The 2024 Southern Demographic Association annual meeting was held October 16-18, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia, at The DeSoto Savannah.

Click HERE to see the Final Program

Meeting Registration and Calendar Year 2024 Membership

Registration for the 2024 SDA meeting is now open. Click here to register for the meeting.

Fee schedule (Meeting + Membership)

Dates	Student	Regular
June 3 through Sep 24 (early)	$145	$295
Sep 25 - Oct 15 (standard)	$160	$320
Oct 16 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 2024 meeting and being listed in the Meeting Program.

The meeting fee includes your 2024 SDA membership. Couldn't make the meeting? Renew your SDA membership here.

Conference Hotel: The DeSoto, Savannah, GA

Cutoff date for booking at the discounted conference rate is September 24, 2024:

• Government workers: Contact Jarron Saint Onge of the University of Kansas (jsaintonge@ku.edu), the local arrangements liaison for the conference, to arrange for hotel registration at lower rates for government rates for Federal Government Employees.

• All other registrants: Conference hotel rate is $229 per night. To book at this rate, click this link and follow the directions that are there. Attendees planning to stay through Saturday must contact the hotel directly.

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• • Luncheon Plenary Sessions

    Thursday, October 17th
    

    Philip Cohen, University of Maryland

    Depopulation, Pronatalism, and Doing Demography in Public

    Friday, October 18th

              Victoria Velkoff, Chief Demographer and Associate Director of Demographic Programs, U.S. Census Bureau

    Modernizing the U.S. Census Bureau's Demographic Programs

  
  

  Call For Abstracts

  Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting

  October 16-18, 2024

  Savannah, Georgia

  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 11:59pm CDT on Friday, August 2, 2024. Abstracts can be submitted at the following link: SDA Abstract Submissions.

  
  

  During the meeting, SDA will announce the 2024 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 13, 2024 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 Joseph Lariscy, Program Chair (jlariscy@tamu.edu) or see more details at http://sda-demography.org/Awards.