The Transition to Adulthood in a Changing Economy, October 30-31 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the Penn State University Campus. The Symposium is organized by Alan Booth, Ann Crouter, and Michael Shanahan, and is aimed particularly for researchers, teachers, graduate students, and policy makers who have a major interest in this area. The sessions will focus on four key issues: How have alterations in the structure of opportunity affected transitions to adulthood? How do prior experiences in the family affect transitions to adulthood? How do prior experiences in the work place set the stage for transitions to adulthood? Career Development and marriage in a period of rising inequality: Who is at risk? What are their prospects? Speakers include: Martha Hill, Larry Bumpass, Kathy Musick, Jeylan Mortimer, Valerie Oppenheimer. An interdisciplinary team of discussants include: William Aquilino, J. Lawrence Aber, John Laub, Lynn White, Martha Cox, Ronald Rindfuss, William Axinn, Steven Hamilton, Joseph Hotz, Wayne Osgood, John Modell, Julia Graber, and Sheldon Danziger. To obtain a brochure and registration materials, call or write Chuck Herd, 409 Keller Conference Center, Pennsylvania State Unviersity, University Park, PA 16802-1304. Phone: 814.863.1744; Fax: 814.865.3749.
Two reports are now available from the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHD, reflecting the results of a year-long planning process. The "DBSB Report on Program Progress" highlights the findings of research projects funded by the Branch in recent years. The "DBSB Report on Program Planning" presents an "action plan" that sets out strategic goals for the future of the program and summarizes discussion at a workshop on "Research Directions for the Twenty-First Century" held in September 1996. Strategic goals include promoting an integrated approach to fertility and family research; developing research on the interrelationships among socioeconomic status, health, and demographic processes, strengthening research on population movement including immigration, internal migration, and interactions with the environment, and strengthening research on the social, interpersonal, and cultural influences on sexual behavior related to pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (HIV). These goals will serve to focus programmatic activity over the coming years, but the Branch will continue to encourage a broad range of investigator-initiated research related to the demographic processes of fertility, mortality and migration and other processes that determine population size, growth, composition and distribution, and the determinants and consequences of these processes. DBSB staff welcomes the opportunity to work with prospective applicants and to assist them in seeking support for their research. Copies of the reports are available from the Branch at 301 496-1174, and on the World Wide Web through the NICHD Home Page at http://www.nih.gov/nichd/
The Committee on National Statistics of the NRC has recently published two workshop reports, Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration and Improving Data on America's Aging Population. These reports may be viewed on the Committee's home page http://www2.nas.edu/cnstat, or ordered from the NRC Office 202.334.3097
The Population Council has limited supplies of the following publications. To order single copies, e-mail pubinfo@popcouncil.org.
---Hania M. Sholkamy, "Women's Health Perceptions: A Necessary Approach to An Understanding of Health and Well-being."
---Hind Khattab, "Women's Perceptions of Sexuality in Rural Giza."
---Friday E. Okonofua, Clifford Odimegwu, Bisi Aina, P.H. Daru, and A. Johnson, "Women's Experiences of Unwanted Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Nigeria."
The 1995 Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service has just been published. It has 200-plus pages of tables and charts on all aspects of INS work, including legal immigration, refugees and asylees, nonimmigrants, naturalization, law enforcement, etc. To request a copy, call the INS public affairs office at 202.514.2648.
The CDC/DRH in collaboration with the Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market research, has released the preliminary report for the 1996 Russia Women's Reproductive Health Survey: A Study of Three Cities. Also available is the newly released preliminary report for the 1996 Romania Young Adult Reproductive Health Survey and the English language preliminary report of the 1995-6 Puerto Rico Reproductive Health Survey. Single copies are available free of charge from the Behavioral Epidemiology and Demographic Research Branch, CDC, MS K-35, Atlanta GA 30321-3724; Fax 770.488.5965.