The Leonard and Gretchan Broom Center for Demography at UCSB now invites submissions for oral and poster presentations at the 2026 All-UC Demography Conference to be held on the UCSB campus, in the afternoon on Thursday, February 26th, and all day on Friday, February 27^th.

The Conference will highlight current demographic research conducted by University of California faculty and graduate students as well as all researchers affiliated with UC population and poverty centers and provide a venue for making connections across UC campuses. We are planning for 5 – 7 sessions with oral presentations and discussants, and a keynote talk by UCSB’s Leonard Broom Professor of Demography and Distinguished Professor of Economics Shelly Lundberg. We will also host a poster competition and a reception at the end of the Thursday sessions. Breakfast and lunch will be served on Friday.

UC faculty members and graduate students, and researchers affiliated with a UC population or poverty centers interested in presenting a paper should submit an extended abstract or a complete paper (max of one submission as presenting author per person) at: https://forms.gle/Tv7WifM255BnFxwU8

The default submission mode will be for an oral presentation, with poster presentation as a back-up if the paper cannot be fit into one of the sessions. To submit a paper only for either oral or poster presentation, please indicate so in the “additional comments or information” section at the bottom of the submission page.

The submission deadline is Friday, October 24th, 2025, 11:59pm. Presenters will be notified by mid-December. Limited travel award support will be available for graduate students with accepted oral or poster presentations.

Updated information will be posted at: https://broomcenter.ucsb.edu/newsevents/conferences-workshops/all-uc-demography-conference

Organizing Committee
Susie Cassels, Professor, Geography
Liz Ackert, Associate Professor, Geography
Erika Arenas Velazquez, Associate Professor, Sociology
Madison Avila, Graduate Student, Sociology
Gabrielle Husted, Graduate Student, Geography

Support
Contact Gabrielle Husted at broom@broomcenter.ucsb.edu with questions about using the submission form.