University of Missouri Black Migrations Symposium

密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校黑人研究系和统计系将于2019年2月7日至8日举办题为“黑人移民”的研讨会。本次研讨会的主题选择与2019年黑人历史月的主题相吻合。移民在非洲人及其后代的历史中发挥了核心作用。对一些人来说，移徙完全是自愿的，而另一些人则是由于暴力、政治不稳定、生态退化或其他动荡而被迫移徙。黑人移民还造成了更多样化和分层的跨种族人口，重塑了接收地区的社会。在最近的时期，学者们开始探索向外迁移和返回迁移对各种多数黑人社会的发展和稳定的影响。此外，学者、学生和活动人士一直在研究搬迁与黑人概念化之间的关系。这个为期两天的研讨会将研究黑人移民，包括在美国境内和境外的重新安置。研讨会组织者将向学者和学生征集论文，讨论影响非洲人民及其后代的历史和当代现实的各个时期和移民流。这次会议的一个重要方面是，它还将汇集学术统计学家和地理学家，他们正在研究迁移和相关问题（如人口流动）的建模。这是一个独特的机会，将统计学的STEM学科与一个重要而及时的主题联系起来，这个主题传统上没有使用先进的统计方法。也就是说，统计学在考虑人口变化模型（例如，流动模型）方面有着悠久的历史，但统计学家和专注于黑人移民的研究人员之间很少有跨学科的互动。这可能是第一次将这些团体聚集在一起的研讨会。因此，研讨会的一个重要目标是鼓励统计学、地理学和黑人移民研究思想的交流和相互理解，并以其他会议通常不可能的方式为进一步的研究进展，特别是为年轻研究人员提供动力和方向。会议将主要面向研究生和早期职业研究人员。研讨会的详细信息可在https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/feature/2019-black-migrations-symposium.This上找到。奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Department of Black Studies and Department of Statistics at the University of Missouri, Columbia, will host a Symposium entitled "Black Migrations" on February 7-8, 2019. This symposium topic was chosen to coincide with the theme of the 2019 Black History month. Migration has played a central role in the histories of Africans and their descendants. For some, migration was entirely voluntary while others were forced to move due to violence, political destabilization, ecological degradation, or other upheavals. Black migrations have also resulted in more diverse and stratified interracial populations that have reshaped the societies of the receiving areas. In more recent periods, scholars have begun exploring the impact out-migration and return migration have had on the development and stability of various majority black societies. In addition, scholars, students, and activists have been examining the relation between relocation and conceptualizations of blackness. This two-day symposium will examine black migrations to include relocations within and beyond the US. Symposium organizers will seek papers from scholars and students that discuss various periods and streams of migration that have shaped the histories and contemporary realities of African people and their descendants. An important aspect of this conference is that it will also bring together academic statisticians and geographers who are working on the modeling of migrations and related problems (e.g., population flows). This is a unique opportunity to link the STEM discipline of Statistics with an important and timely topic that has not traditionally made use of advanced statistical methodology. That is, Statistics has a long history of considering models for demographic population change (e.g., flow models) but there is little cross-disciplinary interaction between statisticians and researchers who have focused on Black Migration. This may be the first such symposium that seeks to bring these groups together. Thus, an important goal of the symposium is to encourage the interchange and mutual understanding of research ideas in statistics, geography, and black migrations, and to give motivation and direction to further research progress, particularly for young researchers, in a manner not ordinarily possible at other meetings. The meeting will be primarily pitched towards graduate students and early career researchers. Symposium details can be found at https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/feature/2019-black-migrations-symposium.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.