2025 Lexington

Since 1970, the Southern Demographic Association has hosted an annual meeting each fall, usually in October. The SDA meeting provides a friendly venue for people to present academic and applied demographic research, discuss and learn about population issues, and meet others with common interests.

2025 Annual Meeting

The 2025 Southern Demographic Association annual meeting will be held October 15-17, 2025 in Lexington, Kentucky, at The Lexington Hilton Downtown. See below for the Call for Abstracts.

Meeting Registration and Calendar Year 2026 Membership

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

Fee schedule (Meeting + Membership)

Dates	Student	Regular
June 10 - Sep 20 (early)	$145	$295
Sep 21 - Oct 14 (standard)	$160	$320
Oct 15 and later (onsite)	$175	$350
Sustaining Member	—	At least $400*

* 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 2025 SDA membership. Can't make the meeting? Renew your SDA membership here.

Conference Hotel: Hilton Lexington Downtown, Lexington, Kentucky

Cutoff date for booking at the discounted conference rate is September 14, 2025:

The conference hotel rate is $189 per night. To book at this rate, click this link and follow the directions.

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

Title TBA

Friday, October 17th

Mark Hayward, University of Texas at Austin

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

Call for Abstracts

Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting

October 15-17, 2025

Lexington, Kentucky

We invite submissions of 250-word abstracts for individual research papers and/or posters in applied or academic demography, economics, geography, sociology, public health, psychology, and epidemiology. Also welcome are proposals for thematic sessions or panel discussions.

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)

Send nominations to Jason Devine, jason.e.devine@census.gov

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 Friday, September 12, 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.