Registration for the 2025 SDA meeting is now open. Click here to register for the meeting.

Fee schedule (Meeting + Membership)

* A Sustaining Membership is available to those regular members who can afford to support SDA at a higher rate. The benefits of a Sustaining Membership include acknowledgement at the 2025 meeting and being listed in the Meeting Program.

The meeting fee includes your 2026 SDA membership. Can't make the meeting? Renew your SDA membership here.

This year’s SDA conference will be held at the Hilton Lexington Downtown (369 West Vine St) in Lexington, Kentucky. The hotel’s website shows that the SDA rate is no longer available, and the hotel is sold out on Thursday night. However, we have a few rooms still set aside at the reduced rate. Email Joseph Lariscy (jlariscy@tamu.edu) with the nights you want to stay to receive one of these rooms. First come, first served.

• Federal government workers: Contact Joseph Lariscy (jlariscy@tamu.edu), the local arrangements liaison for the conference, to arrange for hotel registration at lower rates for government rates for Federal Government Employees.
• 
  

Luncheon Plenary Sessions

• SDA will not hold a group dinner on Thursday night this year. We encourage members to attend the welcome reception on Wednesday evening and luncheons.

Thursday, October 16th

Wendy Manning, Bowling Green State University

LGBTQ+ Populations and Demographic Research: New Realities

Friday, October 17th

Education’s Role in Understanding Dementia Trends, Inequities in Risk, and Dementia Life Expectancy

The submission deadline for all paper/poster/session submissions has been extended to Friday, August 1, 2025 at 11:59pm CDT. Abstracts can be submitted at the following link: SDA Abstract Submissions.

During the meeting, SDA will announce the 2025 winners of three awards:

• E. Walter Terrie Award for “the best paper presented at the SDA Annual Meeting on an applied topic, especially one relating to state and local demography” (1 paper per 1st author)

• Everett S. Lee Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (1 paper per 1st author)
• • Send nominations to studentawards@sda-demography.org
• Outstanding Undergraduate Paper Award (1 paper per 1st author)
• • Send nominations to studentawards@sda-demography.org

All paper award submissions must be made by 11:59pm CDT on September 15, 2025 to their respective email addresses noted above. For award consideration, the paper submitted must be on the SDA program and must be presented at the SDA meeting by the author.

Questions? Contact Mary Campbell, Program Chair (m-campbell@tamu.edu) or see more details at http://sda-demography.org/Awards.