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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>2026 Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting (7 Oct 2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The 2026 Southern Demographic Association meeting will be held from Wednesday, October 7 to Friday, October 9 in Austin, Texas. The conference sessions will be held at the Glickman Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The hotel will be the Hampton Inn &amp;amp; Suites Austin @ The University/Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Hotel Registration at Conference Rates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 22px;"&gt;Conference Hotel: Hampton Inn &amp;amp; Suites Austin @ The University/Capitol, Austin, Texas&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Cutoff date for booking at the discounted conference rate is &lt;strong&gt;September 13, 2026&lt;font face="Open Sans, WaWebKitSavedSpanIndex_3"&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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  &lt;li&gt;The SDA conference hotel rate starts at $173 per night. To book at this rate,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/southerndemographicassociation2026/" target="_blank"&gt;click this link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and follow the directions.&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;Federal government workers:&amp;nbsp;Contact Mary Campbell (&lt;a href="mailto:m-campbell@tamu.edu" target="_blank"&gt;m-campbell@tamu.edu&lt;/a&gt;), the local arrangements liaison for the conference, to arrange for hotel registration at lower rates for government rates for Federal Government Employees.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;Luncheon Plenary Sessions&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font&gt;When you register, you are able to select one luncheon plenary to attend &amp;nbsp;(or both, for an additional $50).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#40B2CF"&gt;Thursday, October 8th&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TBD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#40B2CF"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday, October 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.populationassociation.org/government-affairs/about-government-affairs" target="_blank"&gt;Mary Jo H. Mitchell&lt;/a&gt;, Population Association of America&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Honor-A-Colleague Campaign: Dudley Poston&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px !important;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;Consider donating to this year's Honor-A-Colleague campaign for Dr. Dudley Poston. Dr. Poston was a founding member of SDA and served as President from 1975 to 1977. Dr. Poston will attend this year's meeting and will be honored at the Welcome Mixer on Wednesday evening. You can make a donation&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://sda-demography.org/Donate" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and read Dr. Poston's biography &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://sda-demography.org/Poston" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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