DC Sociological Society upcoming events

Behavioral Interventions Increasing Climate Action at the Individual, Collective, and System Level (May 15, 2026)

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology

"Behavioral Interventions Increasing Climate Action at the Individual, Collective, and System Level"

Dr. Madalina Vlasceanu, Assistant Professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at Stanford University

May 15, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time

"Given the urgency of climate change, a rapidly growing body of research across the behavioral sciences has tested interventions aimed at stimulating pro-climate behaviors. Here, we propose a framework conceptualizing this body of work at three levels of analysis, ranging from individual cognition to collective action and systemic change. At the individual level, interventions primarily target cognitive or affective processes to increase climate beliefs and stimulate pro-environmental behaviors. Effective interventions at this level include the decreasing of spatial, temporal, and social psychological distance of climate change. At the collective level, interventions aim to stimulate climate advocacy and civic engagement, overcoming social or political barriers to climate mitigation. Promising interventions at this level include emphasizing the efficacy and emotional benefits of collective action. And at the systemic level, climate action can be facilitated, accelerated, and scaled, through structural interventions leveraging policy innovations, infrastructure development, algorithmic deployment, entertainment outlets, or educational tools. Incorporating insights across the individual collective and system levels through interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations stands to maximize the behavioral sciences’ contributions to the climate crisis response."

Census Bureau Geography Division GeoForum (May 19, 2026)

Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

GeoForum

May 19-20, 2026

"Join us for a free, 2-day virtual conference on the science, technology, and innovation behind Census Bureau geography and geospatial data. Featuring sessions on partnership programs, mapping, metadata, Census geography and more, this conference brings together Census Bureau geographers, data users, and geospatial practitioners to explore creating, maintaining, and disseminating modern geospatial data and products."

See the program and register on the event website

Global Health in Context: A Webinar on Linking Census Data to Health Surveys using IPUMS DHS and IHGIS (May 20, 2026)

Wed, 20 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Global Health in Context: Linking Census Data to Health Surveys using IPUMS DHS and IHGIS

May 20, 2026 11:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. CT

"The IPUMS Demographic and Health Surveys (IPUMS DHS) and IPUMS International Historical Geographic Information System (IHGIS) have collaborated on a new feature enabling users to easily link contextual data from the censuses in IHGIS to individual-level records in IPUMS DHS. The new linking feature uses the DHS cluster points to identify the corresponding IHGIS unit where each respondent lives and provides the IHGIS unit code as a variable on DHS records. Population and agricultural census data from IHGIS are then easily joined to the records based on the unit code. IHGIS data are typically available at the second administrative level and often for even smaller geographic units. The fine-grained geography and richness of these collections facilitate a wide variety of interdisciplinary research. This webinar will provide overviews of the IPUMS DHS and IHGIS collections, introduce the new linking features, and explore examples of research facilitated by the linkages."