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NEWS
New MSS 09 Meeting Session: Population Change and Community Development
Session Organizer: Benjamin C. Bolender
We invite papers to a new Midwest Sociologial Society session dealing with almost any facet of population change and how it impacts community development. Topics include fertility, mortality, migration, aging, rural towns, urban neighborhoods, economic change, or cultural norms among others. If you are interested, please submit your abstract at: http://www.meetingsavvy.com/mss by October 17. If you have any questions, contact the organizer at bolender@ksu.edu .
Laszlo J. Kulcsar presented "Graying of the Plains: Aging and community development in Kansas" at the Nebraska-Kansas Cooperative Extension Retreat in Rock Springs. The handout of the talk can be downloaded from here.
Posters to download:
- "Into the Sunset: Aging in rural Kansas counties": poster
by Benjamin C. Bolender, presented at the
Annual Capital Graduate Research Summit in Topeka.
- "No Business like Boomer Business: Industry, Business, and Retirement Migration in the US" poster by Benjamin C. Bolender and Laszlo J. Kulcsar, presented at the Annual meeting of the Population Association of America. [This pdf file is approximately 3 Mb!]
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Research site on biofuels: Click here to access the project website.
Call For Papers: Researchers working on Eastern Europe are invited to submit working papers and reports to the Social and Demographic Change in Eastern Europe program. There is no deadline for this CFP. See the details by following the link.
