FROM THE BOARD-NEWSLETTER 2020-1
COVID-19 and the AYHD
Due to the current world-wide COVID-19 measures our scheduled events are cancelled. We will try to keep all useful information for young historical demographers up to date.
Young historical demographers at the ESHD Conference-June 2019
It was great to see so many young demographers at the 3rd European Society of Historical Demography Conference in Pécs last week! Engaging presentations, fruitful discussions, comments on the future of our association and a wonderful social. Our President Tim Riswick was also awarded the Roger Schofield Award to recognise the best paper presented by a young demographer at the ESHD Conference – congratulations! To remind everyone… Have you you have recently published an article? Or feel there is a…
Events during the ESHD
Registration for events here! The Association for Young Historical Demographers will kick-off the conference with two one-hour informal sessions on Wednesday 26 June, between 14:00-16:00 just before the European Society for Historical Demography Conference starts. The first session is ‘Building an Academic Career: Tips and Tricks from Peers’, in which a panel of prominent young historical demographers (who got their PhD less than 10 years ago) will discuss ideas for CV building and answer any questions you might have. On…
FROM THE BOARD-NEWSLETTER 2019-2
Since our last newsletter we have mainly focused on organizing formal and informal events to take place at the European Society for Historical Demography Conference in Pécs, Hungary. In the preliminary program of the conference, there is already a round table on ‘The Future of the Association for Young Historical Demographers’ scheduled to take place on Friday, 28 June, between 14:00-15:45. However, we will kick-off the conference with two one-hour informal sessions on Wednesday 26 June, between 14:00-16:00. The first session is ‘Building an Academic…
FROM THE BOARD– NEWSLETTER 2019-1
A few weeks ago we organized a very successful ‘Day for Young Historical Demographers’ together with the LONGPOP-INT project, the European Society for Historical Demography, the Young Demographers and all their partners at Charles University in Prague. This was part of the 10th Conference for Young Demographers. More than 40 young (historical) demographers participated by giving oral and poster presentations or by attending the workshops by Vlad Popovici and Petr Tureček on how to deal with historical demographic sources and…
FROM THE BOARD – NEWSLETTER 2018-3
Over the last few months, we have focused on updating our website with relevant information and have started organizing a number of formal events. The result of the first is that the ‘conferences’ and ‘training & education’ pages on our website have been updated again, while the latter resulted in the Day for Young Historical Demographers as part of the 10th Conference for Young Demographers in Prague (6-8 February). More information can be found here. It is already clear that…
Day for Young Historical Demographers & Conference of Young Demographers (6-8 February 2019)
On behalf of the Young Demographers, Department of Demography and Geodemography, the Geographical Institute (Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science), LONGPOP-INT, the European Society for Historical Demography, and the Association for Young Historical Demographers we would like to invite you to the the Day for Young Historical Demographers (6-02-2019) and 10th Demographic Conference of Young Demographers (7&8-02-2019) in Prague! Check out the call and program for the Day for Young Historical Demographers! Check out the call for the 10th Demographic Conference…
Informal meeting at the European Population Conference
Our informal meeting at the European Population Conference will now take place at Waff Bar (Chaussée de Boondael 455, 1050 Ixelles) closeby the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. We will meet at Thursday, the 7th of June at 19:30 and have a placed booked for us. Looking forward to seeing you there!