University of Missouri Black Migrations Symposium

黑人研究和统计部门在密苏里州，哥伦比亚的大学，将主办题为“黑色移民”的研讨会2月7日至8日，2019年。 这次研讨会的主题被选为符合2019年黑人历史月的主题。移徙在非洲人及其后裔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，而另一些人则由于暴力、政治动荡、生态退化或其他动乱而被迫移徙。黑人移民也导致了更多样化和更分层的种族间人口，重塑了接收地区的社会。在最近的时期，学者们已经开始探索的影响，迁出和返回的移民已经对发展和稳定的各种多数黑人社会。此外，学者，学生和活动家一直在研究搬迁和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，包括美国境内和境外的搬迁。研讨会组织者将向学者和学生征集论文，讨论塑造非洲人民及其后代历史和当代现实的各个时期和移民潮。 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谁是移民和相关问题的建模工作（例如，人口流动）。 这是一个独特的机会，可以将统计学的STEM学科与一个传统上没有使用先进统计方法的重要而及时的主题联系起来。 也就是说，统计学在考虑人口变化模型方面有着悠久的历史（例如，流动模型），但统计学家和专注于黑人移民的研究人员之间几乎没有跨学科的互动。 这可能是第一次将这些团体聚集在一起的此类研讨会。 因此，专题讨论会的一个重要目标是鼓励在统计、地理和黑人移民方面的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，特别是年轻的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以在www.example.com上找到https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/feature/2019-black-migrations-symposium.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.