Association for Young Historical Demographers

Young historical demographers at the ESHD Conference-June 2019

July 12, 2019 Michail Raftakis

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…

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Events during the ESHD

May 24, 2019 Tim Riswick

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…

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FROM THE BOARD-NEWSLETTER 2019-2

May 14, 2019 Michail Raftakis

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…

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FROM THE BOARD– NEWSLETTER 2019-1

March 13, 2019 Michail Raftakis

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…

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FROM THE BOARD – NEWSLETTER 2018-3

October 20, 2018 Tim Riswick

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…

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Day for Young Historical Demographers & Conference of Young Demographers (6-8 February 2019)

October 15, 2018 Tim Riswick

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…

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Informal meeting at the European Population Conference

May 23, 2018 Tim Riswick

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!

FROM THE BOARD – NEWSLETTER 2018-1

April 4, 2018 Tim Riswick

Over the last few months we have focused on strengthening existing plans for the growth of our association. Next to the relevant conferences and training opportunities, we have updated the information on all the organizations, networks and institutes that are involved in historical demographic research and education on our website. If you are aware of any information that is still missing, please let us know. During the next month a list of journals in which historical demographers frequently publish will…

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INFORMAL EVENT ESSHC IN Belfast

March 7, 2018 Tim Riswick

Dear young historical demographers, We are pleased to inform you that during the European Social Science History Conference in Belfast, we will organize an informal event on Friday the 6th of April at 19:00 in the Small Library Room of the historical bar and restaurant The Parlour Bar. The bar is located very near to the Queen’s University. During this event we can to get to know each other better, exchange research ideas and more importantly have a nice evening…

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From the board – Newsletter 2017-4

December 23, 2017 Tim Riswick

Behind the scenes a lot of things are happing again in our association, and of course, we would like to share the most important issues with you before the Christmas Holiday. Firstly, we are proud to announce that we have filled most of the positions in our committee of recommendation with renowned dignitaries in the field of historical demography who will support and promote our association. We are happy that they have accepted to take on this responsibility as it…

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